NYC Festival 1st Scene: RENEGADES, by Warner J. Miller

In an alternate 1831 Virginia, enslaved preacher Nat Turner, along with hundreds of enslaved Black people in the antebellum South, live with a horrifying truth: white townspeople and plantation owners led by the charismatic Pastor Sarx are ancient demonic beings who literally feed on Black flesh. After witnessing numerous atrocities over the years, including the most recent kidnapping of a young girl named Tabitha who is taken for a demonic ritual, Nat, his friend Sam and part-time adversary, Will go to infiltrate the church’s underground lair to rescue her. This ignites a full-scale uprising/supernatural war where Nat, along with his love interest Charlotte, and Sam & Will fight back against the demon-whites.

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CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Jeremiah: Steve Rizzo
Minty: Val Cole
Old Man: Andy Camp

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By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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