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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  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: Indoctrinate, by Shannon Clarke

    Summary: Kimberli is a psychologist who starts changing the way she helps her patients by showing them how to handle their conflicts with aggression.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Kim: Hannah Ehman
    Terry: Shawn Devlin

  • LGBTQ+ Festival: Pocketful of Mondays, by Lindsey Morrison Grant (interview)

    A highly sensitive, two-spirit person living above their adopted parent's appliance store has their life turned upside down when they learn their two "stillborn" babies may still be alive (now teens) and that their recurring childhood nightmare of the alien abduction of their birth parents may ha...

  • BEST Scene Reading: SALLIE, by Chase Yancey (interview)

    When the paths of the 11th Pennsylvania Civil War regiment and an American Staffordshire Terrier pup intertwine, the men of the 11th's lives are changed in ways they never could've predicted.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    R. Coulter: Shawn Devlin
    Captain Terry: Geoff May

    Get to know the...

  • GENRE Festival 1st Scene Reading: VOODOO VALENTINOS, by Michael Louis Gould

    ‘bigger the fools, bigger the stars’

    A night-long, road comedy set in seventies, north-west England.

    The paths of two girlfriendless, working class, teenage misfits are dramatically and hilariously altered by a 'voodoo cabbie' who collects them en route to a middle class, village party to which...

  • LGBTQ+ Best Scene Reading: CAN I KEEP YOU?, by Xavion Niles

    Summary: Teo is a straight man who has a hard time settling down, on the other end, Zan is a gay man who doesn't know how to casually date. The two of them end up helping each other out with their dating issues, until it's quite clear that they are in love with each other.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator:...

  • Q&A after screening: March 2025 Experimental/Dance/Music Festival

    Question & Answer session after festival screening with filmmakers from the March 27, 2025 Festival at the Carlton Cinemas, in downtown Toronto, Canada.

    Filmmakers in attendance:

    Writer Irina Lytchak - THE MOMENT

    Director Matthew Vargas - STRING HEAD

    Director Jerry Trieus - KITE

    Director Mi...

  • ROMANCE Festival Best Scene: THE FOUNTAIN OF TRUTH, by R.A. Lee

    Sometimes Love Needs a Grand Gesture

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Cherish: Val Cole
    Joseph: Steve Rizzo
    George: Shawn Devlin

  • DEATH Short Story: For Oscar, by Nathaniel Rowe

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE Best Scene: THE OLD MAN & THE DEAD, by Robert Benjamin

    Thirty years after a world-wide zombie apocalypse in which man kind prevailed — life is nearly back to normal, aside from the occasional residual zombie roaming about. When Tara and her new fiancé Paul finally decide it’s time for him to meet Tara’s father, Paul has one major fear: that her shotg...

  • ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene: THE ART OF THE MATTER, by Janna Jones (interview)

    Two strangers meet and sparks fly, but when he accidentally discovers forged paintings at her house, he leaves abruptly. That would be the end of their story except for the fact that he's reported her to the FBI, and their children are marrying one another on Christmas day.

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  • SCIENCE FICTION Short Story Reading: Whimper, by Alex Everett

    A man watches over his mother as an extraterrestrial pandemic destroys the world.

    Performed by Val Cole

  • 1st Scene Reading: Take Care, by Olivier Ross-Parent (interview)

    Something has happenned in Mady's life. As an immigrant woman in America, she has achieved the American dream; A successful career as a doctor of psychology, a lavish home, nice car, and, most importantly a husband and two wonderful children, yet something is missing. Not knowing what it is, she ...

  • LGBTQ+ TV 1st Scene Reading: AFTERLIFE ANONYMOUS, by Michael Kezele (interview)

    A gay ghost haunting a West Hollywood house, along with his dysfunctional Grim Reaper friend, help a straight cop solve crimes.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Sal: Steve Rizzo
    Shawn: Shawn Devlin
    Corey: Andy Camp

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    It's about a gay ghos...

