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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  • TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: My Life In Three Easy Payments, by Dale Madison, Breeze Vincinz, Darryl LeMont Wharton-Rigby

    A TV shopping host finds love in all the wrong places as he seeks fame, fortune, and acceptance- eventually discovering his true calling…a drag queen

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Ricky: Sean Ballantyne
    Dale: Shawn Devlin
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  • Vaveyla Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DRAMA Film Festival

    VAVEYLA, 10min., Turkey, Drama
    Directed by Kenan Karayaz
    The story set in an unnamed school begins with a teacherentering the school with an olive sapling. Parents enter the classroom with boxes, each of different sizes, each symbolizing a different student, and deliver the boxes to the teacher. ...

  • SHORT Screenplay Reading: 1 PAGE DRUG DEAL, by Franco Duerme

    Type of Story: Crime Drama

    Synopsis: A drug dealer completes a deal with a college student and both end up learning a bit about each other.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Derrick: Allan Michael Brunet
    Marcus: Steve Rizzo
    Student: Andy Camp
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  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Reading: Baby Queen, by Max Rasmussen

    10-year-old drag queen Darien the Librarian dreams of going viral, but when the top child agent in Milwaukee launches their career in the lucrative and booming drag industry, their single gay father must rescue them from the murky depths of local fame.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: Trans-Human, by Leon Masters

    SYNOPSIS:

    In a world where humanoid robots coexist somewhat peacefully with men and women, Artemis is an innocent robot who has a wholesome father-daughter relationship with her creator William Moore.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Ros Morriss
    Hal: Sean Ballantyne
    Blake: Shawn Devlin
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  • 1st Scene Reading: Rocket Number Nine, by Alexander McCoy

    LOGLINE: A young man, Kojo grapples with his past and immense loss.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Kojo: Sean Ballantyne
    Band: Andy Camp
    Santos/Tall Worker: Geoff Mays
    Caster: Shawn Devlin
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  • LGBTQ+ Festival TV BEST Scene Reading: Perdition, by Leon Masters

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Lily: Kyana Teresa
    Roxane: Julie Sheppard
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  • COMEDY Festival SHORT Screenplay Reading: The Eye Of Doris, by Cynthia M. Uhrich

    In this dark comedy, Gillian, a skeptical client with a difficult disposition meets her match when Doris--an occult shop psychic---predicts a series of unsavory events for Gillian's future.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Doris: Hannah Ehman
    Gillian: Kyana Teresa
    Mortie: Allan Michael Brunet
    ...

  • Aria (Air) Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 FEMALE Film Festival

    ARIA (AIR), 3min., Italy, Experimental
    Directed by Brace Beltempo e Barbara Sirotti
    How are relationships changing during lockdown? Is time, still and truly, the only thing missing to understand each other?
    So easily as a makeup mask following down her eyes, a woman tells her true shocking story,...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Hacks: New York New York, by Shannon H Constantine

    Deborah and Ava go to New York to reunite with one of Deborah's old comedy chums, and realize that the two of them need each other more than they ever thought.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Deborah: Hannah Ehman
    Jimmy: Geoff Mays
    Ava: Kyana Teresa
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  • SPORTS Festival BEST Scene: SLEDGEHAMMER, by Vinny Smith

    A former tennis champion, now a rough and rowdy Las Vegas cocktail waitress, enters the US Open in an effort to win her way out of trouble with the FBI, navigating the world of biker gangs and Russian mobsters along the way.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Agent: Geoff Mays
    Charlie: ...

  • ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Dancing In Place, by Jeanne Dukes

    Escalating mutual interest between middle-aged neighbors gets complicated when he suddenly remembers their brief and awkward teen summer romance, but she doesn't recognize him. As he devises a plan to stir her memory, painful secrets from the past threaten to keep them apart.

    CAST LIST:

    Narr...

  • STUDENT Festival TV 1st Scene: Sous, by Joel Galanti

    Billy, a young cook, must prove he has what it takes to work in the prestigious kitchen of a belligerent head chef.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Jalen/Chef: Sean Ballantyne
    Nikole: Hannah Ehman
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  • Racism Has No Home Here Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DIVERSITY Film Festival

    RACISM HAS NO HOME HERE, 3min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Rylee Landau
    This documentary short is Jen Schatzman's story behind the grassroots effort called Racism Has No Home Here—an organization that is all about connecting, educating, and empowering communities to put a stake in the ground s...

  • A Couple Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 STUDENT Film Festival

    A COUPLE, 22min., Italy, Romance
    Directed by Davide Petrosino
    Diego and Anna dated for two years. After they broke up, they moved to different cities. Now they meet again in Rome for a concert and they decide to spend the day together while waiting for the concert to get started. During those hou...

  • SCI-FI Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: Sky City Haya, by Adad Joel Warda

    A tormented bounty hunter must track down his old flame's heroic husband to stop the word's first sky city from collapsing.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Riguirdo: Shawn Devlin
    Captain Voice/Security Guard: Geoff Mays
    Adrien/Baatar: Sean Ballantyne
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  • 1st Scene Script Reading: The Calling, by Steven Bogart

    Summary:
    John, a hospital director, raises his socially awkward daughter, Frankie by himself.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Frankie: Hannah Ehman
    Ali/Sophie: Kyana Teresa
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  • COMEDY Festival BEST Scene Reading: Bad Romance, by Chad Wellinger

    A paperback romance fanatic who strives to pen a novel of her own but has no real-life experience to draw upon recruits a playboy Casanova for a crash course in hot and heavy.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Heath: Geoff Mays
    Astrid: Hannah Ehman
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  • SHORT Screenplay Reading: A Rock And A Hard Place, by Kinsey Kunkel

    A dark comedy about a pair of men trapped in a cave after a tunnel collapse.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Sage: Allan Michael Brunet
    Henry: Steve Rizzo
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  • SHORT Screenplay Reading: Strewn Porcelain Dolls, by Michael Lane

    TYPE OF STORY: An almost coming of age story.

    SYNOPSIS: JIMMY CRAMPOWITZ has reached boiling point with his mom, GERTRUDE CRAMPOWITZ. . She has brought him up properly- to be polite, punctual and to be very 'woke'. Except she hasn't given him involved love since forever. Today, Jimmy becomes ...

  • SHORT Screenplay Reading: George Martin, by Dayle Doods

    Comedy

    George and Martin face a burglar.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    George: Allan Michael Brunet
    Martin: Steve Rizzo
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  • WINNING Short Script Reading: SPOTTY: A TORTOISE IN THE ERA OF COVID-19, by Paul Frift

    Spotty is a tortoise. When Covid-19 arrives, he sees a chance to escape captivity.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Spotty: Allan Michael Brunet
    Male Prison Guard: Andy Camp
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  • LGBTQ+ Festival TV BEST Scene Reading: MISS FORTUNE, by Breeze Vincinz

    A thieving ex-con attends twelve-step meetings to deal with her relationship with money, her fledging L.A. based dispensary staffed exclusively with African American women, her relationships with her ex-girlfriends, and a system that is trying to lock her back up.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Ri...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: RESIDENCY, by Natalie Lomske

    Residency is a drama about ambitious, paraplegic, surgical resident Amelia Walters who transfers to a renowned hospital and must find a balance between the demands of her career, relationships, and disability.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Kyana Teresa
    Amelia: Hannah Ehman
    Alex: Geoff Mays
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