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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  • PINBALL - THE AMERICAN GAME film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    PINBALL - THE AMERICAN GAME, 74min., USA
    Directed by Mark Helms
    One Ball, Infinite Stories.
    Explore this unique American game from a totally new perspective. From Pinball’s origins in the 1600s to the present day, never-before-seen footage of the original first pinball machine from 1871, along wi...

  • ASHEVILLE IS CALLING: A CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY film, reactions DOC Festival

    Asheville is Calling: A Climate Change Emergency, 6min., USA
    Directed by Hai-Lam Phan, Olivia Mowry
    Extreme weather disasters are becoming more common, more powerful, and more deadly. Today, more than ever, federal agencies that help Americans prepare, respond, and recover from natural disasters ...

  • A KNIGHTERS TALE film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    A Knighter's Tale, 81min., Ireland
    Directed by Barney Edwards
    Deeply in debt and abandoned by his backer, hemmed in by storms and further twarted by a global pandemic, world champion motorcyclist David Knight must cut a path to his lifelong dream of racing in that deadliest of races: The Dakar.

    ...

  • THE 3100 film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    THE 3100, 49min. USA
    Directed by Mark Fisher
    The 3100™ is a cinematic exploration of Idaho’s 3,100 miles of navigable whitewater, the most found anywhere in the Lower 48. This film showcases the state’s most rugged and revered whitewater river systems while highlighting the power of experiencing ...

  • THE TABLE WE SHARE film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    The Table We Share, 7min., USA
    Directed by Brock Edwards
    In America’s breadbasket, a Kansas town confronts the paradox of hunger amid abundance — revealing how community, care, and courage redefine what it means to share the table.

  • WILDsound Best Scene Reading: The Confessor, by Melissa Birks

    In 1935 New York, an ambitious psychiatrist faces jeopardizes his career, marriage, and his own mental health when he fights to spare the life of confessed child killer Albert Fish. Inspired by true events.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Val Cole
    The Confessor: Sean Ballantyne
    Dr. Gregory: Shawn Devlin

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE Best Scene: The Bait, by Bernardo Barreto

    The Bait is a visceral survival thriller based on a true story. It follows João, a disillusioned real estate executive suffocating under the weight of his domineering family’s expectations. When his carefree friend Patrick invites him on a windsurfing trip to Búzios, João seizes the chance to rec...

  • LGBTQ+ Best Scene: FOULED OUT, by Rodrigo Varandas

    Ricardo's dad is a big shot basketballer who only wants the best for him. However, what his dad wants and what Ricardo wants are totally different. With his mother passed on, Ricardo and his dad Jorge are trying to spend more time together. But a surprise visit leaves Ricardo's hidden life expose...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: Hoe Phase, by Kate Lyn Whitaker

    After her first-ever run of hookups and one night stands, a woman decides to track down each man from the past month and ask them to pay for her abortion.

    https://instagram.com/hoephasefilm

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Val Cole
    Wayne: Sean Ballantyne
    Avery: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: Lifeboat, by Mason Mendoza & Bill Baber

    LIFEBOAT IS A SCI-FI DRAMA - FEATURE FILM - BASED ON THE ACCLAIMED GRAPHIC NOVEL.

    Three souls cheat death when they escape the destruction of their spaceship. Now their tiny “lifeboat” is adrift at the end of the universe. Their days are numbered. Every minute is precious. If you know the end, h...

  • BEST Scene Reading: ETERNAL LIFE, by Jaaered Brown

    Waking in a future with floating cities topping thousands of stories, run by radioactive intelligence, where imagination blends with machine, an amnesiac finds her destiny.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Anne-Marie: Val Cole
    Alis: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Scene: GOLD, MYRRH, FRANKINCENSE & MURDER, by Hary S. Mudaliar

    Ben-Hur meets To Wong Fu in this whirlwind adventure when a time traveling priest, devoted to the blood cult of Cybele threatens the life of Jesus both past and future unless the Three Magi, with a propensity for being tardy, can stop him. The fact that the Magi are gay adds an inclusive spin on ...

  • Today's FREE Festival: Best of WILDsound EXPERIMENTAL Shorts

    Lana Tong: A tailor made tour, 10min., Hong Kong
    Directed by Sing Jantzen Tse
    Lana Tong, a tour guide who migrated to Hong Kong less than a decade ago, guides audiences through a post-pandemic Hong Kong undergoing rapid shifts in its political and socio-cultural landscape. Her journey is disrupte...

  • HORROR Festival SHORT Screenplay: NIGHTFALL, by Johnny Storme

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Sarah: Hannah Ehman

  • REVENGE Screenplay Scene by Sayima (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Woman: Hannah Ehman
    Mboni: Geoff Mays

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    This screenplay explores first contact between a human teenager and a powerful non-human being who has been displaced across time and worlds. Through a quiet,...

  • ROMANCE Festival Screenplay: Accidental Tomatoes, by Adam M. Kehres (interview)

    A young man navigates the weeds of dating apps while tending to his makeshift compost pile.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Callie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Geraldine: Hannah Ehman
    Lester: Geoff Mays

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    My goal was to parellel new age dat...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival SHORT Script Reading: THE GREAT BIG LESBIAN YANKEE SWAP

    Aging lesbian couple Debbie and Jean are hosting their annual gay Christmas party in the gayborhood of Boston -- but when their messy adult son Corey (30) shows up in need of a place to live, he threatens to disrupt their retirement plans.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Sean Ballantyne
    Mary Ellen/Barb/D...

  • WATCH Winning DOC Feature: Muito Amor - Jews and Judaism in Amazonia

    Muito Amor - Jews and Judaism in Amazonia, 61min., Israel
    Directed by Malka Shabtay
    An Israeli Anthropologist traveling throughout Amazonia to meet the descendants of the Moroccan Jews who immigrated to this region since 1810. Together they are sharing their unique story of resilience and persist...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: Muito Amor - Jews and Judaism in Amazonia, 61min., Israel

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 1st Scene: THE BREAKING OF BOB HOWARD TV Pilot by George R Strayton (interview)

    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...

  • 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...