New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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DINOMAN feature film review (interview)
DINOMAN, 60min,. Spain, Documentary
Directed by Jeroen Stultiens
DINOMAN is an intriguing observation of the life and work of Aart Walen, a Dutch paleo artist and taxidermist who brings dinosaurs back to life. Part adventure story and part character study, the film observes Aart as he works on ch... -
STALLING short film reviews (interview)
STALLING, 2min,. USA, Drama
Directed by Nicolai Mateo Krylov
The theme of the film revolves around the concept of procrastination, something I personally struggled with during the process of making this film. However, overcoming those obstacles and finally bringing this story to life has been an ... -
Slanted Perspectives: My LIfe with SMA short film reviews
Slanted Perspectives: My Life with SMA, 4min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Aaron Phelps
This movie shows how my muscle disease, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) has affected my life and how I hope people can view kids with disabilities. -
NOCTURNAL JACKAL short film review
NOCTURNAL JACKAL, 9min., USA
Directed by Vishal Rajput, Harkanwar Singh
A lonesome addict battles his depression, anxiety, and hopelessness by a sinister urge that reigns supremacy over his thoughts and actions.Get to know filmmaker Vishal Rajput:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
What...
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RUTHFUL short film reviews (interview)
RUTHFUL, 29min., Canada, Drama
Directed by Jocelyn Au-Yeung, Ariane Nopra
When a Chinese-Canadian college student returns home to Toronto, she visits a Hong Kong cafe she frequented during her childhood. Through eating the food, she is suddenly able to relive suppressed memories of her deceased g... -
VIDA short film reviews
VIDA, 20min., USA
Directed by Maria Valdez
Los Angeles – 2053, After a bloody civil war, women of color are captured and sterilized as a form of population control. Vida and a group of resistance fighters are getting ready to escape, but suddenly one of their own is captured, and they’re forced t... -
AGENT RED 2 short film reviews
AGENT RED 2, 13min., US
Directed by Kevin Barile
Agent Red fights for her life as two deadly assassins try to stop her from delivering valuable C.I.A. material and completing her mission -
STRANDING STRONG: ELIZABETH CATLETT feeature film reviews
STRANDING STRONG: ELIZABETH CATLETT, 56min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Kevin J Kelley
The struggles and triumphs of Elizabeth Catlett Mexican/American artist and political activist who was a pioneer in the Black Arts movement.
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OVERCAST short film reviews
OVERCAST, 3min., USA, Animation
Directed by Aleksandar Mindov
A cloud technician discovers the dangers of falling asleep at the wheel. -
THE ORCHESTRA CHUCK BUILT short film review
THE ORCHESTRA CHUCK BUILT, 23min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Christopher Stoudt
In 2016, the League of American Orchestras conducted a study that revealed a shocking statistic: only 1.8% of the professional orchestra workforce in the US is Black. From an old church rec room in the inner city o... -
AVE GRAVIDA short film review
AVE GRADIVA, 18min., Israel
Directed by Yuri Riklis
When a lonely man, a fashion photographer, meets the sweetheart of his youth, from whom he separated under the pressure of his Oedipal mother, he is attacked by fragments of past memories and does everything he can to realize the love of his lif... -
THE PIRATE short film review (interview)
THE PIRATE, 8min., UK
Directed by Ruth Carnegie
A young girl, stuck in the city, dreams of running away to the sea. With the help of her grandfather, she finds a rather unusual way to break free.
https://www.instagram.com/girl_finds_the_sea/Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you t...
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THE ART OF ADAPTING short film reviews
THE ART OF ADAPTING, 11min., Austria, Documentary
Directed by Miriam Joanna
Originally from Austria and with over 80 countries under her explorer belt, Gabi first came to Western Australia (aka “WA”) on a kitesurfing mission in 2007. Falling madly in love with the raw, rugged and isolated wild be... -
SALUT short film review
SALUT, 3min., Isreal
Directed by Yuri Riklis
George Ginsburg (40s) is a new immigrant from France, a guitar player in a night club in Tel Aviv . His whole emotional world is - his girlfriend Michelle (late 20s) also immigrated from France and his dog Packo. When he receives a message about Michel... -
MUSIC Shorts Festival - Sept. 13/14 event
See the Full Lineup of Films:
WE ARE LEGENDS, 9min., Brazil
Directed by Bruna Valentini
Time as we know it first came from a young man, but little did he know, he wasn’t the only one with powers and time on his hands.CLARITY, 6min., Germany
Directed by Marcus Patrick Witte, Nupelda Ciftci
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CASSIS MARS DEMYSTIFIED short film review (interview)
CaSSIS. Mars Demystified, 17min., Switzerland
Directed by Tatiana Keller
CaSSIS is a high-resolution color stereo camera in Mars orbit, making remarkable images of the Red planet. So what mysteries has it revealed today?
https://magicsciencepro.com/cassisGet to know the filmmaker:
1. What m...
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TWIN OAKS short film review
TWIN OAKS, 13min., USA
Directed by Sean O'Connor
"Twin Oaks" is a captivating documentary about the Hoyt family, and their experiences trail building in the Pacific Northwest spanning over many years and multiple generations. The documentary chronicles the profound relationship a human develops w... -
ODD/EVEN short film review
ODD/EVEN, 16min., USA
Directed by Ya-Ting "Itchy" Yang
In the near future, people only wake up in either odd-numbered years or even-numbered years and hibernate in “The Capsule” during the inactive period. A promising young actress escapes from her devoted yet toxic partner on the last day of 2043. -
WILD TERRITORY short film review (interview)
WILD TERRITORY, 27min., USA
Directed by Samuel Steiner Riley
Wild Territory explores the relationship between a daring wildlife photographer, Etienne Littlefair, and the vast freshwater ecosystems that define Australia's far north. From free-diving in murky water to find crocodiles and rare turtl... -
Salted Earth short film review (interview)
SALTED EARTH, 20min., Canada
Directed by Ben Hemmings
"Salted Earth" plunges us into the heart of an invisible and creeping crisis that's transforming the Mid-Atlantic – the inexorable rise of sea levels. This hard-hitting, yet tenderly woven 20-minute documentary paints a vivid picture of an esc... -
BATTLE PLAN short film review
BATTLE PLAN, 5min., France
Directed by John Banana, Mathilde Michea
A car ride with Mum results in an epiphany for a young girl who must imagine her way to a better future.Her ideas grow and with them the chance to make a real difference. -
STORIES WE COULD HAVE TOLD YOU short film review
STORIES WE COULD HAVE TOLD YOU, 19min., USA
Directed by Darcy Miller
A mother's bedtime stories take on a surprising and moving life, as she and her daughter process the loss of her husband.
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OUT OF CONTROL short film review (interview)
OUT OF CONTROL, 16min,. Switzerland
Directed by bellopropello
Machines and robots take care of almost all human activities. The world is automated, and meaningful individual employment isn't possible anymore. A workforce simply is no longer needed – except for some monitoring activities – and hum... -
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...