New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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Podcast: EP. 1861: Singer/Songewriter Joya (GOOD STUFF Music Video)
Matthew Toffolo chatted with the very talented artist JOYA, an independent singer-songwriter and actress from Hong Kong. Joya discussed her music video "Good Stuff," which was shown at the LGBTQ+ Film Festival and serves as her most explicit coming-out project, depicting the normalcy of a queer r...
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EP. 1860: Writer Sabine Meyer (DREAM SEEDS & KING HAROLD AND THE HAIRLESS
Matthew Toffolo interviewed Sabine Meyer, a psychiatrist and writer, about her wrtings and WILDsound converting her short stories into films. Sabine explained how her interest in using dreams for writing inspiration began after listening to a lecture by Robert Butler about accessing the subconsci...
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Watch Today's Film Festival: Best of LGBTQ+ Festival DRAMA Shorts
Bleach Burns, 10min., USA
Directed by Perry Feder
With yearbook photo day fast approaching, a teenage girl pressured to maintain a perfect image becomes obsessed with a blue-haired classmate who threatens everything she’s been taught to suppress.
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CHICAGO Animation Shorts Festival
THE FIRST TEAR, 8min., South Korea
Directed by Bo Kim
On a distant ark carrying thousands of robots, Unit 7 begins to question the purpose of their endless journey. When the crew arrives on a world filled with life, a single unexpected moment changes everything.
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Watch Today's Film Festival: CHICAGO Animation Shorts Festival
THE FIRST TEAR, 8min., South Korea
Directed by Bo Kim
On a distant ark carrying thousands of robots, Unit 7 begins to question the purpose of their endless journey. When the crew arrives on a world filled with life, a single unexpected moment changes everything.
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EP. 1859: Filmmaker Maël Caradec (boysick)
Matthew Toffolo interviewed Maël Caradec about his short film "boysick," a 26-minute French film exploring virtual stalking on Grindr following a breakup. Maël explained the film was inspired by his own personal experience with problematic stalking behavior after being ghosted by an ex-boyfriend,...
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EP. 1858: Filmmaker Hamish Sturgeon (GOSSAMER)
Matthew Toffolo interviewed Hamish Sturgeon about his short film "Gossamer," which premiered at the LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Hamish described the film as a drama exploring identity, with thriller and experimental elements, and explained its origins from his own reflections on private identity and th...
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LGBTQ+ ARTISTS Short Film Festival
TOPLESS, 9min., USA
Directed by Eric Bravo
A day-in-the-life of a character who desperately wants to chop off their breasts but is terrified to examine why.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/topless-audience-feedbackGOOD STUFF, 3min., Hong Kong
Directed by Edwin Lai
Good Stuff is the lead si... -
Watch Today's Film Festival: LGBTQ+ ARTISTS Short Film Festival
TOPLESS, 9min., USA
Directed by Eric Bravo
A day-in-the-life of a character who desperately wants to chop off their breasts but is terrified to examine why.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/topless-audience-feedbackGOOD STUFF, 3min., Hong Kong
Directed by Edwin Lai
Good Stuff is the lead si... -
THE KINGDOM OF REXMONTE film, reactions FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival
The Kingdom of Rexmonte, 150min., USA
Directed by Rebeccah Crabtree
The Gem has woken!
The Princess is free!
Yet much is uncertain
for the royal family tree...When a sudden invasion threatens their kingdom, a fractured royal family must face their long-avoided differences in order to protect th...
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AUDIENCE FEEDBACK - LUMI
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SEASONING film, reactions HORROR Festival
SEASONING, 2min., USA
Directed by John Bonner
In this 90s TV commercial, a boy and two girls run up the hill for a nice picnic. What could possibly go wrong when he sprays on some cologne?
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IF YOU WERE LIGHT film, reactions HORROR Festival
If you were light, 22min., Mexico
Directed by Maurilio Rodríguez
After a lifetime together, the relationship between Lázaro, an ancient vampire, and his wife Aura is nearing its end. Old and ill, Aura begs Lázaro to end her suffering. Unable to face loneliness, Lázaro makes the drastic decision t... -
THE CUNNINGHAM WAKE by Lycan Bite film, reactions HORROR Festival
"The Cunningham Wake" by The Lycan Bite, 4min., USA
Directed by Greg Kissner
Sexy vampires feed on the werewolf band boys. An homage to Tales from the Crypt's: Bordello of Blood -
HUNTED film, reactions HORROR Festival
HUNTED, 2min., Croatia
Directed by Darko Kokić
When technology advances, maybe you should run. -
WHO THE HELL ARE YA? film, reactions HORROR Festival
Who the hell are ya? /// Té qui toué ?, 4min., Canada
Directed by Francis Ouellet
A worker on his break realizes he might not be as alone as he thought... /// Un travailleur en pause se rend compte qu'il n'est peut-être pas si seul que ça....
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DEMON film, reactions HORROR Festival
DEMON, 10min., China
Directed by Yunhan Jiang
The empty room, strange symbols, and the notebook filled with uninterpretable bloodstains. The husband searched for his wife's whereabouts, but was repeatedly eroded by the fragmented memories of the cultist. When his wife's figure appeared again, her... -
BEYOND MAMUSHI film, reactions HORROR Festival
Beyond Mamushi, 50min., UK
Directed by Martin Daniels
Kate Andrews is in a psychologically brutal relationship but by chance an outer influence could either help pull her out of her own hell or plunge into something far more evil and menacing. -
DON'T BREAK THE CIRCLE.... film, reactions HORROR Festival
Don't Break the Circle..., 11min., USA
Directed by Kaan Akyoi
A paranormal investigator arrives on a dark and stormy night, called upon by a grieving mother. However, not everything that answers is family.
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SAVANNAH'S CURSE film, reactions FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival
SAVANNAH'S CURSE, 26min., Australia
Directed by Tamara Lisa Cook
‘Savannah’s Curse’ is set in the future where resources are limited, and reserved only for society’s elite and privileged. The destitute, poor, afflicted and those who cannot be understood either by language or adversity, are instit... -
MARFA film, reactions FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival
MARFA, 4min., USA
Directed by Matt Rasch
The animated music video for Marfa, off the Exit Vehicles album STAGES. Watch as our little friends make their way through West Texas, and beyond. -
AGENDA 2100 film, reactions FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival
Agenda 2100, 15min., Brazil
Directed by Stéphanìe Habíb, Thais Guisasola
When a rare solar storm creates a fleeting opportunity to transmit data into the past, Gaia and a small resistance group send a message to 2020 — a final warning and a final hope.
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THE LADY AND THE HEART film, reactions CRIME/MYSTERY Festival
The Lady and the Heart, 18min., Mexico
Directed by José Luis Medina Colin
After finding a beating heart in an alley, a young man begins searching for the woman who lost it. With the help of mysterious glasses that reveal what lies inside a person’s chest, he discovers a troubling truth: many wome... -
USE YOUR WORDS film, reactions CRIME/MYSTERY Festival
Use Your Words, 5min., USA
Directed by Kent Lloyd
Jed and Charlie "discuss" the whereabouts of their beloved Maggie.
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