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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New Releases
  • TROUBLE short film, reactions Chicago Festival

    TROUBLE, 17min., Ireland
    Directed by Jonathan Shaw
    A tense civil war drama capturing the fear and resolve of the Irish people for independence.

    https://www.instagram.com/Troubleshortfilm

  • TURNING A NEW LEAF short film, reactions Chicago Festival

    TURNING A NEW LEAF, 2min., USA
    Directed by Isabelle Alison Hibbard
    Hazel and Willow, two teenage theater club members, exit from backstage after a rehearsal. Willow is upset by her role, and Hazel argues that no, being a tree and chorus member is the best. Hazel breaks into song, and the girls en...

  • THE CLOFFICE short film, reactions Chicago Festival

    THE CLOFFICE, 8min., USA
    Directed by Colton Cates McPherson
    Based on actual events, Todd Friendly narrowly escapes a round of layoffs at Sumy Entertainment Corp. by hiding in a janitor's closet. If you can't be found, you can't be fired!

    https://www.facebook.com/colton.catesmcpherson/

  • ALLURE short film, reactions Chicago Festival

    ALLURE, 4min., USA
    Directed by Jerry van de Beek, Betsy De Fries
    A junior astronaut fulfills a dream of going to the moon. Once there, exhilaration gives way to reality. But what has been left behind? Created in a colorful, prismatic, 2D graphic style with a haunting soundtrack that echoes with l...

  • THE NEED short film, reactions Chicago Festival (interview

    THE NEED, 15min., USA
    Directed by Michael Rognlie, EE Tallent
    David Alan Shepherd is constantly tormented by the ghosts of his own making, and the need to keep making them.

    https://www.the-need-movie.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/onthefenceproductions/

    Get to know filmmaker Michael Rognlie:

    ...

  • SCRIPT MOVIE: LOOK OUT IT'S THE LUMBER MAN. Written by Kabrien J. Gathers

    Editor & Visual Design by Steve Rizzo.

    Actors: Hannah Ehman, Geoff Mays, Val Cole

  • HUMANITY NATURE Film Festival - July 15/16 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    THE RHYTHMS NEVER END, 5min., USA
    Directed by Leonard L. Eckhaus
    “The Earth is Created. It is day number one.” A spiritual, self-reflective, series of short poems about creation - about all the gifts mankind has been given: the rhythms of night and day, of life, th...

  • ECHOES OF DREAMS feature film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival (interview

    ECHOES OF DREAMS, 84min., USA
    Directed by Vanessa Mariveles
    Reyna, a struggling DJ in Silicon Valley, has to pivot her career in order to survive. Having the worst year ever, she is forced to join the "gig economy" so she can pay rent while living with her pushy mother. While dating women for the...

  • BRISKET short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival

    BRISKET, 8min., USA
    Directed by Kenzie Elizabeth
    With wedding guests waiting, a blood-drenched bride evaluates the state of her situation, whist advising her secret lover on the grocery list for that evening’s special dinner.

    https://www.thisiskenzieelizabeth.com/brisket
    https://www.instagram.c...

  • THE DESTRUCTION OF JANE short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival (interview)

    THE DESTRUCTION OF JANE, 12min,. USA
    Directed by Drue Pennella
    The Destruction of Jane is a campy, over the top, erotic, outrageous comedy which follows Miss Jane Parker to the African Jungle where it all began. Witness Tarzan and Jane’s first encounter, in what now has become a rather heralded e...

  • TI AMO, MR. NIBBLES short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival (interview)

    TI AMO, MR. NIBBLES, 8min,. UK
    Directed by Govind Chandran
    Casey wants to tell Mia she loves her; but it might not be the right time.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    What motivated you to make this film?
    The actors. The original idea was more of a 'writing exercise' for me - I engaged with social me...

