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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  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: BLOOD RED, by Roberto Roy Nylund (interview)

    Summary: Researching transfusion therapy on different blood groups, something goes completely wrong when the test subjects start mutating and transforming into Zombie like creatures.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Marv: Geoff Mays
    Ruby: Val Cole

    Get to know the writer:

    What is your scr...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Dorming "Picture of a Hot Girl", by Megan Esch

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Mina: Val Cole
    Willow: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Ruth: Hannah Ehman

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Best Scene Reading: TRIBE LINE, by Harvey Goodman

    An oilfield construction crew of 4 young vets working near the U.S, Canadian border, stumble upon a Mexican cartel and Canadian mob smuggling ring who in turn discover they know too much. A taut, fast-paced thriller.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Bethany: Val Cole
    Nick: Geoff May...

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Best Scene Readng: ENTANGLED, by Larry Elmore (interview)

    A writer tasked with writing a true event is taken by the CIA to cover their tracks. However, his smart mind out smarts them when his characters learn their role in his book and save him

    CAST LIST:

    .Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Amira Khan: Val Cole
    Ryan Tyler: Geoff Mays

    Get to know the ...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: CYCLIC, by Fenton E. Queens

    Celia is out to break general curses when she learns that her grandmother, her mother and herself were all victims of sexual abuse. With her 5 year old niece the main focus, she sets out a path to continue speaking out about this to avoid it happening to her.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    ...

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Best Scene: DIRE STREETS by Alessandro Inca (interview)

    LOGLINE: In the 1940s, prisoners — including infamous mob boss Joe Blunda — were released to defend America from Nazi spy attacks. What happened to them remains a chilling mystery: none were ever seen alive again.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Steve: Shawn Devlin
    Hoover: Geoff M...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Best Scene: SACRED STEEL, by Ryan Cooke

    Trexel Unit AJN-A 852 burst into existence, his spirit unblemished and at peace. But tranquility proves fleeting, as the insertion of his core processor shatters his serenity. Now, driven by a maddening quest to reclaim his lost bliss, AJN-A 852 forms an unholy alliance with a ruthless scientist....

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Best Scene: Corporate America, by Travis Lee & Jack Davidson

    Torn apart by election wars and crippled with insurmountable debt, The United States of 2028 makes the decision to sell itself to four super-corporations each carving out their own sovereign territory. No longer needed, a team of special forces members disperses into varying aspects of their new ...

  • COMEDY Festival SHORT Script: AUBERON’S LAST CHANCE by Matt MacBride (interview)

    Auberon's track record as a vampire is less than stellar, so when he's given a final ultimatum he has to pull out all the stops to save his career.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Killian: Geoff Mays
    Auberon: Shawn Devlin
    Gretchen/Woman: Val Cole
    Pete/Friend 1: Steve Rizzo

    Get to...

  • BEST Scene Script Reading: CLIMATE CHANGED, by Alan J. Field

    "When an all-talk-but-no-action environmentalist is forced to work for a fossil fuel conglomerate and then learns his new girlfriend may be running a global warming cover-up of a cataclysmic environmental disaster, he rounds up misfit coworkers to expose the truth before it's too late."

    https:/...

  • 1st Scene Read What Happened When Spunky Met Egotesticle, by Marietta R. K. Wilk

    www.mariettakwilk.com

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Eva: Val Cole
    Nina: Elizabeth Rose Morris

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE 1st Scene Script Reading: PLUS ONE, by Edward V. Lacina

    Haunted from the chilling events. Someone finally has to pay the price of shattered consequences. A life for a life... Plus One.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Rosie: Val Cole
    Jolene: Elizabeth Rose Morris

  • SCI-FI Best Scene: THE PIT, by Duncan B. Putney, Greg Chopoorian (interview)

    When disgraced TV journalist Matthew Coleman is sent to South America for a "where-are-they-now" piece on thirty-three miners rescued from a cave-in a decade ago, he expects an easy fluff assignment. But what begins as a redemption story turns into a chilling investigation, as Matt uncovers a dar...

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE 1st Scene Reading: BAD SOULS, by Jordan Galland

    An undercover officer for a secret agency that monitors reincarnated souls develops feelings for a woman he's spying on, who may or may not be the reincarnation of a bad soul.

    CAST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Ari: Shawn Devlin

  • Short Film Trailer: INTERWOVEN. Directed by Dawn Carpenter

    INTERWOVEN, 24min., USA
    Directed by Dawn Carpenter
    In the wake of the textile industry's decline, a community in North Carolina fights to reclaim its economic future through innovative worker-owned cooperatives and sustainable practices, transforming the remnants of their industrial past into a b...

  • COLD ISLE, 5min., Ireland, Documentary/Environmental/Experimental

    A seagull living in a harbour village starts to evaluate its existence and flies to a remote island for answers.

    Directed by Josh Wagner

  • IN BETWEEN, 13min., Canada, Romance/Drama/LGBTQ+

    In Between tells the story of Blake, who lives a happy heteronormative life with her long time partner, Eric. After some vivid unexpected dreams, she gets a visit from a love from her past life, Adeline, who shows up to her home from across the world. If your past showed up on your doorstep… what...

  • Today’s Podcast: EP. 1476: Screenwriter Hannah Miyamoto (TICKET TO KYIV)

  • FRUIT LOOPS, 15min., Romance/LGBTQ+/Comedy

    A 30 something year old lesbian from NYC documents a series of horrible dates as she tries to find the one.

    http://www.daniellebero.com/fruitloops

    https://www.instagram.com/fruitloopsfilm

    Directed by Danielle Bero

    Cast: Naomi Zabasajja

    Director Statement:

    I wanted to be a poet and film dir...

  • OBJECTS OF DESIRE - BLADE, 18min., USA, LGBTQ+ Tragic Drama/Dark Comedy

    https://alejandrorenteria.com/

    https://www.instagram.com/susurrone

    Miami Film Festival Winner - This captivating dark comedy follows the eventful journey of Jessy, a morally ambiguous young man who finds himself entangled in a web of challenges when his mother is kidnapped. To settle his debt,...

  • READ POEM: ED by Joshua Walker

    Performed by Val Cole

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    POEM:

    Ed- I watch as he stumbles, a man undone,
    A poet once soaring, now falling—done.
    His words like daggers, sharp but not kind,
    A tortured soul with a fractured mind.
    “Nevermore,” he mutters, his eyes vacant, cold,
    A genius’s madness, a story retold.
    I wish I could ...

  • POETRY Reading: Seven, by Hayley Kinsella

    Performed by Val Cole

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    POEM:

    If you asked my parents

    “What was the worst year
    Of your youngest daughter’s life?”

    They might tell you age twenty.
    Because that’s the year
    A bottle of pills
    Found their way
    To the bottom
    Of my stomach.

    But that wasn’t
    The worst
    Of my experiences.

    If you a...

  • POETRY Reading: American Made, by Rory Gallagher

    Performed by Val Cole

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    POEM:

    The abhorrent white mucus bore no trace of the honeyed nuances he was accustomed to.
    All the elements of earth and beast were absent in its creation,
    As if this pale perversion stood wholly apart from the nurturing animal for which it did imitate.
    And though th...

  • POETRY Reading: THE WAYS IN WHICH WE KEEP, by Damien Thompson

    Performed by Val Cole

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    POEM:

    There’s an aging letter in the drawer of my nightstand
    It lays hiding in plain sight
    On top of my grandma’s fake pearls
    And papers that were lost on their way somewhere else
    It doesn’t call out
    Just plain white printer paper
    And though I always know it’s ther...