New Releases

New Releases

New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.

Share
New Releases
  • A PLACE CALLED HOME short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    A PLACE CALLED HOME, 10min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Lakai Worrell
    One woman's story as she moved from the streets, eating out of garbage cans, and being in a shelter, to finding the strength and courage to find a home for her and her children.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated...

  • I DREAMED THE SKY WAS RED short film, audience reactions

    I DREAMED THE SKY WAS RED, 10min,. USA, Documentary
    Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher
    Raven, a political psychologist, interrogates the relationship between our brains and the natural world as she embarks on a departure from exploring how others think to understanding her own ways of thinking in a r...

  • THE LAST DAY short film, audience reactions

    THE LAST DAY, 6min., Italy, Experimental
    Directed by Eleonora Puglia
    It's the future. War and destruction are turning the world into hell. A young woman's last day could be another young woman's hope.

    https://www.instagram.com/imnorareal/

  • JOURNEY short film, audience reactions

    JOURNEY, 32min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Eliza Mitnick
    Jimmy Nguyen is a psychedelic healing guide who leads clients on ceremonial trips using this innovative new form of therapy. Currently in medical trials at leading institutions across the country, the mushroom allows people to confront t...

  • OPA short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    OPA, 9min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Merivelle Hannah
    A teenager facing an unexpected pregnancy and the conflict it causes with her father and the healing that follows.

    http://www.merivelle.net/
    https://instagram.com/merivelle

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?...

  • SPECTACLE short film, audience reactions (filmmaker interviews)

    SPECTACLE, 13min., USA, Drama/Thriller
    Directed by Keldon Duane-McGlashan
    Three young people confront their relationship to violence after aggressions boil over on one fateful night

    https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/spectacle-short-film#/

    Get to know Producer Cody Duane-McGlashan & Director K...

  • WEIGHT OF THE MOON short film, audience reactions

    WEIGHT OF THE MOON, 10min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Lindsay Gilmour
    10 minute dance film exploring the interconnected and reciprocal relationship between body and ocean; a conversation where we experience ourselves not as the center, but as a thread in a larger fabric of being.

  • THE HEALERS DREAM short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    THE HEALER'S DREAM, 15min., Canada/India, Documentary
    Directed by Roxana Mares
    Ayurveda is an ancient tradition of medicine that originated in India, with certain branches established and taught in Nepal. Various regions in Nepal, in particular the Kathmandu Valley, became centers of ancient know...

  • COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION: GREAT LAKES AREAS OF CONCERN short film, reactions

    COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION: GREAT LAKES AREAS OF CONCERN, 9min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by David Ruck
    Many Great Lakes communities that have carried the burden of legacy pollution for decades have an opportunity for a new lease on life when local waterways are finally cleaned up. This video seri...

  • THE LAST SEED short film, audience reactions

    THE LAST SEED, 118min., South Africa, Documentary
    Directed by Andréa Gema Heunis
    The Last Seed focuses on broad themes relating to the state of food and agriculture in Africa in the 21st century. Placing the struggle over the control of seed at the centre, it explains the processes that have led ...

  • HEART OF A TROJAN short film, audience reactions

    HEART OF A TROJAN, 11min,. USA, Documentary
    Directed by Gage Masterson
    USC freshman forward Vince Iwuchukwu suffered cardiac arrest during a team workout last July and was faced with the prospect of never playing basketball again. Now four games into his collegiate career, Vince tells his story o...

  • ONE DATE short film, audience reactions

    ONE DATE, 6min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Andrew 'King Bach' Bachelor
    One date can lead to love or disaster.

  • LOVE OVER MONEY feature film, audience reactions

    LOVE OVER MONEY, 1hr. 41min., Australia/USA, Documentary
    Directed by James Colquhoun, Laurentine ten Bosch, Enzo Tedeschi
    From an early age, John Robbins was groomed as heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice-cream empire, which was founded by his father Irv Robbins in 1945. Growing up John had it all; mo...

  • GIRL OF PEACE short film, audience reactions

    GIRL OF PEACE, 27min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Caitlyn Jordan
    The Girl of Peace documentary features Yuna Shawver, a Korean-American artist who journeys through the United States and South Korea to create a zine depicting her artistic interpretation of the history of the Korean Comfort Women...

  • WAITING FOR BUFFALO short film, audience reactions

    WAITING FOR BUFFALO, 10min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Grace Beutter, Aidan O'Malley
    On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the Oglala Sioux Tribe awaits a shipment of American bison.

  • AN ARCHIVE OF MOVEMENTS short film, audience reactions

    an archive of movements, 9min., UK, Documentary/Experimental
    Directed by Alice Prum
    “an archive of movement” explores new ways of thinking space through movement. Through a collection of traces left by a moving body, the language of movement not only challenges the rigidity and fixity of traditio...

  • OVERTOWN'S LIVING LEGACY short film, audience reactions (interview)

    OVERTOWN'S LIVING LEGACY, 7min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Gina Margillo
    When developers and city planners say they are "revitalizing" the historic black neighborhood of Overtown, in Miami Florida , they ignore its rich history and the community that has been living there for decades.

    Get to ...

  • GARDENING MARINE FORESTS short film, audience reactions (interview)

    GARDENING MARINE FORESTS, 20min., Australia, Documentary
    Directed by Stefan Andrews
    What if people could be the secret to transforming ocean deserts into rich forests filled with an abundance of life? Join two marine scientists as they explore how a hands-on approach to marine restoration is work...

  • A MAN IN A SUIT IN A FOREST short film, audience reaction

    A MAN IN A SUIT IN A FOREST, 3min., USA, Experimental
    Directed by David Ray
    The filmmaker, dressed in a suit, walks in a forest and muses about what a forest means to him.

  • When Wire Was King: The Transformation of Telecommunications, audience reactions

    When Wire Was King: The Transformation of Telecommunications, 1hr. 24min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Jennifer A. Manner
    When Wire Was King is a feature-length documentary that puts the telecommunications revolution into historical context. Commerce, technology, entertainment, travel, health, a...

  • LILY short film, audience reactions (interview)

    LILY, 10min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Chloe Stafford, Suneina Badoni
    Desperate for a cure for their daughter’s illness, a California couple finds hope from an unexpected source.

    Get to know the filmmakers:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    - I think what motivated us to make this f...

  • FORMALDEHYDE short film, audience reactions

    FORMALDEHYDE, 9min., Turkey, Documentary
    Directed by O?uz Yenen
    Last days of an old and lonely Armenian fisherman in Istanbul.

  • HEALTHY HERO short film, audience reactions

    HEALTHY HERO, 57min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Satchin Panda
    This documentary portrays the tough life of firefighters and how their shiftwork job makes them prone to emotional stress, metabolic diseases, and cancer. It guides the viewers through the concept of circadian rhythms and intermitte...

  • WOMAN. short film, audience reactions

    WOMAN, 13min., New Zealand, Drama
    Directed by Sian Ledingham
    By some twisted miracle, Eva is pregnant. Her head spins as she fears this may be her only shot at motherhood - the risk of infertility constantly looms over her due to her endometriosis, but so does the high likelihood of pregnancy com...