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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  • GENERATING CHAOS short film, audience reactions (interview)

    GENERATING CHAOS, 11min., USA
    Directed by Carlos Felipe Garcia
    Generative art explores the relationship between order and chaos, as well as the concept of infinite variations within constraints. By embracing the inherent unpredictability of computational processes, generative art pushes the bound...

  • A FEMINIST LENS short film, audience reactions

    A FEMINIST LENS, 28min., USA
    Directed by Pamela French
    A Feminist Lens: The Art and Activism of Photographer Joan Roth is an intimate portrait of internationally acclaimed photographer Joan Roth. The film focuses on five decades of Roth’s pioneering use of her camera to advocate for homeless wome...

  • 2-DANCE OF THE DAKINIS_review

  • The True Summit short film, audience reactions (interview

    THE TRUE SUMMIT, 30min., USA
    Directed by Corban Robbe
    This 30-minute documentary follows 14 men and mountaineer Kevin DeVries on a trek to EVEREST BASE CAMP as he prepares to climb in the region after a cardiac arrest. More than a hike in the Himalayas, THE TRUE SUMMIT calls men to the inward jou...

  • MEANT TO BE YOUR MIFE short film, audience reactions

    MEANT TO BE YOUR MIFE, 11min., China
    Directed by Cheng Ji
    "Perfect wife" Sarah, receives a strange package, a mannequin, which establishes a subtle connection between them.

  • Sin Refugio short film, audience reactions

    SIN REFUGIO, 17min., Mexico
    Directed by Roberto Bosoms, Andrea Cordoba
    When the Mexican government decides to open an agricultural water dam in Chihuahua to pay a water debt to the United States, local farmers battle the military to protect their harvest and livelihoods.

  • THE WORLD OF MAMA BUTTERFLY short film, audience reactions

    THE WORLD OF MAMA BUTTERFLY, 4min., China
    Directed by Yuqian Cao
    A minor ethnic group, Miao, in Guizhou, China, holds butterfly as their totem and applies the symbol in their embroidery.

    https://www.instagram.com/yu.qi.an

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?
    ...

  • Little Empty Boxes feature film, audience reactions

    LITTLE EMPTY BOXES, 99min., USA
    Directed by Max Lugavere, Chris Newhard
    Little Empty Boxes is a feature length documentary from filmmaker Max Lugavere, who chronicles the last several years of his mothers' life as she battles a mysterious form of Dementia. As Kathy's world begins to deteriorate a...

  • 1-LOUD ENOUGH_review

  • SURVIVAL short film, audience reactions (interview)

    SURVIVAL, 6min., UK
    Directed by Qian Zhou
    The year 2022, which has just passed, was a tough year for the world, and it was also a challenging year for the UK. The energy crisis caused by the Russia-Ukraine war, the following economic crisis, the pound's fall, global warming... All of this affects...

  • THE CALLING short film, audience reactions (interview)

    THE CALLING, 5min., USA
    Directed by Jay Dallen
    The Calling is a mysterious sci-fi drama short film that follows Naomi as she is drawn to a crystal orb with otherworldly powers. As she relives memories of her relationship with Ian, she must make a fateful decision that will determine her fate.

    Ge...

  • DEPARTURE short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    DEPARTURE, 5min., Japan
    Directed by Takayuki Yoshikawa
    In a world where God has departed, leaving only religion behind, a lonely robot is left behind in a closed, deserted church.
    She longs to leave and explore the world outside, but her abilities are limited due to her immaturity, narrow field o...

  • LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival - June 18/19 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    SEPARATE, 6min., USA, Fantasy/Thriller
    Directed by Kestrin Pantera
    Separate is a post-apocalyptic survival story. When the Supreme Court rolls back marriage equality and orders couples’ lawful children to be taken and placed with “traditional” families, a daughter ...

  • RECEDING short film, audience reactions (interview)

    RECEDING, 16min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Renee Garcia
    Sophia, is an 8-years-old girl suffering from Alopecia, where she can have sudden hair loss or a receding hair line. She gets bullied by other kids for her hair condition, but then surprises her mom, Mary when she asks permission to try-out fo...

  • A TASTE OF CHINA short film, audience reactions (interview)

    A TASTE OF CHINA, 15min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Adam Chhour
    A Chinese American immigrant couple arrives in America in 1999 to start a new life. They open a Chinese take-out in Philadelphia where they encounter new challenges to their lives. Aspirations and hopes that once pushed them to open the...

  • RARE LAND short film, audience reactions

    RARE LAND, 37min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Efthimis Hatzis
    Rare Land is an emotional journey of discovery from darkness into the light. On a beautiful summer day, Alexandros and his brother bike along a pier in a remote seaside village in Greece. As he bikes precariously close to the edge, Alexand...

  • THE HIVE short film, audience reactions

    THE HIVE, 10min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Marco Esteban Delgado (14 year old filmmaker)
    Two orphaned siblings try to take down a hypnotizing VR platform and discover a surprising secret on the way.

  • OCEAN CITY MONSTER BUILDING feature film, audience reactions (interview)

    OCEAN CITY MONSTER BUILDING, 90min., USA, Crime/Mystery
    Directed by Chris Lane
    The year is 1984, in a small sleepy town in upstate New York. The former mayor of the city is found dead on the backseat of his car with a local 15 year old girl. In the aftermath, his wife of 30 years and his adopted ...

  • RECOBA short film, audience reactions

    RECOBA, 9min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Alvaro Guzman Bastida
    Josué, a Honduran man going through his first New York winter, struggles to stay afloat in the US, where the immigration and labor systems have stacked the cards against him, while keeping the connection with his wife and son.

    https://...

  • FEMALE Directors Film Festival - June 17/18 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    MY FATHER, 6min,. USA, Thriller
    Directed by Logan Donald
    In order to provide for his family, Victorias father Hector made some bad decisions. She finds herself and her father kidnapped, knowing it will be up to her to get them out.

    THE SERVICE, 5min,. USA, Drama
    D...

  • SCREENPLAY TRAILER: Someone You Loved, by Allie Arnold

    TITLE of Script: Someone You Loved

    Author NAME: Allie Arnold

    Type of screenplay: Short

    Website or any relevant info: Here are some ideas for the type of singer/lead actor I would be looking for that you can include in the trailer:

    https://youtu.be/zxe3KxHWikM
    https://youtu.be/JO2xa_gU4bE
    http...

  • 5-A TASTE OF CHINA_review

  • COMEDY Shorts Festival - June 16/17 event

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    TAKEAWAY, 2min., USA
    Directed by Joe McGowan
    A couple can't decide what takeaway they want for dinner.

    PEOPLE, 9min., Brazil
    Directed by Maria Lagemann
    "People" tells two parallel stories. On a Sunday afternoon in Madrid, two young women have big decisions to make...

  • 6-RARE LAND_review