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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  • SHORT STORY Reading: Stepping Out, by Sandra M. Matheson

    Genre: Drama, Love story

    This story based on the whirlwind romance of my parents in Chicago, 1944, with one exception. My mother is still alive at 100 years old and misses my father every day.

  • Exaltation Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2021 DANCE Festival

    экзальтация / exaltation, 12min., Belgium, Dance
    Directed by Sam Asaert
    A dance film about the gradual awakening of spirit and soul. About the emergence of sentience. About being — gradually ripping away from a primitive state. Discovery through gradual grasping and exploration. The Self evolving...

  • Under 5min. Festival Short Screenplay: Miss Paula's Special Steak, by Alex Creazzi

    A jealous Miss, left before wedding by her beloved fiancé, must struggle between civilized behaviour and the desire for cruel revenge when he asks her to meet his brand new girlfriend.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    John: Geoff Mays
    Paula: Val Cole
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  • Teeter Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2021 DANCE Festival

    TEETER, 7min., Canada, Dance
    Directed by Mackenzie Carlson
    Teeter portrays a codependent relationship between two people; one of whom plays the role of supporter and caretaker whilst the other moves freely, unencumbered by their own instability. The help given is often taken without the knowledge...

  • SHORT FILM TRAILER: NOSEBLEED, 7min., USA, Drama/Relationship

    NOSEBLEED, 7min., USA, Drama/Relationship
    Directed by Elizabeth Callahan
    A toxic relationship mounts to a dissatisfying climax.

  • SHORT STORY Reading: Mac's Anniversary, by Kristin Johnson

    Comedy/Sci-Fi

    A man, a dolphin, and a special anniversary...

    Performed by Val Cole

    Kristin Johnson

    Co-Author, Mastering the Game of Life

    https://worldgamechangers.org/book-mastering-the-game-of-life/

    https://www.worldgamechangers.org

    http://www.kristinjohnson.net

    http://www.twitter.com/Au...

  • FEMALE Festival SHORT Screenplay Reading: Over And Out, by Callie LeClaire

    A high-functioning autistic child and a two-way radio is a lost hiker's only chance to be saved.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Tommy: Sean Ballantyne
    Mike: Shawn Devlin
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  • Light Of Dawn Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2021 DANCE Festival

    LIGHT OF DAWN, 8min., France, Dance
    Directed by Lea Toran Jenner
    Meeting for the first time, two strangers connect at a deep level. Together they drift into a dreamlike state discovering the fear, excitement and joy of falling in love. Trusting each other blindly and risking everything, under the...

  • SHORT STORY Reading: What, by Fernando Magela da Silva

    Synopsis

    Elaine is missing. Ramon, your mother's friend seeks you out. He sees Elaine naked, in a trance, bloody, walking on an old bridge. She suddenly throws herself into the river in a current. Ramon sees Jober, a schizophrenic boy coming out of the forest, beside the river. Jober is scared.
    ...

  • SHORT FILM TRAILER: THE TAILOR, 16min., Canada, Drama

    THE TAILOR, 16min., Canada, Drama
    Directed by Nathalie Therriault

    A gender non-conforming person struggling to assert their identity unexpectedly finds courage in an aging master tailor.

  • SHORT STORY Reading: The Dance, by Katherine LaFavre

    Genre: Coming of Age

    Synopsis: A girl goes to her first dance

    Performed by Allan Michael Brunet

  • SCREENPLAY TRAILER: The Mountains Are Calling, Eva Bennett

    TITLE of Script: The Mountains Are Calling

    NAME: Eva Bennett

    Type of screenplay: Feature

    www.instagram.com/themountainsarecallingfilm

    Logline: A​ recovering heroin addict leaves rehab and moves back with his parents to restart his life, only to have his daughter who he secretly gave up for a...

  • ROMANCE Festival SHORT Screenplay: VALUE OF A RING, by Jessica Sutton

    John, a deceased man, must navigate the afterlife to fond Paradise and his wife. However, spirits tempt him to discard the very ring that connects him to her.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Hooded Sailer/Odin/Captain: Andy Camp
    John/Anubis: Sean Ballantyne
    MaidenJane: Val Cole
    ...

