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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New Releases
  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of ENVIRONMENTAL Shorts Festival

    Breaking Ice: The Making of Cracks In the Ice, 5min., USA
    Directed by Jason Lindsey
    “Breaking Ice” follows photographer Jason Lindsey as he creates his “Cracks in the Ice” series, prompted by his son's question about what the world will look like due to climate change. Unable to give clear answer...

  • Podcast: EP. 1734: Filmmaker Julius Corbin (FOREVER DAMNED)

    Forever Damned, 21min., USA

    Directed by Julius Corbin

    Two brothers born into slavery were given a choice of freedom but they had to pay the ultimate price... their own mortality. Now cursed as vampires, the brothers must fight for salvation and escape from the shadows.

    https://instagram.com...

  • Podcast: EP. 1733: Filmmaker Eliza Goodwin (THE POMEGRANATE THEORY)

    Directed by Eliza Goodwin

    The Pomegranate Theory is a 10-minute short film in the genre of fantasy realism. The film takes place in a society where people wear animal masks to represent their inner selves. Muyal, a young woman who bears the mask of a rabbit, is beginning to lose herself by allow...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: Winning WILDsound Feature: THE FLESH PEOPLE

    THE FLESH PEOPLE, 105min., USA
    Directed by Keshav Srinivasan
    Two roommates, desperate to feel successful in the milieu of New York City, turn to macabre money-making schemes by performing underground surgeries and serving human meat to unsuspecting customers.

    https://www.instagram.com/thefleshp...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: WILDsound Feature DOC: SARIKA

    SARIKA, 89min., Israel
    Directed by Malka Shabtay
    This is a story about a woman named Sarika, my mother - "the lady who records"...
    "Addicted" to documenting her life in photos and video, and to the memories they bring up for her, over and over again.

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-fee...

  • Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival

    LUTEAL, 15min., Canada
    Directed by Robert Morrison
    Caught between intimacy and isolation, Abbie wants to move in with her partner when she’s at her best but retreats each month during the luteal phase of her menstrual cycle. Her partner, Kar, struggles to navigate these tumultuous waters, strivin...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival

    LUTEAL, 15min., Canada
    Directed by Robert Morrison
    Caught between intimacy and isolation, Abbie wants to move in with her partner when she’s at her best but retreats each month during the luteal phase of her menstrual cycle. Her partner, Kar, struggles to navigate these tumultuous waters, strivin...

  • Podcast: Filmmaker Don Scioli (Who Wants to Live Forever: The Wisdom of Aging)

    Don Scioli chats with Matthew Toffolo about this latest feature documentary.

    Who Wants to Live Forever, the Wisdom of Aging is a one-hour documentary film about the myths, facts and contradictions in the never-ending battle for both longevity and healthy aging, produced by Zan Media. The filmma...

  • BLINK short film, reactions CHICAGO Festival

    BLINK, 16min., USA
    Directed by Trude Namara
    Liana is trapped in this psychological thriller, an extended metaphor for how friends/communities can be monsters, forcing one to stay in a toxic relationship.

  • IMBROGLIO short film, reactions CHICAGO Festival

    Imbroglio, 15min., UK
    Directed by Ian Sciacaluga
    “Imbroglio” is set in a timeless and imaginary Italian world and is a loving nod to the arch Hollywood and European film noirs of the forties and fifties.

    https://www.instagram.com/iansciac/

  • HEY, YOU short film, reactions CHICAGO Festival

    Hey, You!, 9min., USA
    Directed by NickyJoe Perez
    A young woman in Chicago needs to make a decision through the course of a day in her life.

    https://instagram.com/nickyjoe_perez

  • KRISIS short film, reactions CHICAGO Festival (interview)

    KRISIS, 11min., Italy
    DIrected by Luca Mazzara
    "Krisis" is a short movie that follows the emotional journey of a woman facing mental and physical illness and the isolation caused by painful events. Through the contact with nature, she transforms suffering into a new interpretation of life, discov...

