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Are you an aspiring screenwriter or filmmaker eager to master film production and bring your ideas to life?
The creative industry is competitive, and knowing how to secure funding, write within budget, assemble a production team, cast actors, and edit effectively is crucial for success.
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PERSONAL DEMON
A YA Horror Series
Available on Redcircle or anywhere you find podcasts...
Norah's your average 17 year old girl... other than she can eviscerate you with one look. Not that she means to, it just happens. Haunted by powers she can’t control and a past she doesn’t understand she flees to Hogarth, a strange town with dark secrets, in search of answers about who (or what) she really is.
As horrors crawl out of the shadows and friendly faces reveal fangs, Norah is forced into an uneasy alliance with the demon hunter sent to kill her and two classmates hiding dark secrets of their own. Together, they battle twisted creatures plaguing Hogarth, all while Norah grapples with the dark forces within her to answer the terrifying question: What if she was never meant to be good?
Personal Demon is a YA horror-fantasy fiction podcast about identity, morality, power and the terrifying cost of forging your own path, new episodes release every Friday @ 7pm (UK), available everywhere you find podcasts.
About Season 1 - Show Time
Our story kicks off when Norah arrives in the spooky backwater town of Hogarth, only to immediately find herself in the crosshairs of a power-hungry necromancer bent on raising a zombie army.
To survive, she’s forced to team up with a newbie demon hunter and two very unprepared high schoolers.
Together, they’ll face horrors beyond their worst nightmares bringing Norah one step closer to the terrifying truth about what she is and where she really came from.