New Releases

New Releases

New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.

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  • CINDY, 21min., USA, Crime/Comedy

    Directed by Al Chang

    "An aspiring rapper takes a vague driving gig hoping for a quiet night to himself. Instead, he meets Cindy, a bubbly and unpredictable passenger who drags him into an absurd and unexpectedly heartfelt adventure.

    Director Statement

    Storytelling, for me, is about finding tr...

  • Short Film Trailer: THE WAY BACK HOME. Directed by Angy Akly

    The Way Back Home, 2min., Lebanon
    Directed by Angy Akly
    The Way Back Home is a two-minute poetic film that unfolds underwater, where a woman’s expressive movements accompany a powerful monologue on identity, womanhood, and self-ownership — written, directed, and narrated by the filmmaker herself....

  • Short Film Trailer: PIE IN THE SKY. Directed Susan Lim.

    Pie In the Sky, 8min., USA
    Directed Susan Lim
    Pie in the Sky" is an enchanting music video that marries playful animation with the raw power of original recordings at Abbey Road Studio One, and a resplendent orchestral performance at the Barbican Concert Hall, London. The video opens with world-a...

  • Watch the Best of MUSIC Shorts Festival

    Jeff Hilliard - Love Myself, 3min., USA
    Directed by Jeff Hilliard
    Official music video for Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox

    https://www.instagram.com/jeffhilliard

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-jeff-hilliard-love-myself

    Change - Kramon, 4min., USA
    Directed by Mere...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of MUSIC Shorts

    Jeff Hilliard - Love Myself, 3min., USA
    Directed by Jeff Hilliard
    Official music video for Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox

    https://www.instagram.com/jeffhilliard

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-jeff-hilliard-love-myself

    Change - Kramon, 4min., USA
    Directed by Mere...

  • Watch the Winning MUSICAL Feature: JULIET & THE KING

    JULIET & THE KING, 92min., Iran
    Directed by Ashkan Rahgozar
    The Iranian King gets an invitation to visit France. While visiting a "Romeo and Juliet" play in Paris, the actress catches his eye. He falls in love with her so deeply that he asks her to perform the same play in Tehran, so he can impre...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: MUSICAL Feature: JULIET & THE KING

    JULIET & THE KING, 92min., Iran
    Directed by Ashkan Rahgozar
    The Iranian King gets an invitation to visit France. While visiting a "Romeo and Juliet" play in Paris, the actress catches his eye. He falls in love with her so deeply that he asks her to perform the same play in Tehran, so he can impre...

  • ALL EYES ON YOU film, reactions THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film Festival (interview)

    ALL EYES ON YOU, 23min., UK
    Directed by Ted Clarke
    Paranoid couple Adam and Claire move to the peaceful countryside for a fresh start, but quickly become unsettled by a series of sinister interactions with their new neighbours, putting their trust - and relationship - to the test…

    Get to know th...

  • FEMALE Festival TV Pilot 1st Scene: PRIORITY ONE, by Hannah Augenstine

    Three interconnected teams - firefighters, police officers, and 911 dispatchers - face relentless emergenies in Indianapolis, balancing personal struggles with the split-second decisions that determine life or death.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Ross: Sean Ballantyne
    Taylor: Shawn Devlin...

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene: MURDER ON MARS, by Patrick McKinley

    In 2058, A murder investigation leads two police detectives down a dangerous path during the early days of the colonization of Mars.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Daryl: Shawn Devlin
    Matt: Sean Ballantyne

  • WILDsound Festival Script: Polite to the Death (Nanny Kills), by Pippa Blackmore

    Nanny Ivy, an English nanny, is hired to help an American family with their troublesome children but when she arrives, it becomes clear that the adults and other people in the children's life are the problem so she enlists her charges to kill them all. They return to England to start a new life a...

  • Watch Today's FREE Feature Festival: Winning POLITICAL Feature (A Beginning for the Final Songs of a River)

    A Beginning for the Final Songs of a River, 70min., Germany/Iran
    Directed by Meysam Oghbaei
    Filmed over six years, this documentary follows the changing fate of the Zayandeh Rood river in Iran. Through the perspectives of local farmers and communities, it portrays the environmental and social cha...

