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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  • 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

  • Winning BEST Scene Reading: Cheap Sexy and Shocking!, by Janna Jones (interview)

    Cheap, Sexy, and Shocking! is loosely based on the career of Louise Downe who played a significant role in the exploitation cinema movement in the 1960s and early 1970s. Her contributions as an actor, screenwriter, assistant director, and designer are a noteworthy chapter in twentieth century cin...

  • Winning LA Festival 1st Scene: BABY, by Maggie Arias, Conor Hanney (interview)

    “In a career that often offers no validation, an aspiring actress finds a side-hustle that does: sugar-babying. Based on absolutely nothing at all you can't prove anything back off.”

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Maggie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Brad: Geoff Mays

    Get to know writer Maggi...

  • Winning FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Black Sunday, by Katreana Bellew

    A young fireman, and father of four, jumps to his death to escape a Bronx fire alongside four other firemen. Upon inspection of the fire, it becomes clear that both the building owners and the city of New York are at fault. The fireman's wife and the surviving, but chronically injured, men from t...

  • DOC SOCIETY Festival - Aug. 27/28 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    LOUD ENOUGH, 62min., USA
    Directed by Hilary Klotz Steinman
    In the shadow of the fifth year anniversary of the #MeToo movement, this intimate, personal film following a sexual assault survivor and her family explores and reflects the Herculean effort still required ...

  • Script Trailer The God Machine, by Michael J. Bowler

    Title: The God Machine

    Author: Michael J Bowler

    Type: Feature

    Website et al:

    https://michaeljbowler.com

    https://www.instagram.com/michaeljbowler/

    https://www.facebook.com/michaeljbowlerauthor/

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2NXCPry4DDgJZOVDUxVtMw

    logline:

    A grieving boy who recently l...

  • DOC Shorts Festival - Aug. 26/27 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    MY BROTHER CHARLIE, 12min., USA
    Directed by Yogi Chavada
    Life is beautiful, but it is also unpredictable. We aren’t always able to live life on our own terms; it has the terms set for us.

    http://yogichavada.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/Chavada_films

    SURVIVAL, 6m...

  • BEAUTIFUL - Watch short film

    Directed by Matthew Toffolo.

    Young factory worker + Older Artist = Good conversation and a little bit more

    Starring Sora Olah & Steve Boleantu

  • DOC Shorts Festival - Aug. 25/26 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    ALL SACRED THINGS, 24min,. Canada
    Directed by Derek Sands
    A group of indigenous college students go on a journey to reconnect to their culture, which leads them to experience the once almost extinct Ojibway Spirit Horses.

    ENCOUNTERS BY THE WATER, 20min., Brazil
    Di...

  • DON'T SLEEP short film review (interview)

    DON'T SLEEP, 13min,. USA
    Directed by Tianyue Gao
    In order to prove that the world he lives in is virtual, an unemployed programmer begins to challenge the limits of human sleeplessness to force the world to collapse, only to find that the truth can never be proven.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1...

  • THE BEF short film review (interview)

    THE BEF, 9min., USA
    Directed by Eric Burleson
    While being pursued by a police officer, a young boy struggles with his decisions for the baby in his care and how to help his sick mother.

    https://instagram.com/burlesoneric

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    The ...

  • MANOS BRUJAS (WITCH HANDS) feature film review

    WITCH HANDS, 90min., Mexico
    Directed by Antonio Kosturakis, Julio Cesar Paredes, Jose Alejandro Estrada
    Berenice, a young woman from the city, needs to return to her hometown when she finds out that her mother has died. This leads her to relive the dark past of her childhood, and discover the su...

  • MASTER SENSEI short film review (interview)

    MASTER SENSEI, 20min., Denmark
    Directed by Theis Gavnbo Holmstrup
    The world-famous elite soldier Master Sensei decides to blow himself up after a series of public scandals have destroyed his career. However, his plan is put on hold when he meets the young boy scout "Piggy", who is in desperate ne...

  • NATAL short film review (interview)

    NATAL, 20min., Brazil
    Directed by Isabella Secchin
    Natal, in his early fifties belongs to a generation that broke social barriers, worshiped cerebral movies, drugs and rock’n roll. However, he does not accept it well when Milene, his only daughter, takes her boyfriend to sleep at home with her. I...

  • WOLF + LAMB short film review

    WOLF + LAMB, 15min., Italy
    Directed by Giuseppe Schettino
    Wolf + Lamb (Lupo + Agnello) is above all a "coming-of-age novel", based on the immortal and homonymous fable of Aesop. It is the story of the relationship Luca (Ladislao Liverani), Thomas (James Ferrara) and Elisa (Virginia Diop) entertai...

  • STAY HOME STAY SAFE short film review (interview)

    STAY HOME STAY SAFE, 20min,. Czech Republic
    Directed by Martin Bystriansky
    The story is centered in the intimate space of the shelter, where artificial intelligence creates inspiring virtual simulations for the writer. In the virtual world, the writer meets his muse, but she is not real enough. H...

  • THE COMMON GOOD short film review (interview)

    THE COMMON GOOD, 17min., Austria
    Directed by Stefan Gutternigh, Eva Amann
    In 2035 the earth is ruled by a world government called "The Global Organisation for the Common Good". The "GOCG" wants to make everybody happy by monitoring the desires of its citizens with social media, omnipresent camera...

  • EIGHT OF SWORDS short film review

    EIGHT OF SWORDS, 19min., UK, Drama
    Directed by Patricia Downey
    Set in Belfast, in an ordinary house, in an ordinary street – it could be your street or next door. Helena from Poland and locals Patsy and Eva fight for survival under the rein of Russian Human traffickers.

  • REPLICA short film review

    REPLICA, 9min, France
    Directed by SimonaGun aka, Nicolas Simon, Virna Hagen Auvergne
    REPLICA is a choreographic film staging human nature. The one where humans become 'normalized' and adhere more and more to a form of standardization. In this quest, time remains the key because it is after it tha...

  • BUSINESS CLASS short film review

    BUSINESS CLASS, 25min,. France
    Directed by Ugo Melcore, Loris Melcore
    Lawrence has a ritual. Each month, for a couple days, he sends his girlfriend on vacation to "work on his accountings".

    https://www.instagram.com/melcorebrosfilms/

  • DEMONS short film review

    DEMONS, 5min., Switzerland
    Directed by Humbi Entress
    "Demons" is a raw and powerful dance film by choreographer and dancer Mès Lesne that captures the essence of our times, that sense of desperation and helplessness that we all feel in the face of overwhelming challenges. Against the breathtaking...

  • THE LOOSE END short film review (interview)

    THE LOOSE END, 8min,. USA
    Directed by Nathan Setiabudi
    After falling witness to a violent murder, a man fears the killer returning to tie loose ends.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    The idea for the film itself came from an irrational fear of mine. Moving f...