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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  • SPORTS Festival BEST Scene: SLEDGEHAMMER, by Vinny Smith

    A former tennis champion, now a rough and rowdy Las Vegas cocktail waitress, enters the US Open in an effort to win her way out of trouble with the FBI, navigating the world of biker gangs and Russian mobsters along the way.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Agent: Geoff Mays
    Charlie: ...

  • ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Dancing In Place, by Jeanne Dukes

    Escalating mutual interest between middle-aged neighbors gets complicated when he suddenly remembers their brief and awkward teen summer romance, but she doesn't recognize him. As he devises a plan to stir her memory, painful secrets from the past threaten to keep them apart.

    CAST LIST:

    Narr...

  • STUDENT Festival TV 1st Scene: Sous, by Joel Galanti

    Billy, a young cook, must prove he has what it takes to work in the prestigious kitchen of a belligerent head chef.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Jalen/Chef: Sean Ballantyne
    Nikole: Hannah Ehman
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  • Racism Has No Home Here Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DIVERSITY Film Festival

    RACISM HAS NO HOME HERE, 3min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Rylee Landau
    This documentary short is Jen Schatzman's story behind the grassroots effort called Racism Has No Home Here—an organization that is all about connecting, educating, and empowering communities to put a stake in the ground s...

  • A Couple Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 STUDENT Film Festival

    A COUPLE, 22min., Italy, Romance
    Directed by Davide Petrosino
    Diego and Anna dated for two years. After they broke up, they moved to different cities. Now they meet again in Rome for a concert and they decide to spend the day together while waiting for the concert to get started. During those hou...

  • SCI-FI Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: Sky City Haya, by Adad Joel Warda

    A tormented bounty hunter must track down his old flame's heroic husband to stop the word's first sky city from collapsing.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Riguirdo: Shawn Devlin
    Captain Voice/Security Guard: Geoff Mays
    Adrien/Baatar: Sean Ballantyne
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  • 1st Scene Script Reading: The Calling, by Steven Bogart

    Summary:
    John, a hospital director, raises his socially awkward daughter, Frankie by himself.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Frankie: Hannah Ehman
    Ali/Sophie: Kyana Teresa
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  • COMEDY Festival BEST Scene Reading: Bad Romance, by Chad Wellinger

    A paperback romance fanatic who strives to pen a novel of her own but has no real-life experience to draw upon recruits a playboy Casanova for a crash course in hot and heavy.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Heath: Geoff Mays
    Astrid: Hannah Ehman
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  • SHORT Screenplay Reading: A Rock And A Hard Place, by Kinsey Kunkel

    A dark comedy about a pair of men trapped in a cave after a tunnel collapse.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Sage: Allan Michael Brunet
    Henry: Steve Rizzo
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  • SHORT Screenplay Reading: Strewn Porcelain Dolls, by Michael Lane

    TYPE OF STORY: An almost coming of age story.

    SYNOPSIS: JIMMY CRAMPOWITZ has reached boiling point with his mom, GERTRUDE CRAMPOWITZ. . She has brought him up properly- to be polite, punctual and to be very 'woke'. Except she hasn't given him involved love since forever. Today, Jimmy becomes ...

  • SHORT Screenplay Reading: George Martin, by Dayle Doods

    Comedy

    George and Martin face a burglar.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    George: Allan Michael Brunet
    Martin: Steve Rizzo
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  • WINNING Short Script Reading: SPOTTY: A TORTOISE IN THE ERA OF COVID-19, by Paul Frift

    Spotty is a tortoise. When Covid-19 arrives, he sees a chance to escape captivity.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Spotty: Allan Michael Brunet
    Male Prison Guard: Andy Camp
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  • LGBTQ+ Festival TV BEST Scene Reading: MISS FORTUNE, by Breeze Vincinz

    A thieving ex-con attends twelve-step meetings to deal with her relationship with money, her fledging L.A. based dispensary staffed exclusively with African American women, her relationships with her ex-girlfriends, and a system that is trying to lock her back up.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Ri...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: RESIDENCY, by Natalie Lomske

    Residency is a drama about ambitious, paraplegic, surgical resident Amelia Walters who transfers to a renowned hospital and must find a balance between the demands of her career, relationships, and disability.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Kyana Teresa
    Amelia: Hannah Ehman
    Alex: Geoff Mays
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  • WINNING Short Screenplay: Bentobox, by Victoria Hirakawa-Lee Castro

    With his father depolyed overseas in 90s rural America, a little boy of a half Japanese-half American decent connects with is mother through her cooking. After being teased at school for his strange lunches, he struggles to find his idenity between school and home, rejecting his mother in the pro...

  • 1st Scene Reading: Losing The Plot, by Nicola Morris, Rupert Bogarde

    An absurd comedy set in a run-down New Forest estate agents where the living are swindled and the dead given houses to haunt.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Richard: Andy Camp
    Jay: Shawn Devlin
    Dregs: Geoff Mays
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  • Against My Will Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 Film Festival

    AGAINST MY WILL, 28min., France, Drama
    Directed by Nils Lane
    Valérie, a successful woman, happy in her couple, has left her consulting firm to open a very popular restaurant. Unfortunately, her life is suddenly turned upside down when the second lockdown of the French population was announced. At...

  • COMEDY Festival TV BEST Scene Reading: Poulet Realty, by Melanie McCullough

    Peaches Poulet, recently cheated on and widowed, is determined to reinvent her life in small town Alabama. She's going to lose 30 pounds, change the carpet in the den, and finally achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a realtor. But first, she has to ruin her treacherous ex-best friend's funeral...

  • 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: Magnetman, by Christian Riedel

    A young private investigator has an accident that causes him to develop magnetic powers. He tries to use them for good, but there is one person on earth who knows about his powers and tries to stop him.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Benjamin: Sean Ballantyne
    Watson (Parrot): Ha...

  • 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: The Hawthorne, by Adam Pike

    After the sudden and mysterious death of his mother, Jacob is forced to live with his estranged Grandma and her weird troupe of friends at 'The Hawthorns', a very super retirement home.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Greece/Richard: Sean Ballantyne
    Wendy: Hannah Ehman
    Mary: Julie...

  • DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Death's Hidden Love, by Ernestina Juarez

    A cynical teenage girl views her father's struggle with depression as a sign of weakness but her attitude toward him changes when an ancestor seeking a lost love saves them both from the wrath of an assassin in a drug cartel.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Peter: Sean Ballantyne
    Rudy: Sha...

  • Ecclesiastes Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 FEMALE Film Festival

    ECCLESIASTES, 5min., Spain, Sci-Fi
    Directed by Lola Rui
    Beyond our known time space the human being discovered the sacred code that made them immortal, covering with obscurity their days for ever...

  • BEST Scene Reading: Shady's Last Stand, by Stan Barton

    When a misplaced border wall throws his honky-tonk into no-man’s land, Shady establishes a new kingdom to offer folks a second chance, but powerful politicians have other ideas.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Santos: Steve Rizzo
    Shady: Geoff Mays
    Landry: Sean Ballantyne
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  • COMEDY Festival TV Best Scene Reading: HUGS NOT DRUGS, by Edward Dorsey

    A bumbling father trips and falls into the middle of a drug deal. The cartel and police are after him, but he still has to pick his kids up from orchestra practice.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Jerry: Geoff Mays
    Sheldon: Steve Rizzo
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