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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  • ENVIROMENTAL Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Surge, by David Cooper

    John O’Neal wants to change the world to honor his dead mother and to spite his abusive father—while getting very, very rich. Following a worldwide Global Warming catastrophe, he loses his invention to a deep conspiracy and becomes an eco-terrorist—until he uncovers the truth.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrat...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Goodbye Port Hope, by Sophia Lee

    Synopsis: In the small town of Port Hope, Alice Forester goes missing. With little help or success from the police, it is up to her friends Nico and Lily to find out where she went and what happened to her.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Lily: Hannah Ehman
    Nico: Shawn Devlin
    Principal: Kyana ...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Reading: El Alacran, by Julie Miller

    After being stung by a scorpion during a holiday in Mexico, Lexie uses newfound superpowers to wreak revenge on men who have crossed her, ridding her world of toxic waste ... one asshole at a time...

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Lexie: Hannah Ehman
    Cassidy: Kyana Teresa
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  • The Gift Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DANCE Film Festival

    THE GIFT, 5min., France, Dance
    Directed by Paul Mignot
    The gift is a dance performance to express the beauty inside all of us.

  • WINNING Short Script Reading: The Pizza Paradox, by John McCloskey

    “The Pizza Paradox” is a short dramedy. It runs about 15 minutes.

    FELIX GRANT is a frustrated man who longs for greatness. He thinks that he has a brilliant idea, but it all may be illusion.

    MARTA SEMPLE is his friend who acts as the voice of rationality, guarding against Felix’s proclivity to ...

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

    BABY GRIEF, 4min., USA, Drama
    Directed by Tatyana Yassukovich
    Facing the loss of their baby two women and are forced to reconcile with each other as they find different ways of coping with their grief.

  • TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: Brutal Journey, by Tom Freyer

    In 1528 Spain, the King’s timid treasurer is forced to accompany a sadistic lunatic and 500 conquistadors on the first cross-country exploration of North America.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Ayllson: Sean Ballantyne
    Castillo: Shawn Devlin
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  • BEST SCENE TV PILOT Reading: THE MÂR CHRONICLES, by A. S. Templeton

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Barnesdale: Allan Michael Brunet
    Yaeger: Hannah Ehman
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  • DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Border Flesh, by Pepe García Gilling

    After losing his brother and the only family he has left, 14-year-old Connor encounters Fernanda and her 13-year-old daughter, Bárbara. Both women are Mexican and don't speak a word of English. Connor, Fernanda and Bárbara must communicate as best they can to survive zombie apocalypse at the Méxi...

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

    CHERRY, 25min., Israel, Drama
    Directed by Naama Lahav
    Broken-hearted Omer finds out she is pregnant and tries to use it to lure back her ex. She pushes away her worried mother but ends up realizing she is her true source of love and support.

  • Tang'o Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DANCE Film Festival

    TANG'O, 3min., France, Dance
    Directed by Bastien Soleil
    Sometimes, art is doing something simply because we know it will be beautiful.
    With the combination of water, lighting and dancer Ariadna’s talent, TANG’O offers the viewer an innovative take on underwater videography and art in general.

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

    SOUR PATCH, 7min., Canada, Drama
    Directed by Marie-Christine Roussel
    On Gaby’s birthday, Willa brings her friend Gaby to the nail salon in order to reconnect with her. After much confessions and recollections of the past, their friendship clashes. Sour Patch recalls the story of two high school f...

  • LOGLINE Video Pitch: Dawsons, by James E. Carter

    LOGLINE PITCH

    DAWSONS by James E. Carter

    Kevin opened his restaurant Dawsons in the early 1970’s. The restaurant was a joint dream project with his wife Thelma who sadly passed away from breast cancer.

    The neighborhood that he loves and adores Harlem is dealing with gentrification. His restaur...

  • MR. BUCHMAN GOES TO WASHINGTON, by Bill Baber

    Mr. Buchman Goes to Washington is an intense courtroom docudrama that recreates the 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing of Sidney Buchman – the Oscar nominated Communist screenwriter of the classic patriotic film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. This is the day that Mr. Buchman, like...

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: Fifer And The Crooked Tree, by Chris Loud

    TYPE OF STORY: Adventure/Fantasy

    SYNOPSIS: A young girl discovers a strange portal to a distant land after a lightning strike hits her beloved tree house. Through this portal, she learns of a child in grave danger, and tries to help the child escape.

  • LOGLINE Video Pitch: From A Yardie To A Yankee, by Sardia Robinson

    LOGLINE PITCH
    From a Yardie to a Yankee by Sardia Robinson

    A young girl from the poorest parish in Jamaica dreams of going to America to be in the movies. Now grown up and successful, India Robinson flashes back and recounts her battles with dyslexia, bullies, racism, and absentee parents. With...

  • Poetry Reading: BEST FRIEND, by Debbie Fersht

    BEST FRIEND, by Debbie Fersht

    A child puts her doll to bed. Tell me a story, says the doll. You always say that, says the girl. Tell me a story, the doll repeats. Go to sleep you two, says her father from the light underneath the bedroom door. You’re my best friend, whispers the girl to the d...

  • POETRY Reading: PRAYER OF LOSS, by Kevin Pike

    Read by Val Cole

  • SCREENPLAY TRAILER: Saint Catherine's Boys, by John Ravitz

    Feature Screenplay

    Logline- When a young man who was raised in a New York City orphanage kills the brother of a ruthless mob boss in self-defense, he must count on his estranged hitman father when the mob boss comes after him with everything he’s got.

    Imagine if you discovered that the man wh...

  • Séance, The Holding On and The Letting Go Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DANCE Film Festival

    Séance, The Holding On and The Letting Go, 7min., UK, Dance
    Directed by Rick Guest, Rob Rae
    An exquisite study of love and loss through the choreography of Jordan James Bridge, set to a haunting sonic landscape by Tom Ashbrook. This astonishing new film from Rick Guest & Rob Rae features the incr...

  • SCREENPLAY Trailer: Rage of the Sky, by Shannon Lejuan Clements

    Writer's IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4991114/

    Writer's Novels:
    https://www.waterstones.com/author/mr-shannon-lejuan-clements/589635

  • Bare Naked Truths Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 UNDER 5min. Film Festival

    BARE NAKED TRUTHS, 4min., USA, Comedy

    Directed by Amy E. Powell

    A micro-short comedy series that allows you inside the minds of the bored and often eccentric models who pose nude for drawing classes.

  • Outside My Window Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DANCE Film Festival

    OUTSIDE MY WINDOW, 6min,. Canada, Dance
    Directed by Sonia Gemmiti
    An expressionistic exploration of agoraphobia and isolation. A young woman stares outside her window, summoning the courage to step outside.

  • SHORT Story Reading: Two Friends On The Porch, by Manny Soto

    The story is about two families that share their life's and become one.

    Performed by Val Cole