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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  • UNBELIEVABLE! THE ART WILLIAMS STORY short film (director interview)

    UNBELIEVABLE! THE ART WILLIAMS STORY, 29min., Documentary
    Directed by Edward C. Bartel II
    “Unbelievable!" provides the audience with a glimpse into the life of Art Williams. From his humble beginnings working alongside his mother and father in the cotton fields at the tender age of four, to his f...

  • BIOPIXELS animation short, audience reactions (director interview)

    BIOPIXELS, 4min., USA, Animation
    Directed by Kristina Dutton
    Butterflies and moths comprise 12% of all species known to man (180,000 species!), and their seemingly endless biodiversity is visually translated on their wings through color and pattern variation. Incredibly, we humans share these spe...

  • OUT OF TIME short film, audience reactions

    OUT OF TIME, 9min,. France, Drama
    Directed by Delpline Montaigne
    This time, Felix is risking a lot. The director summoned his mother and threatened to deny him the access to the establishment. But what could Felix have done? And what kind of establishment is it exactly?

    https://www.unifrance.org...

  • DAWN: A CHARLESTON LEGEND short film, audience reactions

    DAWN: A CHARLESTON LEGEND, 34min., USA
    Directed by Ron Davis
    Dawn Langley Simmons was one of the first transgender and interracial marriage pioneers. Dawn’s story was one in which mystery and legend swirled, even to this day. She was the author of more than 20 books. She was the adopted daughter ...

  • LAND BEFORE LAND short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    LAND BEFORE LAND, 10min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Steve Bransford
    There were massive transformations of Southern U.S. landscapes in the 19th and 20th centuries in relatively short timeframes. Today those changes are hard to see and are rarely memorialized on the land.

    Get to know the filmma...

  • MY LOVERS ARE A COLLECTION OF BOOKS I'LL NEVER GET BACK short film

    MY LOVERS ARE A COLLECTION OF BOOKS I'LL NEVER GET BACK, 12min,. USA, Romance
    Directed by Jess Coles
    A weary actor falls for her doppelgänger at an audition.

    Director Statement
    The impetus for this film was the time I got ghosted by my own doppelgänger. Two small brunettes routinely mistaken fo...

  • LAZARUS short film, audience reactions

    LAZARUS, 38min,. Germany, Dance
    Directed by Raphael Hahn
    Lazarus is a film album by Nikolai Kemeny that refines the symbiosis of jazz and tap dance. In this 40-minute dance film, documentary footage blends artful, contemporary, urban culture and vibrant harmonies of world music traditions. In col...

  • THE SOUL OF SICILY short film, audience reactions

    THE SOUL OF SICILY, 34min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Margie Raimondo
    The food we eat connects us to a vast web --from farmers to producers - involved in getting food from farm to fork. We probably don’t pause to think about it while eating an apple or cheese, but this global food system is ce...

  • SALVAR short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    SALVAR, 29min., South Korea, Crime/Mystery
    Directed by Sangwook Ahn
    Su-hyeong, who visited the shrine after asking around to find his missing mother, meets Grandmother Shin, a shaman, there. She says he was possessed by an evil, so he needs a salpuri(exorcism). In the process, it turns out that h...

  • GORDITX short film, audience reactions

    GORDITX, 15min., USA, Comedy
    Directed by Malik Ever
    As summer comes to a close, kung-fu obsessed Ursula discovers she’s not the only outcast at an exclusive country club summer camp. With the kids’ golf tournament looming, Ursula hopes to win and prove her worth with the help of Chef Cormac, the ...

  • A RALLY FOR RANGERS short film, audience reactions

    A RALLY FOR RANGERS, 52min., USA
    Directed by Eric Daft
    Park rangers are the heroes on the front lines of conservation, yet in many parks across the globe they are often under-appreciated, and under-equipped. As a foundation, Rally for rangers seeks to empower park rangers, as well as raise awaren...

  • UNDER WATER short film, audience reactions

    UNDER WATER, 6min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Ziru Wang
    10 years after Hurricane Sandy, how the infrastructure under water will survive, is still a challenge.

  • LITTLE DRUMMER BOY short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, 15min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Sam Moore
    In this romantic, short film, Donielle is stressed out and tired of the constant flirtation from her co-worker, Terrel and her passive aggressive boss, Mr. Smith. She runs into skater boy, Jake, who takes her on an adventure of a lifeti...

  • WHY I'M NOT A BASKETBALL PLAYER audience reactions (director. interview)

    WHY I'M NOT A BASKETBALL PLAYER, 110min., Israel, Documentary
    Directed by Alon Weinstock
    A ballad of love, pain and gratitude to basketball and the life around it.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film ?
    It was my dream to make a documentary that will try to answ...

  • SPEED RUN short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    SPEED RUN, 23min,. USA, Drama
    Directed by Justin Ho
    Kyle, longing for a better life, can only express his true feelings in a newly developed VR game.

    Director Statement
    Maybe it's escapism, maybe it's yearning, maybe it's loneliness. Perhaps all is to much to hold, and ideas of fictional possibi...

  • GRANITE JAW short film, audience reactions

    GRANITE JAW, 6min., Canada, Documentary
    Directed by Conner Nikides
    A heavyweight boxer training on his boxing bag as he thinks of the fights he has had in the past and is going to have.
    A man with a granite jaw.

    https://www.instagram.com/connernikides/?hl=en

  • WALLS BENEATH OUR FEET short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    WALLS BENEATH OUR FEET, 5min., Finland, Experimental
    Directed by Antti Suniala
    Circus short film exploring urban life from unexpected angles. Inspired by the Pasila Street Art District in Helsinki. Collaboration between Race Horse Company, music producer RRKK and the Helsinki Urban Art.\

    https:/...

  • TRIAPHIE short film, audience reactions

    TRIAPHIE, 14min., Austria, Documentary
    Directed by Matthaeus Weissenbacher
    Manfred Eder had suffered from chronic asthma since he was 18 months old. His whole life he took strong medicine like cortisones, to compete the asthma. At times the side effects were as bad as the sickness, Manfred says.
    ...

  • BARE METAL short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    BARE METAL, 10min., USA,
    Directed by Brandon Robert Gries, Ryan Freng, John Shoemaker
    Microsoft, Google, META, and AWS are some of the biggest single-power consumers in the world. Along with other digital infrastructure companies’ consumption, they make up 2.4% of the world's energy use. This fi...

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  • L I M B O short film, audience reactions

    L I M B O, 13min., Finland, Horror/Dance
    Directed by Christoffer Collina
    A fugitive of time and space escapes the demons of his past, present and future in a dantesque ordeal.

    Director Statement
    LIMBO is a two-part short film that mixes together contemporary dance, genre film as well as experime...

  • YOUR BREAKFAST short film, audience reactions

    YOUR BREAKFAST, 25min., China, Drama
    Directed by Alejandro Montero
    Fang, an enthusiastic young street-food cook, wakes up early every morning to prepare a special breakfast for a costumer with whom he is secretly in love. While trying to gain her heart with this food, he struggles to get the cour...