New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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Watch Today's FREE Festival: Muito Amor - Jews and Judaism in Amazonia, 61min., Israel
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FANTASY/SCI-FI 1st Scene Reading: RED HEX, by Conor A. Nixon
Jam is usually a very good worker, he gets his amounted number of mining done and goes about this life. However, when a solar flare hits and their boss does not seem to care, questions are raised as to whether he truly has his workers best interests at heart and the intended purpose of the materi...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Art of Denial, by Hannah Augenstine
The Art of Denial follows Emily, a playwright who finds the courage to write and put herself out there after the death of her father figure/ mentor. The Art of Denial has a sweet premise but lacks specific character motives, a strong setup, and a realistic arc.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth ...
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Supernatural 1st Scene: THE BREAKING OF BOB HOWARD TV Pilot by George R Strayton
Pilot Episode: "Black Luck and Red Doom"
In 1930s Texas, pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard battles both external pressures and internal demons as he creates the legendary Conan the Barbarian. When his beloved mother Hester falls gravely ill with tuberculosis, Bob struggles to maintain his sani... -
LGBTQ+ Festival First Scene: The Urning - Life and Times of a Gay Rights Pioneer
"Hambach Awakening" - Pilot episode of a limited series on the life and times of Karl Heinrichs Ulrichs - a German gay rights pioneer and scholar who wrote the first queer theory known to the LGBTQ movement, published the first gay magazine, and used his privilege and law degree to go into battle...
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Best of CHICAGO Film Festival
HOW WE ROLL, 16min,. USA
Directed by Anthony Ciancio
What started as a little idea becomes a local phenomenon. Meet the passionate folks who have reinvigorated this ancient game as a means of escape and finding common ground in their community. Meet The Elmwood Park Bocce League.https://www.wil...
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Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of CHICAGO Film Festival
HOW WE ROLL, 16min,. USA
Directed by Anthony Ciancio
What started as a little idea becomes a local phenomenon. Meet the passionate folks who have reinvigorated this ancient game as a means of escape and finding common ground in their community. Meet The Elmwood Park Bocce League.https://www.wil...
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FEMALE Festival Best Scene Reading: MANIPULATIVE WAYS, by Cheryl Smith
Susan Passaretti embodies the stereotypical millennial – entitled and a little delusional. By day, she works as a waitress in a greasy spoon diner, and by night, she is a stripper. Fate introduces an extraordinary turn of events when she meets Jonathan, a habitual lottery player who finally belie...
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FEEDBACK Festival HORROR Best Scene: Saturday Night Slaughter, by Michael Hansen
Saturday Night Slaughter follows a group of friends who reunite at the local spooky festival, decades after a disco era massacre committed by the mysterious killer known as Dr. Funkenstein. As the music and memories return, so does the bloodshed.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Bob: Shawn... -
COMEDY Festival Best Scene: Tequila Express, by Thomas J Kearns
A sequence of events leads a bunch of friends on a fun musical journey in time. One where they may not come back from.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Bailey: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Maria: Hannah Ehman
Slimy Guy: Shawn Devlin -
WILDsound CRIME/THRILLER Best Scene: The Devil's Right Hand, by Algis Danaitis
Lee is hired to bring the seducer of a young woman to daddy for his particular vengeance. Daddy is an Arizona drug baron. The seducer works for daddy’s Mexican partner. Then too many people with guns and the wrong ideas intrude. And the job just got complicated.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
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ACTION/ADVENTURE Best Scene Reading: To Lie Among The Sugarcane, by Trey Randle
Omar & a group of boys manage to escape the Sudan Civil War & make it to America after experiencing the most horrific fight for their lives.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Omari: Shawn Devlin
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DRAMA Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Lonely Wish, by Nick McCabe
When a troubled teen’s wish to make everyone disappear comes true, she risks losing them permanently and must rely on an unlikely ally to save her town – the school bully.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Sean Ballantyne
Miriam; Val Cole
Linda: Elizabeth Rose MorrissGet to know the writer:
1. What is...
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ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene: The Labyrinth, by Nicholas J. Szegedi
When a successful aerospace engineer is sabotaged by a vengeful business rival and haunted by two failed marriages, he embarks on an international journey of self-discovery with newfound hope and determination. Based on actual events.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Michael: Shawn Devlin
Dav... -
FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene:The Octopus's Garden, by Ed Moran (interview)
A delightful blend of adventure and emotional depth, reminiscent of films like "Finding Nemo," where the bond between characters drives the narrative through perilous waters. I thought of "The Shape of Water" as well, with its unique exploration of relationships between humans and extraordinary c...
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ACTION/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: VITRUVIAN WOMAN, by L. Petruska
Jack Teller is an established science writer whose young scientist mother died of a terrible poisoning shortly after he was born. His father lived in complete denial and also groomed Jack not to ask questions about his mother at all. Now a grown man in his 50s, Jack receives a cryptic email from ...
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene: LIFELESS "The Crown Falls" TV, by Meredith Stack
Over two decades since the resurrection of the dead, survivors revert back to the medieval times for survival. Kingdoms are built and fall. Survivors must learn to survive in a world where new leaders are raised into power and the new evolution of the dead.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: Grad Nite, by Sion-RaizeG
While enjoying an overnight celebration at a regional theme park, a group of graduating high school students are targeted by a vicious killer wearing a dragon mask.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Mr. Randol: Sean Ballantyne
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EXPERIMENTAL Festival First Scene: Death in Poland, by Grant Huffman
An unflinching, brutally honest portrayal of the Holocaust's most infamous death camps, *Death in Poland* chronicles the systematic machinery of genocide through a series of interwoven scenes of cruelty, precision, and silence—where memory is the only thing left standing.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: ...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: CRYSTAL MAGICIAN OF ATZLAN, by Mui Rah
A hot-shot Crystal Magician puts domestic life on pause to strike back against the big business that ordered a mercenary “hit” on her Animist Kijutsu Temple...and, really, to send a message to all the Atzlan “haves”: nature and Ancient wisdom are more powerful than any human law.
https://www.f1c...
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LGBTQ+ 1st Scene Reading: Canoe, by Ron Wayne Kennell
When a hot shot architect inherits his grandfather’s remote cabin, the locals become restless and reveal secrets he can no longer ignore.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Trudy: Hannah Ehman
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THRILLER/SUSPENSE Fest: AWAKEN THE MEDIUM, by Lee Bice-Matheson, Kevin Matheson
Awaken the Medium is a feature-length script that follows the story of Maggie Samson, whose latest near-death experience thrusts her into discovering her gifts and powers. Maggie is a librarian in her forties. Married to Chris, a professor, with whom she has a son, Justus Samson, now eleven years...
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TV Best Scene: The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective, by Patricia Milton
Two eccentric sisters and a fan-fighting American actress thwart a serial killer in Victorian London, defying society’s expectations to become private detectives. A 50-minute TV pilot.
http://patricia-milton.com/
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Loveday: Hannah Ehman
Katie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss