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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  • Extinguish the flares and light up life, 29min., Spain, Documentary/Environment

    Pablo Fajardo, the renowned environmental lawyer who managed to bring down the North American transnational Chevron (formerly Texaco), shows us his world of commitment for the rights of an Amazonian population affected by oil activities. Together with the activist Donald Moncayo and the Union of ...

  • Watch Festival: ACTION/FANTASY/THRILLER Shorts

    See the Full Lineup of FIlms:

    Silent Token, 14min., USA
    Directed by Camilla Della Vecchia
    When Sonia, a descendant of a secretive law enforcement group becomes the target of a ruthless enemy from the past, she must uncover the truth about her family's legacy. Guarded by the fiercely loyal prote...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: ACTION/FANTASY/THRILLER Shorts

    See the Full Lineup of FIlms:

    Silent Token, 14min., USA
    Directed by Camilla Della Vecchia
    When Sonia, a descendant of a secretive law enforcement group becomes the target of a ruthless enemy from the past, she must uncover the truth about her family's legacy. Guarded by the fiercely loyal prote...

  • Watch Festival: EXPERIMENTAL HORROR FEATURE Fest

    Shucks, 50min,. USA
    Directed by Ty Brueilly
    A slow burning and silent eerie tale about escaping followed by personal transformations, addiction, programed human nature and the primal urges of evolved creature comforts through a macabre metaphorical manufacturing process. Written, Directed and Sco...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: EXPERIMENTAL HORROR FEATURE Fest

    Shucks, 50min,. USA
    Directed by Ty Brueilly
    A slow burning and silent eerie tale about escaping followed by personal transformations, addiction, programed human nature and the primal urges of evolved creature comforts through a macabre metaphorical manufacturing process. Written, Directed and Sco...

  • Watch Festival: EXPERIMENTAL/DANCE/MUSIC shorts

    See the full lineup of films:

    inner necessity, 10min., USA, Experimental
    Directed by Ethan Wagner
    "The artist is not only justified in using any form necessary for their purposes, but it is [their] very duty to do so."

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-inner-necessity

    La Ghost...

  • Q&A After Screening: THRILLER/SUSPENSE May 2025 Film Festival

    Question & answer session after festival screening with filmmakers from the May 15, 2025 festival at the Carlton Cinemas, in downtown Toronto, Canada.

    Conversation with filmmaker Yusuf Begg

    THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING, 8min,. Canada

    In a world where every click, swipe, and search is harves...

  • ONCE AND AGAIN, 4min., Romance/Drama/LGBTQ+

    Tasha, a woman in her mid 40’s, trudges through the end of
    her day until she sees an old flame on the train platform. The
    lovers reminisce and rekindle feelings towards each other only
    to realize that circumstance continues to keep them apart.

    Directed by Jessica Q Moore

  • ROMANCE Festival Best Scene: THE ANSWER GIRL, by Stephanie Scott

    When a brilliant but shy young woman goes
    on a quiz show to finance her niece’s ballet career, she falls in love with her eventual competition—a contestant with the longest winning streak in history whose sole focus has been to win at any cost, including lying about who he really is.

    CAST LIST: ...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: PUEBLO, by Eric A. Vasallo (interview)

    Three individuals go on a self-seeking journey to find out a way to get to a better version of themselves, seeking out a powerful Shaman who plays tricks on them mentally.

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    Self discovery, healing from trauma and beating the ubiquitous...

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival 1st Scene: THE GARBAGE PATCH, by Jonathan Fear

    A grieving oceanographer and his fearless research partner discover a rogue North Korean general has built a hidden nuclear missile base beneath the Pacific’s Great Garbage Patch and must outwit his deadly forces and sabotage the launch before millions die in an undetectable first strike.

    CAST L...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: The Big Date, by Paul Huenemann (interview)

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    Harry loves Sandy and has planned “the big date” to propose, but between his twin, her twin, the guys from the Bobcat rugby team, Roxie, Linda, and One Eye'd Jacks, the world seems against it. Comedy.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Harry: Geoff Mays
    Sandy: Val Cole

    G...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene: GUARDIAN AHOLE, by David Case

    A bad angel is given a second chance to help the woman he let down at her high school prom. Now a brilliant OCD wreck of a lawyer, she needs the angel’s help more than ever. But being bad is the only thing he appears to be good at…

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Charlie: Geoff Mays

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: VAMPIRA AND TIMBO, by A.L. Jobrail

    A lone prepubescent soon-to-be werewolf falls in love with a vampire. His family disapproves, but it's too late to stop them.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Vampira: Val Cole
    Timbo: Shawn Devlin

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Best Scene Reading: Project Z, by Tori Mosser

    A young, aspiring screenwriter looking for inspiration is swept into a chaotic, superpowered fight that reveals abilities she never knew she had

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Presley: Geoff Mays
    Adina: Val Cole

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: THEY BRING HELL, by Bernard Schaffer

    Two Federal Agents investigate cases of the paranormal, usually ending with them splattered with goo, but a darker evil awaits.

    https://www.instagram.com/bernardschaffer

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Pike: Geoff Mays
    Farley: Val Cole
    Officer Santos: Shawn Devlin

  • UNDER 5 Minute Festival Short Script: THE CYCLE, by Stephanie Neroes

    A family carries a heavy secret between father and son, passed down from generation to generation until it finally becomes to much for the last one.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole - 2
    Detective/Soldier: Geoff Mays
    Wife: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Man/Officer/Junior: Shawn Devlin

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: WAKING UP TO CHRISTMAS, by Susan Arscott

    She thought she had it all—until she woke up in someone else’s
    perfect life.
    Logline: When high-powered executive Claire Beckett dozes off in
    an airport lounge, she wakes to a life she never lived—complete
    with a Christmas tree farm, a cozy cabin, and a quiet artist who
    creates beauty from broken...

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE 1st Scene: The Clearing Eliza, by Michael L Dennis (interview)

    In post-Civil War America, a tormented young woman marked by ancestral abuse becomes the unwilling vessel for a curse born of ancient blood—but as the darkness awakens within her, so too does a scream powerful enough to end it.

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    In post...

  • BEST Scene Screenplay Reading: DOORS OPEN, by Alicia Petralia (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Astrid: Val Cole
    Norma: Elizabeth Rose Morris

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    A former Army lawyer, Gemma Lightwater battles troubled family and calculating investors to reopen her Missouri Ozarks ranch that pairs broken veterans...

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: SOME KIND OF ROT, by Connor Jr Brown (interview)

    When a young, broke librarian buys an abandoned house on the outskirts of a British Columbian town, he starts to uncover the house's secrets as unexplained incidents occur.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Anna: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Eric: Shawn Devlin

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: GENDER REVEAL, by Stephen Lemieux (interview)

    Mitchell Parkins is a 34 year old young man with a baby on the way, and a gender reveal party imminently closing in. Unfortunately, he's cursed. Going back hundreds of years, any time a Parkins finds out the gender of their child is a boy before it's born, they die on their 35th birthday. Worse, ...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: HIGH GROUND, by AG Conlyn (interview)

    Gloria is uncomfortable on her own skin and needs to learn how to love herself. She endured many challenges to love her body and even embraces a pregnancy that she didn't consent to.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Nancy: Val Cole
    Gloria: Elizabeth Rose Morris

    Get to know the writer:

    1....

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: MISSING PERSONS, by Nathan Burt (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Martin: Geoff Mays
    Abraham: Steve Rizzo

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    My screenplay is about a teenager named Abraham and his best friend Martin who are both on the precipice of graduating high school. As Abraham gr...