  • Poetry Reading: Reason Enough, by Brooke Bianchi-Pennington

    https://youtu.be/nEdWr4lIOFc

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    I don’t remember ever being beautiful.
    Must have been, at some point.
    Kindergarten maybe?
    All I know is, by third grade,
    My tummy was a tad too
    Big to be beautiful.

    But don’t worry. This isn’t a poem
    About hating my body. Actually,
    I’v...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival TV Best Scene: JESSIE, by Sallyann Fellowes

    Jessie follows the haunting of a ghost girl who visits her great great niece and starts cause chaos in their lives.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Anna: Hannah Ehman
    Susie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene: PEARL FISHER, by Suzanne Birrell (interview)

    When a precocious mixed-race five-year-old wanders into a fire station with only a backpack and a cryptic note about her missing mother, she has no idea it will set off a chain of events that will reshape her life. The little girl, who refuses to give her name, is sent into foster care and given ...

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: THE LAST NORTHERN WHITE RHINO, by Sam Holeman

    Hunted by a lethal crime syndicate, a disgraced ex cop finds sanctuary as a wildlife ranger where his seasoned lethality becomes vital to protecting the last northern white rhino from the very predators that employed him.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    James: Shawn Devlin
    Willem: Geoff Mays

  • BEST Scene Reading: DEAR MR HUTTON, by Jennifer Marsh

    Inspired by the music of Three Dog Night, a young girl enjoys childhood in 1970s Ohio and develops a desire to travel abroad, if she can convince her parents to let her go.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Ruth: Hannah Ehman
    Andrea: Val Cole

  • FEMALE Fest Best Scene: KAM60 The Butterfly Prince, by Maria Pearce (interview)

    The butterfly prince is a story of a fictional character K.A.M.60 that attempt to honour the great French astronomer Charles Messier who developed the Messier catalogue and discovered many Messier objects in the sky in particular in the Virgo constellation. In the book K.A.M.60 real name is = Kar...

  • Best Scene: Shesafella: The Fancy Tales, by Felice Cohen (interview)

    Summary: Fella, a softball player, is bullied at home by her stepmother and stepbrothers, who treat her like Cinderella. She cooks, she cleans, and she caters to all their needs. However, when the family gets invited to the Mayor's daughter's birthday ball, she is excluded until her fairy godmoth...

  • Poetry Reading: Accolade to a Nameless Station, by Inge Sorensen (interview)

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    September 29th, 2020

    Air from Terra Rising
    Quivering in the Mountains
    Rocks Rumble Beneath Earth, & One’s Feet
    Wind Blares Down on All of Us
    Nature Plays Tambourines – Touching Each of Our Ears
    Terrene Mother Drums her Hands’ Down on the Planet’s Crust
    Manmade Iron ...

  • Poetry Reading: A Story from Hell, by Robert Wen

    https://youtu.be/_3QgQ-xnSD8

    Voice Over by Val Cole

    POEM:

    somewhere in my travels i had taken the wrong turn
    i can’t inform my path to there for i have yet to learn
    i don’t know how it happened, how hell i stumbled into
    journey aside, i found the devil’s lair without a clue

    amidst flames i ...

  • Poetry Reading: X, by Ruthie Marlenee

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    Look at the big, beautiful Moon tonight.
    See the little red spot that is called Mars.
    See the almighty Elon Musk take flight.
    Launched from the earth through its cosmos and stars.

    But lo, it’s only his robot doppelganger
    on a mission to plant the American flag.
    Oh ...

  • BEST Scene Reading: TICKET TO KYIV, by Hannah Miyamoto (interview)

    A carefree young American woman gains a new appreciation for life when she is caught up in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    https://www.instagram.com/hannah_pacificostudios/

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Kalyna: Hannah Ehman
    Rachel: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Stepan: Shawn Devlin

    Get to...