New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene: 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
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WILDsound Festival Script: Polite to the Death (Nanny Kills), by Pippa Blackmore
Nanny Ivy, an English nanny, is hired to help an American family with their troublesome children but when she arrives, it becomes clear that the adults and other people in the children's life are the problem so she enlists her charges to kill them all. They return to England to start a new life a...
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Watch Today's FREE Feature Festival: Winning POLITICAL Feature (A Beginning for the Final Songs of a River)
A Beginning for the Final Songs of a River, 70min., Germany/Iran
Directed by Meysam Oghbaei
Filmed over six years, this documentary follows the changing fate of the Zayandeh Rood river in Iran. Through the perspectives of local farmers and communities, it portrays the environmental and social cha... -
Watch the Best of POLITCAL Festival Short Films
Adas Falasteen, 8min., Palestine
Directed by Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini, Samar Taher Lulu
"Palestine Lentils" is a documentary film that tells the story of a Palestinian chef and his role in using his hobby as a shield against the famine caused by the war on Gaza, preserving the spirit of resilience... -
Watch Today's FREE Film Festival: Best of POLIITCAL Festival Films
Adas Falasteen, 8min., Palestine
Directed by Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini, Samar Taher Lulu
"Palestine Lentils" is a documentary film that tells the story of a Palestinian chef and his role in using his hobby as a shield against the famine caused by the war on Gaza, preserving the spirit of resilience... -
LA LGBTQ+ Best Scene Reading: SHRINK, by Teddy Andrews (interview)
A young man attends the final session of his compensated work therapy program. The therapist remains ever oblivious as his lies begins to swallow the room whole.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Ashton: Sean Ballantyne
Therapist: Hannah EhmanGet to know the screenwriter;
1. What is your sc...
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CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Scene: STREET KNOWLEDGE, by Greg Sawicki, Brian Miller
Haunted by both a past transgression and the unsolved murder of his hero-cop father, a biracial Philadelphia detective with a reputation for losing his cool sets out on a quest to take down a criminal kingpin, but as the investigation unfolds, he realizes he might not be prepared for what he unco...
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ENVIRONMENTAL Script Reading: 20/20: Search for Independence, by Harold L. Brown
A cattle rancher invents a new energy source to replace oil and gets caught in international conflict and espionage over global energy and must assess who he can really trust.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Jeff: Sean Ballantyne
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November LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Ashley Bones: The Bimbo Cannibal, 15min., USA
Directed by Lee Dubin
Ashley Bones is just your regular pink-loving bimbo-core girly girl, with an absolutely relentless hunger for the flesh and blood of men. She is always on the hunt for the most irritating boys she can find, because there is just ... -
Watch Today's FREE Festival: LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Ashley Bones: The Bimbo Cannibal, 15min., USA
Directed by Lee Dubin
Ashley Bones is just your regular pink-loving bimbo-core girly girl, with an absolutely relentless hunger for the flesh and blood of men. She is always on the hunt for the most irritating boys she can find, because there is just... -
Watch Today's Best of STYLE/EXPERIMENTAL Festival Films
LA TRAMA (THE PLOT), 2min. Argentina
Directed by Ileana ANDREA GÓMEZ Gavinoser
A WALK THROUGH MEMORYhttps://www.instagram.com/ILEANA_ANDREA88
Death Penalty, 4min., Portugal
Directed by Tiago Zacarias
Two men are sitting on a bench, attentively waiting for something.Eternal child, 7min., Mexi...
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Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of STYLE/EXPERIMENTAL Festival Films
LA TRAMA (THE PLOT), 2min. Argentina
Directed by Ileana ANDREA GÓMEZ Gavinoser
A WALK THROUGH MEMORYhttps://www.instagram.com/ILEANA_ANDREA88
Death Penalty, 4min., Portugal
Directed by Tiago Zacarias
Two men are sitting on a bench, attentively waiting for something.Eternal child, 7min., Mexi...
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Watch the BLACK & WHITE Shorts Festival
Mother, Where Are You?, 10min., Lebann
Directed by Robert Minassian
Returning home, a young woman finds a strange man waiting, sparking a silent dialogue that delves into the forgotten horrors of the Armenian Genocide through the haunting testimony of an old woman who lived it.https://instagram...
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Watch Today's FREE Film Festival: BLACK & WHITE Shorts Festival
Mother, Where Are You?, 10min., Lebann
Directed by Robert Minassian
Returning home, a young woman finds a strange man waiting, sparking a silent dialogue that delves into the forgotten horrors of the Armenian Genocide through the haunting testimony of an old woman who lived it.https://instagram...
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CAILLEACH film, reactions DANCE Festival
CAILLEACH, 9min., USA
Directed by Heather Bentley
Cailleach is a short aerial dance film exploring the archetype of the Irish goddess of winter. Cailleach is a creator, winter goddess, wise woman, and one who represents the nature of life, death and rebirth. In this aerial film, a ritual is done ... -
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TRACE OF NOWHERE film, reactions DANCE Festival (interview)
Trace of Nowhere, 33min., Japan
Directed by Rel Stott
One performer. No words. A vision of absence and presence.
https://www.instagram.com/rei.stottGet to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
Through my personal practice of Butoh and its bodily methods, I often
exper... -
ASCENT film, reactions DANCE Festival
Ascent, 2min., Netherlands
Directed by Robert Prein
A disillusioned man steps into an elevator, lost in life and ridden of any passion and purpose. As the elevator ascends, each floor becomes a metaphorical stage of risk and bravery. First subtle, but as he ascends to the higher floors, life beco... -
12th house short film, reactions DANCE Festival (interview)
12th House, 13min., USA
Directed by Ilona Laboy
12th House is a surreal meditation on grief, identity, and spiritual transformation. After losing her husband, a woman descends into a liminal dreamworld where memory fragments and archetypes guide her inward. Haunted by illusion and tethered to lov... -
WHAT'S LOCKED BEHIND THAT DOOR film, reactions MUSIC Festival (interview)
What's Locked Behind That Door?, 4min., USA
Directed by John Gardner
In the visually arresting music video for Lunavox’s “What’s Locked Behind That Door?”, a series of metaphorical doors open onto the full spectrum of human emotion, drawing viewers into a surreal journey through fear, desire, and... -
PIE IN THE SKY film, reactions MUSIC Festival
Pie In the Sky, 8min., USA
Directed Susan Lim
Pie in the Sky" is an enchanting music video that marries playful animation with the raw power of original recordings at Abbey Road Studio One, and a resplendent orchestral performance at the Barbican Concert Hall, London. The video opens with world-a... -
CHANGE - KRAMON film, reactions MUSIC Festival (interview)
Change - Kramon, 4min., USA
Directed by Meredith Adelaide
The unconscious self and conscious self meet.
http://instagram.com/meredithadelaideGet to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
The initial motivation was the fact that the music producer had a marketing bud...
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Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of ASIAN Film Festival Shorts
Life with AREZOU, 15min. Iran
Directed by Amirali Mirderikvand
It is about AREZOU (Rural girls with disabilities) and her family.....https://www.instagram.com/amirali.mirderik.vand
MAKKU, 36min. Malta
Directed by Maurice Micallef
In the timeless tapestry of human existence, few relationships ...