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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  • STEWARDS OF THE LAND short film Toronto DOC Festival review

    STEWARDS OF THE LAND, 7min., USA
    Directed by Thomas Wavid Johns, William Hartsock
    From large scale range operations in the west to smaller farm flocks in the east, raising sheep improves the quality of our land, supports rural communities, and provides food and fiber for our nation.

    https://ame...

  • THE MAFIA short film Toronto DOC Festival review (interview)

    THE MAFIA, 11min., USA
    Directed by Logan Girdlestone
    A short documentary on the best fan base in the NFL: Bills Mafia.

    https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-mafia
    https://www.facebook.com/themafiadoc
    https://www.instagram.com/themafiadoc

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to m...

  • THE STOLEN KINGDOMS - PILOT short film Crime/Mystery fest review (interview)

    THE STOLEN KINGDOMS - PILOT, 4min,. UK
    Directed by Matthew Lee
    The series follows the exploits of Siriol, a young mute girl and a small dragon as they journey across the land to help the wildlife.

    https://www.tealeavespics.com/the-stolen-kingdoms
    https://www.facebook.com/TheStolenKingdoms

    Get ...

  • MY METHOD short film DIVERSITY Festival review (interview)

    MY METHOD, 15min., Germany
    Directed by Kaze Uzumaki
    A rising actor reaches stardom by taking method acting harmfully serious. Things escalade when he tries to teach others his way by forcing them to "be the role".

    http://www.uzumaki-entertainment.com/

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motiva...

  • THE LOST NIGHT short film Animation Festival review (interview)

    THE LOST NIGHT, 6min., Japan
    Directed by YUXUAN ZHANG
    One night, at a crowded street, a woman meet these illusions. Everyone passed, but only she couldn't. This is a dream made with light and shadow. But is it just a ephemeral dream?

    https://misazyuhin.wixsite.com/misanimations
    https://twitter....

  • THE BLUE PIPE short film DRAMA Festival review (interview)

    THE BLUE PIPE, 8min., USA
    Directed by Thomas Casler
    A grieving college student posthumously receives a package from his dead mother containing mementos of her younger years, allowing him to connect with her in a new but unexpected way.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make ...

  • Female Filmmakers Short Festival - Oct. 16/17 eventt

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    THE LAST DINNER, 15min,. France, Drama
    Directed by Marie-Ange Casalta
    On a happy getaway weekend with his best friends, Simon finds out that there is going to be a nuclear attack in 20 minutes. He decides to not tell his friends so they can enjoy the last moments o...

  • LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival - Oct. 16/17 event

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    MICHELLE, 2min,. USA, Animation
    Directed by Sarena Vasquez
    With the assistance of a casino waitress, Michelle moves to eliminate her next hit assignment— a perpetrator of sexual assault named Julius Lopez de Villalobos. Before Michelle can finish the job she must f...

  • DOCUMENTARY Showcase Festival - Oct. 14/15 event

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    INVISIBLE CORPS, 57min., USA
    Directed by Chris Schueler
    Who protects the health of the citizens of the United States? This program explains the evolution of the Public Health Service and the PHS Commissioned Corps. Although invisible, they touch millions of lives e...

  • ENVIRONMENTAL Film Festival - Oct. 13/14 event.

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    SOLD! AN AMERICAN STOCKYARDS STORY, 41min,. USA
    Directed by Drew Ames
    On May 19th, 2021, the St. Joseph Missouri Stockyards had its last sale after 135 years in operation. From cattle trails to train rails and interstate highways, 'SOLD!' follows the growth and chan...

  • Short Film Trailer: GUMMIES. Directed by Renetta G. Amador

    A tomboy transforms the gender trappings of her childhood to show her cruel mother how sugar and spice don’t equal nice.

    http://www.mexecutionerproductions.com/

    https://www.instagram.com/mexecutionerproductions/

  • Short Film Trailer: WILD TERRITORY. Directed by Samuel Steiner Riley

    Wild Territory explores the relationship between a daring wildlife photographer, Etienne Littlefair, and the vast freshwater ecosystems that define Australia's far north. From free-diving in murky water to find crocodiles and rare turtles, to spending days on end staking out drying riverbeds for ...

