Read Poem: PART-TIME, by Amanda Olejniczak

I’m getting dizzy

From circling the idea of trying to be everything you weren’t

Everything you couldn’t be

Because you were stuck in whatever twisted around and around keeping you entertained

And distracted long enough to keep you from being a good parent

I had to miss out on opportunities because I was never taught to value myself

I’ve found myself sobbing

On the floor

On the edge

Of your bed

In a puddle

In the shower

Wishing I would be held in comfort

I think maybe you never wanted me to begin with

Or maybe you envisioned motherhood being easier

So when it wasn’t

I was left

wondering

wondering

wondering why the hell my head could spin so fast and no one knew how to help me stop it from taking flight

But I think I know now

You don’t know how to care for yourself

So you weren’t equipped to know how to care for me-

Let alone, teach me how to get off the carrousel while you yourself are strapped into it too

Read Poem: Costumes I Wear, by Danny

The other day a guy said I should go to Hollywood boulevard and be Chucky

Wear a costume exploit my humanity with rude vanity just for money, is that funny?

Or were you being serious, I get delirious hearing this from the same old dummies

And you wonder why I don’t say proud to be an American or put the o in Cuntry

I’m compartmentalized; categorized, stigmatized but am I a human in your eyes

A butt of the joke to get by, like an Ewok, even though I have more force than a jedi,

Don’t call me Tyrion cause I’ve already won the game to this throne for I set sights

On putting humanity before race, gender, religion, physicality as I create infinite heights

Now let me lower my shield and sword and say your insults and jabs make me bored

Those calling me midget are conservatives and those calling me little person are liberals

I’m no little person let’s not take that literal, more than just what you see in the physical

As I tower over midgets not just in the physical but in the spiritual, ethereal and remedial

My vantage makes me add an advantage candid how I deal with madness on this planet

Sadness soaks the canvas, I feel damaged and completely stranded then I lose attachment

Of these labels I get branded and make my personality and smarts create an expansion

For I’m a whole number not a fraction I’m not a one-story apartment I’m a mansion

So I ask what do you think when you see me? Will you be demeaning or see my being?

If you can see my conscious streaming let’s team up to make real what we’re dreaming

Where we can look past material and wealth in order to see our thoughts and feelings

Cause after a while let’s strip away these labels and see how having love is the real thing

Now my confidence is higher than smoking a five gram blunt I’ve straightened my hunch

And no longer give a fuck cause when it comes to conforming to society I’ve been done

Since before I begun before I turned one when I was just an egg and cum a conception

Now I’m here to look past hot and cold right and left this versus that to see progression

I’m taking this one-way street on a high road no longer looking to cause pain to my soul

Make these verses be my bible for when I step out into this world it’s like I’m in a recital

With all eyes on me but rather than projecting negativity when I see people I smile more

No matter what I get dished in life I do best to not reciprocate vile slurs but be the kinder

I made my body my home, my temple, my sanctuary I meditate in finding my true bliss

I pursue with keys that unlock my full potential and close the door on society’s rudeness

I have no time putting on costumes from people who think they know me but are clueless

I go with those that don’t spew pollution but see the only costume I wear daily is human.

Read Poem: THE SUN AND THE MOON, by Aju Mukhopadhyay

With a beautiful red globe
The Sun reminds us each day that it begins
As the day wears on it gets hot
According to its position above the earth
And in the evening it sets in
Displaying huge colours behind it;
Sun’s movement is more or less
Sure and certain with certain exceptions
When its movement is hindered
Or its appearance is shadowed by other bodies;
The Sun is the hope and promise of our life
It leads us holding our hands throughout the day
Takes us to the threshold of the night
With promise to lead us again the next day
It gives directions to life
It gives health; in it the whole earth thrives.

But the moon has ever changing orb and mood
Tonight Full Moon another night New Moon
Tonight Sickle Moon dangles at the corner of the sky
Another day it is found in the middle of it at noon
Sometimes it is freckle and fading as if going to die
Sometimes bold and orange-red rival to the Sun ready to defy.
But the moon takes birth in the romantic heart of man
Its position in evening or night sky moves humans
To write innumerable lyrics.
Who forgets the peeping moon behind the leaves!
Who forgets the Full Moon bright
Illuminating the whole forest land at the dead of the night!
Its beauty attracts and moves the blind
Its charm melts the emotive heart of the resigned.
Who’s not a lover of the moon?
Ever harmless it’s always a boon
It’s never rough and tough
Whoever wishes gets the moon’s love?

