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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  • THE BITTER END short film, audience reactions (with director interview)

    THE BITTER END, 10min., USA, Film Noir
    Directed by Michael Duane Gibson
    A down on his luck detective settles in for one final drink at a bar but must first confront his past.

    http://videoisthefuture.com/
    https://facebook.com/videofuture
    https://instagram.com/videoisthefuture

    Get to know the fil...

  • NAVIGATING THE GREAT WHITE WAY film, audience reactions (director interview)

    NAVIGATING THE GREAT WHITE WAY, 30min., USA
    Directed by Jarred Bedgood
    Follow along with Jarred Bedgood (director) as he interviews four Broadway performers and writers during the height of the racial unrest and the covid shutdown in 2020.

    https://www.r1se-studios.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/R...

  • Gradually, Then Suddenly The Bankruptcy of Detroit, reactions (with interview)

    GRADUALLY, THEN SUDDENLY: THE BANKRUPTCY OF DETROIT, 93min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Sam Katz, James McGovern
    Once heralded as the spirit of American manufacturing, music and democracy, Detroit descended into disrepair and insolvency over five decades culminating in the largest municipal ban...

  • Twitter Short Story: 280 Characters, by Frankie Jones

    Performed by Val Cole

    Remy came home late after the party hosted by his wife ended in their house. Remy ate three cookies that were sitting out. Remy did not know they were marijuana edibles. After dozing off from watching tv Remy woke up having hilarious affects from the edibles, waking his wife.

  • Twitter Short Story: The Final Frontier, by Yolanda Reid

    Performed by Val Cole

    A Peds intern in Pittsburgh, I got preemies to our NICU from rural hospitals in PA and OH. Going one night, white snow blew past our ambulance windows, and I, a sleepy Trekkie, imagined our ambulance was a starship in warp. Suddenly, through the porthole of our bus, a road...

  • Twitter Short Story: THE SOUL REASON by Roy Tuck

    Performed by Val Cole

    A Peds intern in Pittsburgh, I got preemies to our NICU from rural hospitals in PA and OH. Going one night, white snow blew past our ambulance windows, and I, a sleepy Trekkie, imagined our ambulance was a starship in warp. Suddenly, through the porthole of our bus, a road ...

  • SHORT Story Reading: The Poor Kid. by Badradeen Mohammed

    Performed by Val Cole

    Genre: Life.

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your short story about?

    Is about life and fate.

    2. What genre(s) would you say this story is in?

    I would say life drama.

    3. How would you describe this story in two words?

    Very inspiring

    4. What movie have you seen the...

  • Twitter Short Story: A Helping Hand, by Yolanda Reid

    Performed by Val Cole

    Scientist Dad worked for NASA from 1961 to 2006, studying space weather and radiation for GSFC’s Theoretical Division. Though proud of the Apollo successes, he conceded that a partner in heaven helped when he got a letter addressed to him at the “Theological Division”.

  • Poetry Reading: Drop me off in the Wilderness, by K.C. Wilson

    Performed by Val Cole

    Drop Me Off in the Wilderness

    1

    Drop me off in the wilderness
    By the river shore where we were before
    By the abandoned shack by the railroad track
    Slow down and I’ll jump out the door
    And find my own way back, I guess,
    From the valley of excess
    And the Land of 10,000 Dan...

  • POETRY READING: Morning Dew, by Kyle Leighton

    Performed by Val Cole

    "Morning Dew" by Kyle Leighton

    And so it is, a new day has dawned
    As here I sit to greet it right
    A pebble, nay, a grain of sand
    In the depths of space on this land
    Tomorrow brings what we not know
    But care at all is nay we have
    For sorrow comes to those who wait
    Who lie...

  • SHORT Story Reading: Roaches, by David Creighton

    Comedic Magic Realism

    When Bridge Street Hostel's roaches learn to talk, expect big surprises.

  • POETRY READING: The Emperor's New Clothes, by Grace M.

    Performed by Val Cole

    The emperor’s new clothes, by Grace M.

    Submit to the view, submit to our view
    The ‘new way’ is the way, the ‘only way’
    To see, the emperor has a set of new clothes
    Unless you’re BLIND, BIGOTED, PREJUDICED…. blah blah blah.

    Humans for 2 million years, naturally evolving
    T...

  • POETRY Reading: A Mourning Hug for John Mendelssohn, by Stacy Alexander

    A Mourning Hug for John Mendelssohn
    A glowing day
    hell-orange
    Nimbostratus cloud
    hovers here,
    choking everything,
    from plants to crows
    to this disillusioned woman
    as a hard wind
    whips the cloying air,
    from Northern California,
    taunting an already-battered heart.
    This time last year
    I w...

  • SHORT Story Reading: That Time in Silver City, by John Klawitter

    Performed by Val Cole

    www.johnklawitter.com
    www.amazon.com/author/johnklawitter
    http://www.johnklawitter.blogspot.com/

  • SHORT Story Reading: Flight, by Yolanda Reid Chassiakos

    The flight of a young German of Greek descent to escape the Nazis. Survival and a search for peace in the worlds beyond Earth.

  • Poetry Reading: DEATH, by FERNANDO MAGELA DA SILVA

    Performed by Val Cole

    DEATH, by FERNANDO MAGELA DA SILVA

    From my most unbreakable certainty, I worship my most
    visceral doubt, the legacy of death, day by day, in
    seconds that drag on through my time, and to his
    throne, now I am attentive, now I am careless

    Death seems fair to me, it does not...

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  • SHORT FILM TRAILER: POP. 11min. Short. Directed by Brandon Victoriano

    As they prepare for a surprise birthday party, a heterosexual couple engage in a passive-aggressive and toxic dialogue that escalates into a violent and disturbing ending.

    Director Statement
    As an aspiring filmmaker, I hope to explore stories through my work that deal with subjects and groups no...

  • FILM TRAILER: One Step At A Time – A Journey of Hope, Commitment and Resilience

    https://youtu.be/_043vAPMSVI

    Michael McCulloch, a retired NASA engineer, would like to bring you along on an incredible journey – the 4-day trek along the Classic Inca Trail to one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, Machu Picchu, Peru. It is a little over 26 miles and scales two nearly 14,00...

  • FEATURE FILM TRAILER: SANKOFA CHICAGO. Directed by Vanessa Page Wright

    A documentary that reflects upon the importance of learning black history in order to shape a better future for our young black citizens, starting with Chicago.

    Director Biography - Vanessa Page Wright

    Vanessa Page Wright, M.A. is a former Talent Agent turned Filmmaker with a lifelong vision t...

  • Short Film Trailer: IN THE BIG YARD INSIDE THE TEENY-WEENY POCKET

    When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me.
    A charming animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting.

    https://www.yoko-yuki.com/
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  • FEATURE FILM TRAILER: UNVERIFIED, Directed by Scott Herriott

    Jason Sutherland wants to prove that such things as Sasquatches exist, but he doesn't want to kill one to do so. He and others come up with a non-lethal way to possibly verify their existence but a pro-kill advocate tries to beat them to the punch.

    https://www.facebook.com/squatchfilms.com
    https...

  • FEATURE FILM TRAILER: IT ALL BEGINS. Directed by Frédéric Choffat

    Sacrificed generation? At the beginning of 2019, young people are taking to the streets all over the world to warn of the climate emergency. In Switzerland, young people are demonstrating, blocking banks and questioning the system. As their voices begin to resonate, the arrival of the coronavirus...