A young, ambitious woman takes on the world of human trafficking to find her friend. Fearless and focused she infiltrates a global menagerie of evil. Her crusade against slavery becomes a fight for her own freedom and her life.
CAST LIST:
Dixie – JESSICA BOWMER
NARRATION – STEPHEN SANDQUIST
Jack – SARAH-HAZEN BASK
Gladys – JULIE SHEPPARD
The true story of a Bowie knife toting airline CEO and a Volkswagen van driving hippie who risk their live to save mixed race orphans from being murdered.
CAST LIST:
Jenkins: Christopher Bautista
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Daly : Malcolm Taylor
Cory: Luke Robinson
ROAR is a horror/thriller that explores the depths of perception verses reality. When Raymond Foust, a traumatized sole survivor of a plane crash into the Canadian forest of British Columbia, is plagued by nightmares of being attacked by a terrifying-otherworldly creature, he returns to the forest with his fiancée and members of his phobia support group to confront, what he believed to be, his irrational, unfounded fear of the forest. What he discovers, however, is his worst nightmare made real, as he and his group become the target of a merciless Beast, and all at once, truth and reality take a backseat to terror.
CAST LIST:
Zoey – 4 – Jen Daniels
Dr. Quack – 7 – Hugh Ritchie
NARRATION – Ron Boyd
Francis – 8 – Rhys Harrison
Meemee – 3 – Anne McMaster
To rescue their master from a heavily protected Japanese fortress, a group of samurai must test their honor and humility beyond the bounds of their code.
CAST LIST:
Uesugi: John Leung
Narrator: Mandy May Cheetham
Kikiyamo: Liam Kinahan
Tensu: Adrian Currie
The script centers on a theft of the Shroud of Turin, Christ’s burial cloth. The Shroud is exhibited at the National Gallery of Art and stolen in a brazen, violent daylight robbery during the exhibit preparation. Happily, a trio of local heroes rises who gets it back.
THE SHROUD TRINITY centers on a theft of the Shroud of Turin. I have it come to Washington for an exhibit (a man who runs the Shroud website told me that would never happen). A trio of heroes gets it back, young, brilliant nun, a DC detective, and a New York City street thug/alcoholic seminarian.
2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?
The genre is action/adventure, though the case could be made that it’s a religious film as well.
3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
The script should see the light of day because it’s a good, well-paced story with original characters.
4. How would you describe this script in two words?
Relic rescued.
5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
A Man for All Seasons.
6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
When I worked on the screenplay, it took me about four months to complete it. Sometimes, if the story is good and the situations favorable, I can burp a screenplay out quickly.
7. How many stories have you written?
With screenplays, I have two other screenplays written in draft. (Both could be finished and refined quickly.) I have three others “in development” (euphemism alert!). I actually have four screenplays total for my Shroud team.
8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
Morning Glow.
9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
The major one was getting my word processor on my second-hand computer to work.
10. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
I’m in long-term recovery, so I’m passionate about that. I’m a prison-reform activist as well.
11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your experiences working with the submission platform site?
The platform is an excellent, user-friendly clearinghouse for contests.
12. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?