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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  • Defiance In The Kingdom Of Fake News Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2021 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival

    DEFIANCE IN THE KINGDOM OF FAKE NEWS, 10min., USA
    Directed by Mathias Magnason
    In the northeastern city of Changchun, China, a group of six ordinary people — a truck driver, a food vendor, a housewife, etc. — gathered in secret to plan an extraordinary task: to break into the television broadcast...

  • No Tricks Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2021 Film Festival

    NO TRICKS, 11min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Doug Werby
    A chance encounter between two men from different worlds brings change and some unexpected wisdom. Shot entirely in San Francisco CA.

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: I AM CUBA, by Lynda R. Edwards

    http://www.lyndaredwards.com/

    Performed by Val Cole

    Fidel Castro came to power with a dark secret. One he leveraged to create the Cuba he wanted. Tasked with finding the source of Castro’s power, Isabella Vasquez can change the course of history for the Caribbean Islands, but she finds herself ...

  • SHORT STORY Reading: Butterflies And Puddings, John Nicholas Anstie

    Performed by Val Cole

    Based on a true story of clever girls; twins, each of whom was asked to invent a new word, by spelling their name backwards, define it and make a model of it in plasticine!

  • SCREENPLAY PITCH: Escape To Hollow Earth, by Colin K. Stewart , Danny Weiss, David Weiss

    Title: ESCAPE TO HOLLOW EARTH www.EscapeToHollowEarth.com
    Screenplay by: Colin K. Stewart

    Based on the Novel: A Curious Pebble - The Hollow Earth and Pursuit of the Holy Lance
    Written by: Danny Weiss and David Weiss.

    Logline:
    A rebellious son of a naval pilot is compelled to protect an ...

  • SCREENPLAY PITCH: The Six Sides Of Truth, by Janet Walker

    Logline Pitch:

    The Six Sides of Truth

    by Janet Walker

    The Six Sides of Truth, an espionage thriller, tells the story of a female reporter who discovered the human testing of a classified project and her race against time to expose the high-ranking government officials who will stop at nothin...

  • SCREENPLAY PITCH: Hollow Earth Quest, by Danny Weiss & Kathy Krantz-Stewart

    Title: Hollow Earth Quest
    Screenplay by: Kathy Krantz-Stewart

    Based on the Book: The Hollow Earth Revisited
    Written by: Danny Weiss

    Website References:

    www.HollowEarthQuestMovie.com - www.HollowEarthResearch.org
    https://www.imdb.com/video/vi483046937?playlistId=nm8307094&ref_=nm_ov_vi

    Logl...

  • SCREENPLAY PITCH: THE TRUMPET, by Peter Borreggine and Danette Lamkin-Borreggine

    Family history, music, jazz, generational

    Title: The Trumpet

    Genre: A short film

    Tagline: The life of a trumpet tells the story of the love of music

    Logline: A trumpet passed down three generations gets abandoned and, when fou...

  • Freshman Year Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2021 Film Festival

    FRESHMAN YEAR, 6min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Bea Hammam, Sydney Kaufman
    When entering her freshman year of high school, Mia is faced with the changing relationships that come with adolescence- struggling with navigating old friendships and family dynamics.

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: Into Spring - The Next Generation, by Larry Landgraf

    Performed by Val Cole

    Action/Adventure

    "They leave home for the first time, prepared for war it appears, but nothing could have prepared them for the hell they fall into."

  • The New Normal Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2021 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival

    THE NEW NORMAL, 4min,. India, Poetry
    Directed by Anushka Shivdasani Rovshen
    Is the past the future we want ? The race to get back to normal made us question this very idea of normalcy itself –
    Is it normal that our planet is dying because of our economic priorities?
    Is it normal when lockdowns on...

  • SCREENPLAY PITCH: I'm Dreaming Of A Christ Christmas

    LOGLINE PITCH

    I’m Dreaming of a Christ Christmas
    by Warren A Rhodes
    I’m dreaming of a Christ Christmas tells the story of a precocious and imaginative 11-year old Black girl’s dream of Christ’s birth. We follow Kat’s clever imaginings as she travels back in time to Bethlehem to witness the event...

