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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  • WANTON short film, audience reactions

    WANTON, 45min., Canada
    Directed by Victor Dubyna
    Wanton is an abstract and expressionistic musical-horror-show about identity, self, repression, anxiety, nostalgia, and the digital age. Through a series of obscure and ghostly images, the film tells the loose story of a man fighting to take off a ...

  • TRUTH short film, audience reactions (interview)

    TRUTH, 5min., Canada
    Directed by César Andres Chacana
    Tessie walks amidst desolate rocky mountains, leaving behind the memories and ghosts of the past that seek to hold her in the vast landscape of the subconscious mind. With wide sequence shots and the Andes as a backdrop, we follow Tessie in se...

  • ODE TO AN INANIMATE COMPANION short film, audience reactions

    ODE TO AN INANIMATE COMPANION, 9min., Singapore
    Directed by Susan Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia
    This is a fictional fantasy, of a plush inanimate toy ALAN, which serves as a companion to a child Christina all through her growing up years. It explores an endearing human to inanima...

  • FEMALE Directed Shorts Festival - July 1, 2 event

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    BOIZ KLUB, 10min,. USA, Satrical Comedy
    Directed by Alexis Janae
    This satirical comedy follows four powerful white men—Hollywood executives—on their way to the annual Movie Awards in a limousine. They irreverently discuss the current political landscape of the fil...

  • UNDER 5 Minute Film Festival - June 30/July 1st event

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    LETTER TO ONESELF, 3min,. USA, Poem
    Directed by Silvia A Malagrino
    "Letter to oneself" is a poetic meditation on the coming and going of thoughts and the passage of time. It is inspired by the music "Lettre à soi même" by French composer Roland Dyens and its interp...

  • DIVERSITY Festival TV Best Scene: THUNDERSTORM, by Maria Mathis (interview)

    This eight-episode limited series is about the turbulent life, death, and afterlife of Henry "Stormy" O'Dell, a biracial escaped slave with paranormal abilities. Set in Gold Rush California, Henry's mission is to stop a serial killer as he struggles to avoid forfeiting his soul to a demon who has...

  • The Paranormal Prankster: Casefile 001 - Bigfoot. Sean Whitley (interview)

    When a notorious Internet troll appears on a live streaming video podcast to debate the existence of Sasquatch with Bigfoot believers, the fur flies when he's challenged by an ape-suited prankster claiming to be the legendary beast!

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Paranormal Prankster: Geoff Mays

    Get ...

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Fest: Privileged Deceit, by Annette C. & Warren R Hull (interview)

    By using a series of relationships with corrupt politicians, crooked cops, notorious gangsters and powerful businessmen, Gaynell Moretta and Archie MacDonald rise to the pinnacle of Southern California’s socially elite society. Ironically the relationships they use to satisfy their worldly lusts ...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI 1st Scene Reading: PERFECT WORLD, by Emil Faithe

    SARAH CAHILL went missing two years ago. Her grieving husband, ROB CAHILL hasn’t gotten over it. But he has gotten his fill of crap as an E.R. doc at a stately Napa, California hospital, where he routinely sees things he’d rather not see. Until he sees the one thing that changes everything. His f...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI 1st Scene Reading: RAP VERSE, by Rickey Teems II

    Michael Green loves hip hop… but loathes what it’s become. The introvert rapper, slash spiteful blogger, has grandiose plans of returning the genre to real artistic purpose. Unfortunately he’s failing miserably, which also summarizes his life in general. Mike’s daily woes fade when a future versi...

  • WILDsound Festival Best Scene: Snail Miller Criminal Confessions, by Tony Faria

    Introducing "Snail Miller: Criminal Confessions," a razor-sharp satire that takes a hilarious jab at the world of crime-solving television.

    Follow the adventures of SNAIL MILLER, Toronto's most unorthodox serial killer tracker, as he spearheads the RCMP's groundbreaking Victims Confessions Unit....

