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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  • PHONETIME short film, audience reactions

    PHONETIME, 9min., UK, Drama
    Directed by Jordan Chandler
    A transcendent tale of love following two seperated lovers as they navigate the difficulties of their past and the possibilities of their future.

    http://redhumanfilms.com/
    https://twitter.com/redhumanfilms

  • LILY OF THE VALLEY short film, audience reactions

    LILY OF THE VALLEY, 16min., UK, Drama
    Directed by Gary Grant
    A fading movie star, fresh from a rejection for a starring role, is drugged and photographed by her devious and self-serving girlfriend, an aspiring photographer she nurtured. The images, displayed at a high-profile London galley, shatt...

  • #LOOKATME feature film, audience reactions (director interview)

    #LOOKATME, 108min., Singapore, Drama/Family
    Directed by Ken Kwek
    When teenagers Sean and Ricky are invited to attend church with Sean’s girlfriend, they are treated to an Evangelical rock concert capped by a searing anti-LGBTQ sermon. Sean, a Youtuber, soon gets into trouble for dropping an outra...

  • KANNAGI short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    KANNAGI, 21min,. India, Drama
    Directed by Ezhil Vinod Selvan
    A story of two best friends going through adolescence and trying to understand their own gender and those around them. In this process, society changes their course of life.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make th...

  • A BETTER PLACE short film, audience reactions

    A BETTER PLACE, 33min., UK, Documentary
    Directed by Jennifer Fearnley
    A Better Place is an in depth look at the toxic legacy of British colonial-era laws, which criminalise consensual same-sex love, while at the same time allowing perpetrators of sexual violence to go unpunished. More than 70 cou...

  • DOWN RIVER JORDAN feature film, audience reactions

    DOWN RIVER JORDAN, 60min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Addie Navarro
    The Jordan River has played a major role in shaping human society as we know it, providing freshwater and fertile soil for some of the earliest civilizations and witnessing the rise and fall of empires. For centuries, the lower...

  • Untreated & Unheard: The Addiction Crisis in America feature film, reactions

    Untreated & Unheard: The Addiction Crisis in America, 77min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Laura Casey, Spencer Parker
    Substance use disorder kills more people every year than any other disease and yet only 1 in 10 people who need treatment get access to it. These are unheard stories of the addic...

  • LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival - March 23/24 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    COLORS OF A BLACK BELT, 16min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Lina Kraftsof
    14 year old Emerson struggles with their self-identity and often lashes out in many ways. One of these ways is stealing their Karate instructor's black belt. After a moment of delusion, reality hi...

  • UNDER 5 Minute Festival - March 22/23 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    SWISH, 5min,. USA, Drama
    Directed by Andrew Roland
    Two brothers grow up in the sport of basketball, pushing and challenging one another. Until one day, one gets killed. Years after grieving, it drives the remaining brother to keep the standard and work ethic that h...

  • TV COMEDY WEB SERIES Festival - March 21/22 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    DOWN TO EARTH, 24min., USA, Comedy
    Directed by Maxwell Sternlicht
    A comedy about three extraterrestrial roommates, all with different goals and backgrounds, navigating life on Earth.

    https://maxsternlicht.com/

    STAGE MANAGED, 28min., USA, Comedy
    Directed by Guy No...

  • SHORT Film Trailer: PSYCHE OBSCURA. Directed by Craig Oty

    PSYCHE OBSCURA, 8min., USA, Experimental Dance
    Directed by Craig Oty
    A young woman, captive in a delusional state of mind, is drawn into the depths of a psychotic abyss.

  • Short Film Trailer: SYPARIO. Directed by Fabio Selvafiorita

    SYPARIO, 24min., Italy, Musical
    Directed by Fabio Selvafiorita
    Sypario is a film based on the music score of Sypario by Sylvano Bussotti.
    The Sypario's score and the mise en scene on film realized by Fabio Selvafiorita consist of 15 micro-operas.

    http://www.elenacasoli.come/
    https://www.facebo...

