Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the short film lineup for the seventh edition of Fantastic Fest, happening September 22-29 in Austin, Texas. Fantastic Fest loves its short films – they provide a fertile ground for new and exciting filmmaking talent to show off their genre goods in an unrestrained format. Here is the lineup for Fantastic Fest 2011: ALL MEN ARE CALLED ROBERT (2011) U.S. Premiere Director: Marc-Henri Boulier, France, 6 minutes A naked, terribly bruised man is runn...

I intend filming 4 of my stories after completing 3 of my amusing short films. I have made mistakes which I have already highlighted in my earlier blog enteries for the readers to note. To further eloberate, I'm listing them below: 1/ PUTTING ON TOO MANY HATS- I was a story writer, actor, producer and arranger of everything. Result: Not satisfied with the final result. 2/ WANTED EVERY SHOT IN THE FILM- Conflict with the director and the editor. Result: A slow pace comedy (T...

"A.L.I.C.E." was accepted to its 22nd film festival, the Portobello Film Festival in London, UK,  for September 5th, 2011. Admission is free! The film is represented by Fred Joubaud of Ouat Media. For more info, please visit: http://www.dawnwestlake.com (click on the film can labeled "A.L.I.C.E.") ...

CALLING FOR ENTRIES! Visit www.LoveYourShorts.com to enter. The 2012 Love Your Shorts Film Festival (LYSFF) will be held February 10-12 at the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in downtown Sanford, Florida. The LYSFF screens only short films under 30 minutes in length. Films are divided into different blocks for screening. Audience members at each block vote for their favorite film and winners are announced on the spot. The winning films from each block advance to a fin...

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"A.L.I.C.E." has turned 21! FeSanCor Festival Chileno Internacional del Cortometraje is the film's 21st festival acceptance. "A.L.I.C.E." will play between October 19-25, 2011 in Santiago, Chile. The film is represented for international broadcast sales by Fred Joubaud of Ouat Media. For more info, please contact fred.joubaud@ouatmedia.com  For more info on "A.L.I.C.E." and to see its trailer, please visit: http://www.dawnwestlake.com/dawnwestlake/rond...

CALLING FOR ENTRIES! Visit www.LoveYourShorts.com to enter. The 2012 Love Your Shorts Film Festival (LYSFF) will be held February 10-12 at the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in downtown Sanford, Florida. The LYSFF screens only short films under 30 minutes in length. Films are divided into different blocks for screening. Audience members at each block vote for their favorite film and winners are announced on the spot. The winning films from each block advance to a fin...

I'm an actor and a story writter. Thought of tranforming my stories into short films, all 7 stories! So, I dared to be a film maker with a very small budget. With an intelligent guss work, I went ahead and completed 3 short films on a self created character of "Billy Moore".  My friends tell me they are good and amusing  films. Not knowing fully the process of submitting them to the festivals like sending screeners have to be followed by preview material submission, I just we...

"A.L.I.C.E." has been short-listed from 800 submissions representing 52 countries for the "Shorts Cinema" program at the Marbella Int'l Film Festival in Marbella, Spain running October 14-16, 2011. This is the 20th festival acceptance for "A.L.I.C.E.". During the same dates, "A.L.I.C.E." will be participating in the Beijing Int'l Movie Fest in China. Later in the month, the film moves to the Gold Lion Film Festival in Manzini, Swaziland. ...

"A.L.I.C.E." played in the 17th annual San Gio Film Festival in Verona, Italy on July 27th, 2011. The film has now played in 19 fests on 6 continents. Festival director Ugo Brusaporco told director Dawn Westlake, "Molto applaudito il tuo lavoro, e la concorrenza era davvero spietata!" "A.L.I.C.E." is represented for international broadcast sales by Ouat Media. Please contact Fred Joubaud for more info at fred.joubaud@ouatmedia.com  For more in...

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Guidelines: (download the pdf) Submission is free and all entries must be received by 31 July 2011 – this has been extended! All contributions should relate to climate change and must have been produced since the Cancun Climate Change Conference (1 December 2010). It is open to everyone, worldwide, but should not have been published or produced for commercial gain elsewhere. All submissions should be titled with the production date, the author’s name and a questi...

I started my involvement in films as an actor, turned into a writer and then decided to make short films on my own amusing stories. As a writer I created a character of Billy Moore, a jolly old man now. He had many amusing stories in his life. I wrote 8 stories-4 to be shot indoors and 4 to be shot outdoors. There was nobody to finance me as I had no background as a film maker. Nobody listened to me being an international award winning actor and a writer with good stories which can be easily f...

Synopsis: Helpless retired surgeon, Dr. Joshi, approaches Dr. Sukhant, a renowned psychologist & author, to get rid of a ghost. The ghost when alive was a victim of breast cancer. Despite her reluctance, the surgeon had to perform mastectomy on her to lend her with few more years of life. Now her ghost perpetually appears at the surgeon's lab, to make him feel her incompleteness. Vulnerable Dr. Joshi 's only hope, psychologist Dr. Sukhant too fails to unravel the mystery. What happens nex...