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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  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Reading: AZALEA, by Nate Raven (interview)

    A gay couple struggles with the challenges of adoption, while a single woman who runs her own business navigates the complexities of an accidental pregnancy.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Geoff Mays
    Claudia: Kyana Teresa
    Shari: Hannah Ehman

    https://www.instagram.com/nateraven1/

    Get to know the sc...

  • THRILLER Festival 1st Scene: AS SCARED AS YOU, by Jesse Dorian (interview)

    A twenty-something male “drifter” antihero, and a young blind woman become caged prisoners at a bed and breakfast in small-town northern California, where the drifter’s violent, malignant actions prior, push a group of malicious locals-- along with their two animalistic, basement-held zombified r...

  • SHORT Screenplay: Army of Worn Soles, by Scott Bury

    Set in Ukraine in the autumn of 1941, in the midst of the German invasion of the USSR, Operation Barbarossa.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Maurice: Steve Rizzo
    Bohdan/Daniel: Sean Ballantyne

    https://scottburyauthor.com/

  • LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene: ALL THE COOL KIDS, by Jennifer C Clark (interview)

    A closeted teen football star, Harley Harris, discovers his friends and fellow townsfolk are being replaced by demonic shapeshifters, and he is next! Together with, out and proud friend, Tessa, Harley must break the demon's curse before his identity and life are lost forever.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrat...

  • SHORT Script: Sending Gill, by Richard P. DiPietro

    Genre: drama

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Marco: Steve Rizzo
    Paco: Sean Ballantyne
    Dana: Kyana Teresa

  • DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: STILL PERFECT, by Michael Fitzer, Karin Partin Wells

    When a young single mother’s baby is murdered by a close friend, she and her family struggle with each other and regret about the past before they find peace through the sound of a beating heart.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Geoff Mays
    Bethan: Kyana Teresa
    Siri/Mair: Hannah Ehman
    Owen: Andy Camp

  • DIVERSITY Festival Best Scene: NO ADDRESS, by Julia Verdin, James Papa

    A group of homeless people bond together as a family, struggling to survive the streets while fending off a harassing gang, an unforgiving community and the local authorities in hopes of finding their humanity again.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Jimmy: Steve Rizzo
    Liz: Kyana Teresa

    ...

  • SHORT Script: Her Best Night Ever, by Carl Burcham

    A 100-year old woman visits the Museum of Modern Art hoping to see a famous masterpiece before she dies but a record crowd challenges her dream.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Giada: Hannah Ehman
    Senior Woman/Asia Maria: Kyana Teresa

  • LA Festival 1st Scene: BLOOD MONEY, by Dominic Flanagan (writer interview)

    Howard Swan, a doctor with a severe drinking problem, loses his medical license, his wife, his house, and is on the verge of losing his daughter as well. In a desperate act, he enlists the help of Caspar, his drug dealer brother, to make some easy money. After a deal goes wrong, Howard uses his m...

  • THE GHOUL short film, 12min., Australia, Crime/Action/Thriller

    Two men, one crime.

    Director: Ryan Osmond

    Writers' Gareth Robinson, Chris Williams

    Stars: Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Matt Boesenberg, Adam Tuominen

  • ONE SHILLING short film, 6min., UK, Dance/Experimental

    One Shilling. A contemporary dance film where four strangers from different backgrounds escape everyday life for one night, drinking and dancing in one of London’s underground bars during the Blitz.

    Directed by Monica Nicolaides

    Produced by Judy Ibelhauptaite

    Composer: Ben Lloyd-Evans

    Cinemat...

  • ANIMATION Shorts Festival - Jan. 28/29 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    OUR PASTS ARE IN THE OCEAN, 6min., USA
    Directed by Dairys Escoto De Léon
    It's 2120, a mom and a daughter are moving out of an extremely polluted city on a scavenger hunt for clean air. As they exit the city by traveling through the ocean, the tension of the decisio...

  • INFERNO, 16min,. Germany, Dance/Experimental

    Inferno“ by Nostos Tanztheater is a dance theater about exclusion, trauma, refugee issues and displacement.