  • Animals At The Borders Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2021 ENVIRONMENTAL Film Festival

    ANIMALS AT THE BORDERS, 43min., Germany
    Directed by Cornelia Volk
    In 1989, the Iron Curtain between East and West came down. New space opened for humans and for animals. Since the refugee crisis in 2015, though, walls and fences are back, closing off the North from the South, separating already f...

  • Hambre: Hungry For Life Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2021 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival

    HAMBRE: HUNGRY FOR LIFE, 14min., Mexico
    Directed by Jean Chapiro
    What is hunger? And what do we hunger for?
    This personal and poetic documentary explores the journey to overcome anorexia by coming to terms with all that being hungry for life implies. By approaching this concept from a physical, e...

  • Take The Vax Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2021 Film Festival

    TAKE THE VAX, 16min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Edsta
    After the COVID-19 pandemic subsided, and people are getting back to their lives, Mark, a vaccine skeptic, soon realizes that he has no other choice but to take the vax.

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: Wedding Of The Waters, by Darlene Rivais

    Performed by Val Cole

    Mike Smith's life ticks like clockwork until he impregnates a barely legal stranger. A guilty groom in a shotgun wedding, Mike struggles to make a marriage that starts out all wrong end up all right.

  • POETRY Reading: Sovereign Wisdom, by Kamanadine

    Sovereign Wisdom, by Kamanadine

    Dancing on the razor’s edge

    No mind

    No body

    Zero point

    Shunya

    Free falling in space

    A fractal of light

    A crystal skull starts vibrating

    And shining iridescent

    Never seen before

    Patterns of light

    Seeing through the eyes of Goddess

    A lens of purity

    Of ...

  • POETRY READING: STAINING/CRUSHING/BRUSHING, by E.K. Gaylord III

    Performed by Val Cole

  • SCREENPLAY PITCH: Not An Exit, by Sid Kramer

    LOGLINE PITCH

    NOT AN EXIT

    by Sid Kramer

    LOGLINE: a serial killer is reunited with his victims in a haunted house through a strange coincidence 26 years later. With their bodies burned to ash, all that remained were their mummified heads. The heads, once discovered, were mistakenly put into a h...

  • POETRY READING: Isolated Vodka, by Lizbeth Wartemberg

    Performed by Val Cole

    Isolated Vodka, by Lizbeth Wartemberg

    Last night I died
    I cried and I cried and I cried
    I drowned all my pride and I cried
    and I cried and I cried

    I drowned all my pride and I cried
    and I cried and I cried
    I tripped over half a bottle of vodka
    Did a U-turn on my bed
    Whe...

  • POETRY READING: “Sword of War”, from “Of Virtue, Love and War”, by Ryan Christiansen

    Performed by Val Cole

    “Sword of War”, from “Of Virtue, Love and War”, by Ryan Christiansen

    Would I were a soldier still – would I were yet still a knight
    A servant of the beautiful – honor bound to all that’s right

    I’d marsh’ll out to meet the foe – for her return to fight
    Would I were love’...

  • SCREENPLAY Pitch: Put A Price On Emotion, by Giuseppe De Vuono

    Title of Story: PUT A PRICE ON EMOTION

    Written by: GIUSEPPE DE VUONO

    Logline: A charismatic and ambitious musician, willing to do anything to achieve his dream of gain fame, gets blood on his hands and must make amends before it is too late.

    Genre: Drama

    Type: Feature Screenplay

    WGA Registra...

  • POETRY READING: Dedicated To The Unknown Woman, by Sharmaine Anna Dobson

    Performed by Val Cole

    Dedicated to the Unknown Woman
    Listen to the drums
    Echoing through the valley
    See the demons fly
    through the night

    Hear the old woman
    Cry out with fright
    As a young woman is stripped bare…
    Violated, beaten and bruised
    She lays
    With unseeing eyes
    All she hears
    Are the silen...

  • SHORT STORY Reading: The Last Short Story, by Enrique Pilozo

    Performed by Val Cole

    Crim-Noir