Poetry Reading: Today, by Anthony Dalton
Poetry Reading: Courage, by Kenneth Clarke
Poetry Reading: After The Highway, by Cleveland W. Gibson
Month: June 2018
Read Poem: THE CEREMONY, by Stephen Ross
The medicine drank clearly, the journey afoot
Down into my belly, I gladly partook
Mystical voyage, from under the sea
And up to oblivion, my soul be set free
Delicate dances and rhythms abound
Swimming through music, the spirits were found
A song to my sister, in absolute bliss
Dismissed relative madness, with the tenderest kiss
Stared right at my demons and gave them a hug
Expelled from my system, aboard voluptuous chug
Through rapture forthcoming, this voice from the heart
My wolf bellowed wildly, tearing weather apart
Then low as a river, guiding splendid refrain
And out the forgiver, once fully explained
Dear loving survivor and glider of love
This vessel so special, when steered from above
Dipped once into heaven, and twice into me,
Third time into honey, released victory
Intentions becoming, through gentlest embrace
Manifesting the blessings, a smile on my face
That panther inside me, rested easy on hearth
An owl prowled outside Lee, perspective so smart
Guided back to my person, rebirth started anew
Earth spurted deep visons and through them I grew.
Conducted the weather, energetic symphony
Through channels forthcoming, our world be set free!!
Together in kindness, administered plain
Come back now together and call out my name
Beautiful hew, man!
hu-man-be-ings,
be-you-tea-full-hu-mans.
Being means dreams xx
FAN FICTION Best Scene Reading of THE LAST CAMPOUT, by Mike Meade
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Five friends on a campout in the Pacific NW are stalked by an unknown killer.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Chelsea: Val Cole
Anthony: John Fray
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Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Director: Kierston Drier
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Camera Op: Mary Cox
May 2018 HORROR Stories, Screenplays, and Short Films
TUESDAY 10:08AM, 13min., Canada, Crime/Mystery
PREY, 13min., UK, Thriller/Horror 
CHERI, 6min., France, Thriller/Suspense 
CONSURGO, 12min., USA, Thriller/Suspense
|  THE LAST CAMPOUT – FAN FICTION Best Scene ScreenplayMay 2018 Reading by Mike Meade |
MARY & MARSHA IN THE MANOR OF MADNESS, 3min., USA, Animation MIRRORS – Under 5mi. Short ScreenplayMay 2018 Reading by R. Harris Smith |  TOUCH – Best Scene ScreenplayMay 2018 Reading by Scott Timmins |
 THE AFTERLIFE – SHORT STORY ReadingMay 2018 Reading by R.G. Renauld |
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: John Johnson, Isabal Cupryn, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
HIGHLIGHTS: June 2018 Web Series Festival
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: COOL GIRLS
BEST PERFORMANCES: COOL GIRLS
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: COOL GIRLS
BEST MUSIC: LEGAL FOX
Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos:
SOUNDS OF FREEDOM, 5min, USA, TV WEB SERIES/Drama
HEINOUS GIRLS, 5min., Canada, TV WEB SERIES/Comedy
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COOL GIRLS “HOW TO THROW A GIRLS NIGHT OUT”, 8min., Canada, TV WEB SERIES/Comedy
CROW’S PEAK, 4min., USA, TV WEB SERIES/Animation/Comedy
LEGAL FOX: A TASTE OF TRUMP, 3min., USA Drama/Comedy
OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN, 5min., USA, TV WEB SERIES/ComedyThe theme of the June 2018 WEB SERIES FEEDBACK Film Festival in Toronto was “Invisible Obstacles”. Every single film was about characters needing to overcome conflicts that really didn’t exist..
Web Series are the now and future of media and film festivals. So I was very honored to show 6 of the best TV webisodes in the world today. The great thing about this festival is that there is more to come for…
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HIGHLIGHTS, WINNERS & VIDEOS: June 2018 Horror/Thriller FEEDBACK Film Festival
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: THE DOLLMAKER
SCARIEST FILM: IT BEGAN WITHOUT WARNING
BEST PERFORMANCES: ADDICT
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: BEAST
BEST MUSIC: THE LETTERS
Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos:
BEAST, 20min., Australia, Thriller/Film Noir
THE LETTERS, 18min., UK, Thriller/Drama
STALKER, 7min., Czech. Republic, Horror/Thriller
GORGE, 3min., USA, Horror
ABOVE THE MIST, 8min, Canada/South Korea, Horror
THE DOLLMAKER, 10min, USA, Horror/Fantasy 
ADDICT, 15min, Israel, Horror/Comedy
IT BEGAN WITHOUT WARNING, 6min., USA, Horror The theme of the June 2018 HORROR/THRILLER FEEDBACK Film Festival in Los Angeles was “Sins”. Every single film was about a world and/or characters dealing with sins and conflicts of the past.
