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Comedy Short Wichita Sheds Lights on Modern Marriage and Betrayal (video)

Rod Washington
Comedy short

(Los Angeles, CA) – October 25, 2020. Comedy short film Wichita continues its festival tour at the Austin Film Festival, Hollyshorts, Festival du Cinéma International Rouyn-Noranda and many more. Moreover, Wichitawas recently awarded the honorable mention at the LA FEMME Film Festival in Los Angeles. Wichita (Trailer): https://vimeo.com/400344886   The five- minute heart-racing mini comedic thriller by creative duo Sergine Dumais (director) and…

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Just For Laughs Chooses TRIBES As The Funniest Short Film

Rod Washington
Just For Laughs

This 1st Place Award Is Accompanied By A $1000 Cash Prize     (Los Angeles, CA) – October 12, 2020. When stand-up comedian Alonzo Bodden announced that the First Place of the Just For Laughs / Eat My Shorts competition was awarded to TRIBES, director Nino Aldi couldn’t believe it. Just For Laughs is the largest international comedy festival in the world and…

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Comedy “TRIBES” Competes for Oscar® Qualification at the LA Shorts Fest.

Rod Washington
Tribes

(Los Angeles, CA) – September 29, 2020. After a successful festival tour debut, Nino Aldi’s role-reversal comedy Tribes, starring Internet celebrities Destorm Power (Punk’d), Adam Waheed (Pitch Please) and Daytime Emmy-winning producer/actor Jake Hunter (Class Act), from an award-winning screenplay by Andy Marlatt, is finally going to be presented online at the Oscar qualifying LA Shorts Fest. The competitive screening is…

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The Gesture and The Word by Helen Alexis Yonov competes for Oscar® Qualification

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Gesture

(Los Angeles, CA) – September 28, 2020. Multi award-winning short film, The Gesture and the Word written and directed by rising filmmaker Helen Alexis Yonov, competes for Best Narrative Short at the prestigious Oscar® qualifying festival, the LA Shorts International Film Festival. If it wins, it becomes eligible for an Oscar® nomination. The screening is scheduled on October 6, 2020 on the Comedy Program 3 @ www.LAShortsFest.com. This is the…

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HBO and The Root’s Writing Contest for Rising Authors

Rod Washington
writing contest

Inspired by the HBO Original Series Lovecraft Country Winner Will Receive Prize of $5000, Story Published on The Root, and Writing Mentorship with HBO   The Root, a G/O Media brand and one of the largest sites covering Black news, politics, culture and opinion, announced a creative partnership with HBO – a branded writing contest for emerging Black writers – inspired…

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The United Nations & FanForce TV Launch Anti-racism Film Festival

Rod Washington
FANFORCE

The UNITED NATIONS together with FANFORCE TV, the community-based streaming platform, present the first Virtual ‘R.I.S.E.’ [Racial Injustice. Social Equality] Film Festival from the 20th of August till the 27th of August, 2020.  [View Trailer] The Festival will present some of the most powerful films that examine social justice and racism alongside Q&A discussions and audience participation via Live Chat –…

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Sci-fi Parody “UNBELIEVABLE” Set for Saturday, August 1

Rod Washington

At long last! Years in the making!! Perfect for filling the Star Trek void after the SDCC at-home event!!! And a smokin’ good time for the millions of Snoop Dogg fans out there… UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! – which stars superstar Snoop Dogg and a puppet named Kirk Stillwood, and which features 40-plus figures from across the Star Trek franchise — is ready…

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