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In each episode, the C.E.O. of WILDsound, Matthew Toffolo, chats about all things storytelling and film. Conversations with talented individual from all around the world.

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EP. 1122 - Screenwriter Anastasia Warmuth (FIREFLY TV Show)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk9nn1nx1xA

Type of Script: TV spec script for the tv show Firefly

The pain caused by the bounty hunter, Jubal Early, in the finale of Season Two still echoes. When the crew of Firefly are infected with a mysterious and deadly airborne virus with dark links to River’s past, Simon must choose between saving the crew and saving his sister.

Get to know the writer:

A spec script of the tv show Firefly. The pain caused by the bounty hunter, Jubal Early, in the finale of Season Two still echoes. When the crew of the spaceship Serenity are infected with a mysterious and deadly airborne virus with dark links to River’s past, Simon must choose between saving the crew and saving his sister.

I was really interested in how the crew in a confined space would react to a deadly disease. Bullets and fist fights can be faced head on, but disease is more insidious and plays on different fears. Infection makes everyone suspect.

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EP. 1114 - Screenwriter Debbi Mack (GREEN SCREAM)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emEm78WV3yE

A woman senses serious trouble connected to a discarded plastic bottle leaking an eerie green substance in her neighborhood.


https://www.debbimack.com/

https://facebook.com/debbimackwriter/
https://instagram.com/debbimacktoo

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EP. 1081 - Screenwriter Melissa Skirboll (7 YEARS AFTER)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://youtu.be/tJB-5ePkaXE

Seven years after a religious-nationalist sect has taken over most of the country, as the last of the sanctuary cities begin to fall, a poet and her friends fight the forces of oppression.

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EP. 1077 - Screenwriter Janna Jones (POSTAGE DUE & CHEAP, SEXY & SHOCKING)

Watch Best Scene reading from Janna Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Xwc4PwwaA

Cheap, Sexy, and Shocking! is loosely based on the career of Louise Downe who played a significant role in the exploitation cinema movement in the 1960s and early 1970s. Her contributions as an actor, screenwriter, assistant director, and designer are a noteworthy chapter in twentieth century cinema history, but her efforts have been routinely overlooked, as she has been overshadowed by her moviemaking partner, the king of gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis.



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EP. 1068 - Screenwriter Gabrielle WIlliams (TAKE THE PLUNGE)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://youtu.be/MW0m51jMlVE

A son is scared to jump off of the diving board, so the dad helps him build up the courage.

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EP. 1057 - Screenwriter Martin White II (WRATH)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/wrath

Get to know the writer:
The best way I can summarize my screenplay is: "The Seven Deadly Sins invade Heaven. One goes rogue and fights against the other six." While I don't really like to think in terms of genre when I write, I'd say that the best genre to classify this as would be action. I think it could also fall under fantasy as well.

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EP. 1027 - Writer Alexander James Dingeman (UNCHOSEN)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHnJ6IoYEig

When the Chosen One abandons their quest, the world turns to… someone.


Get to know the screenwriter:

I worked on it off and on for about 6 months. The first draft was done in a week or two but I needed to do research to get the dialogue just right and experiment with the characters’ personalities.


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Ep. 1022 - Screenwriter Sandon Yahn (PATHS WE LEAD)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVZUTousLAA

An aspiring screenwriter who struggles to support his family becomes successful after he uses a mysterious writing software that alters reality. But, with that comes a price that he never imagined he’d have to pay.


Get to know the screenwriter:

Every one can identify with the struggle of finding your calling and living it out. This story shows what happens when we decide to do things based on our own wisdom (which can be flawed) and not relying on God’s wisdom. It asks that question, “If you had the power to do what you wanted, how would you wield that power and at what cost?” It shows what the love of a family can do to heal the wrongs of one’s actions. What is more important, family or career? Can it be both or do we tend to put one over the other for the wrong reasons.

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Ep. #1016 - Writer Lisa Triano (NOT TONIGHT)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbMw1hpNXDs

A story of abuse and love.


Get to know the writer:

I started this screenplay, with the outline of the story, about twenty years ago. I picked it back up about three years ago and finished the story. I have been working to edit and format it for the last year.


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Ep. #1011 - Writer Adam Jay Ung (DELULU)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1RVbBl-98w

A Korean-born, American-raised K-pop idol working on the release of her solo debut track in Seoul, struggles with the language and cultural differences while dealing with a crazed stalker who’s dangerously obsessed with her.

http://www.adamjayung.com/

Get to know the writer:

On the surface, the screenplay is about a young K-pop idol who’s in the process of debuting her first track as a solo artist while dealing with a crazed stalker. Underneath the surface, it’s really about a girl who’s in search of her place in the world.

