New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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INTIMACY SIMULATION UPDATE 76.43 short film, reactions (director interview)
Intimacy Simulation Update 76.43, 1min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Neil Sudhakaran
In the not too distant future, the senses are now simulated through brain-implanted chips, including touch. This micro short is inspired by After the Blast, stage play, by Zoe Kazan.Get to know the filmmaker:...
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JUMP SCARES: THE MOVIE short film, audience reactions (director interview)
JUMP SCARES: THE MOVIE, 3min,. USA,
Directed by Peter Masterson
Do you like horror movies? Or do you just like being startled? If it's the latter, this is the movie trailer for you!
https://urbanpebbleproductions.com/
https://www.instagram.com/urbanpebbleproductions/Get to know the filmmaker...
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FERMATA short film, audience reactions (director interview)
FERMATA, 4min., USA, Thriller
Directed by Preston Bowe
A struggling pianist makes a peculiar discovery.Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
I was inspired to make Fermata after thinking about my and my friends' experiences with creating art—these tendencies to ...
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HALDI short film, audience reactions
HALDI, 5min., Norway, Experimental
Directed by Ann Holmgren
The film evolves around a Sámi underground world where you can get inspiration and power. In this world Háldi is all living being’s guardian helper. The film focuses on the unity and power of female relations in Sami tradition and mythol... -
ALMOST THERE short film, audience reactions
ALMOST THERE, 5min., Japan, Action
Directed by Chuck Johnson
Two refugees from a broken land have to fight their way into civilization.
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THE TIME IS NOW short film, audience reactions
THE TIME IS NOW, 4min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Jason Borkland
The importance of Marine Protected areas. The need to support scientific research, to allow the preservation and expansion of these vital areas. -
THE MISSING PIECE short film, audience reactions
THE MISSING PIECE, 4min., USA, Fashion
Directed by Hitaali Dharamshi
A Fashion Film on an upcycled denim corset collection, which is a marriage between denim, silver and leather. A man who is set on finding out what lies within a house related to disappearances in lower Manhattan; ends up meeting... -
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NANOSCAPES short film, audience reactions
NANOSCAPES, 4min., USA, Animation
Directed by Kristina Dutton
Images of butterfly wings at the microscopic scale are stunning, and at the nanoscopic scale they become otherworldly. -
IGGY short film, audience reactions
IGGY, 5min., USA, Drama
Directed by Anthony Cuomo
Overwhelmed with the pressures of high school. Iggy Fransisco attempts to make friends and is rejected. A classmate Abigail notices this and offers her friendship to Iggy.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8078946/?ref_=m_nm_knf_i1
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COMMUNICATION short film, audience reactions
COMMUNICATION, 6min., China, Experimental
Directed by Yuan Mingqing
My good friend committed suicide because of her LGBTQ identity and I was feeling depressed and sad because of my LGBTQ identity. So I decided to give her in heaven a call. -
TOPLESS short film, audience reactions (director interview)
TOPLESS, 19min., UK, Drama/Romance
Directed by Patrick Jensen Hansted
After a few years, being in his late 20s without experience building relationships, Anthony finds himself in a vicious cycle of heartbreak as he continues searching for true love.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27044983/
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BLUE SQUARE HEART short film, audience reactions
BLUE SQUARE HEART, 30min,. USA, Drama
Directed by WIlliam Venus Means
A drag queen is forced to reconsider his shockingly violent art when his estranged, conservative mother makes a surprise appearance at his show in an attempt to reconnect.
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THE DEVIL INSIDE ME short film, audience reactions
THE DEVIL INSIDE ME, 5min., UK, Experimental
Directed by Gabriel Arrahnio
A grieving mother believing her son to be possessed by the devil, forces him through a spiritual-religious cleansing. ‘The Devil Inside’ is a poetic exploration of ‘Love’ and the grotesque mutations it can take. A surreal, ... -
PHONETIME short film, audience reactions
PHONETIME, 9min., UK, Drama
Directed by Jordan Chandler
A transcendent tale of love following two seperated lovers as they navigate the difficulties of their past and the possibilities of their future.
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LILY OF THE VALLEY short film, audience reactions
LILY OF THE VALLEY, 16min., UK, Drama
Directed by Gary Grant
A fading movie star, fresh from a rejection for a starring role, is drugged and photographed by her devious and self-serving girlfriend, an aspiring photographer she nurtured. The images, displayed at a high-profile London galley, shatt... -
#LOOKATME feature film, audience reactions (director interview)
#LOOKATME, 108min., Singapore, Drama/Family
Directed by Ken Kwek
When teenagers Sean and Ricky are invited to attend church with Sean’s girlfriend, they are treated to an Evangelical rock concert capped by a searing anti-LGBTQ sermon. Sean, a Youtuber, soon gets into trouble for dropping an outra... -
KANNAGI short film, audience reactions (director interview)
KANNAGI, 21min,. India, Drama
Directed by Ezhil Vinod Selvan
A story of two best friends going through adolescence and trying to understand their own gender and those around them. In this process, society changes their course of life.Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make th...
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A BETTER PLACE short film, audience reactions
A BETTER PLACE, 33min., UK, Documentary
Directed by Jennifer Fearnley
A Better Place is an in depth look at the toxic legacy of British colonial-era laws, which criminalise consensual same-sex love, while at the same time allowing perpetrators of sexual violence to go unpunished. More than 70 cou... -
DOWN RIVER JORDAN feature film, audience reactions
DOWN RIVER JORDAN, 60min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Addie Navarro
The Jordan River has played a major role in shaping human society as we know it, providing freshwater and fertile soil for some of the earliest civilizations and witnessing the rise and fall of empires. For centuries, the lower... -
Untreated & Unheard: The Addiction Crisis in America feature film, reactions
Untreated & Unheard: The Addiction Crisis in America, 77min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Laura Casey, Spencer Parker
Substance use disorder kills more people every year than any other disease and yet only 1 in 10 people who need treatment get access to it. These are unheard stories of the addic... -
LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival - March 23/24 event
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COLORS OF A BLACK BELT, 16min., USA, Drama
Directed by Lina Kraftsof
14 year old Emerson struggles with their self-identity and often lashes out in many ways. One of these ways is stealing their Karate instructor's black belt. After a moment of delusion, reality hi... -
UNDER 5 Minute Festival - March 22/23 event
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SWISH, 5min,. USA, Drama
Directed by Andrew Roland
Two brothers grow up in the sport of basketball, pushing and challenging one another. Until one day, one gets killed. Years after grieving, it drives the remaining brother to keep the standard and work ethic that h... -
TV COMEDY WEB SERIES Festival - March 21/22 event
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DOWN TO EARTH, 24min., USA, Comedy
Directed by Maxwell Sternlicht
A comedy about three extraterrestrial roommates, all with different goals and backgrounds, navigating life on Earth.https://maxsternlicht.com/
STAGE MANAGED, 28min., USA, Comedy
Directed by Guy No...