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 SHORTS Film Festival - Nov. 25/26

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    REPLACED, 5min,. USA
    Directed by Nicholas Campbell
    Depressed college student Sam attempts to reach out to her mother in the afterlife but welcomes something else instead.

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

  • International STUDENT Film Festival - Nov. 24/25 event

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    AXINOS, 5min., Greece
    Directed by Anna Maria Kakona, Calliopi Villy Kotoula
    A little girl tries her best to protect her beloved sand sea turtles from the busy summer beach.

    THE SLAUGHTERHAUS, 9min., Chili
    Directed by Gonzalo Sepulveda
    Based on a Nicanor Parra poem...

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Shorts Festival - Nov. 24/25 event

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    THE DROWNING POOL, 12min,. Spain
    Directed by Enrique Novials
    Ariadna, a former police officer, is now a detective shocked by the recent death of her mother due to Covid. In the midst of this, she must find a child who has been kidnapped after school.

    Watch the Aud...

  • ROMANCE Shorts Festival - Nov. 24/25 event

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    SING ME TO SLEEP, 25min,. USA
    Directed by Mario Valdivieso
    "Sing Me To Sleep" follows the story of a young couple by the name of Marc and Julia. Julia has been diagnosed with cancer and she is at the point where her disease has become terminal. Marc decides to take...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER, by Monica Schimmer

    After a mistake on her bridal night, 25 years later, Lucy has to face the consequences of her actions- this time it may be too late.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Lucy: Hannah Ehman
    Randy: Geoff Mays

  • Best Scene Script Reading: THE EX-MEN, by Don Willis, Greg Mitchell

    A newly separated family man joins an unconventional fraternity of fellow ex-husbands, where their chaotic misadventures and unexpected bonds prove that navigating life after marriage is as absurd as it seems.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Mitch: Geoff Mays
    Rick: Steve Rizz

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: DREAM ANGEL, by Lee Sobier

    https://youtu.be/cRuvAtUtSIY

    A woman stumbles across an evil spirit while removing nightmares from people's dreams.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Graycee: Val Cole
    Camella: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Voice/ Angela: Hannah Ehman

  • BEST Scene Reading: Trust Me, by A. E. Guaake (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Elder: Hannah Ehman
    1st Guard/2nd Council Woman: Val Cole
    3rd Council Woman: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    My screenplay is about the Hulder, a mystical human-like creature with a cow’s tail, famous from...

  • POETRY Reading: Siren, by Kathryn Davey

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    Give me wine and the ocean, and hyacinth hair
    A casket of flotsam and crystalline care.
    Speak of the currents in deep fluid blue and bring to the surface a mirror of you
    Hers is the wave and quickening tide, touched by the moon I secretly hide.
    Give me wine and hyac...

  • POETRY Reading: For Carol, by Michael Favala Goldman

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    We met on Zoom at a workshop.

    That’s not quite true. I only know

    your first name. One square down

    and two squares over, your lighting

    not that great. I don’t think it’s on

    purpose, like in A Streetcar Named

    Desire, but it does add mystery

    as you sit at your k...

  • POETRY Reading: Game of Risk, by Richard Stimac

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    The rules are simple, and simplistic
    (but not as much as War).
    Each territory holds a name,
    descriptive and endearing:

    Central America; Ukraine,
    Middle East; Siam; Congo;
    each has a border with the other,
    colored and separate.

    The plastic men, with tiny guns,
    atta...

  • POETRY Reading: Romance Poem by Arrianna Gumbus

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    Your love isn’t something I would willingly give away.
    I wouldn’t dare make a mistake, so that your love would decay.
    They say I’m on a leash, but I wouldn’t care anyway.
    Your love is for me like a flower on a rainy day.

  • LA LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival - Nov. 23/24 event

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    BODIES, 3min., USA
    Directed by Maria Maya
    After enduring a brutal homophobic attack, drag artist Pietra Parker embarks on a deeply personal journey of healing backstage, where she transforms her trauma into a stunning performance that not only reclaims her identity...

  • Feature Film Trailer: A DOUBLE LIFE. Directed by Catherine Masud

    A DOUBLE LIFE, 85min,. USA
    Directed by Catherine Masud
    A Double Life unveils the gripping true story of Stephen Bingham, a lawyer accused of passing a gun to prisoners’ rights leader George Jackson in 1971. Forced into a life on the run, Bingham spends 13 years underground, eluding capture while ...

  • Feature Film Trailer: RECOVERED. Directed by Tyler Anderson.

    RECOVERED, 50min., Canada
    Directed by Tyler Anderson
    RecoverED is a compelling documentary that explores the journey of recovery from disordered eating through powerful personal stories of resilience. The film highlights the vital role of community support and the transformative power of hope in ...

  • ACTION Best Scene Reading: DOWNBURST, by Carlos Galinho Pires (interview)

    A group of different individuals meet on the worst day of their lives as they try to fight and survive an uncontrollable and destructive wildfire, whose cause is associated with a conspiracy theory.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Amelia: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Rui: Steve Rizzo

    Get to ...

  • BEST Scene Reading: THE POLSKI AFFAIR, by Ken Gildin

    After losing her family in the Warsaw ghetto, Rosa Feurmann is sent by the Resistance to the Hotel Polski to uncover the Germans’ covert plan there. Her intimate relationship with the Nazi commandant of the Hotel results in her survival, but her guilt haunts her and affects her family for decades...

  • COMEDY Best Scene Reading: Wit Happens, by Shaun Delliskave (interview)

    “Wit Happens” is a dramedy blending sharp satire and heartfelt comedy, capturing the unlikely bond between two souls at different stages of life. As Jack learns to break out of his “one-trick pony” role, Barbara guides him in finding his unique voice—one that has the power to connect, heal, and i...

  • BEST Scene Reading: KEVIN'S NOT DEAD, by Sarah Edmonds (interview)

    G-man and Greg are just two guys trying to get through the day by doing the bare minimum. However, when a vampire hunter appears at their place of business, the pair start to suspect that their sunscreen-loving coworker Kevin is her target. After a few near-misses with the hunter’s traps, G-man a...

  • NYC Feedback Festival Besti Scene: NO MEDALS, by Susan Rossi

    Boris, a Soviet army veteran sentenced to the gulag by Stalin, transforms from tortured prisoner to a guard in gulag camp when he causes a train wreck and steals a guard’s identity. His true identity and plan to escape to Finland are endangered by the scheming of a malevolent gulag officer, and w...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: NUNS WITH GUNS, by Mark Wakely

    Four nuns in a crime-ridden neighborhood ask a shady parishioner for a few discreet guns to help them protect their frequently robbed church, only to accidentally receive high-powered weapons and a gold megaphone meant for a local crime boss. Using them to thwart two robbery attempts in their chu...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival Best Scene: 1 11, by Regine Resbeut

    1.11 is a dystopia that takes places in 2060 when, to curb population growth, an algorithm selects each year, on a random basis, 100 million people around the world to be euthanized.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Arthur: Geoff Mays
    Ben: Steve Rizzo

  • BEST Scene Reading: WE'RE GOING ON A CRUISE, by John McCann

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Fem (F): Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Dealer (M): Geoff Mays
    Ale (F): Val Cole