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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  • 5476 MILES, 4min., UK, Animation/Music Video

    A handmade paper stop motion music video that tells the story of a lonely starling waiting for love in an adventure that takes him from land to sky to under the sea.

    Directed by Terry Thomas

    Music by Nigel Thomas

  • LEMONS, 2min., USA, Animation/Family

    "Lemons" is a minute and half long short film which explores the idea of perfection, and the pursuit of perfection. Of course perfection is hard to achieve and even if we cross our t's and dot our i's sometimes it doesn't work out. "Lemon" also speaks to what failure could feel like, and what it ...

  • February 2022 Daily Film Festival Trailers - WILDsound TV APP

  • THE ONE THAT ROLLED AWAY, 7min., USA, Comedy/Romance

    Writer/Director/Producer: Jared LaPine & Wil Granderos

    Cast: Timothy Granderos, Chelsea, Aldean

  • LADY BE GOOD, 6min., USA, Dance/Music Video

    A bartender reflects on one unforgettable night.

    Directors: James Kinney and Pierre Marais

    Producer: Straighten Your Crown Productions

    CAST: Skye Mattox, Caleb Marshall, Ahmad Simmons, Alex Nordin, Jess LeProtto, Ramone Owens, Nathan Keen, Christian Borle

    Lighting Designer: Curtis Shields

    Wa...

  • ANYONE, 5min., USA, Dance

    A young woman, searching.

    Directed by James Kinney

    Produced by Nicole LaFountaine

    Cast: Ryan Steele, Yesenia Ayala, Jessica Lee Goldyn, Blake Zeleznikar, Caleb Marshall, Arisa Odaka, Michael Graceffa, Cajai Fellows, Connor Schwantes,

    Director Statement
    Twelve years ago, I was commissioned to...

  • DREAM ABOUT ME, 4min., USA, Experimental/Poetic

    A poetic reflection of a broken friendship

    Written & Directed by Juan Aragon

    Described by one contemporary as Visual Poetry, Dream About Me is the type of film no person wants to ever make. It is a deluge of raw, unfiltered emotions towards those we loved, but abandoned us.

    While originally w...

  • ART IS ANGST, 5min., Sweden, Animation

    The frustrated artist is trying to make a painting of a model.
    He doesn´t find the model doing very well though, and his frustration rapidly rises, until finally he comes up with an especially distinct solution

    Director/Animator: Björn Granberg Ahlmark

  • GORILLA IN THE WASHING MACHINE, 8min., Estonia, Animation

    Late at night, there are animals minding their own business beside a lake. Some of them meet at the end, and then they drink tea and making sticky rice happily together ever since.

    NB: This is a film built entirely on sex metaphors, view with caution.

    Animator/Directed by Huei Jen, Hung

    Produ...

  • ANOMALY 4, 18min., UK, Animation/Experimental

    There is no singular way to sum up this work. It does not really want to be explained by an elucidating text; it wants to rest in the medium that shapes it. It does not follow a convention of story telling that governs cinema. What it does follow is a freewheeling set of associations and the vaga...

  • ALWAYS THE SUN, 9min., UK, Experimental/Black & White

    A short film based on a poem: always the sun by Keith Sargent. Wilderness, illness and the great British cretinocracy.

    Written & Directed by Keith Sargent

    Key Cast: Lindsay Seers

  • DAMNED IF I DO, 8min., USA, Comedy/Black & White

    A custodian has to assess his morals after learning that his relationship isn't what it appears to be.

    Written & Directed by Jacob Samuels

    Cast: J.K. Robbins, Mallory Gonyea, Graham Luker

    Director Statement

    The idea behind this film came to me when feeling intense jealousy and overwhelming em...

  • DEBUT, 12min., Sweden, Comedy/Drama

    The day before the debut of her first major theatre production, an ambitious theatre director, Cornelia, comes to the horrible realization that her play is quite… bad. A self-destructive journey ensues involving PR agents and stubborn actors as she desperately tries to hold her play together.

