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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  • 1st Scene Script Reading: The Cherry Luna, by Julia M. Sauder

    Jan is going through a lot of changes this holiday season. She may or may not be a werewolf, and she is definitely discovering her sexuality, whether she likes it or not.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Little Old Lady/Mrs. Zimmerman: Hannah Ehman
    Jan: Kyana Teresa
    Marshall/Lucas: Steve Rizzo -

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: Ten to Midnight, by M Mantero De las Casas

    Dead set on her environmental mission, a quixotic civil servant assembles a ragtag team of multinational oddballs to fight the system from within

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Mara: Val Cole
    Reporter/Luiza: Hannah Ehman
    Freya: Kyana Teresa

  • LA Festival 1st Scene Script: Suspend Your Disbelief, by Conor Hanney

    A group of neurodiverse teens learns empathy through improv from the worst person in school.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Mia: Kyana Teresa
    Mr. Early: Steve Rizzo
    Girl #1/2: Hannah Ehman

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Smoking Mirrors, by Jonah McKenzie Howell

    In 1880s Texas, Pinkerton agents John and Henry are tasked with apprehending members of an Aztec cult. But when they become stranded in the desert with the cult's leader, the three men embark on a spiritual journey that forces them to question who their allegiances really lie with.

    CAST LIST:

    ...

  • DRAMA Festival 1st Scene Read: Stoney Saves Christmas, by Lisa Johnson Mitchell

    Lars Johansson was once a North Pole explorer, but after his last trip in 1986 where he lost his furry pal Critter and they barely made out alive, he's hung up his explorer boots for a slightly tamer life at Tamarack Lodge in Ely, Minnesota. In charge of a team of dogs and renting out the lodge f...

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Best Scene Reading: LENA'S RULES, by Ken Comer

    WHEN A DETECTIVE'S YOUNG PARTNER IS BRUTALLY MURDERED IN AN AMBUSH. HER CAMPAIGN OF REVENGE TURNS INTO AN ACT OF REDEMPTION.

    CAST :LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Paz: Kyana Teresa
    Lena: Hannah Ehman
    Deputy Chief Man: Steve Rizzo
    Lt. Mann: Sean Ballantyne

  • FAN FICTION Festival 1st Scene Reading: New Gotham, by Duane Piedmont

    When Bruce Wayne dies leaving Gotham City a decaying and violent shell of its former self, Richard Grayson unites the remaining Robins to continue the fight. But this time heroes are taking the gloves to take on criminals on their lawless level.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator/Nurse: Kyana Teresa
    Voice/R...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival Best Scene Reading: Saviours, by Guy Ducker

    An alien force, having occupied Earth to save us from corrupt governments and fix our broken climate, appoints Claire Burgess—an honest but inexperienced Green Party MP—as interim Prime Minister of the UK. Meanwhile, Trevor Daunt—a disgraced minister on the run—founds a resistance movement aiming...

  • ROMANCE Festival reading: Nora and George, by Katherine Saviana (interview)

    A woman attempts to balance her life as a struggling mother and wife with a burning need to tell her Oma's epic war-time love story, but the balancing act proves elusive and has life-altering consequences.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Lucy: Hannah Ehman
    Hannah: Kyana Teresa
    Jack: Steve Riz...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Reading: Lost in the Snow, by Larry Gene Fortin

    Spiraling down, Mona Lisa, aka Marvin, is drowning in a world of drugs and drag.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Elkie Hall: Steve Rizzo
    Mona Lisa : Kyana Teresa

  • TV Festival 1st Scene Reading: NEW OLYMPUS, by Matthew Nicholson

    "The reluctant modern-day descendant of Pandora vows to trap all of the Original Evils back inside her ancestor's cursed box once and for all. Can she claim her destiny as the new owner of Pandora's box before her hometown is overrun by evil?"

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Young Liz/Liz: Kyan...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Reading: Hungry Hearts, by Ryan O’Leary

    In the early 90’s, two men, a disgruntled Cop and a self-loathing Crook, play the city’s criminal underground and corrupt police department against each other in the pursuit of justice, money and, most dangerously, their budding love.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Kyana Teresa
    Spud: Steve Rizzo
    Stra...

  • EXPERIMENTAL/MUSIC Film Festival - Nov. 28/29 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    BEAT, 11min,. Canada, Experimental
    Directed by Martin Daigle, Sylvain Pohu
    To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse, to strike against repeatedly and with force, To shape or break by repeated blows, to defeat or subdue, and many other meanings of the word b...

  • UNDER 5 Minute Festival - Nov. 27/28 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    THE STRANGER, 4min., Austria, Thriller
    Directed by Kober Martin
    Visit from a stranger.

    https://youtu.be/dRMGrISqs8g

    AFTER THE REIGN: CONFUSION, 1min., USA, Experimental
    Directed by Jennifer Scully-Thurston
    This is a one minute dance film interpretation of a woman...

  • ENVIRONMENTAL Festival - Nov. 24/25 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    A POLAR BEAR STORY, 4min., USA, Animation
    Directed by Vanessa Nilsson
    A Polar Bear Story is a 3D animated short film that comments on climate change and how it is the primary threat to polar bears as the arctic warms and sea ice disappears. The story follows a youn...

  • WALKER short film, audience reactions

    WALKER, 25min., Czech Republic, Crime/Thriller
    Directed by Petr Hastik
    Nature, miles away from civilization, is the home of Adam Hahn, the film's protagonist. Every day he sets out on long walks into the unknown, where he gathers ingredients for his work and enjoys undisturbed silence. Adam does ...

  • DARK ENERGY short film, audience reactions

    DARK ENERGY, 14min., USA, Crime/Comedy
    Directed by Christy Summerhays
    Book club friends contemplate life, religion, and existence in this dark comedy about just how far women will go to protect one another.

  • UN ESPECTADOR short film, audience reactions

    UN ESPECTADOR, 17min., USA, Thriller
    Directed by Juan Pablo Palacios
    A plumber is called to fix a leak in a woman's apartment, but unbeknownst to him, he ends up walking into a scenario in which a man has forced himself into her home, pretending to be her husband.

    https://www.instagram.com/un.es...

  • MiMi short film, audience reactions

    MIMI, 21min., Vietnam, Horror
    Directed by Lam Vissay
    MIMI, an AI smart device, goes rogue after connecting to the brain waves of its owner.

    Director Statement
    We live in a world where smartphones have become essential in our everyday lives. Technology addiction is on the rise and instances where...

  • SAVE MY MAMA short film, audience reactions

    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.

  • BAD THINGS IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE feature film (director interview)

    BAD THINGS IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, 90min., Ireland, Crime/Horror
    Directed by Garry Walsh
    A group of criminals lay low in the remote Irish countryside after pulling off an audacious robbery. As they plan their escape they quickly realise the robbery will be the last thing to go right for them.

    ...

  • GPS short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    GPS, 10min., USA, Comedy/Drama
    Directed by Nell Dashiell
    Kim and Jamie – an upscale, young urban couple – have just arrived home after an evening out with friends when Kim hears a noise. Fearing that a burglar may be prowling around downstairs, Kim dispatches Jamie to investigate. As it happens, ...