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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  • ROGER CASEMENT - A BIOGRAPHY short film review (interview)

    ROGER CASEMENT - A BIOGRAPHY, 4min,. UK
    Directed by Danny Coyne
    In 1904 Roger Casement exposed the atrocities committed in King Leopold II’s private fiefdom, the Belgian Congo. The estimation is that this occupation and slave trade led to the deaths of an upward estimation of 10 million people. T...

  • HINTER-LAND short film review (interview)

    HINTER-LAND, 13min., Canada
    Directed by Christopher Angus
    A musical gardener ejects his hired hand, leading to things on his little planet going horribly astray.

    http://www.attic-films.ca/
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    https://www.twitter.com/Attic_Films

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  • ALGORITHM TAKEDOWN short film review (interview)

    ALGORITHM TAKEDOWN, 4min., USA
    Directed by Alex Budovsky
    “Algorithm Takedown” is an animated music video that is commissioned and performed by Hip Hop and Hot Jazz Timpanist, Jonathan Haas aka Jonny H. and the Prisoners of Swing bringing to life the music composed by legendary drummer Lenny White...

  • FLOAT ON HOPE short film review (interview)

    FLOAT ON HOPE, 5min., USA
    Directed by Debra DeNicola, John DeNicola
    Float on Hope reflects on our feelings of how we are leaving planet Earth to our children and fellow beings. We thought the idea could be illustrated through the eyes of a young mouse that lives in the Amazon rainforest near Mana...

  • CRIME/HORROR Festival Showcase - Sept. 12/13 event

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    BRINK, 27min., Canada
    Directed by David VanDyke
    Out of work and desperate for money, a struggling family man plots an elaborate scheme to secure a cash grab that would exceed his drug-fueled ambitions.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16899900/?ref_=nm_knf_i3
    https://...

  • ICE AGE AMERICA. Science/Nature Festival. Sept. 11/12 event

    ICE AGE AMERICA, 90min., Canada, Documentary
    Directed by Robin Bicknell
    New archaeological discoveries from the Canadian Arctic down to Chile are pushing back the date of human arrival in the Americas to 30,000 years before the present era – approximately 15,000 years earlier than previously beli...

  • NOVEL MOVIE: Blood Pudding, by Ivan Cox

    BUY on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Blood-Pudding-Confessions-Immigrant-Pittsburgh/dp/1639855610

    In a mining company town outside Pittsburgh, a 9-year-old boy's mother dies of a self-inflicted botched abortion. This tragedy leaves the narrator Tad Malinowski and his 6 siblings to deal with the...

  • EXPERIMENTAL/FASHION Film Festival - Sept. 10/11 event

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    SAINT, 10min., USA, Fashion
    Directed by Yi - Han Audrey Chou
    Saint seeks to present a process of evolution that is about spiritual change, technology, and identity of a human being. Through the transformation in 3 layers of clothings, which represent the past, pres...

  • SCIENCE & NATURE Film Festival - Sept. 9/10 event

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    CREATURES OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE, 18min,. UK
    Directed by Hannah Jodie Alexander
    Exploring one of nature's most magical creatures. Follow us and see how they use their colour changing and shape shifting abilities to survive and thrive in the open ocean.

    THE FOREST GRO...

  • COMEDY Shorts Festival - Sept. 8/9 event

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    THE RED LADY FROM FOLEY STREET, 10min., Canada
    Directed by Tanin J. Risdon
    In a new spin on urban legend slashers, we meet Beth, a teenage outcast, who, at the end of her birthday party learns that her boyfriend Jesse is cheating on her, leading her to exact her re...

  • BLACK COCKATOO CRISIS - Environmental Feature. Sept. 7/8 event

    BLACK COCKATOO CRISIS, 74min., Australia
    Directed by Jane Hammond
    Western Australia's iconic black cockatoos are in crisis. Their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past few decades and all three species in the south-west of WA could become extinct in just 20 years unless something is done...

