New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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Documentary Feature Festival - HOW TO THRIVE. May 23/24
HOW TO THRIVE, 96min., Australia, Documentary
Directed by Duy Huynh
Is there a secret formula to happiness? Positive psychotherapist Marie McLeod takes 7 people on a transformative journey to learn the secret formula to happiness The film’s premise is; if we offer the science of happiness to peop... -
Documentary Feature - BEYOND THE BEAT. May 22/23 event
102 minutes. USA
http://bluemarb.com/beyondthebeat
https://instagram.com/bluemarbledayDirected 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, Ugan...
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ANIMATION Shorts Festival - May 21/22 event
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REQUIEM. GENERATION. BREAKER., 7min., USA, Animation/Musical
Directed by Derwin Hayden
After a father witnesses a murder, Myck, and his family become targeted by an inter-dimensional demon.
SLOANE and the COSMIC SCHLEP, 26min., USA, Animation/Sci-Fi
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Environmental Feature Festival - STOPPING THE NEXT PANDEMICS
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STOPPING THE NEXT PANDEMIC, 96min., France, Documentary
Directed by Xavier Deleu
Stopping the next pandemic is a new challenge to the most prominent scientists. Their field studies around the world are showing that our health as humans depends on animal and environ... -
SHORT Story Reading: THE UNKNOWABLE, by Baron Brady (interview)
sci-fi, 5505 words
Cleve Howe, a politician with everything to lose, risks it all on a mysterious woman who may have been sent to destroy his career. Cleve made a name for himself warning everyone about the danger of artificial intelligence exceeding human intelligence; but when the woman he obs...
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BEST Scene Script Reading: OUT OF ADVERSITY..., by Elliot Stanton
The strained relationship between two British First World War soldiers changes from antagonism and distrust to one of kinship and respect. A brave decision to make the ultimate sacrifice then solidifies their union.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Private Cavendish: Allan Michael Brunet
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SHORT Story Reading: On The Nile Street, by Badradeen Mohammed
"You students need to be re-behaved, but don't worry, we will do"
Genre: Thriller
Performed by Shawn Devlin
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NOVEL Reading: PRINCE RIC: A TALE OF COMING OUT, by Kevin Michael Irvine
Performed by Shawn Devlin
https://www.amazon.ca/PRINCE-RIC-Kevin-Irvine-ebook/dp/B00PBJVY7S
Advertising heir Richard “Ric” Terrence Smythe-Bigge has it all, and longtime wingman Hal Burke is there to narrate. “Ric adds a spice rack of power, looks, money, and personality to the sauté pan of our...
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SCRIPT MOVIE: Virulence, by Christopher Pennington
A group of scientists on an Antarctic research base fight for their lives as a visitor brings a deadly virus with him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Lewis: Allan Michael Brunet
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Feature Film Trailer: AND THE COMMUNITY WILL RISE. Directed by Lenora Lee
AND THE COMMUNITY WILL RISE, 63min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Lenora Lee
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DRAMA Shorts Festival - May 19/20 event
See the Full Lineup of Films:
PHANTASME, 2min., France, Drama
Directed by Florian Le Tavernier, Arthur Rupert-Meinsfeld
What if hope, gone for so long suddenly came back to us. For an instant, hope meets dream without ever forgetting reality. Regis' reality.SCORPIO, 6min., USA, Drama
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Wild Pyrénées short film, audience reactions
Wild Pyrénées, 43min., France, Documentary
Directed by Alwa Deluze
Wild Pyrenees is above all an invitation to travel, to discover the wildest valleys of the Pyrenean massif. The film is composed of sumptuous images, usually reserved for experienced mountaineers or the most pugnacious naturalists... -
SIN REFUGIO short film, audience reactions
SIN REFUGIO, 17min., Mexico, Documentary
Directed by Roberto Bosoms, Andrea Cordoba
When the Mexican government decides to open an agricultural water dam in Chihuahua to pay a water debt to the United States, local farmers battle the military to protect their harvest and livelihoods. -
HANDGAMES IN THE DELTA short film, audience reactions (interview)
HANDGAMES IN THE DELTA, 27min,. Canada
Directed by Taylor J. Smith
A group of Indigenous Handgames players based in the Yukon travelled to four separate communities in the Delta region of the Northwest Territories (Inuvik, Aklavik, Fort McPherson and Tsiigehtchic) teaching Handgames to citizens. ... -
LIVE TO FARM ep 7 short film, audience reactions
LIVE TO FARM EP. 7, USA, 21min.,
Directed by Jared Gagnon-Palick
Live To Farm is a brand new show on Discovery Chanel that follows some of the top farmers of America, from the planting season through harvest. These farming families teach the general public about what goes on behind the scenes on... -
AMONG THE CORALS short film, audience reactions
AMONG THE CORALS, 28min., Panana, Documentary
Directed by Fabiano d'Amato
In the summer of 2021, scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute set sail for a three-week expedition on the Pacific coast of Panama to study uniquely resilient corals, known as Super Corals, for the Rohr ... -
REBIRTH short film, audience reactions (director interview)
REBIRTH, 12min., USA, Animation/Doc
Directed by Frank Kilpatrick
Rebirth: Intended to foster environmental climate change awareness by children, Rebirth is A Child’s Environmentally-Friendly Fairytale -- a 12-minute animated musical suite depicting the respective seasons in four movements: The mi... -
SEARCHING: Our Quest For Meaning in the Art of Science feature film, reactions
SEARCHING: OUR QUEST FOR MEANING IN THE ART OF SCIENCE, 100min., USA
Directed by Geoff Haines-Stiles
How is it possible that falling in love, feeling connected to nature, and experiences of awe and wonder, can all arise from the material atoms of our bodies? Can science explain such complex human... -
PUNK ROCK VEGAN MOVIE feature film, audience reactions
PUNK ROCK VEGAN MOVIE, 91min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Moby
Directed by the musician Moby, Punk Rock Vegan Movie explores the intersection between punk rock and the animal rights movement.
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RESTORATION NATION short film, audience reactions
RESTORATION NATION, 7min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Charles Atkinson, Jeff Ostenson
The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe keeps the health of the natural resources in mind when approaching sustainable development projects that benefit both the tribe and the surrounding community.
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THE GODFATHER OF THE OCEAN feature film, audience reactions
THE GODFATHER OF THE OCEAN, 52min., France, Documentary
Directed by Martin Boudot, Hugo Van Offel
He is "The Godfather of the Oceans". Junchang Wu is the leader of a criminal network trafficking "Totoaba", an endangered fish living in Mexican waters. Known as the "cocaine of the sea" for its lucr... -
PLANET SOIL feature film, audience reactions (director interview)
PLANET SOIL, 83min., Netherlands, Documentary
Directed by Mark Verkerk
Planet Soil makes the unseen seen. The film inspires and amazes and gives insight into the world beneath our feet. Besides the world above ground populated by plants, insects and birds, but especially by humans, there is a sec... -
LOOSING GROUND short film, audience reactions (director interview)
LOOSING GROUND, 45min., Italy, Documentary
Directed by Angelo Loy, Martino Mazzonis
"Loosing Ground" recounts the lives of climate refugees in Bangladesh, who every day leave the countryside of the North submerged by increasingly frequent and abundant floods, who abandon the villages of the South... -
CLIMATE IMPACT ASIA short film, audience reactions
CLIMATE IMPACT ASIA, 14min., Singapore
Directed by Liz Courtney
Climate Impact Asia is a short 4-part documentary series that looks at critical impacts of our changing climate systems on one of the most vulnerable regions in the world – Southeast Asia. Working with the Earth Observatory of Singa...