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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  • DANCING DHAMAAL! short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival

    DANCING DHAMAAL!, 5min., USA
    Directed by Nimisha Sanjeevani-Chandrashekhar Mahatme
    A Bollywood inspired hybrid animated music video about Aadarshini, an anxious Indian-American girl, who feels out of place at an Indian wedding until she learns to make space for herself in her culture through Parv...

  • COMPASS ROSE & All that Glows short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival

    COMPASS ROSE & All that Glows, 11min., USA
    Directed by Celeste Gersten
    Once upon a time isn’t our start, it repeats itself over in cycles, like a spinning clock. This is the plight of Yaphet and Pallu, unbeknownst to them. In the present, the cycle continues. They are separated, and hope grows di...

  • RANGER DANGER short film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival

    RANGER DANGER, 7min,. USA
    Directed by Abigail Grubb

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

  • UNDER 5 Minute Festival - July 14/15 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    M0D3RN T1M3Z, 30 seconds, USA
    Directed by Richard Thompson
    A machine comes to life in a 3D animation short inspired by Charlie Chaplin.

    https://www.instagram.com/r_crosbythompson

    Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedbac...

  • DOC Film Festival: Best of SOCIETY Shorts Showcase. July 12/13

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    PEACE IN MY NIGHT, 13min., Canada
    Directed by Abigail Mascher
    "Peace in my Night" is a compelling documentary that follows the extraordinary life of Elsie Mascher, a woman whose unwavering faith in God guided her through the darkest chapters of World War II.

    Watch...

  • DOC Festival: ALL I EVER WANTED feature film. July 12/13 event

    ALL I EVER WANTED, 99min., USA
    Directed by Carlos P. Beltran
    All I Ever Wanted is a riveting 7-year journey through the high-stakes world of professional basketball, showcasing NBA icons like Kevin Durant, Kyle Lowry, and Manu Ginobili. This deeply personal documentary unveils the untold story of...

  • Short Story: NEWS FLASH : U.S. PRESIDENT CONTENDS WITH HERCLEAN STORM

  • Poetry Reading: THE DEVIL WEARS BLACK, by Nico Green

    performed by Val Cole

    Read Poem:

    THE DEVIL WEARS BLACK, by Nico Green

    The devil wears black, invisible in the night.
    God wears white, he has nothing to hide.

    The devil drinks whiskey and cries for his pain.
    God drinks water and casts all the blame.

    The devil’s seen much evil and taken part ...

  • Romance Short Story: FREE WORLD, by Cynthia Morrison

    2 young buys fine the journal of an Astronaut to find that he had visited the perfect world.

    performed by Val Cole

  • Poetry Reading: A Modern Day Cinderella, by A. L. Jobrail

    A Modern Day Cinderella

    A candidate must not be soiled
    Virginal as the freshly fallen snow.

    So that with his first thrust all will know that the issue is his, not another's.

    Her beauty shall be as the airbrushed ads

    That taunts us into buying their products to achieve what is beyond our grasp...

  • POETRY Reading: MY TREE TRUNK, by CLS Sandoval

    Performed by the writer.

    Read Poem:

    When the boy sits on the tree’s stump at the end of the Giving Tree, I used to think it was sad
    because they had both lived their lives and been used up. Then, I grew into a woman and
    became a mother. I have despised my trunk, abused my trunk, expected it ...

  • Poetry Reading by by Laila Jones

    performed by Val Cole

    Poem by Laila Jones

    with her tears, she bathed you.
    hurt aside, she tightened your ties,
    and made you love the mirror.
    no clocks in her home, your keys in the door told time.
    5am laughed at her every weekend.

    a lesson learned for you both,
    but the true teacher is her.
    now...

  • Poetry Reading: STILETTO STEEL, by Ardalan Pourvali

    performed by Val Cole

  • Short Story: DEATH ON THE RAZOR'S EDGE, by Dennis McGuire

  • 1st Chapter Reading: Thessalonika, by Annilee Newton (interview)

    https://annileenewton.com/thessalonika/

    noun

    1. The title of my novel about a girl willing to sacrifice her name and her identity

    2. The middle name of Cleo Hart, a scholarship student at a prestigious New England university in the 1950’s

    3. A feminized form of “Thessaloniki,” a city in Greec...

  • SHADOW FIST 3: THE FINAL CHAPTER short film, reactions ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival

    SHADOW FIST 3: THE FINAL CHAPTER, 33min., Mexico
    Directed by Robert James Samuels

  • STORM short film, reactions FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival

    STORM, 3min., USA
    Directed by Jiayi Tang
    The endless war has inflicted deep trauma, as soldiers silently observe the hallucinations before them, imagining times long gone.

    https://www.artstation.com/jerrytang2831
    https://www.instagram.com/darth_jt/

  • WARRIORS OF THE WORLD short film, reactions FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival (interview)

    WARRIORS OF THE WORLD, 10min., USA
    Directed by Gary McMillan Jr.
    In a war that will decide the galaxy's future, the greatest warriors from across the globe join forces to take down the dark forces of Death-Is-Fun-Gary and restore peace to the cosmos.

    https://garymcmillanj611.myportfolio.com/

    ...

  • OTHERS short film, reactions FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival

    OTHERS, 19min., USA
    Directed by Chris Durr
    In a midwest suburb, an aging radio enthusiast becomes suspicious that a lonely hispanic teenager is a response to his interstellar transmissions. As misunderstanding and coincidence collide, Mateo perceives Frank as a potential threat, while Frank becom...

  • LINECAP short film, reactions FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival

    LINECAP, 7min. USA
    Directed by Aidan Michael Kelley
    A mother and father find themselves in a desperate race against an oppressive government, constantly evading capture. Their struggle for survival becomes even more challenging as they face the harsh reality of scarce resources—no access to food ...

  • EVENFALL ONE short film, reactions FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival

    EVENFALL ONE, 8min., UK
    Directed by Naphtali Cave, Matt Mitchell
    A secret meeting aboard the EVENFALL ONE space cruiser goes very, very wrong.

  • DWOLMA short film, reactions FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival

    DWOLMA, 7min., USA
    Directed by Ben Meade
    EXPERIMENTAL, SHOWING WHAT FILM

  • DOCUMENTARY Festival Showcase - DOC Shorts Event - July 10/11 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    THE ART OF WRITING, 18min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Hassan Hilliard, Trent Atkins, Shellsy Malveaux, Trey Tippens
    The Art of Writing highlights the most recent art installation by Daniel Anguilu; this film depicts the relationship of art to politics.

    http://w...

  • WILDsound EUROPEAN Showcase Festival - July 10/11 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    HOME SWISS HOME, 72min., Switzerland
    Directed by Geert Smets
    Mike, a defiant New Yorker, is left by his girlfriend Julie, who argues that he doesn't have the necessary means to provide for the future family she so desperately wants. Determined to win her back, he ...