New Releases
New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: CONTACT: RENDLESHAM, by Richard Monahan
In December 1980, an unidentified craft descends into England’s Rendlesham Forest near a U.S. Air Force base—igniting one of the most documented UFO encounters in history. A skeptical sergeant investigates the glowing object and is pulled into escalating phenomena that shatter his worldview and t...
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BEST Scene Reading: DEFYING GRAVITY, by Tony B. Richard (interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Malcolm: Shawn Devlin
Sahara: Hannah Ehman
Mary: Val ColeGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
In 1947 a 19-year-old female genius is rejected for every job she applies to.
She gets recruited into a covert military program wor...
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene: PRIME, by Christopher Miller
In the imperious world of fine dining, the pinnacle is an exclusive pop-up concept that boasts a masterful, reclusive chef, whose mystery draws notoriety as much as his renowned skill. Jess, a hardworking member of the restaurant community, finds herself in an auspicious position as a waiter at P...
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene: CONSUMED, by Don Stroud (interview)
Trapped in a basement after an apocalyptic earthquake, a grieving wife fights off a horde of parasitic monsters, unaware that her God-fearing husband has already decided her fate.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Caroline: Hannah Ehman
Parker: Sean BallantyneGet to know the writer:
1. What ...
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WILDsound Best Scene: A Poppet for the Priest, by Jonah Jones
England in the fifteen-thirties. Superstition clashes with the institutional corruption of the church and the State clashes with the status quo as Henry V111 is becoming psychotic. In the dark forests, the animals and their gods walk freely amongst those people who accept their place in the world...
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WILDsound Best Scene: BEINGS OF AN INFERIOR ORDER, by Bob Dawson (interview)
The true story of the trials and tribulations of Dred and Harriet Scott's fight for freedom and the Supreme Court decision that changed America.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Taylor Blow: Shawn Devlin
Dred Scott: Sean BallantyneGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
It'...
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WILDsound Best Scene Reading: DEPARTMENT OF UNSEEN AFFAIRS, by Sam Speron
Alex Mercer just wanted a steady government job — dental, pension, and no explosions. Instead, he reports to the Department of Unseen Affairs: a crumbling bureaucracy where ghosts punch timecards, werewolves complain about overtime, and the coffee machine occasionally levitates. His new colleague...
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WILDsound Festival 1st Scene: The Devil Pulls the Strings, by J. W. Zarek
https://youtu.be/Mg_KZdLgPBo
A haunted Missouri musician searches for the cursed Paganini music that killed his parents — and uncovers a sinister plot involving Baba Yaga, steampunk vampires, and a psychopathic immortal to use it to summon the Devil and destroy NYC.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Eliza...
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WILDsound Festival 1st Scene: SYNNOIA, by Javier Hinojosa Allely (interview)
After an accident leaves his wife in a coma, Marcos faces a heartbreaking decision when a mysterious company offers to preserve her consciousness inside him. How far is he willing to go to avoid losing her?
https://instagram.com/j_h_allely
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Marcos: Ge... -
CHICAGO Festival 1st Scene: EMPLOYEE RELATIONS, by Cheja Tucker (interview)
When a successful HR professional realizes her soulmate is quickly marrying someone else, she must center her goals around the idea of truly being single forever.
https://instagram.com/cheja_tucker
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Mariah: Hannah Ehman
Dave: Geoff MaysGet to know the wri...
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ROMANCE Shorts Festival
LULLABY, 4min. Ukraine
Directed by Oleksandr Shvets
Through the child’s simple questions — about fear, hunger, life, and a father at the front — the fragile world of a family is revealed, held together by love, hope, and the promise of dawn. This is a story about childhood that war could not take... -
Watch Today's FREE Festival: ROMANCE Shorts Festival
LULLABY, 4min. Ukraine
Directed by Oleksandr Shvets
Through the child’s simple questions — about fear, hunger, life, and a father at the front — the fragile world of a family is revealed, held together by love, hope, and the promise of dawn. This is a story about childhood that war could not take... -
Chicago Festival 1st Scene: SADIE & THE SUMMER SERVE, by Joaquin Hernandez
Rising tennis talent Sadie Taylor battles self-doubt and a manipulative rival, Carmen Lopez — the entitled daughter of Foxridge Athletic Club’s manager — in a high-stakes tournament where nepotism, betrayal, and psychological warfare threaten to derail both her reputation and her integrity.
