Tubi partnering with the Black List

Just found out about this through the only app I really get my news fro: Bloody Disgusting.

Tubi (a free streaming platform that I have been addicted to since I first discovered it in March 2020... I actually got it from reading the tweets of one of my favorite directors,. Lucky McKee... Tubi is like the digital equivalent of that cool ma & pa video store back in the day that had everything the mainstream video stores wouldn't carry... and the most comprehensive, sprawling and awesome horror section you could every think of) is looking for horror scripts and is teaming up with the Black List (a list of the hottest unproduced scripts in Hollywood).

Now, I am now creating an account on the Black List (which is taking forever!).

Now, I (naively) thought that submission for this Tubi-Black List venture would be free. 

Ha!

Each project must have an "evaluation" (which costs $100!).

When I thought it was free, I had dreams of submitting tons of my horror scripts that I am proud of.

But with a price tag of 1/10 of $1000, yeah, I'm just going to submit Personal Demons.

The deadline is August 1st, so I've got some time.  

So it goes.

Wish me luck!

 

 

 

 

HorrorHound Submission

 Just submitted Personal Demons to HorrorHound Film Festival.

It's a con that I've never been to, but have been meaning to go.

Perhaps sometime in the near future.

But I love that this is the second horror con that I've submitted to because they have a film fest that accept screenplay submissions as well.

I submitted to Days of the Dead (the horror con I've gone to the most) a few years ago. 

 

 

 

I Am Now A Quarter-Finalist at the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards

 

Dear Erik D., Congratulations! Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards has updated the Judging Status of your submission Personal Demons to Quarter-Finalist. Personal Demons Quarter-Finalist Project has been selected as a quarter-finalist in festival.

Jersey City Horror Film festival SUBMISSION

 Just submitted Personal Demons to the Jersey City Horror Film Festival.

$50.

Hope it was worth it.

I used to have family that lived in Jersey.

We'll see if that nets any karma points.  

 

 

Horror Screenings Film Festival Bloody Mirror Submission

 Just submitted Personal Demons to Horror Screenings Film Festival Bloody Mirror  via Film Freeway.

Their final deadline is March 17th, so I figured I'd better jump on it.

This is my 3rd submission for Personal Demons (or, really, for any of my scripts) in 2026.  

 

 

Painting

 Last summer I bought a bunch of cheap art supplies (canvases, brushes, paints, etc.) from the Dollar Tree in an effort to start painting.

Now, I've never fancied myself anything of a visual (drawing, painting, etc.) artist, but I've always lamented the fact that I've never seriously tried my hand at any of these artistic facets. 

Well, all those painting supplies sit in a storage facility, unused after about half a year.

Now, this isn't due to laziness or lack of interest.

It's just that I knew I needed more preparation before I dove into painting. 

I already have my first few paintings planned out (the visuals and the story, as it were), now I just need to sketch them first, then transfer them onto the canvas. 

I also recently found out that they have good, cheap aisles easels at Five Below.

Now, I know this won't be the first time I've entertained interest in a tangible visual art medium and never started it (I still have all the modeling clay, sculpting tools and Play-Doh from all the years I said I would sculpt... which I still fully intend on doing), but, for whatever reason, this time I just feel more inspired and more... I don't know... ready. 

We shall see.

Obviously, pictures of the finished pieces (which I am fully expecting to be either garbage, or to fall very far short of expectations) will be posted upon completion.  

 

First Submissions of 2026

 Just submitted Personal Demons to my first film fests of 2026.

 I submitted it to the Bloodstained Indie Film Festival: Sci-Fi Horror Action and the Spring Screams Film Festival.

And, of course, I have my next four submissions already mapped out for the next few months.