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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  • VISITATION RIGHTS film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    VISITATION RIGHTS, 81min., South Korea
    Directed by JuA LEE
    ‘50% of all marriages end in divorce.’
    It’s so true in Korea. Divorce rates are increasing in Korea and around the world. Parents in divorced families with minor children are divided into custodial parent and non-custodial parent. The cus...

  • THE BOSTON BULLDOGS film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival (interview)

    THE BOSTON BULLDOGS, 96min., USA
    Directed by Bryan Cote
    “The Boston Bulldogs” is a 90-minute documentary film interviewing 5 people from a running club for addiction recovery, interconnected by one woman’s story from finishing the Boston Marathon after her first full year of sobriety to her relap...

  • Beyond the Surface: The Whale Shark Chronicles film, reactions DOC Festival

    Beyond the Surface: The Whale Shark Chronicles, 15min., Thailand
    Directed by Dr. Alongkot Chukaew
    "Beyond the Surface: The Whale Shark Chronicles," the new journey continues from the first documentary, "Giants of the Deep: The Whale Shark Story." By narrowing her focus to this species, Claire dis...

  • UNDOCUMENTED film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival (interview)

    UNDOCUMENTED, 72min., USA
    Directed by Patricia Shih
    No matter where you stand on the hot button topic of immigration, this true story -- of one man’s journey from the world’s most dangerous city to where he is today at the top of his profession -- will not fail to touch your heart on the most hum...

  • MEXILLONARIA film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    MEXILLONARIA, 15min., Spain
    Directed by Pablo Chouza
    The mussel in Galicia has its own character. Consumed from the Iron era to the present day, marking a turning point with the arrival of the first boats in the Ría de Arousa around 1945. At this time, it goes from a rustic and primary collection...

  • BEFORE THE BEES ARE AWAKE film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    BEFORE THE BEES ARE AWAKE, 13min., Denmark
    Directed by Dariya Cheremisina
    An unfolding story of urban beekeeping factory in the heart of Copenhagen. A place that sees honey as an invitation but not a product. It is a home for a community of local beekeepers, volunteers and family histories of emi...

  • A ROAD AT NIGHT film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    A ROAD AT NIGHT, 73min., USA
    Directed by Danny Boyle
    “A Road at Night“ is a documentary about the cascade of tragic events that can occur when seemingly good people make fatally unwise decisions. Set against the backdrop of college athletics, the documentary examines the powerful bonds of family ...

  • The Future of Chinampas: A Perspective From Its People, DOC Festiva (interview)

    The Future of Chinampas: A Perspective From Its People, 30min., Mexico
    Directed by Aldo Márquez
    The Interdisciplinary Environmental Association (IEA) and the Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad-IE (LANCIS) UNAM have partnered with Restauracion Ecológica y Desarrollo, (REDES), to...

  • BAD DEALS film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    BAD DEALS, 23min,. USA
    Directed by Jospeh Taz Garcia
    Bad Deals touches on 3 important facts that everyone should speak more about and be aware of.

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  • DOWN THE LINE film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    DOWN THE LINE, 20min., USA
    Directed by Vinit Parmar
    Since the 1940s, New Jersey’s county political organizations have designed primary ballots to favor their endorsed candidates. Until 2024, 19 of 21 counties used grid systems that placed endorsed candidates in prime spots, known as the “county l...

  • Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival: Jan. 23/24 event

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    BARON MUNCHAUSEN, 20min., Ukraine
    Directed by Ilya Noyabrev
    Eternal love or eternal life? This difficult choice is facing a brilliant actor. His life in the gray real world and the life of the world of fantasies are so closely intertwined that bright pictures of vi...

  • STAGE PLAY Best Scene Reading: THE SPECIALS, by Kimberly Lawton (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Louis: Steve Rizzo
    Laura: Hannah Ehman

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    Ultimately it's about loneliness and how if can look different through grief or mental illness. Some people struggle with it and seem to function well (car...

  • HEIST COUNTER HEIST, by Helen Rana. Best Scene CRIME/MYSTERY Festival

    London, 1979. Reeling from the fallout of her father’s suicide, observant teen Jenny devises a foolproof theft, based on insights gleaned from waitressing in a gangsters’ social club. Her plucky two best friends join in - but their plan to pull a counter heist goes badly awry.

    CAST LIST:

    Narra...

  • FEMALE Directors DOC Festival: Jan. 22/23 evernt

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    TOXIC INFLUENCE: THE DARK SIDE OF DOVE, 6min,. UK
    Directed by Alice Russell
    You wouldn’t poison your daughter’s future, but Dove is doing it every day. Greenpeace research found that every minute, Dove floods low-income communities with 12,000 highly polluting plas...

  • WILDsound Festival Trailer

    Trailer for the daily www.wildsound.ca streaming service.

  • LIFESOURCE, by Aleks Lyons. Best Scene Reading. FEMALE Film Festival (interview)

    A young oceanographer discovers her gradfather's plane - part of the Lost Patrol - and is thrust into an emotional journey with a rebellious reporter as the government tries to cover up what really happened that night in 1945. The duo uncovers an extraordinary truth of how water, our most preciou...

  • TRANSITIONS, by Rachael CG Cudlitz. 1st Scene Script Reading. LGBTQ+ Festival

    A Half Hour Comedy about a gender non-conforming young adult embarking on a journey of self discovery with help and — at times — hindrance from their family.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Quinn: Hannah Ehman
    Sarah: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • OVERLORDE, by Paul Rose & Brian Streaty. Best Scene Script Reading Female Fest

    A brilliant but troubled Egyptologist sparks an international incident when she invades the tomb of a mummified celestial being, only to become possessed by the entity's mysterious powers.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Deborah: Hannah Ehman
    Ahmed: Steve Rizzo

  • Jerusalem Idol, by Lewis Nevin Papier. Best Scene. COMEDY Festival (interview)

    In ancient Israel, an aspiring stand-up comedian and self-proclaimed prophet must navigate fame, rivalries, and a mad Procurator's wrath to save his runner-up competitor—and himself—after winning the wildly popular reality show, 'Jerusalem Idol.'

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Be...

  • WHAT'S A ZAYDE?, by Andy Epstein. Best Scene Reading. WILDsound Festival

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Becky: Julie Sheppard
    Lucille: Hannah Ehman

  • The Ghosts of Rachel Young, by Shaun Mark Burrell. Action//Fantasy/Thriller Fest

    Haunted by a fatal mistake, a shattered vice cop reunites with a bright but brooding detective and his mysterious family to tame her frightening new power and protect it from the evil eager to control it.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Rachel: Hannah Ehman
    Brandon: Steve Rizzo

  • ON THE CORNER OF EDEN AND GRACE, by Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus. Best Scene Reading

    Between the moon walk and Woodstock, a 17 year old aspiring photographer struggles to save her boyfriend from slipping into heroin addiction without destroying herself.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Rosie: Hannah Ehman
    Boone: Steve Rizzo

  • KINKY GRACE, by Mitchell Ganem - 1st scene script reading - Female Festival

    A lesbian couple engages the services of a sex guru to spice up their love life, with hysterically touching results.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Kerry: Hannah Ehman
    Ellen: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Donald: Steve Rizzo