New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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BEST SCENE: The Problem With Moon Men, by Robert Marshall Tartell
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss -
Ross: Allan Michael
Jill: Hannah Ehman -
1pg Script Reading: A Page in the Mind, by Kevin Orzel
Genre: Comedy
This was a fun challenge, thanks for putting this together!
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Ego: Hannah Ehman
Super-Ego: Val Cole -
1pg. Script Reading: Brohst, by Gabby Etzel
Horror-Comedy
Dude... This paranormal investigator is totally desperate for evidence.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Tank: Steve Rizzo
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FAN FICTION Festival Screenplay: Stranger Things Spec Reading, by Teddy Cadieux
In an imagined S3 opener, the older kids contend with a summer slinging ice cream and the younger kids struggle to come up with the money to buy a new D&D campaign book.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Night Custodian: Steve Rizzo
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Script Read: The Legend of the Mermaid Tree, by Addie Dobson (writer interview)
'The Legend of the Mermaid Tree’ is a romance period piece bridging the past to the present on St. Simons Island. Joshua, a goal driven analyst, finally gets the opportunity for a promotion, but has to return to the island after hearing of his grandfather's untimely death. As he packs his grandfa...
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Female Festival Script Reading: 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: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Luiza: Hannah Ehman
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POLITICAL Festival Script Reading: Show me your Teeth, by Scott Liapis
An undocumented migrant worker on the run from a pack of bloodthirsty vampires, moves to a small meat-packing town in Nebraska in hopes of giving her son a better life. But the increasingly volatile relationship between Mexican workers and white locals might prove a breaking point for them both.
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SHORT Script Reading: Standing in Line, by Jules Corriere (writer interview)
Sam is standing in line at the grocery store with his grandson when an incident sparks a memory, and Sam is stunned as he watches the Food Lion transform into the haunting landscape of Auschwitz he escaped seventy years ago.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Sam: Sean Ballantyne
Buddy/Mr. Lo... -
Script: Stoney Saves Christmas, by Lisa Johnson Mitchell & Sara Lundell Wahl
Paul Snow 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 for to...
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1pg. Script Read: Amour de Faux, by Floyd Stephen Alexander (writer interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Camplin: Sean Ballantyne
Gila: Hannah EhmanGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
A husband and wife college teachers engage in ancient sexual rituals for pleasure and exploration. They have interest in bringing others into their pleas...
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1pg. Script Reading: She Died Laughing, by Mark Mc Quown
Genre – Dramedy
Synopsis - A married couple start to tell each other the real truths of their lives.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Trea: Hannah Ehman
Oscar: Steve Rizzo -
Toronto Comedy Festival Script Reading: SUPERLATIVE PICKLEBALLS!, by Dan Beeman
When disgraced former tennis champion loses his job, home, and mother on the same day, he must reinvent himself by reuniting with his former rival to compete in Pickleball tournaments for money as teammates to pay off debts. Living in an old RV while traveling across the country, they discover th...
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1st scene screenplay: Marah From Eilat, by Lyter Danielson
A well respected Detective must face the consequences after he makes a deal with the Devil.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Damiano: Steve Rizzo
Gasparo: Allan Michael
Marah: Kyana Teresa -
THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival Script Reading: MAKWA, by Johnny Cole
A free-spirited indigenous bounty hunter teams up with her ‘by the book’ detective father and their robot sidekick to catch a killer and heal: themselves, each other, and the planet.
In a near-dystopian future, Alaska Rainmaker, a Native American bounty hunter still troubled by her mother's murd...
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1pg. Script Reading: Cyn of Omission, by Obediya Jones-Darrell
Set in the 1950's this story follows Cynthia Richards, an unassuming secretary, who is thrust into the role of detective on a provisional basis. While trying to overcome her own well hidden self doubts she must fight to prove herself everyday to her co-workers and most importantly, herself.
Neo...
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LGBTQ+ Festival SHORT Screenplay: ABLAZE, by Jenny Goddard-Garcia
Born into a society that punishes the different, eighteen-year-old Kalinda struggles to maintain her secret ability to breathe flames, as a chance encounter with a group of amateur fire dancers tempts her to risk living a life that burns brightly.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Zoey/Peggy: Ha... -
SHORT Screenplay Reading: Anger Management, by Robert Marshall Tartell
Anger Management is a comedy in which an angry man seeking treatment finds an unusual cure for his problem.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Man with Magazine: Sean Ballantyne
Restless Man: Steve Rizzo
Receptionist: Kyana Teresa
Ireland: Allan Michael -
LA LGBTQ+ Festival Script Reading: A Place on Earth, by Omar Hakim
The gay son of an imam returns home for the last ten days of Ramadan, the holiest time of the year. He brings his Muslim boyfriend back with him, and together they must hide their relationship while navigating hanger, arranged marriages, and keeping up appearances for an important donor to the mo...
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1pg. Short Screenplay: READY FOR IT, by Richard P. DiPietro
Drama
CAST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Marco: Steve Rizzo
Paco: Sean Ballantyne -
DIVERSITY Best Scene Reading: Esperanza, by David Christopher Loya
In 1973 L.A., a spirited Chicano family rock band is discovered by an ambitious record exec. Catapulted on a rollercoaster journey from the barrios to pop stardom, they must rely upon their heart, talent, and street smarts if they’re to survive the prevalent racism, intolerance, sexual predation,...
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Toronto Comedy Festival Script Reading: Big Time, by Rhiannon M Koehler
Based on the Isabella Gardner Museum theft: after a hard-scrabble kid from Boston's North End becomes indebted to the mob, he's coerced into spearheading the largest art heist in history.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Bobby: Steve Rizzo
Lenny: Allan Michael -
1pg. Script Reading: McHappiest, by Andrés García Uyabán
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Brad: Sean Ballantyne
Mother/Woman: Hannah Ehman
Cashier: Val Cole -
SHORT Screenplay Reading: BILLY, by David Creighton (screenwriter interview)
In this satirical look at over-positive parenting, a desperate teacher tries to explain a student's litany of crimes to a couple who can see no wrong. It's Modern Family meets SNL.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Teacher: Steve Rizzo
Pakistani Mother/Terri: Kyana Teresa
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1st Scene Reading: THE RINGMISTRESS, by Pamela PerryGoulardt (writer interview)
A funambulist battles gem smugglers, pirates, her estranged mother, and the Russian mob, to win the Golden Clown at the Monte Carlo Circus Festival.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Juliette/Dauphine: Kyana Teresa
Ivan: Allan MichaelGet to know the writer:
1. What is your ...