  • FOREVER DAMNED short film, reactions CHICAGO Festival

    Forever Damned, 21min., USA
    Directed by Julius Corbin
    Two brothers born into slavery were given a choice of freedom but they had to pay the ultimate price... their own mortality. Now cursed as vampires, the brothers must fight for salvation and escape from the shadows.

    https://instagram.com/for...

  • BEST KEPT SECRET short film, reactions CHICAGO Festival

    BEST KEPT SECRET, 12min., USA
    Directed by Sarah Vansandt
    Mattress shopping turns into a nightmare for a couple who find themselves trapped in a furniture store after hours, confronting the store’s dark secret.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    My husband and ...

  • A FAMILIAR CRIMINAL short film, reactions CHICAGO Festival

    A Familiar Criminal, 8min., USA
    Directed by Claudia Parker
    A Nepalese man is fleeing the shadow of a string of violent robberies that left a life tragically lost and several injured.

  • KERHONKSON film, reactions DOC Festival

    KERHONKSON, 14min., USA
    Directed by Kate Anne Thorpe
    "Kerhonkson" is a short documentary film that paints the picture of a very small town in the Hudson Valley of Upstate New York, as told through the voices of Vishal Patel, Chris Kelder, Claudia Sidoti, Christopher Weathered, Paul Weathered, Mel...

  • GLOBAL WARNING film, reactions DOC Festival

    GLOBAL WARNING, 74min., Ireland
    Directed by Garry Keane
    An extraordinary journey across the planet showing how climate change is affecting our world, what it will really mean for us and what we can do about it.

  • ECHOES FROM THE KITCHEN - A Tale of Comida & Cultura film, reactions DOC Fest

    ECHOES FROM THE KITCHEN - A Tale of Comida & Cultura, 11min., USA
    Directed by Chef Eddie Garza
    World renowned Plant Based Chef Eddie Garza takes us on his fantastic culinary journey.

    https://instagram.com/Theeddiegarza

  • THE SEA film, reactions DOC Festival (interview)

    THE SEA, 10min., Canada
    Diercted by Son Roberts
    This experimental short film is a "Jazz Monologue" presented by an elusive oracle. Through rage and reflection, incendiary prose and inspirational poetry, he reminds us of the legacy of lies that define our human journey. And he insists that we embr...

  • THE 3100 film, reactions DOC Festival

    THE 3100, 49min., USA
    Directed by Mark Fisher
    The 3100™ is a cinematic exploration of Idaho’s 3,100 miles of navigable whitewater, the most found anywhere in the Lower 48. This film showcases the state’s most rugged and revered whitewater river systems while highlighting the power of experiencing...

  • PEACE WILDERNESS MAN film, reactions DOC Festival

    Peace Wilderness Man, 35min., Australia
    Directed by Tim Millard
    An Australian war veterans journey from trauma to inner peace in Norways remote Arctic Circle.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    About four or five years ago my wife and I went on a Wim Hof–style...

  • LINES OF DETERMINATION | The David Wagner Story short film, Chicago Festival

    Lines of Determination | The David Wagner Story, 25min., USA
    Directed by Alex de Montbel
    David Wagner grew up as a natural athlete, always in motion, playing basketball, surfing, and chasing a dream of becoming a professional player. At 21, a day of surfing in Redondo Beach changed everything whe...

  • JOY O' DANCE short film, reactions CHICAGO Festival (interview)

    Joy O' Dance, 20min., UK
    Directed by Dawn Feather
    Where ballet tradition meets Yorkshire spirit. Boys challenge expectations, choreography dazzles, and young performers take their final bow before a new chapter begins.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?
    I was a...

  • NAPALM GIRL film, reactions DOC Festival

    NAPALM GIRL, 6min., Canada
    Directed by Isabel Mainella
    Mary reflects on her life as a female singer in a male dominated scene.