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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  • HOTPANTS short film, reactions DOC Festival (interview)

    HOTPANTS, 15min., Sweden
    Directed by Vera Berggren Wiklund
    A story about finding your way back to volleyball where the dress code in the sport and self-hatred of the body stands in between. The film is Vera's process (the director) of re-approaching the sport after a break caused by hotpants and ...

  • WE'RE STILL BREATHING, AMHARA GENOCIDE IN ETHIOPIA, DOC Festival (interview)

    WE'RE STILL BREATHING, AMHARA GENOCIDE IN ETHIOPIA, 23min., Ethiopia
    Directed by Graham Peebles
    We're Still Breathing, Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia is a short documentary about the systemic silent genocide of the Amhara people in Ethiopia.

    https://twitter.com/AAA_Amhara

    Get to know the filmmake...

  • WASTED feature film, reactions DOC Festival

    WASTED, 55min., Singapore
    Directed by Jessica Cheam, Fraser Morton
    Wasted prompts us to re-examine who we are and our values — to re-think our relationship with the world around us. We cannot continue to extract and exploit our ecosystems at unprecedented rates, and continue down the path of wast...

  • 1st Scene Reading: The Refugee And The Racer, by Noura Abd Alsalam

    Biography/Drama/Romance

    When the arrival of a female Syrian refugee fleeing a war-torn past completely disrupts the quiet life of an Italian former car racer who retired from ...

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Rita: Hannah Ehman
    Marco: Steve Rizzo

  • Chicago Festival Scene: THE PEBBLE CHAMPION, by Alan David Pritchard (interview)

    When a grieving teenage boy, sent to live with the father he's never met, is haunted by memories and wrestling with his identity, it takes the magic of pebbles on water and the transformative power of kind friends to help him accept his past and welcome his future.

    http://www.alandavidpritchard....

  • BEST Scene Reading: WEDDING RESCUE, by Jack Sherry

    Romantic Comedy

    In order for a bride-to-be to drastically lower the budget for her wedding, she turns to her creative marketing boss who does not believe in marriage.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Jennifer: Hannah Ehman
    Gerard: Geoff Mays
    Ashleigh: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

    https://j...

  • Best Scene Reading: PIPE DREAMS, by Jack Sherry

    A grieving female CIA analyst goes undercover on a mission to stop a Frenchman from smuggling uranium to Iran, only to learn that he is also undercover and is working for her husband, who is still alive.

    Thriller

    https://jacksherryscreenplays.com/pipe-dreams/

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth R...

  • Best Scene Reading: HAUNTED LAMENT, by Raed Hojiej (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Realor: Hannah Ehman
    Soothsayer: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

    https://www.shadowhorsetheatre.com/dark-pony-radio

    Get to know the screenwriter:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    A couple who are dealing with a loss, and purchase their first home. Only to exper...

  • Horror Fest Scene: THE NEW HIRE, by Matthew Summersgill, Mark Palgy (interview)

    Mike's beloved "Office Family" dynamic is ominously disrupted by a strange new hire who threatens to upend everything Mike has built.

    https://www.instagram.com/de4thrace/

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Mike: Steve Rizzo
    Carol: Hannah Ehman
    Dale: Geoff Mays

    1. What is your s...

  • Best Scene Reading: THE LAWS OF THE GODS, by Mary Oleske

    LGBTQ+ Drama

    This is a study in gender rights and the rights of all humankind. What truly makes one female or male?

    A female attorney is assigned to represent a transgendering inmate seeking a transfer from a male to a female prison. This is a study in the struggle for the balance of rights: pe...

  • SHORT Screenplay: Cowabunga, by Kabrien Gathers

    Set in 1991, a cocky young boy faces off against the menacing main villain of a popular video game... in real life.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    J.C.: Geoff Mays
    Shredder: Sean Ballantyne

    https://www.instagram.com/kay.gatzby/
    https://www.facebook.com/KabrienG5

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI 1st Scene: The Hoover 2000, by Steven Antonuccio

    The Hoover 2000 is an A.I. computer used by the FBI to track crimes as they happen in real time. Combing A.I. technology, cellphone tracking information with satellite photography, you can follow a crime from the moment it happens and also solve cold cases by replaying a crime that took place.

    C...

  • HORROR Festival Best Scene: CURSED TO CONCEIVE, by Taissia Lomako (interview)

    When a New York City Nurse becomes trapped in the south because of their backwards bodily autonomy laws, she must brave the folks of Mississippi and the Appalachian Mountains in order to make it home.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Marie: Hannah Ehman
    Adam: Sean Ballantyne

    Get ...

  • FEMALE Festival SHORT Screenplay: Silent Redemption, by Ami Brown (interview)

    A hot-tempered writer finds redemption after losing control, he connects with an unlikely neighbor.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Michael: Steve Rizzo

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    Silent Redemption is about a man struggling with anger issues. When he loses...

  • Chicago Festival 1st Scene Reading: Marah From Eilat, by Leiter Daniellson

    At the risk of losing his soul, a guilt ridden Deacon suffers the Devil's wrath after he refuses to complete her final demand.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Stanley: Steve Rizzo
    Sister Luciana: Hannah Ehman
    Julie Donaldson: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene: HUSTLE FOR THE BUCKLE, by Ross Langil (interview)

    A down-on-their-luck women's rugby sevens team must win the prize money from the beer drinking-est rugby tournament, or else their club, and team, will fold.

    https://www.instagram.com/perspectivefilms1990/?hl=en

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Char: Geoff Mays
    Jen: Hannah Ehman
    Asha: ...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: DELIVERED, by Clifford Evan (interview)

    An artistically-gifted pizza delivery boy, caught up in a criminal enterprise that funds his creative pursuits, confronts otherworldly and possibly dangerous forces when a mysterious girl sprung from his dreams appears at his next drop.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI_hkltVFM8

    CAST LIST:

    N...

  • TV PILOT Best Scene Read: Tamara's Escape, by Rebecca Day Robinson (interview)

    In 2052 after the dissolution of the United States 30 years earlier, a young woman, 17 year-old Tamara O'Neal, is smuggled out of the Confederacy to New Albion, liberal bastion based in the Colorado Rockies, to what her father thinks is safety. After a difficult transition to life in New Albion a...

  • POETRY MOVIE: White Wine by Aaron Beck

    Narration by Steve Rizzo

    Produced by Matthew Toffolo

  • Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival - Aug. 6/7 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    THE BLUE ANGEL...NIGHT CLUB, 25min., Mexico
    Directed by René Pereyra
    Set in the 1990s, in a Mexico so turbulent, insecure, and pitiful that we continue to live in to this day, "The Blue Angel... Night Club" tells, In the form of dark comedy, a poignant story about ...

  • Sizzle Reel - SAFER STUFF_ GREEN CHEMISTRY GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS

  • WILDsound Showcase Festival - Best of Shorts Aug. 5/6 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    MORNING ROUTINE, 2min., Canada
    Directed by William Thibodeau
    Inspired by the epic true story. After sleeping in, Jack must go through his morning routine before it's too late...

    Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-...

  • AFROLISTIC_ BLACK HEALING FROM ZIMBABWE TO THE BAY, audience feedback July 2024 FEMALE Film Festival (1)

  • STUDENT Film Festival - Aug. 4/5 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    GOLD AND HONOR, 5min., USA
    Directed by Nathan Jinsoo Lim
    Greed and retribution. Are these two young men fighting for something worthwhile?

    A ROOM DIVIDED, 9min,. USA
    Directed by Rusian Khromin
    Mark, a student at a secluded boarding school, notices a hundred-dollar...