New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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ECHOES OF ANTIETAM short film, 6min. AI Film, Thriller/Supernatural
“The Battle of Antietam was fought nearby during the Civil War. The blood spilled here has never been forgotten…”
Echoes of Antietam is a haunting post–Civil War horror short film set on the blood-soaked farmlands of Maryland.
After the war’s end, a father and his two sons must defend their hom...
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Best of HORROR Shorts Festival
THE SANGUINE, 25min. USA
Directed by Patrick McNerney, Daniel Jones
A crestfallen master and outcast servant rob the grave of a long dead warlord to find he’s returned to defend it.https://thesanguinefilm.com/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-sanguine-horror
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THE SANGUINE, 25min. USA
Directed by Patrick McNerney, Daniel Jones
A crestfallen master and outcast servant rob the grave of a long dead warlord to find he’s returned to defend it.https://thesanguinefilm.com/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-sanguine-horror
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COMEDY Festival: Children of the Night: Virgin Blood, by Mark B. Newbauer
A jilted teen races the clock to win back his born-again virgin ex-girlfriend as she is targeted for her unique abilities by a charming outcast vampire looking to reclaim his legacy as ruler of the underworld.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
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WILDsound Festival Best Scene: ON THE LINE, by Nathan Corpus (interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Spike: Geoff Mays
Andrei: Shawn Devlin
Nadine: Elizabeth Rose MorrissGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
A professionally trained chef stuck in a dead-end diner job gets a shot at culinary stardom when he's chosen as a wildcard conte... -
WILDsound Festival Best Scene: SHADOWS, by Jeremy W Brown
In the storm-ravaged summer of 1816, young Mary Godwin arrives at Lord Byron's villa for a ghost story competition. What begins as creative rivalry becomes something darker when Mary channels a nightmare into the pages of Frankenstein.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
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ACTION Festival 1st Scene: DERRY CHRONICLES, by Aidan Garrett (interview)
Struggling with the trauma from a childhood tragedy, Lee Derry drinks and battles his way through loneliness and guilt. One night, he is invited to board a legendary but mysterious mega yacht for an article. The yacht has a history, and a reputation that the public is starving to find out. But, t...
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ROMANCE Fest Best Scene: LOVE, YOUR LAWYER, by Katrina Red (interview)
Rachel Murphy, a successful lawyer determined to make partner at her firm, represents her husband Carter's tech compan in a lawsuit against his former partner while balancing her own intense work load and professional pressures. Their marriage is put to the test when Carter unexpectedly serves Ra...
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I WISH I WAS A DOG film, reactions WILDsound Festival
I WISH I WAS A DOG, 12min., Canada
Directed by Katherine Costal
When a young woman's desire to become a true member of her favourite art club turns her into a dog, she finds the newfound relationship between her and the members poses a different kind of challenge.https://www.instagram.com/kat_c...
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IF ONLY FOR MEMORIES film, reactions CHICAGO Festival
If Only For Memories, 6min., USA
Directed by Ari Roman
A grieving young man searches his dreams for a few more sweet memories with his fiancéGet to know the filmmaker:
It was a combination of things. A series of failed romantic relationships led to a lot of retrospective thinking. I was weighi...
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BALL LIGHTNING film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
BALL LIGHTNIING, 12min., USA
Directed by Catriona Trina Baker
Ball Lightning is the true story of a refugee who fled the personal and social effects of Soviet run East Germany after the end of WWII and immigrated to the United States in the 1960s. The story is told through the eyes of the surroga... -
VEILS film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
VEILS, 7min., USA
Directed by Nick Polace
Humans are trapped in a symphony of movement and stimulation. What happens when they break outside of this bubble that they created? -
THEY ARE KILLING US,,, film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
THEY ARE KILLING US..., 5min., Canada
Directed by Maurice Cormier
From A Nightmare Of A Possible Not Too Distant Future....
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ROOMS film, reactions DANCE Festival
ROOMS, 21min., USA
Directed by Levi Elizaga
When a curious young woman explores an abandoned mansion, she is delighted to find artifacts--and people--from the past. That feeling soon turns to confusion when an ethereal guardian takes her hand and guides her thru the secret recesses of the mansion... -
THE SEA film, reactions WILDsound Festival
THE SEA, 10min., Canada
Directed by Son Roberts
This experimental short film is a "Jazz Monologue" presented by an elusive oracle. Through rage and reflection, incendiary prose and inspirational poetry, he reminds us of the legacy of lies that define our human journey. And he insists that we embr... -
JAGUAR SONG film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
JAGUAR SONG, 16min., Ecuador
Directed by AnAkA
“We know that indigenous people have the same goals: to protect the earth and ancestral lifeways. We know that strengthening intertribal relationships will support the regional communities in cultural revitalization and defense of the natural world.
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APOLLO AND DAPHNE film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival
APOLLO AND DAPHNE, 3min., USA
Directed by Minglu DU
Apollo and Daphne is a clay-and-paper stop-motion animation that re-examines a canonical myth by attending to what is often obscured within its familiar telling. Instead of framing Apollo’s pursuit as an emblem of divine love, the work foregroun... -
WISHFEATHER film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
WISHFEATHER, 3min., Australia
Directed by Ying Lei Zhang
A dancer wishes to soar beyond her eternal cage. But the key can only be found from deep within herself.
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KIN film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
KIN, 5min., Mexico
Directed by Ana Baer, Rocio Luna
Relating in times of crisis. A site-specific screendance that explores the relationship between humanity and nature, raising awareness of ecological challenges and seeking—if only partially—to remediate damaged environments. Drawing on environme... -
DANCE FROM THE ANGEL AND FAERIE OPERETTAS BY TERRY ULICK film, DANCE Festival
Dance from the Angel and Faerie Operettas by Terry Ulick, 27min., USA
Directed by Terry Ulick
Ballet and modern dance numbers from the Operettas “An Angel’s Love” and “Shameless Faeries” by Terry Ulick from Wherever Music and Wherever Movies. All rights reserved and not for use without express wr... -
DEEP CLEAN film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival
DEEP CLEAN, 6min., USA
Directed by Lisa Frank
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THE SILENCE OF MY SOUL film, reactions MUSIC Festival
THE SILENCE OF MY SOUL, 4min., Armenia
Directed by Hasmik Chakhmakhchyan
The Silence of My Soul is an intimate piano-vocal ballad shaped by jazz and R&B sensitivity and approached with cinematic restraint. Minimalist piano textures and a nuanced vocal performance create a quiet emotional tension ... -
FȲR film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
FȲR, 22min., UK
Directed by Mackenzie Fuller
A young warrior and his aging mentor confront the Mother, a primordial being of nature who blurs the line between creation and control. -
Samaná: The Last Free Flowing River of Antioquia, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Fest
Samaná: The Last Free Flowing River of Antioquia, 11min., USA
Directed by Cameron Atlas
The Samaná River is the only major river in Antioquia, Colombia, that remains free flowing. While the rest of the region’s waterways have been dammed, the Samaná’s ecosystem remains intact, supporting a critic...