MAGIC OF PODLASIE - WHISPERS, 70min., Poland
Directed by Malgorzata Szyszka
Why, in today's civilized world, do we still use the methods and means of healing bodies and souls used by our grandparents? Who really are Whishperes? How does modern psychology look at rituals and whisherers? The tradi...

FIGURES, 82min., USA
Directed by Rhett Cutrell
A zoologist couple travels to West Africa to document some of the worlds deadliest snakes. Their expedition reveals a surprising similarity between handling deadly snakes and living in a healthy relationship.

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NIGHTWISH - PERFUME OF THE TIMELESS, 8min., Finland
Directed by Ville Lipiainen
"Nightwish-Perfume Of The Timeless" is a music video exploring themes of evolution, connection with nature and meaning. With a strong, dynamic and epic sound, the music video showcases the strong link between all livi...

A widow finds herself in a toxic relationship with a younger man after losing her husband and finds herself in a relationship where he is forcing her to give money to invest in his cryptobusiness. After some lengthy back and forth, Valerie is approached by an investigating officer who let's her ...

A rescue mission to a remote space station finds only one evasive crewman, an obstinate AI and the station cat still alive. With no explanation for the missing personnel and with members of the rescue crew beginning to die, suspicion grows that one of these three is responsible.

CAST LIST:

Nar...

A newlywed couple takes on a one time gig to make ends meet and wind up creating America’s very first sitcom in the process... based on a true story.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Mary Kay: Hannah Ehman
Johnny: Geoff Mays

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your screenplay...

A woman plays a poker game for a second shot at life, but what are the stakes and what is the real prize?

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Mina: Hannah Ehman
Bannister: Geoff Mays

After being released from a psychiatric clinic, Dwayne is one a on-track mission to get revenge against the supernatural forces of Moonlight Ridge.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Edris: Sean Ballantyne
Brandon: Geoff Mays

1. What is your screenplay about?

Spiritual Awakening is a co...

In a nondescript near future, a grief stricken, neophyte print journalist embarks on a journey of self-discovery while working on a story about a new psychedelic drug.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Brian: Sean Ballantyne
Bow: Geoff Mays

"Shadows of Stardom" (Inspired by True Events) is a screenplay that follows the journey of Jack, a middle-aged man with unfulfilled dreams of acting and dancing. The story delves into the stark contrast between Jack's vivid dream sequences, where he experiences success and fulfillment, and the ha...

Seizing a career-making opportunity, a trouble but talented jewelry designer joins a group of influencers on a California desert retreat, but quickly finds herself in a fight for her life when things take a sinister turn.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Randy: Sean Ballantyne
Au...

AFROLISTIC: BLACK HEALING FROM ZIMBABWE TO THE BAY, 22min., USA
Directed by Nekia Wright, Shylet Ndarambwa
Black American healer shares about her practice and explores traditional healing, music, and dance in Zimbabwe.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-afrolistic

https://www.amazon.ca/Unmasked-Howard-K-Pollack/dp/B0B456VHVW

When the wife of a shady Florida businessman is shot in bed in their exclusive home, all signs point to a senseless robbery. Detectives are on the case, but it's the dead woman's high school sweetheart, now a high-powered attorney, wh...

Narrated by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your novel about?

It's a memoir about my cousin who was more like a loving older brother to me. He died at 47. He was a third-generation Mardi Gras sculpture artist and float builder in New Orleans. I quit graduate school in 2011 and s...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

The old trees bend protectively around us
as we rest on the park bench in our winter wear
your faltering mind following the course of the river that is close and sure and deep

even now I can still find your younger face and remember the pillowy softness
of your lips...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

i. THE BLACK SHUTTLE IS PASSING OVERHEAD

ii. The Chumash (California) referred to meteors as Alakiwohoch,
which simply meant “shooting star.” They believed a meteor was a
person’s soul on its way to the afterlife.

iii. The black shuttle is passing overhead, sent ea...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Grass grown tall green slicks drizzle wet,
new planted seedlings shakily take hold,
crumpled mulch retains soil covered mold,

run tongued dogs
checked for ticks
lap water bowls.

And I am left with trowel and rake
to gather weeds in sunlit rain still cold.

How easi...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

I’m from a Southern backyard —
Magnolia grandiflora sporting huge white blooms
Honeysuckles spilling over the fence
Red roses soaked with the aroma of tea
Hollyhocks springing up yearly into flowering towers.

I’m from a Southern backyard —
Mud pies being made beneat...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Sometimes I’m stunned by how time

moves through a life
so easily
and quietly
so that one spring day,
you’re ten, running to a neighbor’s to climb
his apple tree;
the next week,
you’re buying your first house in Adrian,
wife pregnant with a third child;
two weeks lat...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

I miss you…
phoning
just to say hello.
I miss you…
calling
to hear about your day.
I miss you…
coming here to stay
giving me
your precious time.
I miss…
our travels together
taking in the sights
like kids set free
on a playground
finding pleasure
in exploring new thi...

https://youtu.be/uzix0NNftPU

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM: I am an immigrant, nomadic desperate for home,
to hammer myself into existence
out of pain in depths of yearning—
for what it’s too immense to bookend in language,
perhaps only indicted by silence inserting itself
into the form,
the only s...

https://youtu.be/CNbkjDqe6TM

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

After checking each other
for spit-up stains, we head to an Italian place,
glasses of red wine, gnocchi,
in a booth by the window.

There’s a flurry or two, Christmas
lights strung across Main.
The marquee on a local theater
seduces: Ult...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Today is a day both rare and familiar. Tragic months before
another comes around. This will be the past that makes the
future proceed. Only what of the lack of true possession?
What of the decline spotted once again in our ascent, that
we heard in what was said in tir...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Beauty is what we’re here for.
To utilize our sense of wonder
To create a path of wonder for others.
Be awake in the now and
Find that connection to the universe
To dig deep and discover what is in us
That is moved by the aesthetically pleasing.
Why is that which we ...