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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  • JULIET & THE KINGS film, reactions MUSIC Festival

    JULIET & THE KING, 92min., Iran
    Directed by Ashkan Rahgozar
    The Iranian King gets an invitation to visit France. While visiting a "Romeo and Juliet" play in Paris, the actress catches his eye. He falls in love with her so deeply that he asks her to perform the same play in Tehran, so he can impre...

  • AUDIENCE FEEDBACK - DONT MEANS DO

  • AUDIENCE FEEDBACK - CYCLES

  • AUDIENCE FEEDBACK - ONCE MORE LIKE RAIN MAN

  • 7eventh 7ircle short film, reactions DANCE Festival (interview)

    7eventh 7irkle, 16min., USA
    Directed by Ty Brueilly
    The 11th installment of Ty Brueilly’s ‘Shucks’ cinematic world, audiences should prepare to be transported into the seventh circle of the inferno with a new interpretation on CANTO XIII with symbolic images that will engage your innermost imagin...

  • Watch the best of DOCUMENTARY Shorts Festival November 2025

    Srebrenica, 2min., France
    Directed by Thibaut Fleuret
    This work is about Srebrenica, Bosnia, place of the last european genocide where thousands of muslim people were killed.

    https://www.instagram.com/thibaut.fleuret

    Besieged Artists' Oasis, 16min., Germany
    Directed by Dave Lojek
    Threatened by ...

  • The Giant, the Witches, and the Red Turban Bandits, by Gawaine Caldwater Ross

    In the 22nd century, a military squad searching for a lost officer vanishes through the same wormhole he did—into a parallel world orbiting a binary star system. Though the laws of physics remain familiar, this world’s society is not: technology is stalled at a medieval level, and four rival homi...

  • HORROR Festival Best Scene Reading: The Tenth Cry, by Erick von Schulz

    When a devout woman’s long-awaited pregnancy warps into visions of blood-soaked cradles, whispering walls, and cords coiling from her own flesh, she discovers her storm-battered ancestral home enforces a generational curse — every tenth child must be born, or the house will devour her body, soul,...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: THE OUTRAGEOUS LIFE OF HENRY FAULKNER, by Jim Hall

    The colourful and adventurous life of one of America’s most talented unknown gay artists and his quest for self-expression and respect.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Jamie: Shawn Devlin
    Henry: Sean Ballantyne

  • Short Film Trailer: CONNECTION. Directed by Tom White

    CONNECTION, 21min., USA
    Directed by Tom White
    A government agent is tasked with interrogating a silent prisoner—but the true danger lies in whether the voice in his head is his own… or something else entirely.

    https://instagram.com/twch757

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-conn...

  • POETRY Movie: SAFETY, by Cassé Amir

    Editor & Visual Design by Adam Bilyea

    Produced by Matthew Toffolo

    Voice Over: Val Cole

    ----
    ——
    POEM:

    Tick, tap, tick, tap, tick, tap…,
    What is that I hear,
    …Tap, tick, tap, tick, tap, tick.

    People eyeing me for no reason,
    To feel implemented is an atrocity,
    A passion had forgotten my presenc...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY: The Uprising Episode 1: More Than We Bargained For (interview)

    In a galaxy choked by occupation, reluctant leader Sol hijacks a Galactic Union warship—sparking planetary uprisings and thrusting his fledgling resistance into a brutal war against a colonising force that will burn worlds to stay in control.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Ambassador Kort...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene: Tom Hanks Must Die!, by Evan Neill

    When a bitter nobody becomes convinced that Tom Hanks is the cosmic reason his life sucks, he drags a new friend on a chaotic cross-country mission to confront destiny-and maybe punch America's dad in the face.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Margaret: Val Cole
    Jeff: Sean Ballantyne

  • WILDsound Festival 1st Scene: TRINITY WEST, by MG Hardie

    A drama set in the heart of a Southern Baptist congregation, where personal conflicts, church politics, and family legacies intertwine as they fight for the survival of The Church.

    CAST LIST:

    Eleanora: Julie Sheppard
    Erin: Val Cole
    Narrator: Sean Ballatyne

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of DOCUMENTARY Shorts Fest

    Srebrenica, 2min., France
    Directed by Thibaut Fleuret
    This work is about Srebrenica, Bosnia, place of the last european genocide where thousands of muslim people were killed.

    https://www.instagram.com/thibaut.fleuret

    Besieged Artists' Oasis, 16min., Germany
    Directed by Dave Lojek
    Threatened by ...

  • ACTION/FANTASY/THRILLER Best Scene: Un-Cognito, by Kevin Renshaw (interview)

    In the quirky desert town of Grand River, conspiracy theories, old grudges, and government secrets collide in Un-Cognito, a satirical action-comedy with heart.

    Glenn Rancher, a straight-laced FBI forensic accountant facing a terminal diagnosis, returns home to reconnect with his estranged daught...

  • THRILLER Festival Best Scene: X9, by Sarantos (interview)

    In a near-future world ravaged by the memory-wiping virus X9, brilliant young scientist Andrea Santiago discovers a suppressed cure hidden by the powerful Biotech Pharmaceuticals. Having once been recruited into the system she now seeks to dismantle, Andrea grapples with betrayal, moral compromis...

  • 1st Scene: YOU WERE WRONG ABOUT THE JELLYFISH, by Andy Carpenter (interview)

    When an unnamed virus begins to kill off human males, a family takes refuge on a sailboat in hopes they can escape the virus.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Sean Ballantyne
    Mila: Hannah Ehman
    Erica: Val Cole

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    This story, like all of the stor...

  • November ANIMATION Shorts Festival

    A comprehensive research, 2min., Bulgaria
    Directed by Vladislav Ivanov
    A story of a meeting in a doctor’s office, the discovery of a natural phenomenon and an attempt to study it through the prism of absurdity in life and death.

    https://www.instagram.com/mihail.kazakov.5/

    TRANSFORMATION, 1min....

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: ANIMATION Shorts Festival

    A comprehensive research, 2min., Bulgaria
    Directed by Vladislav Ivanov
    A story of a meeting in a doctor’s office, the discovery of a natural phenomenon and an attempt to study it through the prism of absurdity in life and death.

    https://www.instagram.com/mihail.kazakov.5/

    TRANSFORMATION, 1min....

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Reading: LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS, by Matthew Lashua

    When a teen boy befriends an isolated gay man at a retirement home, he learns the hidden history of their town and his own family history.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Officer Perry: Sean Ballantyne
    Justin: Shawn Devlin

  • Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival Best Scene: NEXUSm by Eric Lotter (interview)

    A family, torn apart by a past tragedy, must unite and overcome internal and external conflicts to reclaim their advanced starship from a fanatic general who plans to use its unique capabilities to trigger a galactic-scale "reset" and fulfill an ancient prophecy.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie She...

  • Crime/Mystery Festival 1st Scene Reading: MURDER ON MARS, by Patrick McKinley

    In 2058, A murder investigation leads two police detectives down a dangerous path during the early days of the colonization of Mars.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Daryl: Shawn Devlin
    Matt: Sean Ballantyne

  • MOVIE TRAILERS November Festival

    HOW WE ROLL, 2min., Documentary
    Directed by Anthony Ciancio

    SUPER ME, 3min., Experimental
    Directed by Marcelo Presotto
    1980s. Marcelo is 17 years old and has been in conflict with his mother, an abusive relationship since childhood. Martial arts have become a form of armor for him. But will it b...