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
  • TV Festival Best Scene: DIE: Deadly Invisible Enemies Series, by Harold L. Brown

    A renowned computer security expert loses everything when security is breached at the highest level of government and he enters an invisible underworld trading state secrets to the highest bidder.

    http://www.storychaser.com/

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Joe: Steve Rizzo
    Kevin: Geoff Mays
    Wayne: Sean B...

  • COMEDY Festival BEST Scene Reading: GENDER SWITCH, by Tristan Venture

    When a newly installed 5G Cellular Tower malfunctions and causes a career-oriented woman and eternal man-child to switch bodies they must learn to accept their differences before destroying each other’s lives.

    https://www.instagram.com/genderswitchmovie

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Michelle: Kyan...

  • DIVERSITY Festival Best Scene: BUMBLEFUCK, by Lindsay Heiman (interview)

    Stuck in bumblefuck nowhere and pressured by her family to join a campaign she morally opposes, an angsty teen (who's seen too many heist movies) plans a covert operation to sabotage her stepdad’s run for office.

    Think Kelly-Anne Conway’s daughter, Claudia. A Gen Z teenager known for outwardly s...

  • 1st Scene Festival Reading: Mr. Pettigrew, by Larry J. Martin (interview)

    Beau, having lost a leg in the Civil War, stumbles out of a cattle car at the little Nevada town of Nemesis. He's taken under the wing of Mr. Pettigrew, partner in the Angel Saloon and given a job sitting shotgun. Pettigrew kills the son of a powerful mine owner and Beau is drawn into the trouble...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: KISS OF DARKNESS, by Michael McClung (interview)

    In 1960, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has recently been evacuated by Belgian forces in the face of violent uprisings, leaving new Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba's, 35, shaky government to ward off both America and Russia, who contend for the rich natural resources of uranium, diamonds, co...

  • ROMANCE Fest Best Scene: A Broken Heart & The Immortal Hen, by Benjamin Sarno

    A teenage boy struggles to overcome a series of setbacks. Then he encounters his steepest hurdle yet.

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Bobby: Geoff Mays
    Jane: Kyana Teresa
    Grandma: Val Cole

  • COMEDY Festival Scene: Good Pussy: The Anatomy of a Crazy Cat Lady, by Bree Wyrd

    When a suicidal comedian is involuntarily hospitalized by her family, her ride-or-die drag queen BFF and her unorthodox psychiatrist devise a plan to break her out, recover her eight cats, and help her rediscover her joy in life.

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Barbara: Kyana Teresa
    Mackenzie...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: DOG PARK, by Harold Taw (interview)

    In the comedy-drama DOG PARK, the deliberate poisoning of a dog forces three lonely people's lives to collide.

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Margaret: Hannah Ehman
    Carrie: Kyana Teresa

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    In DOG PARK, the deliberate poisoning of a dog force...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Short Screenplay: OKORO, by Gregory Earls (interview)

    A scientist explores the choice between benevolence and hostility as he tries to guide his artificial human toward humanity.

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Computer: Hannah Ehman
    Tablet: Steve Rizzo
    Dr. Woods: Geoff Mays
    Okoro: Sean Ballantyne

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your s...

  • DIVERSITY Best Scene Reading: FOLKTALE, by Donald Holmes Lewis, Ziggy Dantzler

    When four young siblings spend a summer weekend at their grandmother’s home in the projects of Pawtucket, they listen to ghostly stories from the past but find themselves trapped in a dangerous and mysterious folktale of their own... with a fortune in slave trader gold at stake that can save the ...

  • WRECK music video, 4min., Canada

    Directed by Curtis Jensen

    Produced by Jean-Paul De Roover

    Musicians: Jean-Paul De Roover, Scott Edwards, Jared Schaaf, Mack Davis

  • DRAMA Short Film Festival. June 29.30 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    WHY WE LEAVE, 13min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Anastasios Ketsios
    Why We Leave is a dramatic narrative about a married couple struggling to connect with each other after the suicide of their son.

    http://www.pushstopfilms.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/pushstop_films...

