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
  • 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...

  • 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.

    http://www.visionsinthedark.com/

  • 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?

    https://www.hourstonemusic.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/HourstoneMusic/
    https://www.instagra...

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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.

  • 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?


    ...

  • 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

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    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/
    https...

  • 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

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    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...

  • HORROR/CRIME Short Film Festival - May 1st / April 30th event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    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/
    https://twitter.com/johnpalaganas
    https://instagram.com/john_palaganas/

    MY BLOODY...

  • 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 Ehman

    Get to k...

  • 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...

  • 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
    Dylan: Geoff Mays
    Chad: Allan Michael Brunet

  • 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 Cole

    Get to know the ...

  • 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
    Curious Guest/Event Host/KItchen Hand: Steve Rizzo

  • 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
    Isis: Allan Michael Brunet

  • 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 Brunet

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    ...

  • 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
    Sky...