  • FAN FICTION Film Festival - Oct. 12/13 event

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    BATMAN: EGO, 18min., USA
    Directed by Jack Tyler Komaroff
    Batman: Ego is a riveting fan-film adaptation of Darwyn Cooke's preeminent Batman story "Batman: Ego and Other Tales". In the film, Bruce Wayne is forced to confront his inner demons and unpack the persona tha...

  • DOC Feature Festival - MADLY IN DISSENT. Oct. 11/12 event

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    MADLY IN DISSENT, 86min., Czech Republic
    Directed by Kirill Sakharnov
    On August 25, 1968 Victor Fainberg joined seven other Soviet citizens in the legendary Red Square Demonstration to protest the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. For his five minutes of freed...

  • SCREENPLAY TRAILER: Insolence, by Rick Mannoia

    https://www.insolence16.com/

    Two of the grumpiest old men try turning their book that didn’t sell into a million dollar movie script.

    Hold ups, muggings, the police and a GPS that is completely worthless block their trip into the big city on the way to visit their unscrupulous money-hungry agen...

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Shorts Festival - Oct. 10/11 event.

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    STAN'S PLAN, 14min,. Canada
    Directed by Barry Nerling, Baille Reid
    Stan, Izzy and Rip, three drug fuelled low life criminals return after a botched robbery of a local gangster. In the process, Stan is shot in the stomach and in a panic, they take one of the Gangste...

  • GADGETS short film review

    GADGETS, 4min., Brazil
    Directed by Perfectum Planetarum
    Film about the Perfectum Planetarum's collection GADGETS is inspired by how modern gadgets fill people's lives. The clothing features repeated sculptural and geometric shapes, sometimes taking inspiration directly from the modern electronics...

  • HEIRLOOM short film review (interview)

    HEIRLOOM, 11min., Canada
    Directed by Marilyne Lamontagne
    Etienne confronts the crushing pressure of generational expectations and masculinity of their inheritance home as they seek emancipation in the wilderness. Etienne's trans identity is an experiential audible journey amidst chaos and spontan...

  • INVITED short film review

    INVITED, 10min., USA
    Directed by Claire Epstein
    When Eleanor invites Mark into her apartment for a drink after their first date, she has to quickly decide if the bad feeling in the pit of her stomach is about him, or if the abusive relationship she just left has made her paranoid.

  • FROM A BARREN STATE short film review (interview)

    FROM A BARREN STATE, 15min., USA
    Directed by Priyam Sadhukhan
    The title ‘From a Barren State’ represents the barren land that Lena was rescued from only to serve a childless barren woman who falsely promised to hydrate the barren life of Lena through kindness. It represents the journey of Lena fr...

  • ANGEL short film review

    ANGEL, 14min,. Mexico
    Directed by Hoze Meléndez
    Ángel, a lonely sexual worker, has become the object of inspiration for Lu, a young, homosexual plastic artist. Her unexpected crush becomes a painful goodbye that teaches Lu that letting go is the purest act of loving.

  • LETTER TO ONESELF short film review

    LETTER TO ONESELF, 3min., USA
    Directed by Silvia A Malagrino
    "Letter to oneself" is a poetic meditation on the coming and going of thoughts and the passage of time. It is inspired by the music "Lettre à soi même" by French composer Roland Dyens and its interpretation by guitarist Norbert Neunzling.

  • ARNOLD: THE UNREAL STORY short film review

    ARNOLD: THE UNREAL STORY, 16min,. Australia
    Directed by Jarrad Bhatia
    In 1979, a young bodybuilder named Arnold dreams of becoming the biggest movie star of all time.

  • CURVE short film review

    CURVE, 30min., China
    Directed by Dan Zeng
    As a campus bully, He Zhenye has long been involved in a campus bullying campaign against Lin Sheng based on gay discrimination. However, unlike other bullies, He Zhenye has a secret in his heart that he, like Lin Sheng, is a gay man. During the confronta...