  • TOUCH THE SKY TV Web Series - Sept. 6/7 event

    TOUCH THE SKY, 107min., Australia
    Directed by Stephen Limkin
    8 x 15 doco series.

    Women often make better pilots, so why are only 5% of pilot’s female, and only 1.4% of captains are female?
    bridget - [email protected]

    http://touchthesky.au/
    https://www.facebook.com/TouchTheSkyDoco

  • ANIMATION BLACK & WHITE Film Festival - Sept. 5/6 event

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    SCRATCH, 9min., Portugal
    Directed by Nuno Fragata
    A beginning of recovery, between the present and the absent. Someone and a memory.

    WE PRAYED IN WATER, 5min,. USA
    Directed by Joseph Erb
    “We Prayed in Water” represents the complexity of an old culture in today’s w...

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: In The Midst of Arms, by Michael Mendershausen

    Thriller

    Performed by Val Cole

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: Honey Drop, by Krishtina Mayers and Alicia Norman

    Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Honey-Drop-I-Alicia-Norman-ebook/dp/B0BSS4D1R1

    Dark Fantasy Romance

    After encountering an intriguing, mysterious man in an Island graveyard, a beautiful noblewoman embarks on a mythological romantic adventure that will upset the realms of both gods and men.
    ...

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: Blood Pudding, by Ivan Cox

    BUY on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Blood-Pudding-Confessions-Immigrant-Pittsburgh/dp/1639855610

    In a mining company town outside Pittsburgh, a 9-year-old boy's mother dies of a self-inflicted botched abortion. This tragedy leaves the narrator Tad Malinowski and his 6 siblings to deal with the...

  • SHORT STORY: Shared Dream Secrets, by Jacob R. Miles III (interview)

    Genre - Fantasy

    Synopsis - A science-fiction fantasy featuring diverse kids leveraging real world scientific knowledge of AI, XR, real galaxies and planets in a good vs evil battle for control of planets and minds.

    Performed by Val Cole

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your short story ab...

  • SCRIPT MOVIE: The Uninvited, by Matt Domingos

    Listent to podcast interview with the writer: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/june-1-2023-screenwriter-matthew-domingos-the-uninvited/id1406973270?i=1000615310750

    When two American soldiers go on a mission to an abandoned house in the Iraqi desert, what they find there makes them question ...

  • SHORT STORY: The Chief, by Badradeen Mohammed

    Genre: LIFE

    Narrated by Val Cole

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: Les Beaux Châteaux, by Dorothy Mackevich Marks

    Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Beaux-Ch%C3%A2teaux-Dorothy-Mackevich-Marks/dp/B09SFKJGC1

    Inspired by a headline about French bakeries shuttering, Les Beaux Châteaux is a rich story of an estranged father and son - business partners - who operate their salvage/antiques boutique across two c...

  • SHORT STORY: Save This Marriage!, by Virginia Youngren

    Dramedy

    Performed by Val Cole

  • ROMANCE & RELATIONSHIP Festival - Sept. 4/5 event

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    THROUGH ROSE COLORED LENSES, 5min., USA
    Directed by Arie Forma
    In the midst of a toxic triangle with the love of his life, and her abusive boyfriend, Shawn Anderson, a college student blinded by love, is seeing his world fall apart.

    ARTBOY, 14min., USA
    Directed by...

  • MUSIC Film Festival - Sept. 3/4 event

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    GET UP, 3min., USA
    Directed by Oksana Mirzoyan
    A live performance by electronic music composer Tammy Lakkis of her song "Get Up"

    THE SMILE, 27min,. Belgium
    Directed by Stephane Orlando
    The Smile tells the story of a young opera singer (Morgane Heyse) who is trouble...

  • DANCE Festival - Sept. 2/3 event

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    ENTRE 2 EAUX (IN BTWIN 2 WATERS), 5min., France
    Directed by Caroline RAGUSA, Sylvain BES
    Chiara is standing there, alone with herself, until she meets Nero, her double and her opposite at the same time. This story is a deep immersion at the root of our origins, an o...