New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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COMEDY Festival Best Scene: SERIOUS LAUGHS, by Aaron James Sutch (writer int.)
A struggling stand up comedian must literally and figuratively kill when a zealous heckler takes a comedy club hostage; threatening the lives of fans, comedians, and comedy itself.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Sylvester: Sean Ballatyne
Pascal/Gun Rang Boss:
Sanders: Geoff Mays
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene: THE FOURTH, by Gabriel Gervais (interview)
While undergoing fertility treatments, a budding psychotherapist becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving kidnapped women, cryptic symbols, and shocking revelations about her troubled past.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehma
Boy: Shawn Devlin
Angie: Kyana TeresaGet to know the screenwr...
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SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: UNDER VANISHING SKIES, by Gregory Fields
After a solar flare nearly destroys Earth, a man who's lost the will to live must battle rapacious scavengers to give a young boy a chance to survive.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Rick: Shawn Devlin
Monica/Sri: Kyana Teresa
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DIVERSITY Fest Best Scene: D.D.S- Drama of Dental Surgeon's, by Steph Gallagher
An intelligent young woman regrets her hookup with an ex. Her co-workers suggest she get back in the dating game, but her studies stand in the way. Work place drama distracts her and a budding relationship with a new man threatens a situation where personal and private life overlaps and is sure t...
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DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene: NO RULES, Ashley Gianni (interview)
In 1992 New Jersey, at the boom of drag culture and amidst the raging AIDS epidemic, drag queen Visa Declined and best friend Angela Caruso find themselves at a standstill in their creative endeavors while desperately trying to build a community to call their own. Their dream of one day owning th...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: KILL YOUR DARLINGS, by Neil McNeil (interview)
When a group of queer friends in East LA try to turn their struggling weekly party into the hottest spot in town, they seek out unconventional methods to bring success.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Kori: Val Cole
Tony: Allan Michael Brunet
Beth: Kyana TeresaGet to know the screenwrite...
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Winning THRILLER Fest SHORT Script: INKWELL, by Dante Mathias (writer interview)
An unskilled artist discovers a pen that will draw whatever he wants at the cost of his talented friend.
https://www.instagram.com/inkwell_film/
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Rose: Kyana Teresa
Foster: Allan Michael BrunetGet to know the screenwriter:
1. What is your screenplay about...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: BLOOD ON THE SADDLE, by Olivia Marguerite Fouser
Robin Hood of the Wild West Ray Robinson makes trouble for herself wherever she goes, defending women and conning men. Now four of these men want revenge, and if she’s to survive she’ll have to confront her past, outrun her present, and race to reach the love of her life before it’s too late.
CA...
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WILDsound 1st Scene: CLEANSING ACTS, by Carlos Perez (writer interview)
A young man contemplating suicide calls a prostitute to keep him company before he commits the act.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
William: Allan Michael Brunet
Maxine: Kyana TeresaGet to know the screenwriter:
1. What is your screenplay about?
Cleansing Acts is about a young man who ...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: THE PAINTED MUSE, by Farah Merani
A brilliant art restorer is commissioned by a big fancy British museum to track down and restore a series of rare miniature masterpieces scattered around
www.farahmerani.com
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Curator: Val Cole
Samara: Kyana Teresa
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DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: BILLIE THE KID, by Tom Michael Jennings
The day before she is to be sent to boarding school, a rebellious teenager named Billie steals a million-dollar horse from her father and rides off into the New Mexico desert to find the grave of her namesake, Billy the Kid. Along the way, she learns the truth about her past and how she and her f...
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COMEDY Festival Best Scene: REVOLVING DOORS, by Jim Falletta (interview)
Two down-on-their luck wannabe musicians moonlighting as karaoke "stars" at a bar that caters to senior citizens must overcome a host of obstacles on their road to music stardom, including their overbearing landlord, a divorced parent who moves in unexpectedly, and most importantly, their own pro...
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ANIMATION Festival BEST Scene: ANIMARIA, by Michael Van Patten
Miss Mona takes her students on a great adventure to Animaria so they can learn the value of teamwork, but she learns as much about herself along the way
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Federico (M): Geoff Mays -
LA Festival 1st Scene: BLOCKHEAD, by Garrett Nicholson
When a mid-30’s concrete truck driver injures himself at work, he partners up with some friends to pursue his passion as a magician in order to separate himself from the constraints of his father’s business.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Roy/Lou: Allan Michael Brunet
Jill/Lucky: Kyana Ter... -
HORROR Festival Best Scene: THE UNINVITED, by Matthew Domingos (writer int.)
When two American soldiers go on a mission to an abandoned house in the Iraqi desert, what they find there makes them question reality itself.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Sonny: Sean Ballatyne
The Chief: Geoff MaysGet to know the screenwriter:
1. What is your screenplay abo...
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TV Festival Best Scene: SUBDIVISION, by Casey Leary (writer interview)
A tyrannical HOA wreaks havoc on a community until some "others" try to exist and then to rebel.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Steve: Sean Ballatyne
Gladys: Hannah Ehman
Betty : Elizabeth Rose MorrissGet to know the screenwriter:
1. What is your screenplay about?
A couple newcomers fin...
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ENVIRONMENTAL Festival TV 1st Scene: ENDURE, by Dan Fabrizio
65 years from now, humanity is at the edge of extinction.
Countless countries have crumbled under the weight of a rapidly collapsing global economy. Many of the largest cities of our time have been wiped out by great wildfires or swallowed by rising seas. An unending heat stroke chokes all living... -
COMEDY Festival 1st Scene TV: MUNCIPAL COURT, by Ross Fischer, Erin Higginbotham
"Parks & Rec" meets "Law & Order"
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Erica: Val Cole
Gil: Shawn Devlin
Russell: Allan Michael Brunet
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FEMALE Festival BEST SCENE: GOLD MOUNTAIN EXPRESS, by Gene Lassers
The Nazis conquer Warsaw at the beginning of World War II and take-over the infamous Jewish Ghetto. The last shipment of valuables leaves Berlin for
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballatyne
Lisal: Elizabeth Rose Morriss -
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FEMALE Festival BEST Scene Reading TV: EXPIRED, by Wendy Braff
Five female friends over 50 have had enough of being dismissed and ignored by a society that thinks of them as "expired." When they decide they're no longer going to give a fuck, their lives truly begin.
www.wendybraff.com
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballatyne
Courtney (F): Elizabeth Rose Morr... -
DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: MOONSCOPE, by David Fein
Allen is an astronaut living on the moon, his only friend is Meg, an A.I. voice who only has a physical body inside his head. He is looking for habitable planets when one day the Earth disappears, making him the last human known to be alive. When Meg helps Allen hack into his deeper consciousness...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: ALL THAT YOU LOVE, by Ken Gire
A teenager's idyllic life on a German farm is shattered during World War II by a ruthless Soviet invasion that separates her from her family, putting
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
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LGBTQ+ Festival TV Best Scene: GOOFY FOOT, by Richard Redlo (writer interview)
Eliot Glassman, 15, openly gay and precocious, becomes emancipated from his suburban parents and friends, following incidents of physical abuse. Freed from his troubled suburban origins, he navigates (often on a skateboard) the dangers and delights of his new urban surroundings. Through it all, E...
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COMEDY 1pg. Script: AN AI'S NEMESIS. by Stephanie Kolar
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Ethan: Shawn Devlin
Dylan: Allan Michael Brunet
Nia: Kyana Teresa