New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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Suono Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 LA Film Festival
SUONO, 8min., USA, Drama
Directed by Laurd Milian
A violinist struggles after losing his hearing in an accident, making him discover a new relationship with music. -
BEST SCENE Black & White Festival Script Reading: A WRAY OF LIGHT, by Preston Harrison Ahearn
A young pilot at the dawn of aviation is set for takeoff but is grounded after the death of his father. He has to save his family's empire, but can he save his wings?
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Henry: Allan Michael Brunet
Clyde: Andy Camp
Dupont: Geoff Mays
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Seeped Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 Festival
SEEPED, 15min., India, Drama
Directed by Mauraya Sharma
Entangled in the walks of life, paper-making artist, Kaivalya tussles with her past & is reinvigorated by the exploration of sexuality, pain, filtration & unplanned co-relations. Kaivalya is entrenched within a pulp-like substance that event... -
BEST Scene Animation Festival Script Reading: Tyler Hudson's Christmas Eve Adventure, by Carol Hoffman
When Santa's sleigh is hijacked with a non-believer boy and his younger brother aboard, it might take a Christmas miracle to get them all home and keep Santa out of jail.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Tyler: Allan Michael Brunet
Alvie: Andy Camp
Alice: Hannah Ehman
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POLITICAL BEST Scene Reading: CALLE OCHO, by Robert W. McKnight, Jeremy Culver
“A critical election in Florida intersects with the opportunity for real freedom in Cuba.”
Logline: When the smart and beautiful daughter of a wealthy Cuban refugee (the most powerful conservative voice in Florida) becomes a U.S. Senator, she works cleverly and clandestinely to defy both her fat...
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Balance Of The Force Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from September 2021 Festival
BALANCE OF THE FORCE, 15min., USA, Star Wars Fan Fiction
Directed by Steven LaMorte
When a Bounty Hunter and a Jedi Knight find themselves stranded on an uninhabited planet, they find themselves pitted against each other while trying to retrieve a mysterious Imperial cargo.
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The Hunt For The Asian Giant Hornet Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DOCUMENTARY Festival
CLIMATE EMERGENCY – FEEDBACK LOOPS, 13min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Susan Gray
Subtitled in 20 languages and narrated by Richard Gere, Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops is a series of five short films, featuring twelve leading climate scientists, that explores how human-caused emissions ar...
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Ada Office Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 LA Film Festival
ADA OFFICE, 11min., Mexico, Sci-Fi
Directed by Carlos Velázquez
Ada Office is the new virtual boss that has arrived at companies around the world with the main goal of optimizing their productivity and performance to the maximum. Emilio, a shy employee, has a seemingly perfect routine guided by t... -
Wee Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 COMEDY Festival
WEE, 1min., USA, Comedy
Directed by Scottie Meyers
I gotta go, out of the way.
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Gestirn Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival
GESTIRN, 12min., Switzerland, Thriller
Directed by Fabio Stecher
Rara can't let go of her past. She goes in search of her husband who has been hiding in an old industrial building for a long time. -
SHORT SCREENPLAY Reading: SIZWE, by Micharn Pollock
South Africa, a country of 57.5 million people has 4 million deaf or hard of hearing citizens. Wearing cloth face masks is now a prerequisite for any South African leaving their home. The silence in the deaf person’s world has just become more oppressing.
This is the story of Sizwe, a young, dea...
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Lead Me Home Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival
LEAD ME HOME, 21min., France, Thriller
Directed by Julien Hosmalin
One night, two men stop at a food truck at the entrance of the town of Kalwin. As the conversation goes on with the lonely cook, a trap is woven between the three men, as they are all linked to a pedophile network that raged 30 y... -
SHORT Screenplay Reading: Triplet Triangle, by Paul Martin Hale
Synopsis: Blonde triplets are unhappy with their existing boyfriends and exchange identities to engineer partner swaps. It all works out well for everyone in the end.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Amy: Hannah Ehman
Rose: Kyana Teresa
Em: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Dave: Allan Michael Brunet
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BEST SCENE Black Festival Script Reading: The Passage Of Sun, by Aaron Braxton
Three brothers challenge the Convict Leasing System of forcing African American men into prison in order to continue providing slave labor and county revenue in Alabama following the Civil War.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Henry: Geoff Mays
Tenzer: Allan Michael
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Duckman Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 Festival
DUCKMAN, 10min., Canada, Documentary
Directed by Kaixin Aethelu Wang
Happiness doesn’t come bundled with a new car, or a big house. It comes with finding your purpose in life and surrounding yourself with smiling friendly faces. Duckman is a Japanese busker who travels around the world to bring h... -
Hippopotamus & Crocodile Hunt Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 COMEDY Festival
HIPPOPOTAMUS & CROCODILE HUNT, 21min., Romania, Comedy
Directed by Germain Kanda
One lost painting, fifteen hypocrites, two scammers, all served with an unlucky connoisseur and one honest kid.
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BEST SCENE Female Festival Script Reading: The Takeover, by Ivana Strajin
A newly appointed CEO of an occupational health company gets catfished... by her job. What she hopes will be her legacy gets bungled by fraud, coverups, and the death of an offshore oil rig worker.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Larry: Allan Michael Brunet
Isabel: Kyana Teresa
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BEST SCENE Comedy Festival Script Reading: BREAKING NEWS, by Samuel Spitale
Network meets Anchorman after an attack on the capitol spurs a Fox News-type outlet to become a legitimate news network.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
David: Geoff Mays
Student: Hannah Ehman
Student: Kyana Teresa
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SHORT STORY MOVIE: Make Lemonade, by Donna Douglas Walchle
Dramedy
Casey Alliston thought she had it all. Or did she? It took being forced to step down from the company she built and two hundred community service hours at a children's home to discover what she was missing.
Voice Over: Val Cole
Visual Design by Kimberly Villarruel
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Look What You Made Me Do Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 MUSIC Film Festival
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO, 7min., USA, Music Video
Directed by Destiny Faith
The Old America is dying a slow and painful death, but is attempting to emerge from the grave. It’ll take the community coming together to keep her from rearing her ugly head and to create a future we are proud to leave...
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Hyperstition Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 COMEDY Festival
HYPERSTITION, 7min., France, Comedy
Directed by Stéphane Chis, Maxime Chuchana
Two superstitious persons, two parallel lives and a strange day where one’s little games have the power to change fate.
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Swipe Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 COMEDY Festival
SWIPE, 5min., USA, Comedy
Directed by Anthony Sneed
A delinquent teenage boy learns a valuable lesson about growing up.
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Ourselves, In Stories Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from September 2021 Festival
OURSELVES, IN STORIES, 24min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Marjee Chmiel
In the last 25 years, the independent comics community made deliberate efforts to be inclusive and elevate under-represented voices. This is the story of how the community has changed over those years and evidence that if...
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Rouse The Boroughs - Towed Aurora Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Sept. 2021 FEMALE Film Festival
TOWED AURORA, 4min,. Spain, Music Video
Directed by Andrei Zaitcev
A Canada - Spain project, The video recounts a memorable encounter between two star crossed lovers, in a modern ode to Michel Fugain's 70s superhit 'Une belle histoire'. This short film recovenes us to the beauty of love with as ...