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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  • SILENT AISLES short film, reactions Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival

    SILENT AISLES, 15min., USA
    Directed by Jace Gisclair
    Two estranged survivalists in a post-apocalyptic world must fend off monsters while trapped in an abandoned grocery store.

    https://www.instagram.com/_jace_gisclair_

  • HYBRID short film, reactions Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival (interview)

    HYBRID, 14min., USA
    Directed by Chris Romrell
    A story of a family's internal struggle during a global crisis. While trying to navigate unknow fears and events they have to learn how to draw closer to each other and work together.

    https://www.instagram.com/chris.romrell/

    Get to know Producer Ja...

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Shorts Festival. Feb. 11/12 event

    See the full lineup of films:

    THE NEIGHBOR, 14min., Brazil
    Directed by Waner Biazus
    "South of Brazil, Day of the Dead A man is brutally 'awakened' from a drinking binge. He spent all day inside the house living a 'Déjà Vu', hallucinating alone, desperate and insolvent planed a sequestration. A ...

  • NONO short film, reactions HORROR Festival

    NONO, 4min,. USA
    Directed by Aerin Wu
    After the birthday party, Nono waves goodbye to his friends. He suddenly feels very empty and disoriented.

  • EXTREME GRAVITY reactions, HORROR Festival (interview)

    EXTREME GRAVITY, 7min., Spain
    Directed by Lorenzo Ayuso
    What would be the worst thing that could happen to you when trying to kill yourself? It is said that dying is not the worst, but the way you die, and Camilo is about to find out how much of that is true.

    https://lorenzoayuso.com/filmografi...

  • ELDRITCH KARAOKE short film, reactions HORROR Festival

    ELDRITCH KARAOKE, 5min., Ireland
    Directed by Joe Loftus
    A young woman on the road to escape her past is hit by a car and descends into a chaotic musical after-life.

    https://joeloftus.art/
    https://www.instagram.com/brokenmotor/

  • BLEED short film, reactions HORROR Festival

    BLEED, 3min., USA
    Directed by Nico Van Den Berg, Ilana Armida Simone
    BLEED is a sci-fi horror film depicting the archaic infringement of women's reproductive rights today by religious & government establishments. In a not-so-surreal depiction, Ilana Armida is bound against her will in a focus gro...

  • MOVIE TRAILERS Festival February 2025

    See the lineup of trailers:

    MARGUERITE, 30sec., USA
    Marguerite's return home turns into a real nightmare. Where is she? Who are these people? She will try by all means to find her way back and finally providence is will be on her side.

    ARMY MEN. 15sec., Iran
    Plastic soldiers are fighting.

    SYR...

  • ROSALIND short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival (interview)

    ROSALIND, 32min,. USA
    Directed by Veronica A. Hodge-Hampton
    Vivian and Rosalind love each other, but after Rosalind was diagnosed with lung cancer she became abusive to her only caregiver, Vivian, for nine life draining years. When Vivian leaves town to see her dying father, a nurse and their clo...

  • VAMPIRES AT NIGHT short film, reactions HORROR Festival (interview)

    VAMPIRES AT NIGHT, 20min., Canada
    Directed by Mark Anatoly Falko
    A young happy couple are attacked by a vampire. Soon, the young woman transforms into a monster. Will true love prevail?

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?
    I was inspired by my love of horror film...

  • THE BOMB short film, reactions HORROR Festival (interview)

    THE BOMB, 25min., Turkey
    Directed by Onur Dogan
    In the Balkan region, where lawlessness prevailed during the war, a man receives a threatening death letter from the gang he used to be a member of. Thereupon, he plans to escape to America with his pregnant wife. On the last night, after being thre...

  • SANGUINE DEPOSIT short film, reactions HORROR Festival (interview)

    SANGUINE DEPOSIT, 15min., USA
    Directed by Robert Del Campo
    Mac is a violent, train hopping, drifter who has found himself wandering from small town to small town during the Great Depression. He is a sadist with no compunction about using robbery, or even murder, to survive. Although he seems happ...