This is the festival that I’ll always remember because I consider it the turning point of the Los Angeles FEEDBACK Film Festival. It wasn’t the easiest event to get through for the crew, but they grinded it out and produced the best night we’ve had so far in…
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Read Poem: THE BEGGER MAN, by Queen Quotes
Read Poem: Testimony, by Michelle Owusu
You called me by name
You called me daughter
When I forgot your name
You remained My Father
You spoke wisdom and I noticed I was naked
You sent me Comfort, when I couldn’t make it
You used humour to bring me joy
You gave me hope; more hope than any boy.
You gave me faith that made me calm
You gave me a peace to brave the storm
You gave me encouragement to make lemonade
You gave Your Son; the light in my shade
You grabbed my hand and showed me Our dreams
Before I felt a dying thirst, you led me to your Your living stream.
When I spoke death, you spoke life
I’m waiting for your return Papa, for when you marry your bride.
Read Poem: BACK HOME, Michael Lawrence
(Poem for Don McCullin)
Back from the wars, a veteran
of ten thousand images of massacre,
rape, disease, despair, every horror
known to and devised by man dutifully
recorded in every dung-heap, shit-hole,
rat-infested pocket of the world:
the fly-pestered faces of wide-eyed orphans,
naked screaming babes,
gaunt cadavers in shallow graves
uncovered by the rains, soldiers
pirouetting over trenches for posterity,
women in rags, the old, the middle-aged,
the young – some, in these perfect compositions,
as beautiful as fashion models for other cameras,
back home.
Back home,
an old stone house, darkroom down the path,
a different kind of perfect composition:
moody studies of tumbling English skies,
the rain and sun on English oaks, sane,
controlled, serene – yet haunted, scarred,
smeared by all those gritty, grainy years,
the stench of burning flesh,
the empty eyes that never knew tomorrow,
the tortured, the savaged, the sundered;
that other world,
shoved aside but never quite forgotten,
of innocents ground down into this bloody earth,
blood-saturated earth, that we call civilised.
The photographer has come home.
But he rarely smiles.
Read Poem: CONFLICT WORLD, by MANTRI MARK
What I Thought, This World Today
Is Not That World, I Expected
Reigns of Rulers, Years Rolled
Rules Have Gone, it’s Dictators Era ǁ
Confrontations and Conflicts Still In Vogue
There Is No Day without a Conflict
Combats Have Become Order Of The Day
Intra-Country Combats Are the Regular Features ǁ
No Day Left For Inter-Party Conflicts
Whole World Watches Ongoing Combats
Who Support Whom, For Support and Sanctions
World Combats Sure, A Day Is Not Far ǁ
War Like Conflict, Looks to Be Common
People Suffer Due To Power-Sake Rule
Value to Life, No Country Thinks
War May Erupt, Can Lead to Casualties ǁ
People Gave Power, To Rulers to Rule
People Gave Power, To Keep the Environment Good
People’s Ambition, Enact the Rule
Peoples Aspirations, Hope To Be Good ǁ
Misunderstandings and precipitations are often seen
Who is not great, as said and done?
All countries are great, as countrymen feel so
Dangers are seen through terrorism strikes ǁ
People are hit and killed through wars of terrorism
Countless casualties in war hit zones
Epics and diseases hit the people for long
Properties get damaged and never recovered in life ǁ
Lives and property hit through chemical bombings
Normal life dislocates throughout the world
Lost economy never regains for decades
Hopeless conditions people have to confront ǁ
Governments collapse over the years
Peoples’ sufferance’s lead to epidemic diseases
Wiseman decisions lead to avoidance of conflicts
Ceasefire agreements can stop combats for a breathe ǁ
Judgments and decisions are good for peace
Who blames who, is the point of thought
Policies and governance are the duty of government
Efficiency of Rulers prove the handling of situation ǁ
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