  • THE FLOWER DUET short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival (interview)

    THE FLOWER DUET, 5min., USA
    Directed by Eddie Jelinet
    Directed by Artist Eddie Jelinet this art visual film is an homage to the musical piece of Leo Delibes "the flower duet"

    http://www.eddiejelinet.com/
    https://facebook.com/eddiejelinet
    https://twitter.com/eddiejelinet
    https://instagram.com/ed...

  • ALL THAT'S LEFT short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival

    ALL THAT'S LEFT, 13min., USA
    Directed by Simone Holland
    A surreal look into the perception of existence, Mercedes, loses themselves through the many people that seamlessly enter and exit their universe. Thrown into the maze that is their mind, she struggles to differentiate reality from her imagi...

  • AN ENDING short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival (interview)

    AN ENDING, 7min., USA
    Directed by Sarah Young
    Based on a true love story, and shot on location in Queens NYC during the heart of the Covid 19 Pandemic, this film is a tribute to those who stayed and those who had to go.

    https://christopherfcosta.com/#an-ending
    https://www.instagram.com/thisisme...

  • DANCING DHAMAAL! short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival

    DANCING DHAMAAL!, 5min., USA
    Directed by Nimisha Sanjeevani-Chandrashekhar Mahatme
    A Bollywood inspired hybrid animated music video about Aadarshini, an anxious Indian-American girl, who feels out of place at an Indian wedding until she learns to make space for herself in her culture through Parv...

  • COMPASS ROSE & All that Glows short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival

    COMPASS ROSE & All that Glows, 11min., USA
    Directed by Celeste Gersten
    Once upon a time isn’t our start, it repeats itself over in cycles, like a spinning clock. This is the plight of Yaphet and Pallu, unbeknownst to them. In the present, the cycle continues. They are separated, and hope grows di...

  • RANGER DANGER short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival

    RANGER DANGER, 7min,. USA
    Directed by Abigail Grubb

    http://www.solandyueproductions.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/solandyueproductions

  • UNDER 5 Minute Festival - July 14/15 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    M0D3RN T1M3Z, 30 seconds, USA
    Directed by Richard Thompson
    A machine comes to life in a 3D animation short inspired by Charlie Chaplin.

    https://www.instagram.com/r_crosbythompson

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

  • DOC Film Festival: Best of SOCIETY Shorts Showcase. July 12/13

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    PEACE IN MY NIGHT, 13min., Canada
    Directed by Abigail Mascher
    "Peace in my Night" is a compelling documentary that follows the extraordinary life of Elsie Mascher, a woman whose unwavering faith in God guided her through the darkest chapters of World War II.

    Watch...

  • DOC Festival: ALL I EVER WANTED feature film. July 12/13 event

    ALL I EVER WANTED, 99min., USA
    Directed by Carlos P. Beltran
    All I Ever Wanted is a riveting 7-year journey through the high-stakes world of professional basketball, showcasing NBA icons like Kevin Durant, Kyle Lowry, and Manu Ginobili. This deeply personal documentary unveils the untold story of...

  • Short Story: NEWS FLASH : U.S. PRESIDENT CONTENDS WITH HERCLEAN STORM

  • Poetry Reading: THE DEVIL WEARS BLACK, by Nico Green

    performed by Val Cole

    Read Poem:

    THE DEVIL WEARS BLACK, by Nico Green

    The devil wears black, invisible in the night.
    God wears white, he has nothing to hide.

    The devil drinks whiskey and cries for his pain.
    God drinks water and casts all the blame.

    The devil’s seen much evil and taken part ...

  • Romance Short Story: FREE WORLD, by Cynthia Morrison

    2 young buys fine the journal of an Astronaut to find that he had visited the perfect world.

    performed by Val Cole

  • Poetry Reading: A Modern Day Cinderella, by A. L. Jobrail

    A Modern Day Cinderella

    A candidate must not be soiled
    Virginal as the freshly fallen snow.

    So that with his first thrust all will know that the issue is his, not another's.

    Her beauty shall be as the airbrushed ads

    That taunts us into buying their products to achieve what is beyond our grasp...