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
  • 1pg. SHORT Script: It's a Fucking Dog, by Steve Feld

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: MOKSHA, by Saurin D. Lakhia

    In the late 22nd century, a queer Indian-American man uses psychedelic science to lead humanity to its new interstellar home, but must first confront his past after finding out a secret from Earth involving his estranged mother and her mass ritual suicide cult.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devli...

  • TV Festival 1st Scene: AR2, by Bree Wyrd

    When a sociopathic billionaire sells a vaccine to the U.S. military that makes humans bulletproof, he loses everything and is forced to join a revolutionary group to defeat the fascist government his vaccine has empowered.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Male Voice: Geoff Mays
    FBI Agent...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Blakeneys, by Brigid May

    During the French Revolution, a band of heroes rises to combat the slaughter of innocents. Yet when a French spy looks to bring down the leader by blackmailing his estranged wife, the lines between the rescuer and rescued are blurred and the couple's lives altered forever.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator:...

  • TV Festival 1st Scene: I'M SO DONE, by Chuck Alley, Rachael Berman

    When Pastry Chef, Rachael Berman bootstraps her bakery business, she relies on quick wit and biting humor to motivate eccentric employees, manage her quirky family and survive in Silicon Valley.

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allan...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Lovely Miss Mercer, by Heidi Lauren Duke

    With the world at war, a penniless socialite must keep her affair with Franklin Delano Roosevelt a secret from his wife -- as well as the rest of the nation.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Violetta/Maid: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Lucy: Kyana Teresa
    Eleanor: Hannah Ehman

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: THE DEVIL PULLS THE STRINGS, by J. W. Zarek

    THE DEVIL PULLS THE STRINGS, described as The Librarians meet The Magicians is a 76,000-word urban fantasy with series potential, set in modern-day Wentzville, MO, New York City, and 1813 Genoa, Italy, where time travel, twisted history, secret societies, Slavic mythology, Paganini's music, and o...

  • TV Festival 1st Scene: BROKEN, by Dathan Anthony Paterno

    An unorthodox but gifted psychologist battles both a local psychiatrist and his own mental health struggles, jeopardizing his career and family.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Jamie: Hannah Ehman
    Finn: Geoff Mays
    Jason: Allan Michael Brunet

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Presumption, by Andy Healy

    As a jury deliberates, a desperate and disenfranchised African-American mother looks to balance the scales of justice by taking the lead prosecutor hostage and forcing her torelook atthe case against her son and prove his innocence before the verdict is handed down.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean B...

  • LATINO Festival BEST Scene: AMIGAS, by Lindsay Waite (interview)

    In 1930s El Paso, Texas, when a timid Swedish maid and a strong-willed Mexican American maid develop an unexpected friendship, tension arises between them as the Swedish maid finds a mentor in her household but the Mexican-American maid is fired by her bosses for her assertiveness and fighting of...

  • 1pg. SHORT Script: The Surge Protector, by Michael A. Reed

    Science Fiction

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Walter: Steve Rizzo
    Mike: Geoff Mays

  • LA Festival 1st Scene: THE GOLDEN, by Luke LoCurcio

    One year after the tragic death of their young daughter, an estranged husband and wife must come together again to survive in the face of mysterious global menace.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Grace: Kyana Teresa
    Jack/John: Geoff Mays

  • 1pg. SHORT Script: Waiting on a Plane, by Matthew William Kelcourse

  • Short Screenplay Reading: IN SILENCE, by Jeff Sommer-Zervos

    The story follows Jamie Rommen, a man suffering in silence with grief, loneliness, and depression. The loss of his family weighs on him heavily a year later; still reliving the events of their death, alone in the new world of COVID quarantine. He’s out of work. Bills are piling up. His life falli...

  • LA Festival 1st Scene: Premium Economy, by Michael Harris (interview)

    Falling Down meets Dude, Where's My Car? Over 24 hours, a recently divorced accountant loses his job, his Jeep and accidentally traffics Heroin. His only escape? Become a beige pants badass aka a Dad Ass.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Eugene: Allan Michael Brunet
    Cori: Val Cole

    Ge...

  • CULTIVATE short film, audience reactions

    CULTIVATE, 5min., UK, Dance
    Directed by Sima Gonsai
    Two dancers ground themselves in soil and ritual as they dance a duet with the earth. Drawing on the success of the 2021 dance film ‘And Breathe’ inspired by the newly introduced Clean Air Zone in Birmingham, ‘Cultivate’ responds to localised cl...

  • THICK SKIN short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    THICK SKIN, 3min., Columbia, Dance
    Directed by Laura Steiner
    To be able to live in Bogotá, you need a skin than can adapt, that can turn reptilian when it doesn't stop raining for weeks and that can go soft when the woman in the corner shop gives you a free morning coffee. Thick Skin is a dance f...

  • IN MEMORIAM short film, audience reactions (director interview0

    in memoriam., 30min,. USA, Dance/Experimental
    Directed by S. Asher Gelman
    Like rooms of a home, we live in rooms of our lives; trapping moments and memories to the subtle things surrounding us. In the home of our mind, we repeat the past to move on into the future. This 30 minute dance for film w...

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

    THE SNOW MIGRANT, 5min., USA, Dance
    Directed by Claudia Jeanne Esslinger
    The (Snow) Migrant uses humor and metaphor to explore our changing climate. A performer in a red kayak is drawn onto deep snow by a darkly clad figure. Left alone, she struggles with the vessel and imagines paddling away. Ev...

  • FLIGHT short film, audience reactions

    FLIGHT, 10min., USA, Dance
    Directed by Loretta Thomas
    Flight is a film about flight from danger, the toll this can take on people and yet there can still be hope and peace in the end.

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  • VIVIDREAM short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    VIVIDREAM, 10min., Denmark, Dance
    Directed by Matteo Di Loreto
    Between dream and reality a girl finds herself in the audience of a theatre (Royal Danish Theatre) to find out there are other people there with her. While events between the dancers unfold, a voice guides them on a journey of surreal...

  • MERMAIDS short film, audience reactions

    MERMAIDS, 15min., France, Dance
    Directed by Pierre Bessette
    On a trip to the Chilean Patagonia, two friends, dancers, head into the wide-open natural spaces, diving deep into the self. During this voyage a Selknam voice is heard, revived from time immemorial, leading to a choreographic flight, an...

  • ENDURANCE short film, audience reactions

    ENDURANCE, 11min., France, Dance
    Directed by Imre van Opstal
    'Whether it's running a marathon, climbing a mountain, or simply making it through a difficult day, endurance is what enables people to persist and succeed. Without it, people would give up at the first sign of difficulty.

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