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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  • THE BIRTHDAY LIST. Female Festival Best Scene. by Jacqueline Escolme (interview)

    Inspired by a young adventurer, a frustrated midlife wife escapes her marriage and flies to America with a birthday bucket list that helps her find truth, freedom and the future she’s waited twenty years for.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Jenny: Hannah Ehman
    Richard: Sean Ballantyne

    G...

  • COMEDY Best Scene Script: Number Two, by Robert Tartell (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Meg: Julie Sheppard
    Tim: Sean Ballantyne

    Get to know the screenwriter:

    1. What is your screenplay about? We've all heard of marital bliss. This is the opposite of marital bliss.

    2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Farce comedy

    3. Why...

  • COMEDY Best Scene Script: Down At The Val, by Neil Goodchild

    The grandson of a golf course owner loses his job and has to return to the dilapidated family business, where his grandfather and two surprising new employees inspire him to try and help save it from bankruptcy.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Melvin: Geoff Mays
    Nate: Sean Ballantyne
    Otis...

  • MESSAGE TO SHIGATSE - Thriller Festival Best Scene. by Don Thompson

    Logline: A BBC journalist works with the Dalai Lama to outwit the Chinese government in the selection of Tibet’s Panchen Lama, all told via a Hitchcock-style suspense drama that echoes films such as ‘Hotel Rwanda’ and ‘The Killing Fields’. Based on Isabel Hilton’s non-fiction book ‘The Search for...

  • COMEDY Festival Scene: Kill the Millennial, by Dedra L. Stevenson (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Mr. Blaynard/Shandel/Harley: Sean Ballantyne
    Ryan/Ryan's Inner Voice: Geoff Mays
    Mandi/Mandi's Inner Voice: Hannah Ehman
    Lunch Lady/Cashier/Emily: Julie Sheppard

    Get to know the writer:

    What is your screenplay about?
    My screenplay is a Dark Comedy pa...

  • THE BIG W. TV Festival Best Scene. by Laurel Nicholson

    When an undocumented worker has a vision of a murder, he can’t go to the cops. So he recruits a group of his eccentric drinking companions from a neighborhood bar, The Big W, to help stop the murder.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Pittman: Steve Rizzo
    Willow: Hannah Ehman
    Miller: Geoff ...

  • COMEDY Best Scene Reading: Burning Old Man, by Joe Farhatt and Jim Clemens

    A group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Harlan/Burt: Steve Rizzo
    Millie/Anita: Hannah Ehm
    Michael/Wayne: Geoff Mays
    Arthur/Gus: Sean Ballantyne
    Bet...

  • COMEDY Best Scene Script: Violent Indigo, by Deborah Hodgetts

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Margaret: Hannah Ehman
    Benji/Jack Denton: Sean Ballantyne

  • THE PASS. - Thriller Festival Best Scene. by Graham Northrup

    Deep in the forest near a mountain pass, Darren Reed’s life is turned upside down - first from the terrible accident that took his family - and now from their ghosts, whose appearance threatens to drive him to madness. He must find the courage to face them and learn to listen - before it’s too la...

  • THRILLER Festival Best Scene: DESERT SLAYGROUND, by Richard M. Kjeldgaard

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Woman/Alexis/Rachel: Val Cole
    Bellhop/Pilot/Nick: Steve Rizzo
    Flight Attendant/Hannah: Hannah Ehman
    Katie/TV Reporter: Julie Sheppard
    Driver/Older Man/Marco: Geoff Mays
    Jesse/Javier: Sean Ballantyne

  • 7 YEARS AFTER. TV Screenplay Festival Scene. by Melissa Skirboll (interview)

    Seven years after a religious-nationalist sect has taken over most of the country, as the last of the sanctuary cities begin to fall, a poet and her friends fight the forces of oppression.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Mischa: Hannah Ehman
    Lili: Julie Sheppard
    James: Shawn Devlin

    Get...

  • THE ONE HIT WONDER. WILDsound Festival Best Scene. by Bob Dawson

    When his one and only hit song from the 80s unexpectedly becomes a viral hit on social media, a washed up rock and roller finds his family life turned upside down.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Lily: Hannah Ehman
    Pete: Sean Ballantyne
    Grace: Julie Sheppard

  • POLITICAL Shorts Festival (North American) - Nov. 30th/Dec. 1st event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    15, 20min., USA
    Directed by Melody Brooke
    When a 15 year old girl discovers she is pregnant in a state where abortion is illegal, hard decisions have to be made

    http://melodybrookefilms.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/ActorMelody/
    https://twitter.com/ohwowmelody
    htt...

  • DIVERSITY DOC Festival - Nov. 30th/Dec. 1st event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    UNCONQUERED, 28min., UK
    Directed by John Parr
    The true story of two elite soldiers severely injured in the line of duty. “Unconquered” charts their inspiring journey from the depths of despair to break the chains of life changing injuries to rise again.

    http://www....

  • SHORT Script: F the M, by Charles Marks

    Charlie Marks takes the train to work.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Charlie: Steve Rizzo
    Sexy Voice: Val Cole

  • SHORT Script: Mr Toad's Wild Ride, by Rick Karlin

    Romantic Dramedy

    This is the first scene from a longer play about a gay couple who's lives diverge and it tests the strength of their love.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Zander: Steve Rizzo
    Chad: Geoff Mays

  • SHORT Script: Look Out, it's the Lumber Man, by Kabrien J. Gathers (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Kimber: Val Cole
    Klay: Geoff Mays

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    My screenplay is about two siblings facing the aftermath of their friend returning to their campsite but without his body intact. It also quickly shows the relationsh...

  • ROMANCE Short Script: I Swiped the Wrong One, by Joe Fishel

    A movie within the The Haunting of Prince Dom Pedro feature film, I Swiped the Wrong One is the story of four people who discover dating in the physical world is much different than dating online. Their first dates begin and end in ways that they did not anticipate.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn...

  • SHORT Script: Love. Santa, by Jim Newton

    Genre: Holiday

    Synopsis: A Mall Santa is having a bad day, until a young boy shows him love.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Marcus: Steve Rizzo
    Store Manager: Geoff Mays
    Young Boy: Sean Ballantyne

  • SHORT Screenplay: Sasquatch Sprintin', by Ken Eason

    Title: Sasquatch Sprintin'

    Genre: Sci-fi/Comedy

    Synopsis: Youth camp coaches use fake bigfoot footprints to scare out-of-shape preteen into sprinting only to find themselves sprinting from real sasquatch.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Les: Steve Rizzo
    Ken: Geoff Mays
    Steve: Sean Ballant...

  • SHORT Script: 8 DAYS 'TIL THE END, by Ray Charles (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Desmond: Steve Rizzo
    James: Geoff Mays
    Waitress 1/Danya: Val Cole
    Waitress 2/Ada: Hannah Ehman
    Bryan: Sean Ballantyne

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    Well, to be completely honest, what I had submitted was a brand new project...

  • Short Script: ENVY, A CURANDERO STORY, by Christine Longoria

    DRAMA

    A curandero dreams his grand-daughter's marriage is a subject of not only envy but a curse. He races to find and eliminate the curse before the wedding.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Delfina: Val Cole
    Papa Mateo: Geoff Mays

  • SHORT Script: I Might Have Something To Tell You, by Robert McCann

    COMEDY

    A quick scene about how technology has made conversation more complicated when we sometimes can't tell who is talking to us and who is listening.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Man: Geoff Mays
    Driver: Sean Ballantyne
    Passenger: Val Cole

  • SHORT Script: Free Tomatoes, by JT Tuttle

    Narrator: Val Cole