    Where is Hell?
    We are talking about prisoners who live in cells without hope. Families who had to flee persecution and are stranded in a boat between borders.
    We are talking about people w...

  • THINGS SHE WANTS, 3min., Canada, Poem/Experimental

    An interpretation of the prose poem by Paola Ferrante which explodes marriage and explores the lived experience of intimate partner violence.

    http://www.kevinandrewheslop.com/film

    Directed by Kevin Andrew Heslop

    Writer: Paola Ferrante

    Cast: Niki Carr

  • BETWEEN THE BALANCE, 4min., USA, Dance/Experimental

    choreography by Nicole Kadar & Dancers - while editing a full length dance concert I added a filter to give the dance a particular look & feel. but what happened next was something I rarely do. I used a mirror effect and it divided & repeated half the frame. which gave the piece a more abstract &...

  • MAGPIE, 2min., Canada, Experimental

    An interpretation of Catriona Wright's poem "Magpie" which explodes domesticity.

    http://www.kevinandrewheslop.com/film

    Cast: Ruth Douthwright, Niki Carr

    Director Biography - Kevin Andrew Heslop
    Kevin Andrew Heslop is a polydisciplinary doofus whose debut collection of poetry, the correct fury...

  • MOON SHADOWS, 3min., USA, Music/Dance

    An image of a child looking towards the evening moon visited my thoughts one day or maybe it was a dream, from there an imaginary dialogue or dance emerged between the moon and the child. But who is guiding who in this planetary dance, is it the moon or the child?

    I often wondered how a distant ...

  • COMEDY Shorts Festival - Jan. 27/28 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    THE ART OF CHEATING, 6min., USA
    Directed by Matthew Garvin
    A fun night of games goes horribly wrong when a spouse's secret is revealed.

    https://www.thegarvinfilms.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/themattgarvin/

    OUR BEAUTIFUL WORLD, 15min,. USA, Satire
    Directed by I...

  • POLITICAL Shorts Festival - Jan. 27/28 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    THERE IS STILL DUST UNDER THE CONGO, 6min., Spain, Action/Drama
    Directed by R. Ruvens
    David and Roberto, a couple of journalists stationed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, take refuge from the war in a shelter full of rubble. There they will run into Badou...

  • I Don't Smoke I Don't Drink short film, audience reactions

    I DON'T SMOKE AND I DON'T DRINK, 3min., Hong Kong, Music Video
    Directed by Tyson Yoshi
    As a singer-songwriter, TYSON said that due to his appearance, style, and tattoos on his body, people generally gave him the image of a bad boy early on. With this new song, he personally explained that he usua...

  • THE WIND IS CALLING MY NAME short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    THE WIND IS CALLING MY NAME, 2min., Germany, Fashion
    Directed by Stefanie Gartmann

    http://www.gudrungudrun.com/
    https://instagram.com/stefanie.gartmann.dop

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?
    I have a personal passion for the far northern countries. And I love ...

  • THE SUN STILL SHINES short film, audience reactions

    THE SUN STILL SHINES, 4min., USA, Musical Animation
    Directed by Rita Blitt
    'The Sun Still Shines' explores the possibility of the sun reappearing each day, giving hope, despite the devastation of the global pandemic and environmental disasters.

    https://vimeo.com/483843541

  • THE ASTRONAUT short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    THE ASTRONAUT, 5min., USA
    Directed by Damián Apunte
    Seven-year-old Aura loves everything space. She looks out her window, wishing she could escape the surrounding smog that’s causing her asthma. Her vivid imagination keeps her spirit alive. Every Sunday, she dresses up like an astronaut and takes...

  • O short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    O, 10min., France, Music
    Directed by Fabien Legeron
    Locked in since ever, exiled forever - In the in-between of anywhere, a form wanders aimlessly, cut from any companionship or hope.
    What will be the meaning of finally being freed ?

    http://www.fabienlegeron.com/
    https://instagram.com/fabienlege...