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 VENMO VANISHER short film review

    THE VENMO VANISHER, 10min., USA
    Directed by Greg Wolf
    The Venmo Vanisher is an investigative crime mockumentary set in Los Angeles and centers around Greg who goes on a desperate search for Loine, after he goes missing but still hasn’t paid Greg back from brunch.

    https://instagram.com/venmovani...

  • THE ECLIPSE short film review (interview)

    THE ECLIPSE, 12min., USA
    Directed by Dmitriy Usov
    Roy, a widower, seeks the help of a psychic, Donna, to uncover the reason behind his wife Esther's suicide. Donna suggests that he enter the spirit world and ask Esther herself. To do this, Roy must perform an ancient ritual at his old home, but w...

  • LIKE GOING TO A HARDWARD STORE FOR BREAD short film review

    LIKE GOING TO A HARDWARD STORE FOR BREAD, 10min., USA
    Directed by Roque Nonini
    New York City-based filmmaker Roque Nonini and downtown theater artist Kim Katzberg collaborate in Like Going to a Hardware Store for Bread, a darkly comic DIY film, developed, shot and set in Brooklyn, New York. In sp...

  • HANNAH short film review (interview)

    HANNAH, 13min., USA
    Directed by Mingyang Li
    This short film tells the story of a couple who dislike doing household chores. They purchase a robot to assist them with these tasks, but due to the robot's self-learning capabilities, it eventually develops the desire to replace the female protagonist...

  • HOUSE OF MYSTIC MAGIC short film review (interview)

    HOUSE OF MYSTIC MAGIC, 4min., UK
    Directed by Alexander Miguel
    In the House of Mystic Magic you will find all sorts. Creatures from Heaven to Hell and anything in between. Depicting a variety of scenarios all playing with the concept of the deadly sins, we showcase Mystic Magic’s fascination with ...

  • TAKING FLIGHT short film review (interview)

    TAKING FLIGHT, 11min., USA
    Directed by Will Chehab
    In an area where traditional education fails students, one Mayan woman starts her own school in order to rebuild her community from the ground up. Through er integral education, which includes meals for students and workshops for their parents, I...

  • A'AI short film review (interview)

    A'AI, 5min., USA
    Directed by Kalie Granier
    A discussion with a pelican on the shore who is announcing the funeral dance of its kelp forest to a Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation woman.

    https://kaliegranier.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/kalie_granier/?hl=fr

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What m...

  • TOXIC SHOCK short film review (interview)

    TOXIC SHOCK, 9min., Canada
    Directed by Jamie Norrie
    Tatiana wakes up confused about where she is, what happened the night before, and why there's a gorgeous man sleeping next to her. She discreetly makes her way to the washroom to avoid disturbing her mystery partner, until she discovers an unwan...

  • 13 STROKES.... short film review (interview)

    13 STROKES...., 7min., Greece
    Directed by Ioulia Lymperopoulou
    To write and create the short art experimental film “13 Strokes…” [Dark Traces (Collective), Publishing House Iliaxtida, Athens, September 2022] i was inspired by my short story “Thirteen Strokes”, concentrating on the heart of the na...

  • VOICEMAIL short film review

    VOICEMAIL, 12min,. UK
    Directed by Lewis Evans
    Through ignored and then forgotten voicemails, an up-and-coming filmmaker learns the personal cost of success.

  • KILL DOLLY KILL feature film review

    KILL DOLLY KILL, 100min., USA
    Directed by Heidi Moore
    BENJI is back. Now living as his alter-ego DOLLY DEADLY, he's all grown up and ready to kill...AGAIN.

  • PACEMAKER short film review (interview)

    PACEMAKER, 9min., UK, Animation
    Directed by Brian Vincent Rhodes, Christopher Lennertz
    An animated musical about a lonely widower awaiting a Pacemaker to save his life who gets his real second chance at true love by opening his heart and accepting his grandson's identity.

    https://instagram.com/...

  • JUST A GIRL short film review

    JUST A GIRL, 19min., UK
    Directed by Kieran Freemantle
    A girl escapes from a secret government facility and tries to convince a hermit to help her get home.

    https://www.instagram.com/justagirlshortfilm/

  • UNDER 5 Minute Festival - Oct. 9/10 event

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    POSI-TRACTION, 5min., USA
    Directed by Caleb Johnson, Clint Calvert
    An intense emotional conflict scene between a mysterious older man and a younger man in a scene floating between reality and imagination, fear and despair. A man searches for something to justify hi...

  • ANIMATION Shorts Festival - Oct. 8/9 event

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    NOBODY, 4min., USA
    Directed by Mingyuan Li
    A woman comes to Paris, France seeking chances of making money to support her struggling family in China. And her fate has since been rewritten.

    Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/nobody-re...

  • DOC Shorts Festival - Oct. 7/8 event

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    PADDLE TRIBAL WATERS, 9min., USA
    Directed by Paul Robert Wolf Wilson, Rush Sturges
    When the largest dam removal project in history begins, a group of indigenous youth learn to whitewater kayak in hopes of becoming the first people to paddle the restored river from ...

  • PLEASE DON'T GAMBLE ON OUR DEMOCRACY short film review

    PLEASE DON'T GAMBLE ON OUR DEMOCRACY, 28min,. USA
    Directed by Adam Mockler
    An interactive documentary about January 6th, election fraud, and other contemporary political issues.

  • HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO KNOW short film review

    HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO KNOW, 16min., India
    Directed by Gautam Kapur
    Maulik a former MMA fighter suffers from trauma who is search of the girl in HIS DREAMS . He finally seeks help from an unconventional therapist who helps him find his answers. Its a Journey that takes him into his past life and...

  • THE KIKI HOUSE OF VASE short film review

    THE KIKI HOUSE OF VASE, 8min., Taiwan
    Directed by Syrus Sadvandi
    The Kiki House of Vase is a ballroom house based in Taipei. This is a group of voguers which attend events called "balls." However, ballroom is more than a space to dance -- it's where people of an LGBT background can find unconditi...

  • TINA short film review

    TINA, 14min., USA
    Directed by Laura Sweeney
    Our new short film TINA is a heartfelt, story about two people who knew each other back when and are surprised to meet up again. We think viewers will absolutely relate, especially if they’ve ever encountered someone from their past who influenced them ...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Shorts Festival - Oct. 6/7 event

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    BELIEF, 4min., USA
    Directed by Jiandong Shen
    A conversation between two strangers, about religions and beliefs.

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/belief-reviews

    MASS TELEPORTATION AUTHORITY, 10min., USA
    Directed by Geoff Smeltzer

    https://themtamovie.com/
    https://...

  • TRUST short film review

    TRUST, 5min,. Germany
    Directed by David Lojek
    We flirt with our bodies and faces. TRUST creates a playful variation of the classical initial contact of heterosexual Europeans. A creative man courts a woman with long hair. Would you do the same in this situation?

  • ENVIRONMENTAL Festival - Oct. 5/6 event

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    AQUAVERSE, 13min., France
    Directed by Justine Rauby
    Aquaverse is a story about disappearance and the quest for a refuge. Through the dive of a half-human, half-machine character, the film raises a paradox attached to the deep sea: that of a tangible and real world,...

  • SHORT Script Reading: HOME, by Peter Schuyler

    Genre: Horror

    Everyone has to do their part.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Sylvia: Hannah Ehman