  • BREATHING ROOM: MOON' MARKED JOURNEY short film, audience reactions

    BREATHING ROOM: MOON' MARKED JOURNEY, 13min., USA
    Directed by Shinique Smith
    From the studio of acclaimed visual artist Shinique Smith, Breathing Room: Moon Marked Journey, is a film meditation on breath, Indigo, and blue as a color that has long inspired Smith’s art practice. This new piece is a...

  • MUD MAN short film, audience reactions

    MUD MAN, 4min., Australia
    Directed by Madi Lee
    An unworldly Mud Man emerges from the safety of the ground to face the suburban world.

  • BREAKING THE SURFACE short film, audience reactions

    BREAKING THE SURFACE, 26min., USA
    Directed by John Evans, Ani Javian
    Breaking the Surface is a dance film about climate change, specifically, about the rise of sea level and the issues that are caused by that rise, currently and projected into the future. The film focuses on communities in New Je...

  • KEEP MOVING short film, audience reactions (interview)

    KEEP MOVING, 17min., USA
    Directed by Colin Harabedian
    a journey through grief

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU-VlgKN8Bh2UQbAPnpo6xw

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    I think there are quite a few different motivations for this film. In September of 2021,...

  • MOVE short film, audience reactions

    MOVE, 2min., Brazil
    Directed by Bernardo Alevato
    An experiment with time, form and movement in a generative dance film using AI and video

  • WITH/IN short film, audience reactions (interview)

    WITH/IN, 8min., USA
    Directed by John Dixon
    The inner world flows and changes like an oceanic expanse compressed into a series of moments that fracture even as they form. One woman finds herself unfolding into fleeting interactions that careen beyond her imagination; a thousand images of self and ...

  • DARK REALITIES short film, audience reactions

    DARK REALITIES - Script Movie, 17min., USA
    Written by Pamela PerryGoulardt
    An optimistic Goth librarian accidentally releases the angry, pessimistic Ghost of Edgar Allan Poe who demands she help him avenge his unjust murder by a jealous rival.

    https://www.flyingcloudstudios.com/
    https://twitter...

  • WORK IT OUT short film, audience reactions (interview)

    WORK IT OUT, 9min., Hong Kong
    Directed by Marie Yi-Qing Bouvéron
    Resilience through Imagination: An ode to Hong Kong. A journey in between a disheartened and a virtual world.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?
    It all started in 2020 when Clement Ferre approache...

  • THE MIGRANT BODY short film, audience reactions (interview)

    THE MIGRANT BODY, 12min., USA
    Directed by Paula Gil Higa, Cal Hopwood
    This film examines human migration through the creative lens of PH Dance's Artistic Director, Paula Higa. Deriving from her personal experience as a dual citizen of Brazil and the United States, Higa researched various motives ...

  • TONARI short film, audience reactions

    TONARI, 17min,. Japan
    Directed by Ben Tarquin
    When her mirrored reflection comes to life, a dancer caught between Tokyo and San Francisco must embark on an epic chase to find herself. TONARI is a cross-cultural, cross-generational story that explores race and mixed identity through narrative, dan...

  • THE LINES IN BETWEEN short film, audience reactions (interview)

    THE LINES IN BETWEEN, 11min,. USA
    Directed by Georgia Usborne
    Struggling with writer's block, a woman moves through surreal worlds to discover the ebbs and flows of creativity.

    https://www.paulrabinowitz.com/the-lines-in-between

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this f...

  • GLOAMING short film, audience reactions (interview)

    GLOAMING, 10min., Sweden
    Directed by Alana da Silva
    A winter dance duet between two souls moving in and out of each other’s worlds.

    Get to know director Alana da Silva & choreography Flockworks Dance

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    (Flock) We were in the midst of lockdown in 2020 and...