The title, “Delulu,” is a term that the K-pop fan community began using to label people they considered to be delusional for believing that they’d be lucky enough to date or befriend their favorite K-pop idols.

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Sept. 9, 2023 - Filmmaker/Writer Bradley Hawkins (CALF ROPE)

CALF ROPE, 29min,. USA, Drama

Directed by Bradley Hawkins

During the summer of '66, a former rodeo champion and cattle auctioneer from Oklahoma bonds tightly with his young grandson from suburban Pennsylvania while teaching him a few tricks from his previous trades. Shot entirely in rural Pennsylvania, Calf Rope captures the intense love that grandparents often share with their grandchildren and the legacy that lives on long after they have gone.

Also a feature screenplay…….

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September 2, 2023 - Screenwriter Harold Taw (DOG PARK)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlDE5fCtEc

In the comedy-drama DOG PARK, the deliberate poisoning of a dog forces three lonely people’s lives to collide.

Get to know the writer:

In DOG PARK, the deliberate poisoning of a dog forces three lonely people’s lives to collide.

MARGARET, 65, is a disciplined retiree who wakes before dawn to bake treats for her devoted mutt Rambo, then spends the day coordinating the volunteers who maintain the dog park. CARRIE, 27, is a frazzled nurse at Seattle Children’s Hospital who can’t keep her hyperactive Weimaraner Jean Luc from knocking over strangers or her boyfriends from leaving her. VIET, 30, is an assistant manager at the local hardware store who cares for his infant nephew and toddler niece in an extended family household. The perfect Vietnamese-Catholic son, his only self-indulgence is when he steals away to the bramble-filled, dirt paths of the lower woods for fleeting moments of pleasure with anonymous men.

Through everyday intimacies and betrayals, they find that perhaps it’s through our lack of control—over our dogs and our own desires—that we discover moments of grace.

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August 17, 2023 - Screenwriter Lindsay Waite (AMIGAS)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0SYt9uBuDU

In 1930s El Paso, Texas, when a timid Swedish maid and a strong-willed Mexican American maid develop an unexpected friendship, tension arises between them as the Swedish maid finds a mentor in her household but the Mexican-American maid is fired by her bosses for her assertiveness and fighting off sexual advances. The Mexican American maid becomes active in a fledgling Maids Union until she faces deportation and despairs. Her Swedish friend finds strength she never knew she had and takes steps to save her friend from deportation.


Get to know the writer:

Set in 1930s El Paso, Texas, this screenplay is about the value of an unexpected friendship between a Mexican American maid, assertive and proud, and a timid Swedish maid and how they both grow intellectually and emotionally based on their friendship.

As maids working in rich households, Hilde finds a mentor while Nita is fired for standing up for herself and for fighting off sexual advances.

Nita becomes a union activist in a fledgling Maids Union. Hilde joins the union eventually but reluctantly and filled with fear that she’ll be fired.

Nita is jailed and faces deportation for her activism and Hilde disappears from her life. Hilde, though, realizes the value of this friendship and draws from her hidden strengths to save her friend from deportaion and, equally important, restore their bond.

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August 16, 2023 - Screenwriter Diann Ducharme (OUTER BANKERS)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqsjI28VUYE

When Nolan, a powerful plantation owner, moves his family to a new oceanside home in North Carolina in the late 1860s, his highly educated daughter Abigail struggles to accept the role she’s expected to play. Powerful forces work in the shadows, eager to corrupt the family and harness their power and influence to further a dark agenda.

Get to know the writer:

This pilot teleplay “Outer Bankers” begins a drama series about all classes of North Carolinians, both Black and white, during one summer on the isolated barrier islands of the Outer Banks, during the Reconstruction year of 1868.

Primarily, it depicts the trials of Abigail Sinclair, the daughter of a plantation owner who has moved his family to a summer cottage on the ocean side of Nags Head, as she navigates an unwanted courtship while teaching her father’s local fishing guide, her family’s former slaves, and at last the members of a former Freedmen’s Colony, and ultimately coming to terms with her and her family’s role in Black oppression.

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Aug. 12th - Screenwriter Linda Whitmore (LITTLE GREEN MEND)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=podytSoBrMk

A plant-like-alien from a distant planet receives a school assignment to help another planet without revealing themselves and gets assigned Earth. 


