LIFT OUT LOUD October: Call for Short Screenplays

Dear Members,

LIFT's popular screenplay reading series LIFT OUT LOUD is looking for short screenplays for it's December reading. Please submit them as either a PDF or Word document by WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4th to:

E-mail: liftoutloud(at)gmail.com
Subject Heading: LIFT OUT LOUD December 2009 Submission

Selected non-member writers are required to join LIFT's membership:
http://www.lift.on.ca/mt/membership.html.

Thanks and happy writing,
LIFT OUT LOUD Committee

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PAST EVENT:
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The LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO present
LIFT OUT LOUD

A Bi-Monthly Screenplay Reading Series With Guest Moderator
JEREMY PODESWA
(Fugitive Pieces, Dexter, The Five Senses, Eclipse, Six Feet Under)

CROOKED
written by Richard B. Pierre

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Admission: $5.00
Location: XPACE, 58 Ossington Avenue (just north of Queen Street West)

GUEST MODERATOR - JEREMY PODESWA
Jeremy Podeswa (once cited by Variety Magazine as one of "Tomorrow's Hot Exports" in its survey of new directors) has written and directed three critically lauded feature films, including FUGITIVE PIECES (Opening Gala of the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival); THE FIVE SENSES (Cannes Directors Fortnight, Best Canadian Film TIFF, Genie Winner Best Director) and ECLIPSE (Sundance, Berlin, New Directors/New Films MOMA) Podeswa has also recently directed three episodes of the epic HBO mini-series THE PACIFIC, Executive Produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. Other directing credits include the
mini-series INTO THE WEST, Executive Produced by Steven Spielberg (nominated for 16 Emmy Awards); the television movie AFTER THE HARVEST, winner of the Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Direction and nominated for nine Gemini Awards; and numerous episodes of groundbreaking television series, including SIX FEET UNDER, DEXTER, THE TUDORS, WEEDS, THE L WORD, QUEER AS FOLK, and NIP/ TUCK.


CROOKED by Richard B. Pierre
Alva, a witty ten-year-old Parkdale kid gets a job as an ice-cream vendor to help support his struggling mother, but once on the street he discovers that life is littered with choices when tempted by the easy money of street crime.

Writer Richard B. Pierre's first feature length screenplay, CROOKED was selected as a quarter-finalist for the 2009 Nicholl Fellowship, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

*FREE PIZZA will be served across the street at The Ossington Meet & Greet after the event.

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LIFT OUT LOUD is our bi-monthly script reading series where members workshop their scripts to by professional actors and then get feedback from the acclaimed guest moderator and an audience of their peers. LIFT OUT LOUD meets bi-monthly on the first Wednesday of every other month.

If you're an actor interested in taking part in the readings, please send a resume to liftoutloud(at)gmail.com
Writers can submit their scripts for consideration to the same e-mail.