New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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Best Scene: On the Corner of Eden and Grace, by Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus
Between the moon walk and Woodstock, a 17 year old aspiring photographer struggles to save her boyfriend from slipping into heroin addiction without destroying herself.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Boone: Shawn Ballantyne
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ROMANCE Festival Best Scene: Being First, by Lynne Jones (interview)
Florence is invited to Katsumi's wedding ceremony in Tokyo. Excited for the opportunity to see Katsumi again & have time away with her boyfriend - she learns that not all is as it seems and that some changes will be made in order for her to be happy.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
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WILDsound Festival Best Scene: LIBIDO ON STEROIDS, by Nicholas J Szegedi
Libido on Steroids unveils the tumultuous life of Michael, a high-powered executive who appears to have it all—a devoted wife, Isabella, and their beloved son, Scott. Yet, beneath the façade of perfection lies a decade-long rift in their marriage, simmering with unspoken issues.
CAST LIST:
Nar...
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ROMANCE Festival Best Scene: LEGACY, by Lisa Baggio
Summary: Mila, Bella & Savy all navigating their adult lives and the challenges it brings.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Savy: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
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FEMALE Fest Scene: MATHEMATICAL MERMAID, by Sandra Fox-Sohner, Maria Kaur Bedi
For centuries, mathematicians chased an elusive dream: one formula that explains the mystery of Saturn's rings, rotating celestial spheres, and spinning tops. The puzzle was known as The Mathematical Mermaid. Many men tried and failed. Then, one extraordinary mind defied tradition and dared to so...
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: Miracle Makers, by Beatriz Talerico
In a future where fertility is rare and tightly controlled, an eighteen-year-old girl is publicly selected as a Miracle Maker after failing to comply with a mandatory wellness check. As she is celebrated and subjected to months of ritualized spectacle broadcast to the world, she comes to believe ...
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WILDsound Festival Best Scene: Seahawk, by Evan Langston, Frank Orsatti
A green young seaman signs onto the freighter Seahawk for his first trip across the Pacific and is thrown into a world of salt, sweat, and steel. As he learns the brutal rhythms of life at sea, he falls for the captain’s goddaughter — a woman as tough and capable as the men around her. But when a...
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FANTASY Best Scene: The Demon Core of Fresh Kills, by Colin Dodds (interview)
A grieving tourism commissioner and a physicist on probation rescue a relic of the Manhattan Project from the world’s largest landfill.
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Blanche: Hannah Ehman
Brendan: Shawn Devlin
Pearl: Elizabeth Rose MorrissGet to know the writer:
What is your screenplay about?
Th...
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COMEDY Festival Best Scene: Children of the Night, 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: Sean Ballantyne
Mina: Hannah Ehman
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ACTION/THRILLER Festival Best Scene: Feral Mountains, by Terry Luke Podnar
A man with stricken anxiety is forced to move his family to a remote area of the Appalachians where they make a shocking discovery lurking in the mountains when their dog captures a baby monkey.
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CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Hayden: Geoff Mays
Warren: Shawn ... -
THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival Scene: LET ME IN, by Jared D Tagliaferro (interview)
This gritty thriller follows Boston Detectives David Carr and Ryan Fowler as they hunt the infamous Block Killer, a brutal murderer who targets the quiet neighborhoods surrounding Boston, leaving each block with nothing but silence and bloodshed. After Carr seemingly killed the Block Killer a yea...
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CHICAGO Festival Best Scene: One Way Out, by Alyxandrya Prynce
During World War II in Germany, young American soldier Dirk Dawson is singled out as the weak link in his squad. Mocked and humiliated by both his peers and his superiors, Dirk survives a chaotic patrol that ends in injury and a hollow Purple Heart, an act meant to honor him but instead deepens h...
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LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: Ladyboy Blues, by Richard Lanoix
A midwestern All-American man escapes his mundane and limiting world back home for a new life in Thailand, but he gets more than he bargains for when he falls in love with a mysterious restaurant owner who harbors a secret and a dangerous past that sweeps them both into the cutthroat criminal und...
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: GEMYND PROJECT, by Nazila Azizi
Gemynd follows two executives debating over how to launch a memory chip. While Gemynd has an interesting basic premise, it lacks a strong narrative arc, context and set up about the chip, clear stakes, and a message for the audience to take away.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Oliver: Shaw... -
FEMALE Festival Best Scene: Desert Belles, by Candace Egan (interview)
After the death of her father and the loss of her racing partner, a veteran off-road driver enters an all-women desert rally with an unlikely teammate.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Otto: Sean Ballantyne
Geri: Hannah EhmanGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
DESERT...
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WILDsound Festival TV Pilot Scene: Burnout, by Izzie Mantese
After a drug-induced near-death incident gets her kicked out of college and lands her in treatment, a newly-sober young woman moves into an all-women’s Los Angeles sober living house, where she must grapple with her past demons while rebuilding her life – all while surrounded by an eclectic group...
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WILDsound Festival Best Scene Reading: DRAGOON, by Matthew Kosinski
A duelist disguises herself as a man in order to become the best fencer and confront the man who murdered her family during France's religious purges.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Marguerite: Hannah Ehman
Julie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss -
COMEDY Shorts Film Festival
Time Off, 20min., Israel
Directed by Yoav Geva
Two in reserve soldiers, not the sharpest tools in the shed, decide to rob their asshole officer's shop while home for some time off from the war.https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-time-off
Faire Play, 24min., USA
Directed by Charle... -
Watch Today's FREE Festival: COMEDY Shorts Film Festival
Time Off, 20min., Israel
Directed by Yoav Geva
Two in reserve soldiers, not the sharpest tools in the shed, decide to rob their asshole officer's shop while home for some time off from the war.https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-time-off
Faire Play, 24min., USA
Directed by Charle... -
ENVIRONMENTAL Festival Showcase
What Wine Owes to the Night, 2min., Belgium
Directed by Mathieu Blanchart
In the silent darkness, the vines whisper, the leaves quiver, and the earth still breathes. What the Wine Owes the Night is a visual and sensory poem, an intimate dive into the nocturnal life of a vineyard. With little or n... -
Watch Today's FREE Festival: ENVIRONMENTAL Festival Showcase
What Wine Owes to the Night, 2min., Belgium
Directed by Mathieu Blanchart
In the silent darkness, the vines whisper, the leaves quiver, and the earth still breathes. What the Wine Owes the Night is a visual and sensory poem, an intimate dive into the nocturnal life of a vineyard. With little or n... -
FEMALE Festival SHORT Story: The Peeling of an Onion, by Victoria Thomas
Performed by Val Cole
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BODY IMAGE Poetry Reading: A Bent Time of Day, by Dov Frank
Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
They look like an accidental bird,
Wings making grey angles
Their thoughts move in rings around their ears
And scrape against the sharp jaw lines,
Movement horizontally, body stretching across
only to snap back
into embodiedness.
Seeing them, I noticed how
our spine...