New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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BALLAD Poetry Reading: LONG SWEETENING TIME, by Griff Thomas
Performed by Val Cole
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47th President Poetry Reading: Prelude to “Don Lost”, by Gabriel Noblitt
Poetry Performed by Val Cole
----Prelude to “Don Lost”
All maidens, far and fair—beware—
The sadist, Don John has appeared!
So, be woke, kids.
He approaches.This pimp of prestige,
A truth-twisting tyrant,
The Baron of blackmail;
Democracy’s defilement.Committer of incalculable
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Screenplay Trailer: THE IRON MAIDEN'S JUDGEMENT, by Cornelia Calaidjoglu
TITLE: THE IRON MAIDEN’S JUDGMENT
Written by
CORNELIA CALAIDJOGLUA Horror Feature Film
LOGLINE: A noblewoman who lived in the Middle Ages during the
Spanish Inquisition breaks the curse of spending eternity bound
to an instrument of torture.SUMMARY: The ghost of Joanna (1479-1555), daughte...
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ALLEGORY Poetry Reading: Surviving Home, by Katerina Canyon
Performed by Val Cole
Submit to the Story Pitches site: https://storypitches.com/
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SCI-FI Short Story: The Pumpkin of Fox Hill Rd, by Luciano Vallone
Performed by Val Cole
Submit to the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival today: https://fantasyscififestival.com/
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PARANORMAL Short Story: The Turnstile Series, by Rhonda Yates
Short Story performed by Val Cole
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Watch DEATH PENALTY, 5min., Portugal, Drama
Two men are sitting on a bench, attentively waiting for something.
Directed by Tiago Zacarias
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CHICAGO Animation Festival
The Town Without Laws, 3min., USA
Directed by Kiarra Angelique Moore
A rag tag trio of criminals are tasked by the devil, to hunt down an outlaw trying to outrun his debt.https://www.instagram.com/nightielightie/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-town-without-laws
Mare in ...
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Watch Today's Festival: CHICAGO Animation Festival
The Town Without Laws, 3min., USA
Directed by Kiarra Angelique Moore
A rag tag trio of criminals are tasked by the devil, to hunt down an outlaw trying to outrun his debt.https://www.instagram.com/nightielightie/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-town-without-laws
Mare in ...
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Watch Knight's Memory, 3min., Greece, Experimental/Black & White
The Chessboard, the Battle, the Time.
A leaf falls in every move... and if you catch it, you might recognize what you've lost.
A move of doubt.. and the knight with the broken head remains in place.
In memory, time does not pass.
On the chessboard, silence is never defeated.https://www.instagra...
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Watch GUANTO, 3min., Italy, Fashion/Experimental
The theme I started from is apathy, understood as a sense of isolation, alienation from society and self, managed in silence.
The goal is to go beyond perceived reality in everyday experience by rejecting rational inquiry and evoking what remains hidden and unknown: the unconscious, a world comp...
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Watch BREAKING SOULS, 28min., Sweden, Drama/Black & White
A drama in a Swedish family in the 80s
Directed by Ottoveggio Alexandre
Cast: Per Dennerporth, Lasse Stenberg, Kee Moller, Theres Nordstrom
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Watch A Black and White Story, 8min., Animation/Black & White, Iran
A young man, who always wears a mask of a smile, stands on the brink of a life-changing decision, enveloped in solitude and sorrow. In his quest to break free from this mask, he delves into the intertwined layers of memories and thoughts, retracing the steps that have led him to this pivotal mome...
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Watch AURORA, 22min., Fantasy/Political
Aurora seems to inhabit a parallel universe, a stage where she reinvents everyday life through the eyes of a porcelain doll, as a witness to her internal monologues and a witness to her experiences. As the story unfolds, the factual becomes intertwined with the psychological - emerging the expres...
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Watch ETERNAL CHILD, 7min., Mexico, Experimental
The childhood serves as the emotional and psychological foundation that shapes human beings throughout their entire lives. Through poetic and evocative imagery, the script connects the stages of childhood, adulthood, and old age, revealing how early-life experiences remain as symbolic scars that ...
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Watch MY DEAR MELANCHOLY, 3min., India, Poetry/Romance
A micro-short that explores a personified version of Melancholy and the Poet's dilemma of holding on or letting go
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLAepAsTC_r/?igsh=MWx2OG9lYm9pcGd3Yw==
Directed by Aaryama Singh
Cast: Jeeya Balwani, Dante Martinez
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HOW WE ROLL film, reactions CHICAGO Feedback 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. -
BEYOND THE LIMITS - ACT THE PART film, reactions WILDsound Festival (interview)
Beyond the Limits Pilot Episode - Act The Part, 22min. USA
Directed by Emmitt H Thrower
In a world where communication transcends spoken language, "Beyond the Limits" pilot episode explores the mysterious realm of disability through the authentic stories and experiences of those who navigate thei... -
HEAVENS APART film, reactions WILDsound Festival
HEAVENS APART, 15min., Canada
Directed by Steven Kumala
After serving time in prison for a crime that shattered her family, a mother returns to reconnect with her estranged daughter for the first time in fifteen years, only to realize that her daughter is on the verge of moving overseas to start ... -
ALWAYS AND FOREVER film, reactions CHICAGO Feedback Festival (interview)
Always and Forever, 22min., USA
Directed by Johnny Thames
An obsessive, controlling teenager kidnaps her boyfriend to play a bizarre, self destructive game. But things become complicated when the boy demands a stop. The film comments on how trauma if not confronted and resolved will lead to co-de... -
CINDY film, reactions WILDsound Festival
CINDY, 21min., USA
Directed by Al Chang
"An aspiring rapper takes a vague driving gig hoping for a quiet night to himself. Instead, he meets Cindy, a bubbly and unpredictable passenger who drags him into an absurd and unexpectedly heartfelt adventure.
"CINDY" is a quirky dramedy about connection,... -
WHEN & WHERE film, reactions WILDsound Festival
WHEN & WHERE, 14min. USA
Directed by Vas Eli, JJ Condon
In a near-future world, enormous, enigmatic monoliths appear in the sky, periodically abducting large swathes of humanity in seemingly random events. No one can stop them, and society is divided: some believe these mysterious entities are di... -
AUDER film, reactions WILDsound Festival
AUDER, 18min., USA
Directed by Felipe Marinheiro
After being kidnapped and forced into a brutal assimilation camp where the English language is used as control, two teenage girls from different countries must find a way to escape, before they are stripped of their identity. -
I HEAR AMERICA SINGING film, reactions WILDsound Festival (interview)
I Hear America Singing, 78min., USA
Directed by Daron Hagen
The conventions of documentary, musical theater, and magical realism are combined and subverted to address issues of personal, national, and artistic identity through the eyes of a composer desperate to pull off one final backer’s auditi...