© Aju Mukhopadhyay, 2020

Watch Now: The Winning DOC Feature Film

documentaryfestival's avatarDocumentary Film Festival. Los Angeles & Toronto

Watch the winning #Nature#Documentary Feature film today.

Sign up for the 7 day free trial at http://WILDsound.ca

Or, watch this film for only $1 https://wildsound.ca/packages/daily-film-festivals…

#filmfestival app giving you a new festival every single day. Watch

SUGAR WATER, 75min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Rick Jacques

A candid explanation of the Toxic Water Crisis in South Florida�s Everglades as told first hand by scientists, residents, farmers, business owners, and indigenous peoples.

Watch the Trailer: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/sugar-water-2021-official-trailer-720p

View original post

Deadline Today: DIVERSITY Film & Screenplay Festival

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

Submit to the Festival NOW:

https://filmfreeway.com/diversity

Use 50% off discount Code: 50diversity

MISSION STATEMENT: To provide filmmakers & screenplay writers of diverse backgrounds and/or with diverse stories a place to showcase their voice to a large audience and help further their careers as an artist! Free of stereotypes and degradation. We will bring a true multicultural experience represented for the artist and for the audience who attends the festival.

We support the following topics, filmmakers and communities: LGBT, Disability Culture, Racial/Ethnic Diversity, Religious Diversity, Family structures, as well as other social diversities including the aging population and youth in cinema.

This festival hub is part of the FEEDBACK Festival format that takes place at least 8 times a MONTH in Los Angeles & Toronto. Weekly film festivals and screenplay table readings occurs.

– Filmmakers receive an audience feedback video from the festival after their film is accepted.

– Screenplay writers…

View original post 78 more words

LISTEN to Today’s Black Feedback Film Festival PODCASTS. Then watch their films and festival for FREE or for $1.

lafeedbackfilmfestival's avatarBlack Feedback Film Festival

ADONAI – Director Hess Wesley
https://www.wildsoundpodcast.com/the-film-podcast-by-wildsound/2022/5/28/may-28-2022-actorwriter-hess-wesley-adonai?rq=hess%20wesley

LISTEN on Itunes:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/may-28-2022-filmmaker-hess-wesley-adonai/id1406973270?i=1000564331881

POWER OF INTIMATE TOUCH – Director Leslie Dotson
https://www.wildsoundpodcast.com/the-film-podcast-by-wildsound/2022/6/17/june-16-2022-filmmaker-les-dotson-power-of-intimate-touch

LISTEN on Itunes:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/june-16-2022-filmmaker-les-dotson-power-of-intimate-touch/id1406973270?i=1000566908632

Watch the BLACK Filmmakers Film Festival Now.

Watch FREE with 7 day trial, or watch for only $1.

Sign up for 7 day free trial and watch for FREE athttp://wildsound.ca

Or, watch this festival for only $1 for the next 48 hours.https://wildsound.ca/products/daily-film-festivals

A showcase of the best short films from Black Filmmakers from around the world today.

See the Full Lineup of Films:

ADONAI, 9min,. USA, Drama

Directed by Gil Green, Hess Wesley
Adonai tells the story of Paul, a man in emotional turmoil from a recent accident in which he mistakenly shot a marine veteran in the head. What exacerbates his misery, is that this particular marine, is his own brother. In a desperate attempt to rid himself of the guilt, he decides that…

View original post 290 more words

 Deadline Today: LA Documentary Film Festival. Use 50% off FilmFreeway Discount Code

documentaryfestival's avatarDocumentary Film Festival. Los Angeles & Toronto

 Deadline Today: LA Documentary Film Festival

https://filmfreeway.com/DocumentaryFilmFestival

Use 50% off discount code:documentary50

Festival has created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:

Tier #1 – Your film plays at either a public live event where the festival will record the audience reactions of your short or feature and then send you the feedback video. Or, it plays at a private festival event where the audience will record their comments/reactions to your film on their camera or phone, then we edit them and send you a promotional video. No matter what you will receive a promotional video of your film of people commenting on your film.

