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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  • WINTER Poetry Reading: Circle of Life, by Alexandra Grant

    https://youtu.be/p_7tv9Mx47U

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    It’s been a long hot summer
    Our work’s been hard each day
    Routine is normal in our home
    We have no other way

    Our mom keeps busy with her kids
    Our family’s rather large
    She tirelessly tends to us all
    She stays at home, fully, in charge
    ...

  • LITERARY FICTION Short Story: Pretty Bird, by Hannah Orden

    Performed by Val Cole

  • ELEGY Poem: My Dad Never Drank Cheap Wine, by Marie Pauwels

    https://youtu.be/rAtjk7ITOHI

    performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    the warm, cheap wine
    doesn’t taste good but
    at least the sea is
    mine

    I chug what I should have sipped
    suppress what I could have done
    none of it matters, the money is gone
    my father is dead

    and the wine is flowing in my blood
    just lik...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Short Story: Prisoners, Both, by JS Apsley

    Performed by Val Cole

  • HORROR Poetry Reading: Invertebrates, by Ada Costea

    https://youtu.be/ePj2Sa1SfYo

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    Your brain is a sea,
    your irises my windows
    to watch you drown.

    You choke on waves
    meant to break on my shore.

    You choke on your own hair.

    From your skull
    tentacles peel,
    crawl down your face
    like purple ivy
    over my windowsill.

    You ...

  • PERSON Poetry Reading: Inside Job, by Steven Mozdziesc

    https://youtu.be/oDDFPWmUTHk

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    No raise, no money, no overtime.
    This pride ain’t built on a production line.
    Your cars, your drinks, your parking fines
    keep us down in the welfare line.
    We scream, we cry, we love and die.
    All for a crumb from the social pie.
    But who ...

  • PARANORMAL Short Story: Rainbow Road, by Hannah Orden

    Performed by Val Cole

  • DOC Feature Winner (Shanaya's Path)

    Shanaya's Path, 54min., Netherlands
    Directed by Frank Röhrig
    Shanaya’s Path follows the intimate journey of Shanaya, a young person from Darjeeling who identifies as a woman and dreams of transitioning despite immense social and familial resistance. Since gender norms are rigid and visibility for...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: DOC Feature Winner (Shanaya's Path)

    Shanaya's Path, 54min., Netherlands
    Directed by Frank Röhrig
    Shanaya’s Path follows the intimate journey of Shanaya, a young person from Darjeeling who identifies as a woman and dreams of transitioning despite immense social and familial resistance. Since gender norms are rigid and visibility for...

  • HUMAN NATURE DOC Shorts Festival

    Greenfield, 34min., USA
    Directed by Rob Herring
    Greenfield is an intimate look into the mind and mission of Robin Greenfield — one of the world’s most radical environmentalists. Known for his bold eco-experiments, including wearing a month’s worth of trash through Times Square, living a full year...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: HUMAN NATURE DOC Shorts Festival

    Greenfield, 34min., USA
    Directed by Rob Herring
    Greenfield is an intimate look into the mind and mission of Robin Greenfield — one of the world’s most radical environmentalists. Known for his bold eco-experiments, including wearing a month’s worth of trash through Times Square, living a full year...

  • BOY SCIENTIST, 3min., USA, Animation/Music

    A brilliant boy scientist meets the girl scientist of his dreams, poised and beautiful, surrounded by flasks and beakers. The best he can do is bottle her image in his flask, so he may serenade and waltz with her in his Quantum Physics Lab.

    http://alanthemusical.com/

    https://www.instagram.com/a...

  • SOCIETY DOC Shorts Festival

    Bounty Uncharted - The Alphonso James Story, 11min., USA
    Directed by Jeff Ragovin
    Bounty Uncharted follows Alphonso James on a quiet day at sea off the coast of the Hamptons during his first ever fishing experience. What begins as a simple outing becomes a deeply personal reflection on freedom, r...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: SOCIETY DOC Shorts Festival

    Bounty Uncharted - The Alphonso James Story, 11min., USA
    Directed by Jeff Ragovin
    Bounty Uncharted follows Alphonso James on a quiet day at sea off the coast of the Hamptons during his first ever fishing experience. What begins as a simple outing becomes a deeply personal reflection on freedom, r...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Stained Glass Window, by Kristin Francoeur

    Lily Brannan, a very successful writer who lives in Boston, finds out that her hated great-aunt is dead. When the will is read, Lily is shocked that beside the expected inheritance, she also now owns a mysterious house in Vermont. Planning to go see it, then put it on the market, Lily visits the ...

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Owners, by Nick Nelson

    When a wildlife photographer’s bush plane crashes in remote Alaska, he and his girlfriend must survive a brutal game of cat & mouse with a family of fugitives eliminating witnesses, but the real danger may be what survival turns him into.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Nick: Geoff Mays
    Sara: Eli...

  • WILDsound 1st Scene Reading: The Twelve Days, by Brent L.Peterson

    A small-town Christmas shop owner is devastated on Christmas Eve when she finds out she can not have children. The next morning she wakes up in an apocalyptic future where only children remain. There, she works to restore peace between two warring tribes of kids by teaching them the gift-giving t...

  • THRILLER Festival 1st Scene: DHARMA, by Vee G Kumari (interview)

    When an archeologist is murdered with a hindu statue, an art professor must get to the bottom of the death while revealing past mysteries.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Rekha: Val Cole

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    That, regardless of culture, we as humans have ...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: A Misnamed Fate, by Chelsea Lin

    The dark side of relationships and suburban life, where secrets amongst friends ruin lives and betrayal has deadly consequences.

    https://www.instagram.com/cheezylin

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Stacy: Val Cole
    Dan: Geoff Mays

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: Sinner? I Barely Know Her!, by Adelaide Young

    While trying to explore her sexuality, 17-year-old Maggie struggles with her religious OCD and comes face to face with questions that seem too hard to answer. What should we take from religion? What should we do when we feel religion is taking from us?

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morri...

  • ANIMATION Festival 1st Scene: Carlsbad, by Eleanor Christina Cain

    Over 4,000 years ago in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico, a gentle Indigenous teen at odds with his tribe’s gender expectations discovers a magical cavern world that forces him to confront who he is and who he is meant to become.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Sakwa: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    ...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: NEXT STOP: HELL'S END, by Walter Hochbrueckner

    Nikki is in need of a new life, she flees from her abusive husband to become a stripper in a small town.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Eva: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Barb: Val Cole

  • 1st Scene TV Spec Script Reading of THE BEAR, by David Case (Comedy Festival)

    On the anniversary of Mikey’s death Carmy gets news that his tormentor, David Fields, is coming to review the restaurant.. things derail when Carmy severely burns his arm.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Carmy: Geoff Mays
    Richie: Shawn Devlin

  • WILDsound Festival 1st Scene: Blue Idaho, by Noah Zayn Mortier

    A grieving widower and a trans nurse confront faith, loss, and identity on a road trip that forces them to reconcile their past with the possibility of love.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Richard: Geoff Mays
    Blue: Elizabeth Rose Morriss