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 ...
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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!
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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. StewartBased 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...
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SCREENPLAY PITCH: Hollow Earth Quest, by Danny Weiss & Kathy Krantz-Stewart
Title: Hollow Earth Quest
Screenplay by: Kathy Krantz-StewartBased on the Book: The Hollow Earth Revisited
Written by: Danny WeissWebsite References:
www.HollowEarthQuestMovie.com - www.HollowEarthResearch.org
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi483046937?playlistId=nm8307094&ref_=nm_ov_viLogl...
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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...
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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."
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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.
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POETRY Reading: Sovereign Wisdom, by Kamanadine
Sovereign Wisdom, by Kamanadine
Dancing on the razor’s edgeNo 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 ...
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POETRY READING: STAINING/CRUSHING/BRUSHING, by E.K. Gaylord III
Performed by Val Cole
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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...
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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 criedI 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 rightI’d marsh’ll out to meet the foe – for her return to fight
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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...
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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 nightHear 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