  • SHORT STORY Reading: Hats, by Gwyn Gordon

    A newcomer unwittingly upsets the traditions and social order of a small New England village.

    Performed by Val Cole

  • Edging Normal Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2021 DANCE Festival

    EDGING NORMAL, 11min,. USA, Dance
    Directed by Andre Bato
    A metaphorical tale of a man’s struggle in letting go of his past in order to feel completely free. "Edging Normal" finds dancer Desmond Richardson channelling and interpreting the emotional journey of our protagonist. The film is a bitter ...

  • SCREENPLAY TRAILER: One More Sleep by Robert Drusetta

    One More Sleep
    by Robert Drusetta

    Feature

    https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCZGcrMkvvAYkmddoscVkmsw/videos/upload?filter=%5B%5D&sort=%7B%22columnType%22%3A%22date%22%2C%22sortOrder%22%3A%22DESCENDING%22%7D

    One line teaser: "It's Christmas Eve...again, and again and again" OR "He has 24 hours...

  • Behind These Walls Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2021 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival

    BEHIND THESE WALLS, 21min., USA, Documentary

    Directed by Caitlyn Hynes

    Behind These Walls is a documentary short that offers an unprecedented lens into a South-Central Los Angeles neighborhood’s arduous five-year campaign to end operations at their neighborhood oil drilling site – a site that i...

  • COMEDY Short Screenplay Reading: Hanging Buddy, by John Kestner

    A female-to-male transgender patient is stunned when the newly-attached male organ begins speaking its own mind.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Vagina Voice/Sam: Val Cole
    Nurse/Mom: Kyana Teresa
    Dad/Little Jerry: Shawn Devlin
    Anus Voice/Doctor: Sean Ballantyne
    Boob & Other Boob Voice/...

  • SHORT FILM TRAILER: BEING SASCHA, 36min., Switzerland, Documentary

    EING SASCHA, 36min., Switzerland, Documentary
    Directed by Manuel Gübeli
    Sascha's name wasn't always Sascha. But now it is. Sascha doesn't identify as a man or as a woman, but as trans non-binary. A story about what it means to live in a society that wasn't expecting you. A glimpse into a life tha...

  • SHORT STORY Reading: Man Up, by Chris Torre

    TYPE OF STORY: War, Drama

    SYNOPSIS: An unnamed boy eagerly seeks to join a revolution to overthrow his country's government, but is met with an unexpected surprise when the revolutionaries come to town.

    Performed by Allan Michael Brunet

  • SHORT FILM TRAILER: CHAMELEON, 7min,. France, Dance

    CHAMELEON, 7min,. France, Dance
    Directed by Janell Burgess , Shawn Vitale
    "Chameleon" is a transformative blend of two spirits becoming one. Representing the continuous re-inventing of relationship, it evokes and awakens both feelings of submissiveness & sensuality. Originally created as an ensem...

  • Beauty In Decay Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2021 DANCE Festival

    BEAUTY IN DECAY, 6min., Australia, Dance
    Directed by Alison Shirley
    When faced with confinement and conditions that change your work, there are new questions that accompany new approaches. I am confined to a new set of rules, a new landscape. What is my body ready to say when I have not been here...

  • SCREENPLAY TRAILER: CHASERS, by Eric White & Tony Folden

    Chasers
    Written by
    Eric White and Tony Folden

    Logline

    Inexperienced siblings escape pandemic lockdown in the City to vacation as storm chasers in the American Great Plains, only to inadvertently create a social media subscriber base of their misadventures.

    Antecedent

    Seinfeld meets the movie...

  • SHORT STORY Reading: Wrath. by Sheila English

    Genre: Paranormal

    Synopsis: The "Unnamed" are cursed to serve one human for every human they killed. Wrath, one of the Unnamed, is summoned after a decade alone and wonders what a vampire might need with someone like him.

    Performed by Allan Michael Brunet