New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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FEMALE Festival Best Scene: Hoe Phase, by Kate Lyn Whitaker
After her first-ever run of hookups and one night stands, a woman decides to track down each man from the past month and ask them to pay for her abortion.
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CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Wayne: Sean Ballantyne
Avery: Elizabeth Rose Morriss -
FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: Lifeboat, by Mason Mendoza & Bill Baber
LIFEBOAT IS A SCI-FI DRAMA - FEATURE FILM - BASED ON THE ACCLAIMED GRAPHIC NOVEL.
Three souls cheat death when they escape the destruction of their spaceship. Now their tiny “lifeboat” is adrift at the end of the universe. Their days are numbered. Every minute is precious. If you know the end, h...
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BEST Scene Reading: ETERNAL LIFE, by Jaaered Brown
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: Sean Ballantyne
Anne-Marie: Val Cole
Alis: Elizabeth Rose Morriss -
LGBTQ+ Festival Scene: GOLD, MYRRH, FRANKINCENSE & MURDER, by Hary S. Mudaliar
Ben-Hur meets To Wong Fu in this whirlwind adventure when a time traveling priest, devoted to the blood cult of Cybele threatens the life of Jesus both past and future unless the Three Magi, with a propensity for being tardy, can stop him. The fact that the Magi are gay adds an inclusive spin on ...
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Today's FREE Festival: Best of WILDsound EXPERIMENTAL Shorts
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... -
HORROR Festival SHORT Screenplay: NIGHTFALL, by Johnny Storme
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Sarah: Hannah Ehman -
REVENGE Screenplay Scene by Sayima
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Woman: Hannah Ehman
Mboni: Geoff Mays -
ROMANCE Festival SHORT Screenplay: Accidental Tomatoes, by Adam M. Kehres
A young man navigates the weeds of dating apps while tending to his makeshift compost pile.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Callie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Geraldine: Hannah Ehman
Lester: Geoff Mays -
LGBTQ+ Festival SHORT Script Reading: THE GREAT BIG LESBIAN YANKEE SWAP
Aging lesbian couple Debbie and Jean are hosting their annual gay Christmas party in the gayborhood of Boston -- but when their messy adult son Corey (30) shows up in need of a place to live, he threatens to disrupt their retirement plans.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Sean Ballantyne
Mary Ellen/Barb/D... -
WATCH Winning DOC Feature: Muito Amor - Jews and Judaism in Amazonia
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... -
Watch Today's FREE Festival: Muito Amor - Jews and Judaism in Amazonia, 61min., Israel
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FANTASY/SCI-FI 1st Scene Reading: RED HEX, by Conor A. Nixon
Jam is usually a very good worker, he gets his amounted number of mining done and goes about this life. However, when a solar flare hits and their boss does not seem to care, questions are raised as to whether he truly has his workers best interests at heart and the intended purpose of the materi...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Art of Denial, by Hannah Augenstine
The Art of Denial follows Emily, a playwright who finds the courage to write and put herself out there after the death of her father figure/ mentor. The Art of Denial has a sweet premise but lacks specific character motives, a strong setup, and a realistic arc.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth ...
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Supernatural 1st Scene: THE BREAKING OF BOB HOWARD TV Pilot by George R Strayton
Pilot Episode: "Black Luck and Red Doom"
In 1930s Texas, pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard battles both external pressures and internal demons as he creates the legendary Conan the Barbarian. When his beloved mother Hester falls gravely ill with tuberculosis, Bob struggles to maintain his sani... -
LGBTQ+ Festival First Scene: The Urning - Life and Times of a Gay Rights Pioneer
"Hambach Awakening" - Pilot episode of a limited series on the life and times of Karl Heinrichs Ulrichs - a German gay rights pioneer and scholar who wrote the first queer theory known to the LGBTQ movement, published the first gay magazine, and used his privilege and law degree to go into battle...
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Best of CHICAGO Film Festival
HOW WE ROLL, 16min,. USA
Directed by Anthony Ciancio
What started as a little idea becomes a local phenomenon. Meet the passionate folks who have reinvigorated this ancient game as a means of escape and finding common ground in their community. Meet The Elmwood Park Bocce League.https://www.wil...
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Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of CHICAGO Film Festival
HOW WE ROLL, 16min,. USA
Directed by Anthony Ciancio
What started as a little idea becomes a local phenomenon. Meet the passionate folks who have reinvigorated this ancient game as a means of escape and finding common ground in their community. Meet The Elmwood Park Bocce League.https://www.wil...
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FEMALE Festival Best Scene Reading: MANIPULATIVE WAYS, by Cheryl Smith
Susan Passaretti embodies the stereotypical millennial – entitled and a little delusional. By day, she works as a waitress in a greasy spoon diner, and by night, she is a stripper. Fate introduces an extraordinary turn of events when she meets Jonathan, a habitual lottery player who finally belie...
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FEEDBACK Festival HORROR Best Scene: Saturday Night Slaughter, by Michael Hansen
Saturday Night Slaughter follows a group of friends who reunite at the local spooky festival, decades after a disco era massacre committed by the mysterious killer known as Dr. Funkenstein. As the music and memories return, so does the bloodshed.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Bob: Shawn... -
COMEDY Festival Best Scene: Tequila Express, by Thomas J Kearns
A sequence of events leads a bunch of friends on a fun musical journey in time. One where they may not come back from.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Bailey: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Maria: Hannah Ehman
Slimy Guy: Shawn Devlin -
WILDsound CRIME/THRILLER Best Scene: The Devil's Right Hand, by Algis Danaitis
Lee is hired to bring the seducer of a young woman to daddy for his particular vengeance. Daddy is an Arizona drug baron. The seducer works for daddy’s Mexican partner. Then too many people with guns and the wrong ideas intrude. And the job just got complicated.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Le... -
ACTION/ADVENTURE Best Scene Reading: To Lie Among The Sugarcane, by Trey Randle
Omar & a group of boys manage to escape the Sudan Civil War & make it to America after experiencing the most horrific fight for their lives.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Omari: Shawn Devlin
Michael: Sean Ballantyne -
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
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