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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  • 1st Scene: One Mad Apple, by Laurie Asbourne, Tom Pratt (interview)

    A dark comedy feature inspired by a true story and based on the book of the same name. After a man moves to small town to care for his dying father, he embraces the community and his new life as a stepfather and husband, until he finds himself in the crosshairs of an unhinged townswoman who chall...

  • FAN FICTION TV Spec Script Best Scene: Criminal Minds "Inner Life"

    At Christmas, the profilers of the BAU pick up a cold case that turns out to be the kidnapping of a young woman, Mary, from Chinatown, held captive for nine months by unsub Gabriel. Alerted to Mary's disappearance by her Western boyfriend, Joseph, the team navigate closed Chinese culture, and mat...

  • Winning SHORT Screenplay: 9066, by Cassie Phillips

    This is a snapshot into the moment one Japanese-American family is forced from their home to live in an internment camp during World War Two, and what happens when one family member refuses to leave.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Canon: Sean Ballantyne
    Joseph: Steve Rizzo
    Miyoko: Hannah Eh...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Script: Down at the Val, by Neil Goodchild (interview)

    The grandson of a golf course owner loses his job and has to return to the course, where his grandfather and two surprising new employees inspire him to try and help save it from bankruptcy.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Barbara: Kyana Teresa
    Nate: Geoff Mays
    Lazenby: Sean Ballantyne

    Get t...

  • 1st Scene Script: End of Scene, by Jen Butler (interview)

    When a jaded housewife realizes that her house is keeping her and her husband stuck in a repeating scene from the 1950s, she fights to awaken her husband from a mysterious trance so they can outsmart the house and escape before they forget who they really are and get stuck in the obsolete scene f...

  • COMEDY Festival TV Best Scene Screenplay: BELLADONNA, by Danielle Tjoelker

    In 1750 London, sisters Mary and Bella Roberts are accidental stowaways on a pirate ship, which sets them on a path towards a life of crime.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Windsor: Hannah Ehman
    Mary: Kyana Teresa
    Bella: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY TV 1st Scene Script: Hunt Man's Land, by Ryan Skinner (interview)

    When A TV star finds out his best friend is dead it leads to uncovering a world of alternate realities, monsters, fantasy and more.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Past Man: Geoff Mays
    Chester: Sean Devlin

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    A TV star ...

  • DIVERSITY Festival Best Scene: DON'T SAY GAY, by Kevin J. Howard

    Working for an organization that detains children of the LGBTQ community, a terrified father and son flee across the country after finding his sons name on the list of detainees, risking their lives to get to a free zone state where they’ll be safe from authorities.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allan...

  • HORROR Festival SHORT Screenplay: HAN, by Esther Um

    A young Korean woman is haunted by a ghostly figure, in the aftermath of her mother's death.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Grocery Employee/Sarah's Father: Geoff Mays
    Young Sarah/Sarah: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Jason: Steve Rizzo

  • Artist Documentary Showcase - May 31st/June 1st event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    A BALLET FULL OF TANGO, 45min., Spain, Documentary
    Directed by Nathalie Kraft
    "A ballet full of tango" is a documentary of 45 minutes that closely follows the Pasodos Dance Company in Mallorca during the creation of their innovative work "Tango Woman Ballet".

    http...

  • EXPERIMENTAL Shorts Festival - May 30/31 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    ARROGANCE, 7min., Sweden, Experimental
    Directed by NavaraK
    Earth is dead. Consumed by wildfires, tsunamis, superstorms, Mother Nature finally gave up. Most people have already abandoned earth for Mars. One of the last believers, a scientist named Ayla, is determined...

  • LGBTQ+ SHOWCASE Festival. May 28/29 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    ROLE PLAY, 8min., USA, Horror
    Directed by Bill Neil
    A one-night stand goes horribly wrong

    BEYOND CONVERSION, 46min., New Zealand, Documentary
    Directed by Loren Prendiville
    BEYOND CONVERSION is an intimate look at the fight to ban conversion practices in Aotearoa....

  • ART Film Festival - May 27/28 event.

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    RUM 444, 16min., Sweden, Art Dance
    Directed by Peter Svenzon
    A dance piece for film. An international collaboration with the dance artists and playwrights Lars Noren and Falk Richter who have shared their texts...

    http://artofspectra.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/a...

  • COMMUNITY DOC Shorts Festival - May 26/27

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    BEYOND THE BEAT, 62min,. USA, Documentary
    Directed by Fletcher Barnes, Henry Davis
    After decades of civil war in Northern Uganda, three best friends start a creative arts festival to inspire hope for a better future.
    In the district of Kitgum, Uganda – hope is a sc...

  • FREE(d) BY FAMILY short film, audience reactions

    FREE(d) by Family, 10min., USA
    Directed by Chase Kinney

  • WHAT'S BRED IN THE BLOOD AND BONE short film, audience reactions (interview)

    WHAT'S BRED IN THE BLOOD AND BONE, 5min., USA
    Directed by Robin M Gee
    Inspired by the work of Ida Bell Wells, whose writing documented the episodic period of lynching’s in the 1890’s, What’s Bred in the Blood and Bone is a study of space and place, girded by the collective experiences of brown bo...

  • FREE(d) by Faith short film, audience reactions

    FREE(d) by Faith, 10min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Chase Kinney
    https://www.aei.org/free/

  • A DEER CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS short film, audience reactions (interview)

    A DEER CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS, 22min., Netherlands, Thriller
    Directed by Anil Wagemans, Idzi Wagemans
    A woman's night turns sinister when she fears the charming stranger she went home with has very different intentions.

    Get to know filmmaker Anil Wagemans:

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

  • NOCHE DE AMOR (NIGHT OF LOVE) short film, audience reactions (interview)

    Noche de Amor (Night of Love), 18min., USA
    Directed by Sean-Paul Cardamone
    A young woman experience’s love, betrayal and metamorphosis traveling through the ever changing rapids of east Los Angeles.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    Star crossed love and hubr...

  • NOT AN ORDINARY MECHANIC short film, audience reactions (interview)

    NOT AN ORDINARY MECHANIC, 5min., Latvia, Action
    Directed by Jurijs Kruze
    Nick Mecha is a person of many talents, who works as a mechanic at the workshop, but dreams to become a great dancer and perform on a big stage. But Nick's "luck" always gets him into different tricky situations. This is one...

  • PAGAN VIRTUES short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    PAGAN VIRTUES, 5min., Australia
    Directed by Kaylia Jade McGarry
    This is a very selfish experimental film reflecting on my lust for shiny things in every way, shape or form. This project explores the virtues of divinity, devotion and despair; natural forces worshipped religiously in the human cond...

  • ASHES short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    ASHES, 10min., Canada
    Directed by Charles-Antoine Thériault
    Over time, nature wilfully and circumstantially adapts to its environment, but when the cyclical clash between evolution and cataclysm occurs, nature’s fight to reclaim its place often leaves scars that endure for many seasons. “Ashes” r...

  • ORIGINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    ORIGINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, 8min., Canada
    Directed by John Ledingham
    ..or The Life of a Rock. Experimental documentary meditation on land, complexity and evolution, consciousness, interconnection, and artificial intelligence. Exploring the ideas of philosophers and scientists from a broad backgroun...

  • STEP BY STEP short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    STEP BY STEP, 5min,. UK
    Directed by Andrew Margetson
    A portrait of star ballerina, Lauren Cuthbertson, returning to dance after having a baby.

    http://margetson.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/andymargetson

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    I was interested in...