CAST...
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LGBTQ+ 1st Scene Reading: OVER/DRAWN, by Trevor Guinard
When a young banker with a penchant for gambling falls on hard times, he turns to unscrupulous means to satisfy his debts.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Franky: Geoff Mays
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LGBTQ+ Best Scene Reading: REFRACTORY, by Avalon Penrose
When a 28-year-old high school teacher tries to leave behind her wild past, she’s forced to choose between staying at rock bottom, or the slightly less terrible option: getting help.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Bartender: Shawn Devlin
Emma; Elizabeth Rose Morriss -
LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: ESQUISSE OF AFFLICTION, by Zicheng Li
DANNY, a 23-year-old college graduate, returns to his childhood home in Monterey, California, following the sudden passing of his Mother, LORRAINE. After the funeral, Danny, his sister KATY, returned from LA, and their Dad, WAYNE talk about their plans for the immediate future. They run into GAIL...
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LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: DISTANT LIGHTNING, by David Mills
When a shipwreck leaves two teenage boys stranded on a remote island, survival binds them together—but as their connection deepens into first love, they must face the impossible question of what happens to that bond if they ever return to the world they came from.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
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LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: BEYOND THE ARC, by David Mills
In a devout Kentucky town where masculinity and reputation define belonging, high school basketball star Brady Miller has his future mapped out—until his growing feelings for his best friend and teammate, Josh, begin to surface. When a private moment crosses an unspoken line, the fallout is immed...
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LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: DEAD SIGNALS, by Ryan Clarke
Two alienated teens launch a pirate radio station from a Cold War bunker hidden inside an abandoned mall, but when their secret broadcast becomes a lifeline for their dying town, they must choose between the safety of
anonymity and the terrifying vulnerability of being heard.CAST LIST
Narrator...
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Watch Today's FREE Festival: ENVIRONMENTAL Feature Festival WInner
India’s Circularity – Not a Trend, But a Tradition from the Margins, 70min., India
Directed by Purva Tavri
Across India’s overlooked margins, India’s Circularity – Not a Trend, But a Tradition from the Margins reveals how reuse, repair, and regeneration are not innovations—but inherited ways of l... -
ENVIRONMENTAL Festival Showcase
SLOWLY, 2min., South Korea
Directed by Seohyeon Kim
Set in the desolate expanse of a mudflat in the year 2125, this monodrama follows a solitary figure wandering through the remnants of a world long abandoned by humanity. In the silence left by human absence, nature has reclaimed its voice. Stone... -
Watch Today's FREE Festival: ENVIRONMENTAL Festival Showcase
SLOWLY, 2min., South Korea
Directed by Seohyeon Kim
Set in the desolate expanse of a mudflat in the year 2125, this monodrama follows a solitary figure wandering through the remnants of a world long abandoned by humanity. In the silence left by human absence, nature has reclaimed its voice. Stone... -
DREAMS IN TRANSLATION, 16min., Canada, Student - Drama
Made at the Memorial University of Newfoundland
https://instagram.com/onyemaojukwu
Mgbeke, a 25-year-old Nigerian Igbo woman living in Newfoundland, returns from her mother’s burial in Nigeria carrying unresolved questions and re-experiencing childhood trauma. Her attempt to settle back into he...
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Podcast: Writer/Creator Prin Uthaisangchai (Sanctuary of the Leatherback)
The Sanctuary of the Leatherback is the continuing stories, following the first documentary, The Story of the Leatherback. This documentary will raise an important issue, relating to the recent death of mother Tai Meaung, a mother leatherback turtle along with her 136 unhatched babies in her bell...