Tier #2 (optional) – You film plays on the Film Festival Streaming Servicefor 30 hours and the festivalinvites a select industry audience to watch it. With this system, some…

View original post 144 more words

LISTEN to Today’s EUROPEAN FEMALE Filmmakers Podcasts. Then watch their films and festival for FREE or $1

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

THE WORLD TO MY DAUGHTER – Josefine Ezinga van Asdonk
https://www.wildsoundpodcast.com/the-film-podcast-by-wildsound/2022/6/18/june-18-2022-filmmaker-josefine-ezinga-van-asdonk-the-world-to-my-daughter?rq=Josefine%20Ezinga%20van%20Asdonk

LISTEN on ITUNES:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/june-18-2022-filmmaker-josefine-ezinga-van-asdonk-the/id1406973270?i=1000566913240

THE LARK – Katarina Krstic
https://www.wildsoundpodcast.com/the-film-podcast-by-wildsound/2022/6/21/june-21-2022-filmmaker-katarina-krstic-the-lark?rq=Katarina%20Krstic

LISTEN on ITUNES:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/june-21-2022-filmmaker-katarina-krstic-the-lark/id1406973270?i=1000567337070

Sign up for 7 day free trial and watch for FREE at http://wildsound.ca

Or, watch this festival for only $1 for the next 48 hours.
https://wildsound.ca/packages/daily-film-festivals

Service giving you a new Film Festival every single day.

See the Full lineup of films:

CHAPTER BREAK, 11min., Iceland, Drama
Directed by Erna Soffia
A young woman living an uneventful life goes clubbing with her best girlfriend. She meets a young man who seems to be the whole package — he’s polite, funny, handsome. He just might be the one and only? Or is he…?

THE WORLD TO MY DAUGHTER, 13min,. Netherlands, Drama
Directed by Josefine Ezinga van Asdonk
In 2020, the world will change forever due to the Corona pandemic. Olivia and her father are staying at…

View original post 187 more words

Watch the MOVIE TRAILER Festival Now for FREE

festreviews's avatarFestival Reviews

Watch the movie trailer film festival for FREE on the last week of June 2022. Streams for FREE all week on the WILDsound TV APP starting at midnight EST March 28th. (Free link for everyone. You don’t have to sign onto the service.)

Watch on the APPHERE

SEE THE FULL LINEUP OF FILMS:

THIS IS WHAT NEW YORKERS SAY, 1min.
THIS IS WHAT NEW YORKERS SAY is a project that aims to give a voice back to the people of New York. In the past year, a lot has happened in politics and decisions were made, supposedly, in the name of the people, but too many
therockrokers@libero.it

BLINDSIDED BY LOVE, 3min.
A workaholic couple’s relationship is tested by infidelity which brings danger into their lives.

THE TRANSFORMERS: REGENERATION, 3min.
When the cybertronian war has divided transformers across the galaxy, an ancient planet-eater named Unicron returns from the shadows for…

View original post 921 more words

Watch the BLACK Filmmakers Film Festival Now.

lafeedbackfilmfestival's avatarBlack Feedback Film Festival

Watch FREE with 7 day trial, or watch for only $1.

Sign up for 7 day free trial and watch for FREE at http://wildsound.ca

Or, watch this festival for only $1 for the next 48 hours. https://wildsound.ca/products/daily-film-festivals

A showcase of the best short films from Black Filmmakers from around the world today.

See the Full Lineup of Films:

ADONAI, 9min,. USA, Drama

Directed by Gil Green, Hess Wesley
Adonai tells the story of Paul, a man in emotional turmoil from a recent accident in which he mistakenly shot a marine veteran in the head. What exacerbates his misery, is that this particular marine, is his own brother. In a desperate attempt to rid himself of the guilt, he decides that his only way forward is to take his own life.

https://instagram.com/adonaimovie
https://twitter.com/adonaimovie

WATCH HERE– The audience feedback video of the film!

CLICK HEREand see full info and more…

View original post 260 more words