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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  • OCD short film, Student Feedback Festival review (interview)

    OCD, 1min,. Canada
    Directed by Madonna Gonzalez
    “Amanda, a girl with a debilitating "tick" fights to survive the war raging within her terrifying psyche - all while stuck sitting in a Psych 101 lecture.

    https://www.imdb.me/micahkelpin
    https://www.instagram.com/iammicahkelpin/

    Get to know Kalli...

  • STORK short film, Chicago Feedback Festival review

    STORK, 31min., USA
    Directed by Khiray Tyrell Richards
    A woman must navigate an anti-abortion America after her surrogate family reneges on their agreement.

    https://www.instagram.com/thestorkfilm/

  • COMMON GROUND feature film, Environmental Festival review

    COMMON GROUND, 105min., USA
    Directed by Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell
    COMMON GROUND, which features appearances and narration by Laura Dern, Jason Momoa, Rosario Dawson, Ian Somerhalder and Woody Harrelson, is the highly anticipated follow up film to Kiss the Ground, also directed by the Tickell’...

  • LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival - Jan. 9/10 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    RISE LIKE A PHOENIX, 8min., UK
    Directed by Carl Hunter
    Rise like a Phoenix is a short, poetic documentary about Eurovision Song Contest fans. The film hears the intimate testimonies of what the contest means to them. The interviews are played over their black and w...

  • STORY Movie: THE QUIET, by Bob Conder

    Narration by Val Cole

    Executive Producer: Bob Conder

    Editor and Visual Design: Steve Rizzo

  • DOC NATURE Film Festival - Feb. 8/9 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    BEFORE THE OIL, 11min., Netherlands
    Directed by Roel Swierenga
    Deep in the mountains in southern Norway Odd Kvinen runs a husky farm. Teaching about the energy transition from before the oil was found until the present day, about respect for nature and choices we ha...

  • SCRIPT MOVIE: Who Are you, by Pat O'Brien

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Sebastian/Cardinal Fraser: Sean Ballantyne
    Shooter: Geoff Mays
    Jeff/Paul Sr.: Andy Camp
    Lisa/Sammie: Hannah Ehman
    Dylan/Francis: Julie Sheppard

  • OLD HOUSE short film watch, 4min,. Experimental/Documentary

    About the depth of the hypocrisy of Russian invaders and coming consequences of their crazy adventure at XXI century. For in addition to the woes and sorrows the war has brought to Ukraine, the Kremlin's perfidious madness is destroying Muscovy itself.

    Directed by Alexander Sparinsky

    http://spa...

  • FIELD DAY short film watch, 22min. Drama/Fantasy

    On his way to work one morning, a lonely widower pulls over to explore an empty field, and then discovers he can’t return.

    Directed by Kevin Hart

    Starring John C Ashton

  • DOC Feature Festival: IMPOSSIBLE TOWN.

    IMPOSSIBLE TOWN, 90min., USA
    Directed by Scott Faris, Meg Griffiths
    When her father dies unexpectedly, Dr. Ayne Amjad is thrust to the helm of a decades-long struggle to aid a southern West Virginia town beset by cancer-causing chemicals. Haunted by her late father’s mandate to “help others” at a...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Feature Film: ART AND PEP. Documentary

    ART AND PEP, 88min., USA
    Directed by Mercedes Kane
    Art Johnston took Pepe Peña home one night in 1972 and he never left. Together, they opened Sidetrack, a small bar that’s become a 16,000-foot pillar of Chicago’s gay business district. At Sidetrack, the community sings show tunes on a Sunday and...

  • THE STAMP short film watch, 10min., Comedy

    A satire on how to complete a task within government bureaucracy.

    Directed by Sharon Mayo

    CAST: Joe Hoenig, Gorby Mufan Shih, Katherine Burns, Nana Fobi Duffuor

    https://linktr.ee/anniewaits18
    https://instagram.com/the.stamp.shortfilm

  • MK-ULTRA short film watch, 3min., Black & White/Experimental

    A look into the MK-ULTRA experiments of the 1950's.

    Directed by Andrew Hooper

    Cast: Ian Foutz, James Frazee, Rick Boeck, James McGrath

    https://facebook.com/andrewhoopersartfactory
    https://instagram.com/AndrewMHooper
    https://twitter.com/AndrewMHooper

    Youtube: https://youtube.com/@AndrewHooperO...

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene: VIEWING, by John C. Fitch III (interview)

    After a supernatural experience, a street artist at the end of his rope goes to work for a billionaire as a psychic viewer but must fight his way out when he discovers that his shadowy employer is embroiled in a deadly conspiracy. Inspired by true events.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Scot...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD SCRIPT, by Dale A Brandenburg

    It's a story about a guy trying to write a movie script.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Pepe: Sean Ballantyne
    Margarita: Hannah Ehman

  • SCENE: Game of Thrones "The Rains of Castamere", by Anthony Hyatt (interview)

    The iconic GAME OF THRONES ‘Red Wedding’ episode in the style of PARKS AND RECREATION:
While a recently divorced wedding planner attempts to engineer the perfect day, a self-conscious groom tries desperately to discover who he is marrying, all while the realm’s most famous conflict mediator striv...

  • BEST Scene Reading: The Walking Wounded, by Andrew Cahill-Lloyd

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Donna: Hannah Ehman
    Dawn: Julie Sheppard
    Noah/Monty: Geoff Mays
    Levi/Ian: Steve Rizzo

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: When the Moon is Right, by Jacob Schmidt (interview)

    Sam and his mother move to a small town in Ohio. As he tries to navigate high school and adjust to his new home, he learns the town is plagued by unexplained murders that happen every full moon. After coming face to face with the beast responsible, it's up to Sam and an unlikely group of new frie...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: Moonwalking, by Jillian Smart

    When her parents demand rent money, Annie gives her dream of becoming a Michael Jackson Impersonator one last go, putting the threads of her personal relationships at risks as she hip-thrusts all the way to the top.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Frank: Steve Rizzo
    Annie: Hannah Ehman
    Ma...

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival 1st Scene: RESERVOIR, by E.K. Gaylord

    The family of the Antichrist unravels alongside the Biblical Apocalypse.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Alonso: Geoff Mays
    Griffith: Sean Ballantyne

  • HORROR Festival Best Scene: STAG NIGHT, by Wenzler Powers (interview)

    When Ian reluctantly plans a bachelor party for his awful college friends, confronting his past demons transforms into a desperate bid for survival when a group on their party bus has a very different definition of raising hell.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Alex: Hannah Ehman
    Ian: Geof...

  • BEST Scene Reading: The Hollow Earth, by Kenneth James

    In the late 19th century, a young scientist embarks on an epic journey to a hidden, fabled land -- and to the darkest recesses of his own psyche.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Palmer: Geoff Mays
    Sheppard: Steve Rizzo
    Reed/Taylor: Sean Ballantyne
    Bradshaw: Andy Camp

  • 1pg. Short Script: SAMANTHA AND THE CHRISTMAS CASTLE, by Jeffrey B. Wayne

    Family, Christmas

    Uncle Jeff tries one last ditch effort to help Samantha find a gift for her cousin Ava.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Uncle Jeff: Geoff Mays
    Aunt Julia: Hannah Ehman
    Tico: Steve Rizzo

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: The One Hit Wonder, 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: Sean Ballantyne
    Abby: Hannah Ehman
    Grace: Julie Sheppard
    Erin: Allison Kampf