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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  • MOVIE TRAILERS November Festival

    HOW WE ROLL, 2min., Documentary
    Directed by Anthony Ciancio

    SUPER ME, 3min., Experimental
    Directed by Marcelo Presotto
    1980s. Marcelo is 17 years old and has been in conflict with his mother, an abusive relationship since childhood. Martial arts have become a form of armor for him. But will it b...

  • WILDsound Best Scene Reading: JAMES LEE, by Hugh Brownlie

    Glasgow teenager Jimmy Lee acquires unwelcomed physical enhancements. After mistakenly injuring a young child he emigrates to Toronto for a fresh start.

    In later life he crosses paths with a dogged detective who attempts to link his curious goings on with other small-time illegalities.

    Convergi...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: HACKED BY LOVE, by Rosemary Lokhorst

    A major Esports event is in full swing, with a dynamic A.
    I host partnering with a legendary player. When the massive prize
    money is threatened by a bomb threat, the event begins to descend
    into chaos; forcing the resident A. I and a star player team up with
    the F.B.I. to unravel the conspiracy.
    ...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: In The House That Elle Built, by Lauren Hackney

    Elizabeth has her hands full with her two foster kids, a roommate and a new love interest that she's not sure can handle her lifestyle.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Elizabeth: Hannah Ehman
    Elle/Lizzy: Julie Sheppard

  • Q&A After Screening: FEMALE DIRECTOR'S Toronto November 2025 Festival

    Question & answer session after the festival screening with filmmakers from the November 13th, 2025 festival at the Carlton Cinemas, in downtown Toronto, Canada.

    Conversation with creators:

    Directors Tatjana Green, Nicole VanStone (NORTH NODE)

    Director Violetta Cheredniuk (C'EST LA VIE)

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  • Best of WILDsound DOCS Festival

    DEFEND THE DEEP, 23min., USA
    Directed by Richard Allen Charter, Liz Ruben
    Documentary about the risks to our oceans from deep seabed mining,

    http://thedeepmovie.org/

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-defend-the-deep

    NO KINGS, 16min., USA
    Directed by David Tardiff
    NO KINGS, by ...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of WILDsound DOCS Festival

    DEFEND THE DEEP, 23min., USA
    Directed by Richard Allen Charter, Liz Ruben
    Documentary about the risks to our oceans from deep seabed mining,

    http://thedeepmovie.org/

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-defend-the-deep

    NO KINGS, 16min., USA
    Directed by David Tardiff
    NO KINGS, by ...

  • Action/Sci-Fi Festival 1st Scene: GOLD MINE, by Andrzej Ciesielski

    Logline: In a distant future where immortality and genetic engineering have erased the concept of a family, a reborn scientist defies his sterile society to restore genuine human connection.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    VO Narrator: Val Cole

  • ENVIRONMENTAL Festival 1st Scene: FIRST LIGHT, by Dylan Brody

    A bright child in northern California betrays his Catholic upbringing and protective parents to join forces with a local druid who believes he might just be the one who can save the world from humanity's worst impulses.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    William: Sean Ballantyne
    Marty: Shawn De...

  • Female Festival Best Scene: FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES, by Rosemary Gallagher

    Rose is struggling to find that deep connection in her life, compared to her friends she's the only one without any kids, love or overall success.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Rose: Julie C. Sheppard
    Bethany: Hannah Ehman

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: JUMPING AT SHADOWS: ARMAGEDDON feature film

    JUMPING AT SHADOWS: ARMAGEDDON, 51min., Australia
    Directed by Locky Boaretto
    In a world secretly at war with an ancient alien race, a teenage girl discovers a crash landed alien, and uncovers shocking truths about her estranged father… After teaming up with a pair of rebel brothers, she uncovers ...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Best Scene Reading: ETERNAL LIFE, by Jaaered Brown (interview)

    Waking in a future with floating cities topping thousands of stories, run by radioactive intelligence, where imagination blends with machine, an amnesiac finds her destiny.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Alis: Hannah Ehman
    Anne-Marie: Val Cole

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your sc...

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene Script: ANXIETY, by Meredith Stack (interview)

    Emily suffers from extreme anxiety. Her younger sister, Meredith, is the only one who can calm her but when Meredith dies unexpectedly, Emily's anxiety takes a dark turn exposing terrifying secrets from her family's past and creating a sinister way of dealing with her fears.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrati...

  • ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIPS 1st Scene Reading: AUDITORIUM, by Stuart A. Pollack

    On his first day of college, Mark Shoots, an anxious underachiever planning to drop out, arrives early at a large, empty lecture hall. There, he encounters Amanda Lists, a driven overachiever anxiously awaiting news from an Ivy League waitlist. Initially hostile toward each other, they gradually ...

  • BEST of WILDsound Shorts Festival

    Come the Nightfall, 23min,. USA
    Directed by Tom Michaels
    A wealthy licentious offers a lift to a beautiful femme fatale in the middle of a deserted road with a shocking aftermath.

    http://www.orzelfilms.com/
    https://instagram.com/orzelfilms

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

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: BEST of WILDsound Shorts Festival

    Come the Nightfall, 23min,. USA
    Directed by Tom Michaels
    A wealthy licentious offers a lift to a beautiful femme fatale in the middle of a deserted road with a shocking aftermath.

    http://www.orzelfilms.com/
    https://instagram.com/orzelfilms

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

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: MISSION PEACH 2 (winning Sci-Fi DOC Feature)

    MISSION PEACE 2, 101min., USA
    Directed by Gregory T. Simmons
    Staunch Moderates’ MISSION PEACE 2 picks up where MISSION PEACE 1 left off, at the beginning of 2021: chronicling the movement’s evolution from a pandemic-era news source into a producer of music, film and videos distributed across a w...

  • Best of DOC Shorts Festival

    HAPPINESS IS, 45min., Canada
    Directed by Jason Wayne Frye
    A search into the past reveals a journey of Love, Family and Connection

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-happiness-is

    THE NINETEEN-YEAR HUNT, 18min., Hong Kong
    Directed by Kelly Siu
    On the sea‑facing walkways of Wah Fu E...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of DOC Shorts Festival

    HAPPINESS IS, 45min., Canada
    Directed by Jason Wayne Frye
    A search into the past reveals a journey of Love, Family and Connection

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-happiness-is

    THE NINETEEN-YEAR HUNT, 18min., Hong Kong
    Directed by Kelly Siu
    On the sea‑facing walkways of Wah Fu E...

  • HORROR Festival Short Story: The Occultist, by Damon Sweeney

    Voice Over: Val Cole

  • POETRY Reading: Stacy Jones Was Made of Stone, by Cole Wojciechowski-Hardman

  • MEMOIR Short Story Reading: The Last Day of her Life, by Max Masure

    Performed by Val Cole

  • POETRY Reading: Kind of Life, by Derrick J. Johnson

    Voice Over: Val Cole

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    POEM:

    On the streets,
    Paved in gold,
    Is where she roams.

    She’s waiting...
    Waiting to be.

    Into the arms,
    Of the cold,
    Lies an unknown home.

    A blissful place...
    That can never be.

    Forgotten thoughts,
    And memories,
    Of what could have been.

    Branches out...
    Like a bro...