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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  • REHUMANIZE feature film, audience reactions

    REHUMANIZE, 57min., USA
    Directed by Kelsey Darragh
    With its roots in indigenous practice and community, this is a documentary about the first ever sexual assault case in North American to be resolved using Restorative Justice through the court system. One woman tells her story of fighting to have...

  • SHE'S THIRSTY short film, audience reactions

    SHE'S THIRSTY, 9min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Caleigh Schaad
    18-year-old Michelle is having the night from Hell. A disappointing hookup, blisters from wearing heels all night, and to top it all off she has lost her cellphone. But, Michelle's night takes a turn when she stops to use a phone booth a...

  • DENE DRUM SONGS IN GAHNIHTHAH short film, audience reactions

    DENE DRUM SONGS IN GAHNIHTHAH, 11min., Canada
    Directed by Jonathan Antoine
    A short documentary on the Dene Drum in Gahn?? (Rabbitkettle).

  • BEAR VIEWING: KATMAI NATIONAL PARK, ALASKA short film, audience reactions

    BEAR VIEWING: KATMAI NATIONAL PARK, ALASKA, 12min., Canada, Documentary
    Directed by Karen Lang
    Katmai National Park and Preserve spans over 16,000 square kilometers and is an important habitat for salmon and a key feeding ground for bear. It is home to approximately 2000 grizzly or brown bear, w...

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRANNY short film, audience reactions

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRANNY, 8min., USA, Drama
    Directed by MaryLanae Linen
    Happy Birthday, Granny revolves around an African-American family in South LA celebrating their grandmother’s birthday when an argument leads to an honest discussion about the truth about the development and safety of the Covid...

  • IN THE VALLEY OF THE MOON short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    IN THE VALLEY OF THE MOON, 29min,. USA, Crime/Action
    Directed by Luca Massimiliano Pizzoleo
    In the Valley of the Moon, follows a young man working as a hitman for the Italian mob in 1977. He takes a job in Petaluma, California, posing as a potential buyer at an open house to confront the realtor ...

  • IRONSELF short film, audience reactions

    IRONSELF, 20min., Canada, Doc Adventure
    Directed by Tinthi Tembo
    After a near death overnight hiking experience, Eman – a Queer Egyptian hiker, shares their healing journey of re-exploring the magnificent mountains of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (also known as British Colum...

  • SCREENPLAY TRAILER: Wright, by Keyanna Wigglesworth

    Title of Script: WRIGHT

    Author Name: Keyanna Wigglesworth

    Type of Screenplay: TV Pilot

    Website: https://writers.coverfly.com/profile/writer-05e2dcaf9-27747

    Summary of Script:
    Based on the 2010 Fox Searchlight film JUST WRIGHT, this series
    adaptation chronicles the plight of physical therapist...

  • ROOTS ABOVE GROUND trailer

  • Short Film Trailer: YOUNG KINGS. Directed by Dr. Arshley Emile, Jonathan Banks

    http://www.youngkingsfilm.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/journeybrave/

    YOUNG KINGS, 23min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Dr. Arshley Emile, Jonathan Banks
    From Ponce De Leon to Ralph David Abernathy, bike culture is pumping hard through the heart of Atlanta. Whether pulling clutches or pushing p...

  • Short Film Trailer: SANCTUARY OF HER. Directed by Geoff Poister

    SANCTUARY OF HER, 26min., USA
    Directed by Geoff Poister
    Two identical twin sisters from Iran create mesmerizing paintings that reflect a major conflict in their lives. Physically, they are two people. But psychologically they feel they are one. The single persona cannot exist in the real world, s...

  • Short Film Trailer: CRACKS IN THE FOUNDATION.

    CRACKS IN THE FOUNDATION, 9min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Tessie McCoy, Tajianna Okechukwu
    Cracks in the Foundation is a short drama that explores generational trauma through the lens of a Black woman as she strives to prevent toxic cycles from happening within in her family.


    Director Statement
    ...

