New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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Watch Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival
HEAVENS APART, 15min., Canada
Directed by Steven Kumala
After serving time in prison for a crime that shattered her family, a mother returns to reconnect with her estranged daughter for the first time in fifteen years, only to realize that her daughter is on the verge of moving overseas to start ... -
Watch CAMERA AND BODY, 4min., Documentary/Experimental
I dedicated my video to the camera and the body. I tried to tell my own story about a body trapped in chaos, silence, pain and helplessness. And about a camera that helped me free my body and find my authentic language.
https://instagram.com/andrejkaart/
Directed by Andrejka Skračić
Cast: Vana...
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ALONG THE THREAD OF THE OTHER, reactions WILDsound Festival
ALONG THE THREAD OF THE OTHER, 80min., France
Directed by Herve Marcotte
After my first long documentary, “Encounter with remarkable souls”, with focus on the meaning of life, I am exploring the concept of self-realization with two 25 years old young adults. The film is a quest for an unknown tre... -
ALASKA RESCUE STORY, reactions WILDsound Festival
ALASKA RESCUE STORY, 40min,. USA
Directed by Mark D. Rose
This Alaska Bush Pilot makes an all out effort to save the last Caribou in Alaska, but nearly pays the ultimate price in the process. -
ROTTEN APPLE film, reactions CHICAGO Feedback Festival
ROTTEN APPLE, 81min., USA
Directed by Justin Hunt
A truly groundbreaking docu-drama, 'Rotten Apple' is an alarming exposé on the dark epidemic of grooming and sexual assault in public schools and the eminent ripple effect.
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CARDBOARD film, reactions CHICAGO Feedback Festival (interview)
CARDBOARD, 23min., USA
Directed by Diana Densmore
A neglected young girl builds a cardboard time machine and runs away to the future only to find her adult self in the throes of depression, as the two connect they remind each other of the joy of loving oneself.
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Lana Tong: A tailor made tour, reactions WILDsound Festival
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... -
Watch Life with AREZOU, 15min., Iran, Documentary
It is about AREZOU(Rural girls with disabilities) and her family.....
Directed by Amirali Mirderikvand
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FLASH FICTION Short Story Della One Morning, by Susan Baller-Shepard (interview)
Performed by Val Cole
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Get to know the writer:
1. What is your short story about?
I like to have the reader tell me what it's about when they read or hear a piece of my writing as I think we all have different things we take away
from writing.For me, I'm interested in the moments when ...
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1pg. SCI-FI Short Story: In Andromeda, by Jonathan Cardew
Performed by Val Cole
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PERSON Poetry Reading: The women who came before me, by Lauren Fidler
https://youtu.be/tSoM7sbowEM
Performed by Val Cole
Submit to the Story Pitches site today: https://storypitches.com/
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BALLAD Poetry Reading: the brushfire, by Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Peformed by Val Cole
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the brushfire
if all the injuries were just words of smoke,
dawn could falter but still would come before
you’d have the timber from the fallen oak.the sputter of the mourning land and folk
who cry and burn, lament and then deplore,
if all the injuries were just w... -
BALLAD Poetry Reading: Pioneer Song, by Griff Thomas
Performed by Val Cole
Submit to the Experimental/Dance/Music Festival today: https://experimentalfilmfestival.com/
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SCI-FI Poetry Reading: The Star-Captain's Jewels, by Joshua Calars (interview)
Performed by Val Cole
Submit to the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival today: https://fantasyscififestival.com/
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Get to know the poet:
1. What is the theme of your poem?
The exploration of power residing in a worthy person with a worthy purpose in an era where humanity is able to value such things...
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BALLAD Poetry Reading: Hands Free, by Rhonda Yates
Performed by Val Cole
Submit to the Experimental/Dance/Music Festival: https://filmfreeway.com/dashboard
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DEATH Poem: death is smaller than i imagined, by Kailee Parrill
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THRILLER/SUSPENSE Short Story: FORGET ME NOT, by Mary Smihula
Performed by Val Cole
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GRIEF Poetry Reading: AFTER THE GODS GO QUIET, by Jason Palomino
Poetry reading performed by Val Cole
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ROMANCE Poetry Reading: THE GENTLEMAN, by Maggie Mae
POEM:
Standing at the back of the cafe
With proud beard and
warm smile
The Gentleman finds me.Striding over and
offering a hand
he is present and sturdy
with an openness to careful possibilities.Interest worn with flair
like the dashing scarf
carefully draped around
his shoulders.Eyes lik...
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THE COURTSHIP OF THE SUN AND MOON
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BALLAD Poetry Reading: LONG SWEETENING TIME, by Griff Thomas
Performed by Val Cole
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47th President Poetry Reading: Prelude to “Don Lost”, by Gabriel Noblitt
Poetry Performed by Val Cole
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All maidens, far and fair—beware—
The sadist, Don John has appeared!
So, be woke, kids.
He approaches.This pimp of prestige,
A truth-twisting tyrant,
The Baron of blackmail;
Democracy’s defilement.Committer of incalculable
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Screenplay Trailer: THE IRON MAIDEN'S JUDGEMENT, by Cornelia Calaidjoglu
TITLE: THE IRON MAIDEN’S JUDGMENT
Written by
CORNELIA CALAIDJOGLUA Horror Feature Film
LOGLINE: A noblewoman who lived in the Middle Ages during the
Spanish Inquisition breaks the curse of spending eternity bound
to an instrument of torture.SUMMARY: The ghost of Joanna (1479-1555), daughte...
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ALLEGORY Poetry Reading: Surviving Home, by Katerina Canyon
Performed by Val Cole
Submit to the Story Pitches site: https://storypitches.com/