  • Watch the Best of POLITCAL Festival Short Films

    Adas Falasteen, 8min., Palestine
    Directed by Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini, Samar Taher Lulu
    "Palestine Lentils" is a documentary film that tells the story of a Palestinian chef and his role in using his hobby as a shield against the famine caused by the war on Gaza, preserving the spirit of resilience...

  • Watch Today's FREE Film Festival: Best of POLIITCAL Festival Films

    Adas Falasteen, 8min., Palestine
    Directed by Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini, Samar Taher Lulu
    "Palestine Lentils" is a documentary film that tells the story of a Palestinian chef and his role in using his hobby as a shield against the famine caused by the war on Gaza, preserving the spirit of resilience...

  • LA LGBTQ+ Best Scene Reading: SHRINK, by Teddy Andrews

    A young man attends the final session of his compensated work therapy program. The therapist remains ever oblivious as his lies begins to swallow the room whole.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Ashton: Sean Ballantyne
    Therapist: Hannah Ehman

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Scene: STREET KNOWLEDGE, by Greg Sawicki, Brian Miller

    Haunted by both a past transgression and the unsolved murder of his hero-cop father, a biracial Philadelphia detective with a reputation for losing his cool sets out on a quest to take down a criminal kingpin, but as the investigation unfolds, he realizes he might not be prepared for what he unco...

  • ENVIRONMENTAL Script Reading: 20/20: Search for Independence, by Harold L. Brown

    A cattle rancher invents a new energy source to replace oil and gets caught in international conflict and espionage over global energy and must assess who he can really trust.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Jeff: Sean Ballantyne
    Jinny/Grace: Hannah Ehman

  • November LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival

    Ashley Bones: The Bimbo Cannibal, 15min., USA
    Directed by Lee Dubin
    Ashley Bones is just your regular pink-loving bimbo-core girly girl, with an absolutely relentless hunger for the flesh and blood of men. She is always on the hunt for the most irritating boys she can find, because there is just ...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival

    Ashley Bones: The Bimbo Cannibal, 15min., USA
    Directed by Lee Dubin
    Ashley Bones is just your regular pink-loving bimbo-core girly girl, with an absolutely relentless hunger for the flesh and blood of men. She is always on the hunt for the most irritating boys she can find, because there is just...

  • Watch Today's Best of STYLE/EXPERIMENTAL Festival Films

    LA TRAMA (THE PLOT), 2min. Argentina
    Directed by Ileana ANDREA GÓMEZ Gavinoser
    A WALK THROUGH MEMORY

    https://www.instagram.com/ILEANA_ANDREA88

    Death Penalty, 4min., Portugal
    Directed by Tiago Zacarias
    Two men are sitting on a bench, attentively waiting for something.

    Eternal child, 7min., Mexi...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of STYLE/EXPERIMENTAL Festival Films

    LA TRAMA (THE PLOT), 2min. Argentina
    Directed by Ileana ANDREA GÓMEZ Gavinoser
    A WALK THROUGH MEMORY

    https://www.instagram.com/ILEANA_ANDREA88

    Death Penalty, 4min., Portugal
    Directed by Tiago Zacarias
    Two men are sitting on a bench, attentively waiting for something.

    Eternal child, 7min., Mexi...

  • Watch the BLACK & WHITE Shorts Festival

    Mother, Where Are You?, 10min., Lebann
    Directed by Robert Minassian
    Returning home, a young woman finds a strange man waiting, sparking a silent dialogue that delves into the forgotten horrors of the Armenian Genocide through the haunting testimony of an old woman who lived it.

    https://instagram...

  • Watch Today's FREE Film Festival: BLACK & WHITE Shorts Festival

    Mother, Where Are You?, 10min., Lebann
    Directed by Robert Minassian
    Returning home, a young woman finds a strange man waiting, sparking a silent dialogue that delves into the forgotten horrors of the Armenian Genocide through the haunting testimony of an old woman who lived it.

    https://instagram...