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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  • HORROR Festval 1st Scene: HOW TO SAVE A DYING WORLD, by Ronnie Figueoa

    It’s about an alien named Jophar whose ancestry is from Earth and his encounters while living here. Also, a higher evolved alien species is trying to help him save the planet from inevitable destruction due to an impending bio genetic mutation.

    CAST LIST:
    Narration: Sean Ballantyne
    Jessy: Eliza...

  • WILDsound Festival 1st Scene: MARAH FROM EILAT, by Leiter S Daniellson

    Haunted by a perilous deal with a ruthless demon, a troubled Catholic Deacon must protect an ancient religious decree from demonic forces while confronting the inner demons that threaten to consume him.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Stanley: Geoff Mays
    Tara: Hannah Ehman

  • HOW TO SAVE A DYING WORLD

  • ACTION/FANTASY Festival: The Piper, by J. Aldric Gaudet

    A darkly twisted re-rendering of the Pied Piper legend told through the eyes of an estranged father and son. The boy is struggling to manhood while they both suffer the pangs of their wife/mother’s suicide years earlier. When the Piper takes the children the father sets out with the village midwi...

  • WILDsound Festival 1st Scene: THE VILLAGE PHANTOM, by A.E. Guaaker (interview)

    Fiona Haegerbergh, a journalist for The Metro Standard, arrives in a rural Norwegian town to investigate rising drug use. Officially, she’s there to produce a webcast— but Fiona has her own agenda: uncovering the truth behind the recent suspicious death of a local drug dealer. Fiona’s editor urge...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: PURGATORY, by Christine Speer

    When a schoolgirl's parents abruptly decide to divorce, she tries to pick up the pieces and bring her family back together.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator:
    Beatrice:
    Father Malone:

  • ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene Reading: NOTE BETWEEN TWO BOOKS, by Daniel Arreola

  • WILDsound Festival Best Scene: THE SENTINEL, by Damián Gajardo

    https://youtu.be/wWBwXUuE3l0

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Athena AI: Hannah Ehman
    Captain Bishop: Geoff Mays

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: LESBIANS OF BUSHWICK, by Olive Persimmon

    Margot sneaks into the Premier lounge, and obnoxiously pitches her fake reality show idea to Arbuckle. He gets her kicked out. A video circulates of him saying a gay slur. He pitches her show to Ronnie, who's ready to drop him. He emails Margot. She convinces Alex to help her shoot the pilot. He ...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: BLUE IDAHO, by Noah Zayn Mortier

    Blue (formerly Logan) is a gifted transgender surgical nurse whose life spirals after a violent romance exposes her truth. Surviving a suicide attempt, she's sent to an off-grid trauma retreat, where healing begins amid a web of broken souls, betrayal, and revelation. Returning home to confront f...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Reading: SHRINK, by Teddy K. 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: Val Cole
    Voice/Ashton: Geoff Mays
    Therapist: Hannah Ehman

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival: FROZEN LIES, by Eric Lotter (interview)

    When a woman discovers her new boyfriend is hiding a body in the trunk, her road trip spirals into a nightmare of buried secrets, survival instincts, and a past frozen in lies. Based on a true story.

    CAST LIST

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Daisy: Hannah Ehman
    Patrick: Geoff Mays

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  • WILDsound 1st Scene Reading: CHERISHED VICIOUSNESS, by Daniel Arreola

    In a witty and elusive interaction among two intellectual career pros, Sophie and Alan meet at a bar and hit it off and create an impenetrable bond neither has experienced. As their relationship grows strong, they can't escape who they are and the secrets they carry and where they may end up.

    CA...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: ORIGIN STORY, by Ama Adair (interview)

    The vicious attack that almost killed her erased all that she was. But not what she did. Elyse Tysoni s shocked to learn her taped confessions remove any hope of escaping her nightmare. Desperate for a lifeline, her only option is to be studied by Doctor Steve Bennett, a psychologist who speciali...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene: THE EXTRA'S EXTRA, by Mary Haarmeyer, Craig Beeman

    Zach Roberts is fine with his mediocre existence until his new charity case, Gloria, leaves in search of “bigger things,” leaving him with her annoying devil dog, Jitters. Trying to win Gloria back and revive his YouTube channel, Zach’s older friend Jerry convinces him to join him on a movie set ...

  • TALE & BONES - DARK PRINCESS short film, reactions THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival

    Tale & Bones - Dark Princess, 3min., USA
    Directed by Daniella Meggoe, Benson Jackson
    Dark Princess is a psychological short highlighting the unique relationship between a grandmother and her grandchild. The innocent yet menacing ques are overlooked as something mysteriously dark is brewing.

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  • VERSIPELLIS short film, reactions THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival (interview)

    Versipellis, 26min., UK
    Directed by James Rigby
    In this spine-chilling horror film, a young girl, Sophia, faces the dilemma of choosing whom to trust when an imposter infiltrates her home.

    https://www.instagram.com/versipellis_film

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make thi...

  • CHAK-316 short film, reactions THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival

    Chak-316, 12min., Pakistan
    Directed by Shaheer Iqbal
    Zara Ahmed, a driven and ambitious petroleum executive in her mid-30s, is on the brink of sealing the biggest deal of her career.

  • PRIOR BAD ACTS short film, reactions ACTION/CRIME/MYSTERY Festival (interview)

    PRIOR BAD ACTS, 15min., USA
    Directed by Thomas Allen Gear
    Marine Leroy Brown tries to protect the other riders on a subway car and chokes a man to death. His public defender Emily Ann thinks Leroy can win at trial. Their intense conversation is the last thing before Leroy has to put himself in pr...

  • Nobody's Business short film, reactions ACTION/CRIME/MYSTERY Festival

    NOBODY'S BUSINESS, 11min., Australia
    Directed by Erifili Davis
    Set in 1920s Australian underworld of sly grog and illicit narcotics, a woman must choose between love and her reputation.

    https://studio138.com.au/nobodys-business-short-film/

    https://www.instagram.com/studio138dubbo/

  • HUNTED short film, reactions ACTION/CRIME/MYSTERY Festival

    HUNTED, 5min., USA
    Directed by Eleazar Valenzuela
    Two sisters are fleeing from corrupt police officers intent on their destruction. Sofia possesses something highly sought after, and the officers are determined to obtain it, no matter the cost.

    https://instagram.com/official_stephanie_santana

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: THIS IS BAT COUNTRY, by Kerry Ann Boyko

    A washed-up vampire playing PI turns a murdered girl to preserve her testimony—but she refuses to play sidekick in his pity parade. Together, they navigate an underworld where identity is fluid, transformation is inevitable, and survival means reclaiming what others tried to erase.

  • ACTION/FANTASY Festival Best Scene: DJINN, by Matthew Karram

    In a Middle Eastern refugee camp, 16-year-old Saeed discovers a magical ring containing a Djinn (spirit) while hiding from bullies. The Djinn offers him three wishes. With his first wish, Saeed asks for protection from his tormentors, leading to the death of the bully Hassan. For his second wish,...

  • THE TRIAL OF ROMAN WEINZAPFEL, by John M. O’Leary & John W. McMullen

    In Indiana in 1842, an unhappilymarriedwoman accuses a young, immigrant priestof raping herin the confessional. His vow to keep the Seal of Confessionprevents him from speaking in his own defense. Aclimate of xenophobia and anti-Catholicismfuelsa sensationaltrialandviolent, shameful eventsthatult...