Short Screenplay Competition – Top 3 Live Read

Wednesday June 27 – 4:00PM

• Where: Harbourfront Community Centre – Assembly Room “C”
• 627 Queens Quay West,  Toronto, ON M5V 3G3  Map
• (Bathurst Street Car – Bottom of Bathurst Street, Queen’s Quay stop)

Admission $12 each or 2 Tix for $20

We’re doing something a little different this year. We had SO much fun doing this at our Monthly Series, that we thought we’d do it again for our 8th Annual ReelHeART International Film Festival. We’ve paired our Top 3 SHORT Screenplay Winners with a fun film.

Normally our short screenplay winners receive their prize, but never a Live Read. So this year we have 3 varied scripts and we thought would be fun to watch come alive all on the same day.

As well, we’re screening an encore presentation of last year’s Venue Winner, a short doc by David Wild called “Seventeen People From Toronto” about a casting call for an American commercial, that oddly got a lot of auditions from Toronto actors. The casting director who was also a filmmaker was so charmed by them all, that he spun them off into this delightful documentary.

So let the evening begin…

* Live Read Short Screenplay*
“Spin”, by Tom McIntire (3 Pages)

Inspiration for Script: “Ghosts have the most power when they rob you of the present moment, dragging you back into replaying a past that can’t ever change. SPIN twists a letter of love around a broken relationship and the memory of a long-dead friend and lover. You see their face in the jawline of a stranger, hear their laugh in a crowded theater, and share their brooding silence in an empty room. They own you, and you know it, even if they aren’t real at all.” ~ Tom McIntire

* Live Read Short Screenplay *
“We’ll Meet Again” by W. Daniel Whiddden (8 Pages)

Inspiration for Script: “The idea behind “We’ll Meet Again” came to me while noticing my grandmother, who has now been widowed for over 12 years, still wearing her wedding ring. It was that everlasting love that transcends time which propelled me to write something that encapsulated that theme.” ~ Daniel Whiddden

* Live Read Short Screenplay *
“Playing Through” by John Harris (10 Pages)

Inspiration for Script: “Last summer, I was golfing with my close friend and his Uncle Roger, a decorated Vietnam veteran. I asked Uncle Roger what it was like over there and he wouldn’t, or couldn’t, tell me. A few holes later he asked us about why the big fuss over that “Facebook” and what did it really do? He was frustrated by our answers. Later that day, I realized I had stumbled across a story.” ~ John Harris

Special *ENCORE* Screening

Seventeen People from Toronto (CAN/USA)
Director David Wild
Short Documentary (Out of Competition) 0:30:00

Seventeen people from Toronto talk about life, death and their favorite type of salad dressing.