  • THE FARMHOUSE short film, reactions HORROR Festival (interview)

    THE FARMHOUSE, 15min,. Australia
    Directed by Luke Creely
    A young woman, living alone in an isolated rural farmhouse, is haunted one night by a mysterious entity which forces her to confront her inner demons and traumatic past.

    https://instagram.com/_lcfilms

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What...

  • LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE short film, reactions HORROR Festival (interview)

    LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE, 10min., USA
    Directed by Nick Noyes
    In "Like, Comment, Share," Casey, a social media influencer, takes on a house-sitting job for the night. Casey’s lighthearted updates quickly turn into a desperate plea for help as the night progresses.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What...

  • Pongo Labyrinth short film, reactions HORROR Festival (interview)

    Pongo Labyrinth [VTuber KawaiiMermaid120’s Final Livestream], 11min., USA
    Directed by Nathan William Frost
    An eerie glitchy stop-motion video made by Nathan Frost about a Virtual YouTuber's final livestream.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?:

    I was inspired to...

  • SPIRITUALITY Short Story: Storm Day, by Joseph Michael Cerra

    Performed by Val Cole

  • Watch GIN RUMMY short film. 17min., USA, Drama

    Three best friends have been playing Gin Rummy every week for over 50 years. On this Gin Rummy night they have made other plans as a final bonding of the trio.

    Director Statement

    I am excited and humbled to have reached this point in my creative career. I have been wanting to direct and write a...

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Feature Film: SEEK. Japan. Feb. 9/10 event

    SEEK, 93min,. Japan
    Directed by Shane Kosugi
    Kyohei Aizawa, an assassin for a covert non-governmental espionage group in Japan called "???" or "SEEK", is grieving over the loss of his girlfriend from a tragic plane accident.

    https://www.instagram.com/shanekosugi/

    Watch the audience feedback vi...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Shorts Festival - Feb. 8/9 event

    See the full lineup of films:

    OBSERVER, 8min., USA
    Directed by Dylan Powers
    When contact is lost with Samuel Harth, the Algan Space Corporation look into his memories to see what unfolded during a mission to Planet COR-73, unraveling a cosmic mystery in the process.

    http://www.dylanpowersfilm....

  • Poetry Reading: It’s What He Deserves, by Annie Williams

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    Me, Janey, and Jack were in the backyard
    When we saw a dead man hanging by
    The neck of my jump rope up in the
    Willow trees, and I looked up and
    Yelled at him, “What are you doing
    With my jump rope?”

    And he opened
    His yellow eyes and looked down at us
    With a crooke...

  • Poetry Reading: Deep Breaths, by Rachel Baker (interview)

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    Shadows
    (they move)

    Deep breaths
    (can’t breathe)

    Darkness swirls
    (like the madness in my mind)

    Deep breaths
    (can’t breathe)

    Name 5 things
    (but it doesn’t go away)

    Deep breaths
    (can’t breathe)

    Tree branches caress the window
    (or scratching fingers)

    Deep breath...

  • Poetry Reading: 213, by Thais Hardison

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    I did not ask you to build me this way
    I did not ask to come back from the grave
    My brain has thoughts that my tongue cannot say
    I do not like this second life you gave
    The only reason that you worked this trick
    Was to sate your own curiosity
    A doctor who works with...

  • Poetry Reading: LIGHT POLLUTION, by Euphamia Mature (interview)

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    tightrope like tied note twirl tangential tiptoe
    talk | your reflection
    through
    twisted spun spiderweb stuck-fly absurdity
    scam | your reflection

    escape glass enslavement soft falsehood of fractals
    fear | your reflection
    is lying, what

    monster haunts this fun-hous...

  • Poetry Reading: Lucky, by Amanda Crane

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    Let’s just say it.
    You are the lucky one, Ed.

    Dying is the answer to all of it.
    Life is a constant drum

    occluding the lyrics.
    When you die,

    you have flexible hours.
    You can eat all the bacon you want.

    You can run red lights.
    You can float or bilocate.

    If allowe...