New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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DRAMA Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Lonely Wish, by Nick McCabe
When a troubled teen’s wish to make everyone disappear comes true, she risks losing them permanently and must rely on an unlikely ally to save her town – the school bully.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Sean Ballantyne
Miriam; Val Cole
Linda: Elizabeth Rose MorrissGet to know the writer:
1. What is...
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ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene: The Labyrinth, by Nicholas J. Szegedi (interview)
When a successful aerospace engineer is sabotaged by a vengeful business rival and haunted by two failed marriages, he embarks on an international journey of self-discovery with newfound hope and determination. Based on actual events.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Michael: Shawn Devlin
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene:The Octopus's Garden, by Ed Moran (interview)
A delightful blend of adventure and emotional depth, reminiscent of films like "Finding Nemo," where the bond between characters drives the narrative through perilous waters. I thought of "The Shape of Water" as well, with its unique exploration of relationships between humans and extraordinary c...
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ACTION/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: VITRUVIAN WOMAN, by L. Petruska
Jack Teller is an established science writer whose young scientist mother died of a terrible poisoning shortly after he was born. His father lived in complete denial and also groomed Jack not to ask questions about his mother at all. Now a grown man in his 50s, Jack receives a cryptic email from ...
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene: LIFELESS "The Crown Falls" TV, by Meredith Stack
Over two decades since the resurrection of the dead, survivors revert back to the medieval times for survival. Kingdoms are built and fall. Survivors must learn to survive in a world where new leaders are raised into power and the new evolution of the dead.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: Grad Nite, by Sion-Raize (interview)
While enjoying an overnight celebration at a regional theme park, a group of graduating high school students are targeted by a vicious killer wearing a dragon mask.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Mr. Randol: Sean Ballantyne
Gracyn: Geoff MaysGet to know the writer:
1. What is ...
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EXPERIMENTAL Festival First Scene: Death in Poland, by Grant Huffman
An unflinching, brutally honest portrayal of the Holocaust's most infamous death camps, *Death in Poland* chronicles the systematic machinery of genocide through a series of interwoven scenes of cruelty, precision, and silence—where memory is the only thing left standing.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: ...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: CRYSTAL MAGICIAN OF ATZLAN, by Mui Rah (interview)
A hot-shot Crystal Magician puts domestic life on pause to strike back against the big business that ordered a mercenary “hit” on her Animist Kijutsu Temple...and, really, to send a message to all the Atzlan “haves”: nature and Ancient wisdom are more powerful than any human law.
https://www.f1c...
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LGBTQ+ 1st Scene Reading: Canoe, by Ron Wayne Kennell
When a hot shot architect inherits his grandfather’s remote cabin, the locals become restless and reveal secrets he can no longer ignore.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Trudy: Hannah Ehman
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AWAKEN THE MEDIUM, by Lee Bice-Matheson, Kevin Matheson (interview)
Awaken the Medium is a feature-length script that follows the story of Maggie Samson, whose latest near-death experience thrusts her into discovering her gifts and powers. Maggie is a librarian in her forties. Married to Chris, a professor, with whom she has a son, Justus Samson, now eleven years...
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TV Best Scene: The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective, by Patricia Milton
Two eccentric sisters and a fan-fighting American actress thwart a serial killer in Victorian London, defying society’s expectations to become private detectives. A 50-minute TV pilot.
http://patricia-milton.com/
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Loveday: Hannah Ehman
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SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: CE-V (The Fifth Kind), by Deb Havens & Brad Havens
It’s Halloween night in the late 1980s. Three kids return from trick or treating with their mom and their dog, hang out in their tree house to sample their loot. That night, on a botanical survey of planet Earth, an alien space craft collecting samples mistakenly uproots the highly unusual “famil...
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HORROR Best Scene Reading: 666 Challenge, by Gary B. Haley
When a haunted house draws spectators across generations with a supernatural challenge, the investigators get more than they bargained for.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Monty: Sean Ballantyne
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BEST Scene Script Reading: MRS. O'LEARY, by Melissa Birks
Inspired by the Great Fire of Chicago 1871 following the investigation of Mrs O'Leary, a woman the newspapers blamed for starting the fire that spread all the way to Lincoln Park.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Patrick O'Leary: Shawn Devlin
Mrs. O'Leary: Val ColeGet to know the writer:...
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Muito Amor - Jews and Judaism in Amazonia, reactions WILDsound Festival
Muito Amor - Jews and Judaism in Amazonia, 61min., Israel
Directed by Malka Shabtay
An Israeli Anthropologist traveling throughout Amazonia to meet the descendants of the Moroccan Jews who immigrated to this region since 1810. Together they are sharing their unique story of resilience and persist... -
2 can play (Ava Della Pietra official music video), reactions WILDsound Festival
2 can play (Ava Della Pietra - official music video), 2min., USA
Directed by Azzie Scotthttps://www.instagram.com/avadellapietra/
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Watch Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival
HEAVENS APART, 15min., Canada
Directed by Steven Kumala
After serving time in prison for a crime that shattered her family, a mother returns to reconnect with her estranged daughter for the first time in fifteen years, only to realize that her daughter is on the verge of moving overseas to start ... -
Watch Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival
HEAVENS APART, 15min., Canada
Directed by Steven Kumala
After serving time in prison for a crime that shattered her family, a mother returns to reconnect with her estranged daughter for the first time in fifteen years, only to realize that her daughter is on the verge of moving overseas to start ... -
Watch CAMERA AND BODY, 4min., Documentary/Experimental
I dedicated my video to the camera and the body. I tried to tell my own story about a body trapped in chaos, silence, pain and helplessness. And about a camera that helped me free my body and find my authentic language.
https://instagram.com/andrejkaart/
Directed by Andrejka Skračić
Cast: Vana...
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ALONG THE THREAD OF THE OTHER, reactions WILDsound Festival
ALONG THE THREAD OF THE OTHER, 80min., France
Directed by Herve Marcotte
After my first long documentary, “Encounter with remarkable souls”, with focus on the meaning of life, I am exploring the concept of self-realization with two 25 years old young adults. The film is a quest for an unknown tre... -
ALASKA RESCUE STORY, reactions WILDsound Festival
ALASKA RESCUE STORY, 40min,. USA
Directed by Mark D. Rose
This Alaska Bush Pilot makes an all out effort to save the last Caribou in Alaska, but nearly pays the ultimate price in the process. -
ROTTEN APPLE film, reactions CHICAGO Feedback Festival
ROTTEN APPLE, 81min., USA
Directed by Justin Hunt
A truly groundbreaking docu-drama, 'Rotten Apple' is an alarming exposé on the dark epidemic of grooming and sexual assault in public schools and the eminent ripple effect.
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CARDBOARD film, reactions CHICAGO Feedback Festival (interview)
CARDBOARD, 23min., USA
Directed by Diana Densmore
A neglected young girl builds a cardboard time machine and runs away to the future only to find her adult self in the throes of depression, as the two connect they remind each other of the joy of loving oneself.
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Lana Tong: A tailor made tour, reactions WILDsound Festival
Lana Tong: A tailor made tour, 10min., Hong Kong
Directed by Sing Jantzen Tse
Lana Tong, a tour guide who migrated to Hong Kong less than a decade ago, guides audiences through a post-pandemic Hong Kong undergoing rapid shifts in its political and socio-cultural landscape. Her journey is disrupte...