  • SHORT Film Trailer: A BEAUTIFUL OBJECT. Directed by Odette Wanda Sugerman

    A BEAUTIFUL OBJECT, 6min,. USA, Fashion
    Directed by Odette Wanda Sugerman
    A girls obsession becomes out of control as to what she will do to get her hands on a Beautiful YSL purse….

    http://www.odettesugerman.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/Odettesugerman

  • SHORT Film Trailer: THE USELESS GLASSBLOWER. Directed by Holger E. Metzger

    THE USELESS GLASSBLOWER, 15min., Germany
    Directed by Holger E. Metzger
    A fascinating short documentary on a traditional glassmaker deep in the southern German Black Forest, and his thoughts and feelings about what this 7000-year-old craft has taught him about life.

    Director Statement
    I am intere...

  • SHORT Film Trailer: THE GIRAFFE. Directed by Alex Balcells Querol

    THE GIRAFFE, 9min., Barcelona, Action/Adventure
    Directed by Alex Balcells Querol
    The first real action of the Mirage F1 was impressive. At the very beginning of its operational life, the Iraqi Mirage F1 entered the “hall of fame” by killing some Iranian F14 Tomcats, by using the new Super Matra 5...

  • POETRY Reading: A Letter To My Unborn Child, by Badradeen Mohammed (interview)

    Get to know the poet:

    1) What is the theme of your poem?

    Education

    2) What motivated you to write this poem?

    I see the young generations are in need of guidance so I wrote this poem thinking it might give them an idea about life and help them grow wiser.

    3) How long have you been wr...

  • NOVEL TRANSCRIPT: The Kill Registry, by Brian Howlett (interview)

    How would society, and human interactions, be different if we were each allowed one free killing of another? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the narrator works as one of two designers at an athletic shoe factory. Ally, the other designer and a missed love interest, takes him to...

  • POETRY Reading: BELONGING, by Anuradha Grover-Tejpal

    Performed by Val Cole

  • NOVEL Transcript: LONDON'S FALLING, by David Byerlee

    https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16000068-london-s-falling


    This is London if everything went awry and plunged into chaos as opposing, colliding forces explode to release a sleeping darkness.
    ‘Michael is made an irresistible offer by an expansive man named Constantine Czerback. A gangster...

  • POETRY Reading: THE BEACH, by Elliot Stanton (interview)

    Dark, death, painful, philosophical, sad, and redemption.

    Performed by Val Cole

    Get to know the poet:

    1) What is the theme of your poem?

    A person wracked with a terminal illness, reaches the end of their life and finally accepts the inevitable in an unforgiving, desolate setting.

    2) What m...

  • NOVEL Transcript: Elephant in a Safeway Bag, by Roderick E. Stevens

    Name: Roderick E. Stevens

    Location: Sierra Vista, AZ, US

    Title: Elephant In a Safeway Bag

    Genre: Crime thriller / Dramedy

    Synopsis:
    "Elephant in a Safeway Bag" follows the adventures of River, a feisty young man with Down syndrome determined to get to the Grand Canyon in spite of his scatter...

  • NOVEL TRANSCRIPT: THE BUTCHER OF LYON, by Manuel Lasso (interview)

    https://www.amazon.ca/Butcher-Lyon-Manuel-Lasso/dp/0985877022

    About the Author
    Manuel Lasso, a Peruvian novelist, short story writer and playwright, studied Literature at the City College of New York, where he became a winner of the Floral Games in the narrative category. His work has been publi...

  • DANCE Shorts Festival - March 20/21 event

    See the Full Lineups of Films:

    OFRENDA, 9min., Mexico, Dance
    Directed by Claudia Lavista, Alexander Dahm
    Grief is a dark, complex, mysterious territory that can seem almost inaccessible.

    https://www.facebook.com/ClaudiaLavista
    https://www.instagram.com/ClaudiaLavista

    SILHOUETTE, 9min., USA, D...

  • POETRY Reading: MAD CAT, by D. C. MacLean (interview

    MAD CAT, by D. C. MacLean

    After Nemo the psycho cat disappeared
    There was no one left to murder the birds
    Neither the weeds nor the moss
    Sci Fi worlds becoming real in our backyard

    Remembering the small monster on the roof of the shed
    Her howling angry and sublime, circling the earth
    But Nemo d...