  • ANIMATION Festival SHORT Screenplay: TO BE GREAT, by Andréanne Milette

    When comet debris containing life crashes into a biosphere on a colonized frozen planet, Martha, the captain of a Biosphere facility, must save the team botanist from a rapidly growing alien fungus trap and overcome hallucinations caused by its spores or risk losing her whole team to a similar fa...

  • 1st Scene Festival Reading: VILLAGE, by Adolpho Phillips

    It takes a village to raise a child and Tasha's village is crazy but willing.

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Melvin: Geoff Mays
    Tasha: Hannah Ehman
    Dre: Sean Ballantyne
    Little Girl/Tissy: Kyana Teresa
    Michael/Dre: Steve Rizzo

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival BEST Scene: PHAEDRA'S ODYSSEY, by Julie A. Thornton

    In a universe where Chaos and Order compete for supremacy, a group of wayward other-worldly beings abandoned on a primitive planet make a deal with Chaos in exchange for their freedom.

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Bastian: Sean Ballantyne
    Chiron: Steve Rizzo

  • COMEDY Fest 1st Scene: SMOKEEASY, by Amy Copperman, Courtney Thomas (interview)

    SmokeEasy is a stoner-buddy comedy about two ebony and ivory millennials, Jill and Red, disrupting the cannabis industry one “woke” misadventure at a time. First order of business: Get their THC tampon prototype into the hands of potential investor and festival headliner, Rihanna.

    Narrator: Val ...

  • SHORT Screenplay Reading: THE LIGHT AT THE END, by Lynda Simmons (interview)

    A woman caring for a husband with Alzheimer's must choose between a treatment that will extend his life or let the long goodbye and the existence that has become her new normal come to an end .

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Alfreida: Val Cole
    Carl: Geoff Mays
    Neil: Steve Rizzo
    JennaHannah...

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: PWNED, by Diane Johnson

    A second rate musician pays the price for accepting a pawn shop guitar for free.

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Greg: Geoff Mays
    Otto: Steve Rizzo

  • FAN FICTION Best Scene STAR WARS: REVELATIONS, by Darius Gerard Clar (interview)

    MAZ OJAL, a corrupt business tyrant, discovers large amounts of Kyber Crystal deposits and sets out to gather the find, using slaves in the process. A 90 year old YODA, his son DAGO, and other villagers are captured and enslaved to mine the Kyber. During a dispute, Dago is slain by one of the gua...

  • ROMANCE Festival TV PILOT Reading: 30 WAYS, by Maxie Dara, Caroline Concordia

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Cassie: Kyana Teresa
    Janice: Val Cole
    Ziggy: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Ex/Man: Sean Ballantyne
    Pharmacist/Tattoo Client: Geoff Mays
    Psychiatrist/Woman: Hannah Ehman

  • 1st Scene TV Pilot Script Reading: Kennel Club, by Jack Sherry

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Dana: Hannah Ehman
    Angela: Kyana Teresa
    Coach/Carlton: Geoff Mays
    Thatcher: Steve Rizzo
    Stanley: Sean Ballantyne

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: SAVE THE DATE, by Nick Pappas

    On the eve of his sister's lavish wedding, a meek guy in desperate need of a date meets the woman of his dreams who agrees to accompany him, but when she's subsequently kidnapped by her lawless and vengeful ex-boyfriend, he must find the courage to rescue her if he wants to save her life and his ...

  • Chicago Festival SHORT Screenplay: DAVID'S CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, by Michael Moore

    In the late 1960s college freshman David and high school junior Jimmy discover a new understanding of their friendship. Although they must keep their feelings for each other hidden, they enjoy the developing closeness until an indiscretion threatens to ruin everything.

    Narrator: Val Cole
    David:...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Fest BEST Scene Reading: Harrowed, by Aaron A. Moore (interview)

    A P.I. is hired to investigate the disappearance of a homeless man. During the investigation he discovers the truth about his family and his planet.

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Lloyd (M): Geoff Mays
    Caller/Chad (M): Steve Rizzo

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    My...