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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  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: SOCIETY DOC Shorts Festival

    Bounty Uncharted - The Alphonso James Story, 11min., USA
    Directed by Jeff Ragovin
    Bounty Uncharted follows Alphonso James on a quiet day at sea off the coast of the Hamptons during his first ever fishing experience. What begins as a simple outing becomes a deeply personal reflection on freedom, r...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Stained Glass Window, by Kristin Francoeur

    Lily Brannan, a very successful writer who lives in Boston, finds out that her hated great-aunt is dead. When the will is read, Lily is shocked that beside the expected inheritance, she also now owns a mysterious house in Vermont. Planning to go see it, then put it on the market, Lily visits the ...

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival 1st Scene: The Owners, by Nick Nelsen (interview)

    When a wildlife photographer’s bush plane crashes in remote Alaska, he and his girlfriend must survive a brutal game of cat & mouse with a family of fugitives eliminating witnesses, but the real danger may be what survival turns him into.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Nick: Geoff Mays
    Sara: Eli...

  • WILDsound 1st Scene Reading: The Twelve Days, by Brent L.Peterson

    A small-town Christmas shop owner is devastated on Christmas Eve when she finds out she can not have children. The next morning she wakes up in an apocalyptic future where only children remain. There, she works to restore peace between two warring tribes of kids by teaching them the gift-giving t...

  • THRILLER Festival 1st Scene: DHARMA, by Vee G Kumari (interview)

    When an archeologist is murdered with a hindu statue, an art professor must get to the bottom of the death while revealing past mysteries.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Rekha: Val Cole

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    That, regardless of culture, we as humans have ...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: A Misnamed Fate, by Chelsea Lin

    The dark side of relationships and suburban life, where secrets amongst friends ruin lives and betrayal has deadly consequences.

    https://www.instagram.com/cheezylin

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Stacy: Val Cole
    Dan: Geoff Mays

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: Sinner? I Barely Know Her!, by Adelaide Young

    While trying to explore her sexuality, 17-year-old Maggie struggles with her religious OCD and comes face to face with questions that seem too hard to answer. What should we take from religion? What should we do when we feel religion is taking from us?

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morri...

  • ANIMATION Festival 1st Scene: Carlsbad, by Eleanor Christina Cain

    Over 4,000 years ago in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico, a gentle Indigenous teen at odds with his tribe’s gender expectations discovers a magical cavern world that forces him to confront who he is and who he is meant to become.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Sakwa: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    ...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: NEXT STOP: HELL'S END, by Walter Hochbrueckner

    Nikki is in need of a new life, she flees from her abusive husband to become a stripper in a small town.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Eva: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Barb: Val Cole

  • 1st Scene TV Spec Script Reading of THE BEAR, by David Case (Comedy Festival)

    On the anniversary of Mikey’s death Carmy gets news that his tormentor, David Fields, is coming to review the restaurant.. things derail when Carmy severely burns his arm.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Carmy: Geoff Mays
    Richie: Shawn Devlin

  • WILDsound Festival 1st Scene: Blue Idaho, by Noah Zayn Mortier

    A grieving widower and a trans nurse confront faith, loss, and identity on a road trip that forces them to reconcile their past with the possibility of love.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Richard: Geoff Mays
    Blue: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • COMEDY Festival SHORT Screenplay: Linked, by Dion Aralihalli (interview)

    Linked is a surreal dark comedy about Jordan, a man slowly losing his identity to the performative chaos of LinkedIn. Comment wars turn passive-aggressive, emojis become weapons, and the platform bleeds into reality.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Various: Hannah Ehman
    Various: Val Cole
    Vario...

  • FEMALE Festival Short Screenplay: Mum Before Motherhood, by Helen Rana

    A shocking incident by a train track reveals a new side of his mother to Jack.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Jack: Geoff Mays
    Mum: Val Cole

  • UNDER 5 Minute Festival SHORT Screenplay: VIRAL, by John Cooney (interview)

    Due to his actions during a daring rescue, young Deputy Sheriff McGee follows in his late father's footsteps by being selected to receive the department's Medal of Valor.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Tracy: Val Cole
    McGee: Geoff Mays
    Sheriff Knight: Shawn Devlin
    Clown: Sean Balla...

  • Best of DIVERSITY Festival Films

    Voyeur, 6min., Iran
    Directed by Maryam Hashempour
    A girl enters a coffee shop while waiting for her friend. An unknown number sends her a photo of her, taken just before she enters the coffee shop. The unknown person sends the photo several times until...

    The Great Human Crime, 19min., Sweden
    D...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of DIVERSITY Festival Films

    Voyeur, 6min., Iran
    Directed by Maryam Hashempour
    A girl enters a coffee shop while waiting for her friend. An unknown number sends her a photo of her, taken just before she enters the coffee shop. The unknown person sends the photo several times until...

    The Great Human Crime, 19min., Sweden
    D...

  • BEST Scene Reading: THE FINAL FIGHT, by Todd J. Stein

    When Hollywood producer Scott Cohen returns to Brooklyn on an unexpected trip, he’s shocked to find his father, Martin Cohen, a former Golden Gloves champ, living in squalor under the control of his manipulative second wife and her mob-connected relatives. The full horror comes into focus when Sc...

  • EXPERIMENTAL Festival Best Scene: A Glimpse of the Moon, by James Wiliam Tuttle

    A socially invisible college dropout in Maine is finally seen when coaxed into performing as The Unknown Stripper. Reveling in newfound attention, he sets off to make a name for himself at a famous Boston strip club. Battling insecurities and a malicious headliner, he gets one chance to win his p...

  • BLACK Festival Best Scene: The Weight of Wind, by d.b. Roderick

    Blown off course into abolitionist Bermuda in 1835, the U.S. brig Enterprise carrying 78 enslaved people forces a desperate mother and a conflicted captain into a collision with law, conscience, and profit where one storm at sea becomes a reckoning that could free them all.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator...

  • HORROR Festival Best Scene Reading: Friend, by Gordon Graveley (interview)

    "Friend" follows the heading-for-divorce parents of a precocious nine-year-old who befriends an older, intellectually disabled man. Friend is in a great place—well written and with a strong premise.

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    A precocious tween befriends a lonel...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: THE LAST BLOCK, by Miguel Camacho

    In 2140, a "perfect" existence is maintained by advanced AI. As the defining "Last Block" event looms, Elian is compelled to seek true reality, whatever its cost.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    AI Voice: Shawn Devlin
    Elian: Geoff Mays

  • ROMANCE Best Scene Reading: Act Three Problems, by Matthew Lowe

    At the altar, Julian cannot go through with his wedding to Rose, but the pair are forced to work together for a part reshoot of their latest movie. With the studio determined to keep the breakup a secret, the pair must keep up the pretence of a couple which creates plenty of onset tension. Howeve...

  • FANTASY Best Scene Reading: THE ORION QUEEN, by Howard "Buddy" William Lewis III

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    It is a tale of redemption and what it might take to push the worst villain in the Orion Colonies to seek it. The answer is a psychic tie to a native Orion alien who plays the memories and experiences of all of her victims through Charli...