    D...

  • SAY YES, 13min., Sweden, Romance/Drama

    Julia is in love with her best friend Christian. Christian is in love with the single life. A film about the modern day relationship, being young, stupid and daring to say yes to love.

    Written and Directed by Johan Stavsjö

    Produced by Gustav Andersson Lilliehorn & Max Thume

    Cast: Emma Melkerss...

  • TOM, 8min., USA, Horror/Experimental

    Experimental horror film studying a 'Peeping Tom' as he gathers footage and reviews his findings amidst a storm of psychedelic visuals.

    Director - Joshua Nicholas Goodman, Justin William Houghton

    Produced by Goody Bags

  • I'M PRESS, 9min., USA, Romance/Comedy

    Presly Jones, a beautiful yet insecure environmentalist goes on her first date in a very long time. With the help of her best friends, Presly gets two ear fulls of advice during the date and soon realizes the extra assistance may be more problematic than depending on herself alone.

    Director: Emm...

  • WATER IS LIFE: FROM STANDING ROCK TO THE SWAMP, 24min., Documentary/Environment

    LOGLINE
    On the banks of Louisiana, fierce Indigenous women are ready to fight—to stop the corporate blacksnake and preserve their way of life. They are risking everything to protect Mother Earth from the predatory fossil fuel companies that seek to poison it.

    STORY SYNOPSIS
    L’EAU EST LA VIE: FRO...

  • THE LAST SUNSET, 17min., USA, Sci-Fi/Action

    A man struggles to cope with what is reality while trying to survive a post apocalyptic world.

    Written & Directed by Hemzah Naveed

    Produced by Nick Uzunyan, Phil Costa

    Cast: Richard Swift, Rachel Thundat, Thomas Avona, Crazy Man

    Music by Nate Pennington

    Cinematography by Anton Jiracek

    F...

  • A(A)utomated (I)rritation, 6min., USA, Sci-Fi/Comedy

    A man struggles to make breakfast in a kitchen filled with appliances with a mind of their own.

    Directed by Ali Presley Paras

    Written & Produced by Bo Liebman

    Cast: Torrey Halverson, Eric Shulman, Julian M. Stern, Nadav Fleisher, Sarah Afkami

    DP: Steven L. Smith

    Editor: Dana James Jones

    Com...

  • PERFECT MATTRESS: A LOVE STORY, 9min., USA, Romance

    We all search desperately for true love, and for this quirky couple the only way is to get on a mattress... but not in the way you think.

    Directed by Derek Osinski

  • BEHIND THE GLASS, 5min., Canada, Animation/Experimental

    Behind the glass is an animated drama about a man struggling to overcome his own limitations, while facing the rejection of society.

    Written & Directed by Pedro de la Llave

    Director Statement

    Behind the glass is a drama about a man struggling to overcome his own limitations, while facing the r...

  • THE SECRET LIVES OF TEACHERS, 12min., USA, Romance/Comedy

    A romantic story about two eccentric teachers who find love and each other through a shared passion for a very unique hobby.

    Directed by Steve Anderson

    Written by Judith Tobi Eisenberg & Aaron Seever

    Cast: Judith Tobi Eisenberg, Aaron Seever, Harris Kendall, Sean Dillingham

  • JUSTIN AND THE WERLOOBEE, 11min., USA, Animation/Family

    Based on the published book, FRUIT OF THE VINE (Weisberg and Yoffe, Waldorf Publishing, 2018). In JUSTIN AND THE WERLOOBEE, we meet Justin, a sensitive, introspective boy whose physical features and personality make him a convenient target for many of his cruel peers. One night, he wakes to find ...

  • BIRDS OF A FEATHER, 3min., Australia, Animation/Experimental

    Set in a rainy city this film focuses on the scavengers on the street and how the effects of sharing and being greedy can alter one's perspective in life.

    Directed by Richie Valentino

    Director Statement:

    Art offers the ability to express one's inner self.