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Win: Cult Movies International Film Festival Best Short Screenwriting

Win: Cult Movies International Film Festival Best Short Screenwriting

Win: Florence Film Awards Gold Award: Short Script

Written by lifelong actor and creative writer Geoffrey Gould (that would be me...), Ten for TN is a short comedy horror script, about an adult son visiting his mother back in Tennessee, finding his childhood room is not only converted into a craft room, but is also now occupied by ten somewhat creepy dolls, that after dark may be not as inanimate as one would expect... or hope... Eric Bartlett and I share similar tastes in humour and certainly films. We text each other what flms we've seen and recommend ones we like or warn away from those we've each found disappointing. While he was visiting his mother in Tennessee in early 2024, he conveyed that she had begun collecting vintage dolls. They were Just Creepy Enough that he tossed a towel over them. Characteristically, I couldn't help but make quips about their most likely being haunted and to watch out for his feet at night... He quipped back until, after a few such back and forths, he openly wondered if we were organically creating another of my short film scripts. I figured Why Not? and I wrote up the story within an afternoon and sent him the link to its .pdf file. He read it to his mother who also enjoyed it, as well as her being relieved the story didn't get too scary. I began submitting it to festivals, and as with my other scripts, it quickly began to win awards, first the Florence Film Awards, then the Cult Movies International Film Festival.

08 April 2025 Pre-production Michael Beardsley had for a few years previously been working with a group, making short films for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge. For 2024 he contacted me to write the script for their entry for the then current competition season. The parameters needed to include a store front, pretzels, and a "dynamic duo." We had a location, a dentist office at which Victoria Ippolito worked,the entrance to which we figured fudged enough to be considered a 'store front." Michael directed the short: Friends With Dental Benefits, which turned out pretty well. Mike had sent me a photo of this plushie Kangaroo with night-fuel human teeth. I knew I had to include that, and for the short, I voiced the creature. The film did not move forward in the competition, and the group decided to "go in a different direction" for 2025. With Michael no longer involved, and his wanting to make a film, he inquired as to our making my Ten for TN script into its own short film. Michael had a $500 voucher his and Zack Van Eyck's featire film The Hitchhiker Effect had won in a film festival. Zack gave the award voucher to Michael to make what he wanted. For Ten for TN Michael would produce, I would direct, fellow We Make Movies member Shift Orion would be associate producer (and possibly sound), our director of photography would be Michael Muncatchy. Michael would play Eric, and Christine DiTillio would play his mother. At one point during pre-production I was joking with Shift that the two character piece would seem to preclude my having a role, then I realized there's an audible offscreen gasp, which with great amusement I claimed. One thing needed, or rather, ten things needed, were the dolls. I went to a local swap meet and managed to acquire five dolls that fit the bill. One of the friends with whom I stay pointed out that her sister-in-law had a few dolls that could fit the critera. I was told where they probably could be found, and I did find them, completing the team of ten. In early 2024

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