New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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COLORS OF THE AMAZON short film, reactions MUSIC Festival
COLORS OF THE AMAZON, 7min,. Belgium
Directed by Francisco Barboza
Some time after performing “Amazonas,” a composition for piano and orchestra, at the beautiful Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, I returned to visit the indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon forest where I had the exceptional opportu... -
OUT OF THE DARK short film, reactions DANCE Festival (interview)
OUT OF THE DARK, 3min,. USA
Directed by Alexa Ruggiero, Ashley Carrizo
A screendance film that portrays how certain relationships in ones life can cause turmoil. The process of letting someone go can be freeing while also being an emotional rollercoaster full of sadness, anger, and relief.Get t...
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COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE short film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival
COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE, 29min,. USA
Directed by Caitlin Presberg
Vernon Parrish, a retired mayor of a large suburb just outside of Chicago, had moved to the small town of Livingston, Montana, for peace and solitude and to get out of the public eye. After six years, Verne’s past returns to hau... -
THE PUNISHER: NIGHTMARE feature film, reactions Fan Fiction Festival (interview)
THE PUNISHER: NIGHTMARE, 96min., USA
Directed by Brandon Forgione, Rahi Raval
After two years of trying to find solace, former vigilante Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, is forced back into action when his past is violently unearthed. Abandoning his quest for peace, he confronts a relentless ... -
KATER - Music video for «Nonexister», short film, reactions MUSIC Festival
KATER - Musicvideo for «Nonexister», 7min., Switzerland
Directed by Garrick Lauterbach
From the mate who bounces from one disaster to the next and always has THE big idea that is SURE to work, to people who are heavily religious or esoteric, to the office worker who votes for the far right and th... -
I SPEAK THE NIGHT short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
I SPEAK THE NIGHT, 19min., Germany
Directed by Doris Schmid
A reflection on perception, imagination and on artistic expression of the collective real, external world, in relation to the subjective inner life of each individual.
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DOC Feature Film Festival - JAYA. June 25-26 event
JAYA, 50min., USA
Directed by Mike McKay
It is a rare blessing to meet someone filled with such joy, kindness and inspiration that they leave such a mark on you and your life is changed forever.
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
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PRECIPICE short film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival
PRECIPICE, 5min., USA
Directed by Jessica Gomula-Kruzic
At the edge of a waterfall, two dancers merge as the river does when it meets the ocean, once separate, now inseparable.
http://www.jgomula.com/video/precipice/
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9/10: Love Before the Fall feature film, reactions MUSIC Festival
9/10: Love Before the Fall, 58min., USA
Directed by Daron Hagen
The myths of Orpheus and Charon are interwoven with the entirely sung magical-realist story of four friends dining in an Italian bistro who are fated to perish the next morning in the attack on the Twin Towers. At meal’s end, through... -
NYCTOPHOBIA featuree film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
NYCTOPHOBIA, 87min., USA
Directed by Seayoon Jeong
As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ulti... -
ROLL UP FOR EQUITY short film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival (interview)
ROLL UP FOR EQUITY, 31min., USA
Directed by JM Balbuena
“Roll Up for Equity” is a short documentary that exposes San Diego's struggle for social equity within its regulated cannabis industry, highlighting passionate local advocates pushing for accountability and change in America's Finest City.
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LOST DREAMS short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
LOST DREAMS, 10min., USA
Directed by Andrew Wakeman Proctor
Lost Dreams is about dreams. Scientists have not fully figured out dreams. The ancients believed you could predict the future through your dreams, Native Americans created dream-capturing devices. Some people keep dream diaries. Freud be... -
DAYLIGHT short film, reactions June 2024 DANCE Festival
DAYLIGHT, 12min., USA
Directed by Yaa Asantewaa Faraji
A ballet dancer struggles to cope with the realities of her new life after one night goes terribly wrong.
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MORNING INTERLUDE short film, reactions DANCE Festival
MORNING INTERLUDE, 7min., France
Directed by Sirius
At daybreak on a country road, a young couple returns from a restless night visibly exhausted. Angry with each other the couple will in a magnetic danse try to reconcile. -
BRAINLAND short film, reactions MUSIC Festival (interview)
BRAINLAND, 13min., UK
Directed by Chiara D'Anna
In 1935 Egas Moniz, renowned Portuguese neurologist, visit psychiatrist Sobral Cid in order to persuade him allow his patients to be act as subjects for Moniz's experiemntal treatment - frontal leucotomy. After some resistance Cid agrees. The first ... -
THE FINAL CURTAIN CALL short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival (interview)
THE FINAL CURTAIN CALL, 16min,. USA
Directed by Jessica Orcsik, Robbie Ryde
As Ella embarks on a musical journey, she meets 4 other teenagers, each with a new song. Taking place in a mysterious theater, the musical numbers reveal heart wrenching stories of child trafficking sung in new and creati... -
DAISY short film, reactions FEMALE Filmmakers Festival (interview)
DAISY, 11min., Australia
Directed by Alyssa Scott
"Daisy," inspired by the real-life tale of our writer's great-grandparents in 1930s Australia, unfolds the courageous journey of a young woman who defies societal expectations and risks losing everything as she embarks on a forbidden love affair, ... -
SLOWLY short film, reactions DANCE Festival (interview)
SLOWLY, 4min,. France
Directed by Christophe Dachy
Paris, Place de la République, July 2022. Alone, facing the trampling crowd, the march of time, the freezing rain, she dances.Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
As human beings, we are time slaves: it is an e...
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PUNK SINATRA short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
PUNK SINATRA, 11min,. USA
Directed Sebastian Macchia
'Punk Sinatra' is not only a whimsical mockumentary but also a groundbreaking first in cinema—it's the first AI-created mockumentary. The film unfurls the fictitious tale of Punk Sinatra, an imagined long-lost cousin of Frank Sinatra, humorousl... -
THE PROPOSAL short film, reactions Toronto COMEDY Festival
THE PROPOSAL. 6min., USA
Directed by Dan Liu
Special agent Jay plans the perfect proposal to his longtime partner Alex upon completion of their mission but when she loses her temper over her new shoes, all hope is lost for a “happy ever after” ending.
https://www.theproposalshort.com/
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WOLF CULTURE short film, reactions Toronto COMEDY Festival (interview)
WOLF CULTURE, 6min,. Canada
Directed by Darik Maurice, Will Attwood
A man discovers he has the ability to turn people into an exact replica of himself using a very strange method.Get to know filmmaker Will Attwood:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
I wanted to watch something that I wo...
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The story and forgiveness of José and Maria short film, reactions (interview)
The story and forgiveness of José and Maria, 15min., Brazil
Directed by Victor Amaro
After 50 years, José and Maria definitively break off their marriage and agree to give statements to their grandson, for the first time, about the reasons that led them to make such a decision. A story about love... -
COUPLES THERAPY feature film, reactions ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIP Festival
COUPLES THERAPY, 101min., Spain
Directed by Gaizka Urresti
The singer-songwriters Marwan and Rozalén embark on a journey to try to answer the universal question: 'What is love?' On this path, five real Aragonese couples undergo therapy for six months to rediscover themselves following the steps o... -
THIS CROWDED ROOM short film, reactions ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIP Festival
THIS CROWDED ROOM, 13min., USA
Directed by Rafael Burgos Nieves
A couple who lived for every free moment to dance together have a chance after death to review from a two generational look-back, their many years dancing on earth…to spin back and experience what went wrong and what went right…to fi...