Get to know the writer:

Dribbit, a whiz-kid alien from Nergal, where all life is plant-based, gets a school assignment to do a good deed for problem-filled Earth. While researching (OK, eavesdropping on) our transmissions, he overhears Earth-girl Lindsay Monroe say, “Wouldn’t it be great if everyone were the same? The world would be perfect.”

A lightbulb moment for Dribbit! Of course! One race = no hatred = a perfect planet! Right? Dribbit surreptitiously rockets orbs of his “cure” to Earth to turn everyone into plant-based lifeforms … green! Plus, a positive side effect: No more global warming!

But realizing his good deed has created a deadly, catastrophic environmental imbalance, he rushes to Earth to make things right. He recruits Lindsay’s help in a cross-country adventure to solve and reverse the runaway greening before it’s too late.

Pursued by federal agents and a freaked-out public, the two barely escape to Nergal to enlist the help of Dribbit’s hero: the mysterious, two-headed Professor Rebnar. But even with his help, how can they save the Earth in time?

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July 14, 2023 - Screenwriter Michael Harris (PREMIUM ECONONY)

Watch the Winning Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3--iiwTEfKE

Falling Down meets Dude, Where’s My Car? Over 24 hours, a recently divorced accountant loses his job, his Jeep and accidentally traffics Heroin. His only escape? Become a beige pants badass aka a Dad Ass.

From the writer:

Premium Economy is How Stella Got Her Groove Back meets Dude, Where’s My Car meets Falling Down (without the racial animus). It’s funny with deceptively touching relationships, even amongst the criminals, and it would be a low budget movie to shoot.

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May 22, 2023 - Screenwriter Jim Falletta (REVOLVING DOORS)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWEgSvNfDz0

Two down-on-their luck wannabe musicians moonlighting as karaoke “stars” at a bar that caters to senior citizens must overcome a host of obstacles on their road to music stardom, including their overbearing landlord, a divorced parent who moves in unexpectedly, and most importantly, their own propensity for failure.

Get to know the screenwriter:

Revolving Doors is about two down-on-their luck wannabe musicians moonlighting as karaoke “stars” at a bar that caters to senior citizens who must overcome a host of obstacles on their road to music stardom, including their overbearing landlord, a divorced parent who moves in unexpectedly, and most importantly, their own propensity for failure.

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May 15, 2023 - Screenwriter Jeffrey van Davis (THE EVIL THAT MEN DO)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS6mHBwRaf8

When a police detective, hunting a serial killer, gets too close, the killer murders his wife and two children, sending him into a downward spiral of alcohol, suicide, and a near-death experience where God tells him to become a priest. Years later the serial killer reappears – in his confessional.

From the Screenwriter:

Good vs. Evil Not in the more orthodox religious view of Christianity, but in a Manichaean vision Norman Mailer discussed in my film, “Norman Mailer: The Sanction to Write.” The Manichaeans saw God and the Devil as brothers caught up in a battle til the end of time – a battle of good vs. evil. There exist an important third element at play and that is mankind, human beings. How we act (for good or for evil) will determine if God or the Devil wins. So as humans we bear an awesome responsibility, a terrifying duty, in determining the outcome of this cosmic battle.

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May 7, 2023 - Screenwriter Andrea Lawson (The Road to Sorrowful)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjWe3zqFzqk

In the afterlife, a murdered man meets a grieving mother who died during the Great Depression and has been ferrying souls through purgatory ever since for the chance to rescue her daughter’s soul from damnation.


Get to know the screenwriter:

I think my 1-hour pilot script would make a fantastic television show. Sure, it’s about death, but it’s also about choices, addiction, co-dependency, guilt, loss, forgiveness, and personal responsibility, all wrapped up in a fun, dark, dangerous world where the characters really are down to their very last chance.


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May 5, 2023 - Screenwriter James W. Gould (MOTHER SUPERIOR)

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6lx36tTrjE

In 1350s Florence, an insecure nun unwillingly becomes the Mother Superior after the Plague kills the leaders of her nearly bankrupt convent. To save her convent, she must find the strength to confront the male dominated Church, Guilds and civil authorities, and her own demons.


Get to know the screenwriter:

While set in the past, Mother Superior has great modern-day relevance. The Plague foreshadows the disruptions of our Covid epidemic. Today’s struggles of women with a male dominated Church and civil society, and with their own faith, echo those of the protagonist.

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