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
  • EXPERIMENTAL Shorts Festival - Sept. 1/2 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    MOVE, 2min., Brazil
    Directed by Bernardo Alevato
    An experiment with time, form and movement in a generative dance film using AI and video

    DARK REALITIES - Script Movie, 17min., USA
    Written by Pamela PerryGoulardt
    An optimistic Goth librarian accidentally releases ...

  • DIVERSITY DRAMA Shorts Festival - Aug. 31st / Sept. 1st event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    CICLOS, 10min., UK, Drama
    Directed by Ashleigh Jadee
    Ciclos is a film based on reliving out patterns from your childhood into adulthood unconsciously. How does this affect us if we don’t become aware of the cycles?

    http://www.ashleighjadee.com/
    https://instagram.c...

  • A WAY FOR TOMAS short film review

    A WAY FOR TOMAS, 29min., Columbia
    Directed by Andrés Ricaurte / Martín Agudelo Ramírez
    Tomás, desperate, knocks insistently on the door of a lonely house. Nobody opens it. When he leaves the place, he sees some bushes moving and goes into a wooded path. Along the way, from his memories, he faces...

  • TRIGGER short film review

    - TRIGGER, 10min., UK
    Directed by Corry Raymond, Ed Palmer
    Trigger is a short about a soldier called Fletcher who returns home to the UK with PTSD whilst serving in Afghanistan. The film follows Fletcher as he struggles with his ever growing mental illness and his struggles to adapt back into civ...

  • REUE - REGRET short film review

    REUE - REGRET, 6min., Germany
    Directed by Duc Bao Bui
    Once united in love, a scientist and a musician now find themselves immersed in regret as they've chosen their professions over each other. Through a tapestry of digital projections, they embark on a surreal journey where the hues of Black and...

  • BETWEEN THE OCEAN AND THE SNOW short film review

    BETWEEN THE OCEAN AND THE SNOW, 11min,. Denmark
    Directed by Peder Thomas Pedersen, Heine Kaarsbjerg
    A man overtaken by deep sorrow and not able to choose life, tries to flee his own mind by taking a trip to eastern Europe.

  • MALCOLM SPEAKS short film review

    MALCOLM SPEAKS, 25min., USA
    Directed by Michael Alvin Wynn
    A rendition of the Malcolm X House Negro Field Negro Speech

    https://malcolmspeaksonline.com/

  • 2-BETWEEN THE OCEAN AND THE SNOW_review

  • RETURN short film review

    RETURN, 16min., China
    Directed by Boyu Chen
    In the gripping drama ‘Return‘, Lao Shen reaches a crucial turning point in his life. Tormented by his son’s suffering at school due to their broken family, he realizes he can no longer drown his sorrows in alcohol. Determined to change, Lao Shen resolv...

  • 3-A WAY FOR TOMAS_review

  • 4-REUE-REGRET_review

  • 1-MALCOLM SPEAKS_review

  • LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival - Aug. 30/31 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    ENTER YOUR NAME, 3min., USA
    Directed by Aubrey Scott
    Enter Your Name is a surreal fantasy film that serves as an allegory to the experiences of a pre-transition trans person, with horror elements to allude to the complex emotions and inner turmoil that one can go t...

  • FEMALE Directors Festival - Aug. 29/30 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    COASTEERING, 14min.,, Ireland, Drama
    Directed by Audrey O'Reilly
    Orla and David are a married couple in their 40s on the other side of unsuccessful IVF treatments. Orla uses running to calm her mind and process the trauma of those years of trying. Meanwhile David i...

  • Female Fest Best Scene: Lucky For You, by Heidi Kozak Haddad, Caroline Somers

    LUCKY FOR YOU is a comedy about a people-pleasing woman named Ellie who wins big in the lottery, but instead of lavishing herself with the best money can buy, she hides her winnings and uses the money to secretly transform her slacker husband into the successful man she always dreamt he would bec...

  • 1pg Short Script: Net Calculation, by Kevin Mongelli (interview)

    Comedy

    A man is playing a novelty basketball game poorly. He is then heckled and a challenge ensues. Was his performance real or fake?

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Ricky: Geoff Mays
    Ruben: Steve Rizzo

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    Net Calculat...

  • Winning ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival Best Scene: Scapegoat, by Richard Geiwitz

    An ex-cop dodges criminal charges in the town she had worked, only to get caught up in controversy in another when the opportunistic thieves she accuses, turn up dead.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Cervantes: Val Cole
    Markie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • Winning ROMANCE Festival Best Scene: MAPLE GROVE, by Richard Telesca

    An old-fashioned love story where in 1953, the lives of two people in search of true love and happiness seem to be headed in opposite directions until they come together in the little town of Maple Grove and discover that everything in life happens for a reason.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    ...

  • LA LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: REQUIEM FOR A BANTAMWEIGHT, by Enrique Berumen

    Bantamweight boxer Alfonso 'Panama' Brown, the first Latin American world champion, gains fame and fortune while living a torrid love affair with poet Jean Cocteau in 1930's France; until the Nazis goose-step into Paris.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Cocteau: Geoff Mays
    Al: Steve RIzzo

  • VIDEO PITCH: Frankie Boy, by Frankie Sisco

    "Frankie Boy"

    Written by Frankie Sisco

    Logline - "Frankie Boy" is a romantic gangster comedy in which aging Frankie Boy Carano struggles to adapt to his new life as a younger-looking attractive female in the FBI-mandated witness protection program, trying to leave behind his toxic masculinity ...

  • Winning CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Best Scene: CONCEPTUS, by Brian Herskowitz

    Homicide Detective Laura Drummond, a survivor of a brutal assault in her youth, must track down a serial killer that's tied to her past.

    Writer Statement
    CONCEPTUS is currently a 5-star reviewed novel on Amazon. The story began as a screenplay, and then when Covid was in full swing, I expanded ...

  • Winning COMEDY Festival Best Scene: LETHAL WEAPONS, by Adam Hopwood

    Disillusioned with his day job as an engineer, Ken Hammer fights to be accepted in the offbeat world of professional swordsmithing.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Ken: Geoff Mays
    Forwoman: Val Cole
    Hr Woman: Elizabeth Rose Morriss