New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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BUMPY THE CLOWN short film, audience reactions (director interview)
BUMPY THE CLOWN, 14min., USA
Directed by Kyle Lindfors
Death in the circus brings a failed, spiraling artist ever so closer to his grave. Fueled by nicotine, corn dogs, and motherly support, Bumpy provides a unique perspective of what it means to be an American.Get to know the filmmaker:
1. W...
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VISIONS IN THE DARK feature film, audience reactions
VISIONS IN THE DARK, 86min,. Brazil, Documentary
Directed by Flavia Moraes
You will never look at a horse the same way. Mainly because looking is not seeing. And this is precisely the theme of this documentary: an invitation to seeing.
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HYPOTHERAPOLOG short film, audience reactions
HYPOTHERAPOLOG, 2min,. Singapore, Music Video
Directed by Muhammed Ibnunoordin, Soeren Addicks
Who is foolish enough to interrupt a male creature of the night solemnly playing piano in his own theater?
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VIRTUALLY SINGLE short film, audience reactions (director interview)
VIRTUALLY SINGLE, 15min., USA, Romance
Directed by Amy Gardner, Lorien Haynes
It’s lockdown. Emboldened by red wine, a fortysomething woman braves her first Zoom date with a guy in snowy Montana. A short play devised through improvisation, VIRTUALLY SINGLE explores the tragicomic challenges of da... -
FRACTURE short film, audience reactions
FRACTURE, 9min., USA
Directed by Jon K. Jones
In the future, a lone astronaut loses consciousness on a distant planet after a catastrophic injury, only to wake in a mental institution on Earth during the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement. -
LOVE TRUMPS ALL? short film, audience reactions (interview)
LOVE TRUMPS ALL? 31min,. USA
Directed by Jeff Schubert
From political differences around the 2020 presidential election, to views on the Covid-19 vaccine, fireworks fly in Charlie's relationships when strong opinions collide. Is Charlie destined to be alone? Or with the help of his therapist, wil... -
PICTURE THIS... short film, audience reactions
PICTURE THIS..., 10min,. USA
Directed by Matt Winters
When Jay, a quirky Hollywood talent manager's number one client, Rita pays him an unexpected visit to his office to fire him, he pulls out ALL the stops to keep her from doing that.
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THE NAME short film, audience reactions (interview)
THE NAME, 20min., Italy
Directed by Renato Paone, Francesco Eramo Puoti
The Dominican order has requested a special computer from an engineering laboratory capable of solving a complex algorithm, but only the monks know its real purpose. Caterina, a young researcher, is thus sent from the laborat... -
MEN IN CARS short film, audience reactions (director interview)
MEN IN CARS, 8min., USA
Directed by Molly Vernon
A teenage girl in Texas finds the object of her desire and is willing to do whatever it takes to get it as she becomes the subject of a bloody Bayou City True Crime podcast.Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
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ENCONTRO feature film, audience reactions (director interview)
ENCONTRO, 1hr. 56min., France,
Directed by François Manceaux
Seven years after the death of his wife, Alain, a belgium director, longs to meet the actress of his unfinished film, with whom he shared a passion in Lisbon. Once in place, discovers that she had disappeared. A unknown woman offers hi... -
CODE 12 feature film, audience reactions
CODE 12, 87min., USA
Directed by Melissa Tittl
As the world nears a precipice of suffering, technology has become the answer to our problems. It seems that even with the greatest discoveries we still haven't figured out how to fix some of the main problems that plague humanity. Some people refer ... -
ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIP SHORTS Festival - May 2/3 event
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OOPSY DAISY, 5min., USA, Dramedy
Directed by Devin Gillis
A dramedy short film about a young girl working at a flower shop who is faced with a moral dilemma when a man asks her to send flowers to someone who is not his girlfriend.http://oopsydaisymovie.com/
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ANIMA #2 short film, audience reactions
ANIMA #2, 2min., Portugal, Animation/Experimental
Directed by Vasco Diogo
Anima # 2 is an experimental animation that shows 6 hand drawn human like figures in a constant row. Their movement, similar to a video dance, is created by the nature of the drawing, both by form and color. The apparent st... -
POLITICAL DOC Shorts Festival - May 1/2 event
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IVY GRACE, 13min., USA
Directed by Allie Delury, Mariah Harkey
A Christian, Republican woman from South Carolina makes a challenging decision following a hypoplastic left heart syndrome diagnosis in a post-Roe v. Wade world.BLACK LOVE, 10min., USA, Documentary/Po...
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HORROR/CRIME Short Film Festival - May 1st / April 30th event
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THREE GIFTS, 7min., USA
Directed by John Palaganas
Julie invited her friend Marta to her cottage, only to unravel their true intentions.https://johnpalaganas.com/films/three_gifts/
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Off The Rack, by Pilar Gibson (interview)
Desperate to break into the New York fashion scene of the 1970s, a struggling designer funds her clothing line by teaming up with an ex-model to counterfeit luxury clothes.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Dreenie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Alice: Kyana Teresa
Toni: Hannah EhmanGet to k...
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BEST Scene Screenplay: MONDAY'S HERO, by Larry Downes (interview)
In a college football-crazed town, after the big game, three of the players are accused of a hate crime of beating a gay man to death. The task of defending them falls to the school’s former All-American football star turned lawyer. CHRIS CAMPBELL, the lauded letterman now with a briefcase, is ai...
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: Love & Other Bloody Messes, by Brian McGrath
Zombies are on the attack! The fate of humankind is on the line. Can two high school loaners team up to save the planet? Will anyone come to their aid? Yes, and you'll never believe who!
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
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ENVIRONMENTAL Festival 1st Scene: HEAVEN AWAITS, by Paul Teese (interview)
A bereaved philosophy professor starts a new religion to save the planet from ecological destruction only to discover that what he really wants is his wife back.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Andrew: Allan Michael Brunet
Marty: Sean Ballantyne
Receptionist: Val ColeGet to know the ...
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DRAMA Festival BEST Scene: DEATH CLOAK, by Markus Meedt, Catherine O'Shea
Khalida, an asylum seeker in Liverpool, comes into possession of a cloak that resets time by 1 hour, every time she dies.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
Nadine: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Khalinda: Kyana Teresa
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ACTION Festival 1st Scene: JUSTINE'S QUEST, by Bernard Buzzell
An emotionally scarred fallen ascended who yearns for redemption travels with a group of demon hunters, while an ancient evil stalks her and her companions.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Metatron: Steve Rizzo
Ariel: Kyana Teresa
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: LITTLE GREEN MEND, by Linda Whitmore (interview)
A plant-like-alien from a distant planet receives a school assignment to help another planet without revealing themselves and gets assigned Earth.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Fayla: Kyana Teresa
Dribbit: Allan Michael BrunetGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
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BEST Scene Screenplay: My Name is Blue, by Simone Brazzini (interview)
After an obsessive teenager sneaks into the trailer of their lifelong idol, a recently canceled actor, the two embark on a cross country journey of forced dreams and the impossibility of escaping the past.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
Blue - SImone Brazzini
Jack: Geoff Mays
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