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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  • AUDIBLE LOCKDOWN short film, 15min,. Australia, Experimental/Music

    A kaleidoscopic audiovisual portrait of the city of Melbourne during the COVID lockdowns in 2020. All sounds have been created from field recordings made in the Melbourne CBD under lockdown, and all footage has similarly been gathered from the city.

    https://www.aniareynolds.com/this-city-this-so...

  • BETWEEN THE CREAG AND THE SKY short film, 20min., Environment/Drama

    Attempting to find a re-connection, a father takes his estranged teen daughter on a trip into the wilderness.

    Screenplay and Direction by
    Kurt Gerard

    Adapted from
    Jessica Morgan's
    The Space Between the Sand and the Sea

    Produced by
    Kirchner Films
    with support from Missouri State University Coll...

  • THE MIDNIGHT TRIP short film, 7min., USA, Experimental/Drama

    On his way through the desert at night to an important business meeting a man’s car breaks down and he is forced to confront his own past and to reconsider his values.

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  • GHOST LAKE short film, 5min., Singapore, Dance

    A woman in mourning confronts the loss of her lover. In a space where grief exists, time is relative

    Directed by Shanice Stanislaus, Jon Tan

    Cast: Daphne Huang, Antonio Vargas

    Director Statement
    This was an international collaboration, with Taiwanese and Singaporean musicians coming together...

  • CHAMELEONS feature film, 82min., Austria, Musical Documentary

    You have to empathize with every given situation and adapt to it: creative, communicative and flexible - like a chameleon.

    The documentary focuses on the diverse work of instrumental and singing teachers in the field of tension between education and being an artist, between elementary music teac...

  • EPHÉMEROS short film, 13min., Lithuania, Dance

    EPHÉMEROS - (transitory in Ancient Greek) is a dance film that subtly combines three elements - human, plant and sculpture - to create a unique world of fantasies. The temporality of being experienced in this world is inevitable - everything is temporary in relation to eternity.

    Director, Choreo...

  • CONVERGENCE short film, 6min., USA, Experimental

    Breaking a long slumber, a mysterious rope leads a soul through a decaying world as he attempts to connect with another.

    Directed by Maya Marzuki Peters, Anahita von Andrian-Werburg

    Cast: Sean Pfeiffer, Anya Susan

    Director Statement
    Convergence grapples with fear, loss, and ultimately, connect...

  • THE MAZE short film, 3min., USA, Dance

    We are caged in our own thoughts, running through loopholes only to find ourselves exactly where we started. The Covid 19 Pandemic had caused most of us artists in a complete shot down but we also had the opportunity long gone, to reflect on what we are doing and what is on the horizon. We lived ...

  • ASIAN Filmmakers Festival (Thriller/Horror) Jan. 31st/Feb. 1st event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    SAVE MY MAMA, 33min., China, Horror
    Directed by 예린 김
    A mother is dancing in front of her daughter Yoon-Hee one day. Without being accompanied by music, the mother is dancing, beautiful yet grotesque. Then the mother stands over her daughter, staring down at her.

    M...

  • RELATIONSHIP Shorts - Jan. 30/31st event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    THE INTRUDER, 15min,. USA, Drama/Comedy
    Directed by Nina Lescher
    When an unfaithful woman embarks on a romantic getaway with her husband to celebrate their wedding anniversary, a ghostly entity disrupts the intimacy and forces her to confront the secrets in her hea...

  • COMEDY Short Festival - Jan. 29/30 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    DRAGON POETS OF BOSTON, 8min., USA
    Directed by Gordon LePage
    Two underemployed dragons have a revelation when they audition for a podcast.
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    A SMALL ACT OF COURAGE, 16min,. USA
    Directed by Dylan ...

  • GURGLE: PULLING WATER feature film - Jan. 29/30th

    GURGLE: PULLING WATER, 57min., USA, Documentary

    Directed by Richard Van Kleeck

    A documentary featuring courage, teamwork, adventure, and life lessons explored through the lens of the sport of rowing. Featuring Tori Murden McClure, the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic; archeologist, a...

  • SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Agreement, by Jared Stuart

    Young US Air Force wife and mother realizes that she is a part of an alien hybridization program through an abduction and hypnosis, and that her son along with her husband and his family may not be who she thinks they are.

    Cast List:

    Narration: Hannah Ehman
    Eve: Kyana Teresa
    Jeremy: Geoff May

  • ENVIRONMENTAL Festival 1st Scene; WATCHLIST, by Alex Vickery-Howe (interview)

    Logline: A young man falls in love with an ecoterrorist only to discover their pasts are entwined.

    Synopsis: Basil Pepper is not ‘the man’, he’s not a doer, or a fighter…or even much of a thinker. World events pass him by, ideology makes him sleepy, and the Prime Minister’s name eludes him. Deli...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene Reading: DRAG ME TO CHRISTMAS, by Tennessee Martin

    When Scrooge-like tech-whiz, Chip Webber, finds out that her mother has passed away a few days before Christmas, she begrudgingly returns to her small hometown after a decade away to pay her respects. Upon learning she has inherited her mother’s pride and joy, a dilapidated community recreation c...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: BY DARK, by Sabrina Barton (writer interview)

    When her older sister is brutally murdered, a Black teen girl and her white best friend must overcome police apathy, racial prejudice, and extreme peril to bring a serial killer to justice. Inspired by true events in late nineteenth-century Austin, Texas.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Sean Ballanty...

  • TV Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Murderbot Diaries, by Keith A. LaCabe

    On a distant alien planet, a security “construct” (half human, half robot) must decide between saving its clients from certain death or hiding out in safety watching its entertainment feed and an uncertain rescue.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Hannah Ehman
    Murderbot: Geoff Mays
    Dr. Mensah: Kyana Teresa

  • ENVIRONMENTAL Festival 1st Scene; TIME TOURISTS, by Josh Miller (interview)

    A dysfunctional time-traveling family must evade the authorities and find a way to return to the future or they'll unintentionally trigger a "much bigger bang."

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Hannah Ehman
    Valtero: Sean Ballantyne
    Tomo: Geoff Mays
    Computer Voice/Courier: Kyana Teresa

    Get to know ...

  • ROMANCE Festival BEST Scene: The Highwayman, by Patrick Norman (interview)

    A deep and all-consuming romance set in eighteenth-century England between a highwayman and a landlord’s daughter tests their love, loyalty, and willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice.

    Logline: He met her on life’s darkest road, and her soul became his moon.

    CAST LIST::

    Narrator: Hannah ...

  • SHORT Script: Starting Today, by Richard P. DiPietro

    Genre: drama

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Ricky: Geoff Mays
    Rolli: Steve Rizzo
    SJ: Sean Ballantyne

  • SHORT Script: The Wife Beater, by Zeff Lawless

    Genre: Dark Comedy

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Jack: Sean Ballantyne
    Tracy: Kyana Teresa

  • Short Script: UNEMPLOYMENT, by Barbara Blomquist

    In the near future, a strict demanding law requires men to be financially responsible for all children they father.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Jeff: Sean Ballantyne
    Susan: Kyana
    Officer: Andy Camp

  • COMEDY Festival BEST Scene Script: FEELING JUNG, by Lauren Kettler (interview)

    Tara and Glen can't afford a divorce so they take week's vacation, with 10-year-old son Ned in tow, to find new, better-heeled spouses.

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Tatiana: Kyana Teresa
    Glen: Steve Rizzo

    Get to know the screenwriter:

    1. What is your screen...

  • SCI-FI Fest 1st Scene Reading: Department of Disinformation, by Justin McLachlan

    When a manipulative intelligence agent is abducted by aliens, he turns to his hapless brother — a once well-regarded journalist who now hosts a conspiracy-laden, low-rated cable TV show — to help him expose a coming alien invasion.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Val Cole
    Charlie: Geoff Mays
    Jason: St...