  • Short Film Trailer: THE FULL CATASTROPHE. Created by Yolanda Reid Chassiakos

    THE FULL CATASTROPHE, 4min,. USA, Documentary
    Directed by Yolanda Reid Chassiakos
    Ethnic Cleansing in Smyrna, 1922: A Family's Odyssey

    http://www.amphitritepublishing.com/

  • Short Film Trailer: MODUS OPERANDI: BRISBANE'S RIPPER SUSPECT

    MODUS OPERANDI: BRISBANE'S RIPPER SUSPECT, 8min., Australia, Documentary
    Directed by David Hodkinson, Alice Walker
    A student film that explores a myth of over 130 years. Did 'Jack The Ripper' flee to Australia and lay to rest in Brisbane's Toowong Cemetery?

    https://dghfilms.com.au
    https://www.in...

  • Short Film Trailer: Queer Mongol. Directed by Brandt Miller

    QUEER MONGOL, 16min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Brandt Miller
    Queer Mongol follows four characters over the course of Mongolia's LGBTQ+ Pride Festival, who embody a diversity of gender and sexual identities. The film is a meditation on queerness in the non-west and a nuanced glimpse into a nas...

  • Short Film Trailer: THE GOING. Directed by Mairin O'Hagan

    http://www.queyntelaydies.com/the-going
    https://instagram.com/queyntelaydies
    https://twitter.com/queyntelaydies
    https://facebook.com/pg/queyntelaydies

    Directed by Mairin O'Hagan

    “Why do you make me leave the house
    And think for a breath it is you I see”
    The Going, Thomas Hardy

    It’s been 6 mon...

  • SCREENPLAY MOVIE: THE RINGMISTRESS, by Pamela PerryGoulardt

    A funambulist battles gem smugglers, pirates, her estranged mother, and the Russian mob, to win the Golden Clown at the Monte Carlo Circus Festival.

    Visual Design by Steve Rizzo
    Produced by Matthew Toffolo

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Juliette/Dauphine: Kyana Teresa
    Ivan: ...

  • Feature Film Trailer: WE'RE NOT GOING BACK! Directed by Pamela Torrance

    WE'RE NOT GOING BACK!, 79min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Pamela Torrance
    Pro-choice documentary film to promote awareness of what's at stake before and now that Roe v Wade has been overturned.

    https://torranceproductions.com/were-not-going-back-1
    https://www.facebook.com/RoeRoeRoeYourVote
    htt...

  • Short Film Trailer: ATARAXIA. Directed by Haley Seppa

    ATARAXIA, 15min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Haley Seppa
    Ataraxia is a film about 32-year-old female-bodied, queer identified photographer, Mickey, who, due to experiences with trauma and rape as a teenager, has built her adult life around making “safe” choices and hiding behind the lens of her camer...

  • Feature Film Trailer: Raising Global Citizens. Directed by Joel Primus

    RAISING GLOBAL CITIZENS, 80min., Canada, Adventure Documentary
    Directed by Joel Primus
    A couple with two young children decide to embark on a year long journey across the world, travelling through Argentina, Colombia, The Yukon, Vietnam and Lebanon, in hopes of learning how parenting and world tr...

  • Short Film Trailer: PIT & PENDULUM. Directed by J. Aldric Gaudet

    PIT & PENDULUM, 27min., Canada, Drama/Horror
    Directed by J. Aldric Gaudet
    It is the terrorizing story of a person sentenced to death who becomes the plaything of their jailers. They are sent walking through a dark room in hopes they will fall into a pit. When that doesn’t happen they are tied dow...

  • Short Film Trailer: Rangers of the Ulaan Taiga. Directed by Eric Daft

    RANGERS OF THE ULAAN TAIGA, 14min., Mongolia
    Directed by Eric Daft
    A short documentary telling the stories of the Rangers who have dedicated their lives to the national parks and protected areas of Mongolia.

    http://www.fishercreative.com/

  • Short Film Trailer: FREEMAN HOSPITALITY. Directed by Michael Cooke

    FREEMAN HOSPITALITY, 20min., USA, Sci-Fi/Action
    Directed by Michael Cooke
    A black family-run security firm escorts a foreign journalist into the war-torn badlands of South Georgia to interview a local tyrant.

    http://www.freemanhospitality.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/freemanhospitality/

  • RELATIONSHIP DRAMA Film Festival - Nov. 14/15 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    WHITE FEMALE, 10min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Sarah Falkiner
    “Two childhood friends realize their lifelong connection was much more fragile than either imagined.”

    https://shytownsugar.com/

    NEIN FRIENDS, 14min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Lily Micheline Kaplan
    A colleg...