WILDsound: The Film Podcast

Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5QkTVemr88 Get to know the writer: What is your screenplay about? Necrotica is about breaking new ground in the sacred (but tired) Zombie Apocalypse genre. It’s about uncompromising survival, family, and finding meaning in the face of devastating loss. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Horror/Zombie Apocalypse with a healthy...

watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyK8K0-Hi3k Get to know the writer: What is your screenplay about? Caligo Inn is about a power-hungry senator who goes to a secluded inn to work on his vice-presidential platform, only to be confronted by the ghosts of people destroyed by his ambition—soldiers, victims, even his own son. It’s part political drama, part supernatural reck...

Stratagem The Movie, 111min. Directed by Rick E. Cutts Rellik and his girlfriend Nosaer witness a crime and are immediately on the run as they try and elude a killer who seems to always be one step ahead of them. Will they escape can they escape? Follow along as Rellik and Nosaer try and escape a killer and even more important who is behind all the carnage? http://www.icikill.com/ Get to know the...

DIMENSIONS: The Interrogation, 8min., USA Directed by Robert James Harden Jr. During an interrogation for the murder of his mother, a man pleads for his release in fear of his life. Two special detectives grill him in order to solve their case. In the shadows of these men’s dimension, the answers to all their mysteries live. https://instagram.com/dimensions_revealed https://www.wildsound.ca/videos...

Wukong Couriers, 15min., USA Directed by Peter Gabriel Gagnon An unwitting bicycle messenger is chosen as the mystical hero to save the city from an ancient horror. www.instagram.com/wukong_couriers Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod

Three S3conds, 16min., USA Directed by Diana Shield Arlo, a 17 year old boy struggles to open up and express himself to his counselor. He is haunted by his past actions due to his inability to control his rage and anger issues. https://www.instagram.com/galacticbutterflyfilms Get to know the filmmaker: What motivated you to make this film? My husband and I enjoy going on walks, driving long distan...

TEA TIME, 9min., USA Directed by B.T. Goldman A detective interrogates a strange elderly Englishman about a missing person in his neighborhood. https://www.instagram.com/cybereggproductions/ https://www.instagram.com/b.t.goldman/ Get to know the filmmaker: What motivated you to make this film? I hadn’t directed a project of my own in over a year, and I was at a wrap party for a short film that I w...

Watch the screenplay reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyAJad2rPlg Based on Concepts from the novel Considering SomeplacElse By Barry B.L. Lindstrom Get to know the writer: What is your screenplay about? The Galactic Council has seen enough and has voted 8 to 1 to eliminate all humanoid Earthlings. Padrin, the lone dissenter, an expert extra-terrestrial world saver, must now save humanity u...

Watch the best of SHORT FILMS from around the world today. A library of over 500 award-winning films: www.wildsound.ca (Plus, watch a new and original festival every single day.) Submit your film or screenplay to the WILDsound Festival today: https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival What is a Red Herring in storytelling? A red herring is a device that is used to mislead or distract...

Hammerstone Meets Woofstock, 20min., Canada Directed by Josh Holliday A film that straddles the line between narrative and documentary, landing squarely on comedy. Steve Hammerstone is a small town radio host and big time buffoon, who’s sent to explore Woofstock: North America’s largest festival for dogs. Get to know the filmmaker: What motivated you to make this film? My friend and Lisa and I had...

sustain, 5min., Austria Directed by Peter Schakl sustAIn is the Idea to combine sustainibility and artificial intelligence. Openess is to show generally ideas of sustainibility. https://www.instagram.com/peter.shackl.horn www.instagram.com/clementineclmtn Get to know the filmmaker: What motivated you to make this film? First in 1994 I was awarded with this multifunctional furniture at a competitio...

Immersed – A Cinematic Immersive Album by Justin Gray, 60min,. Canada Directed by Justin Gray, Michael Fisher Justin Gray’s Immersed is a groundbreaking cinematic album that transforms how audiences experience music. Composed, recorded, and produced as an immersive audio experience, the album features 38 artists from Toronto and around the globe, placing listeners at the center of a three-dimensio...

Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDHl6jdZ3M4 Blue (formerly Logan) is a gifted transgender surgical nurse whose life spirals after a violent romance exposes her truth. Surviving a suicide attempt, she’s sent to an off-grid trauma retreat, where healing begins amid a web of broken souls, betrayal, and revelation. Returning home to confront family and memory, Logan recla...

A Princess’s Plea, 8min., USA Directed by Brooke Thornton, Madison Hubler Princess Circe awaits in her tower when Vince Davenport, crown prince of a rich kingdom, comes to claim her as his wife. But with the beast left unslain and the princess left unimpressed, Vince’s quest takes a dark and unexpected turn. https://www.instagram.com/aprincesssplea Get to know filmmaker Madison Hubler: What motiva...

Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncsGI4_L3o Get to know the screenwriter: What is your screenplay about? Bitter is a belated coming of age story for anyone that feels like the paradigm of success has shifted. It takes the traditional geek vs bully high school sub-genre and basically turns it on its ass, focusing on WILLOW, a once-hopeful two-time valedictorian, slated...

After being embedded with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, which ends in tragedy, a journalist heads to rural Maine to fully recover and finds herself on the frontlines of another battle, between a family of wolves and the ruthless land developer who wants them hunted down. After a comrade dies in a horrific incident on the frontlines in Afghanistan, a war correspondent, forced to take time off,...

Watch the script reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8dO89qOZRk An adventure seeking young girl comes of age, joins the Peace Corps, gets posted in the Congo and takes a wild ride through culture clashes and love affairs. Get to know the writer: What is your screenplay about? My screenplay is about an adventure seeking young woman who joins the Peace Corps to advance her career, gets posted...

Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOurfvF21E Sci-Fi/Political/Action – A popular President’s re-election campaign is beset by a relentless, brutal Assassin with whom he shares a dark, shocking history. Get to know the writer: What is your screenplay about? The fundamental story of Justice and the Machine is about one of the most popular presidents in US History, Willia...

Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLrcCUBi10A Facing death due to different illnesses, three patients find themselves playing a made up game called The Mortality Game to experience life one last time risking it all. www.instagram.com/thevelamonster Get to know the writer: What is your screenplay about? It’s about 116 pages! Sorry, I just had to get one “Dad Joke” in, ev...

The Abiding, 11min., USA Directed by Ally May A lonely woman reminieces about the three great loves of her life while she decides if trying again is a risk worth taking. https://writerdirectorallymay.com/ https://www.instagram.com/allymay/?hl=en Get to know the filmmaker: 1. What motivated you to make this film? Honestly, my motivation was/is to take every opportunity to develop as a director. I w...

Watch best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1057hMo7JU Get to know the writer: What is your screenplay about? High Ground is a dramatic, near-future story set in climate-ravaged Miami. Gloria Tejeda, a brilliant, physically disabled architect, becomes an unexpected hero. As rising seas and political polarization threaten lives and values, her fight against societal judgment, and rad...

Bill W Conscious Contact, 58min, USA Directed by Kevin Hanlon Conscious Contact explores the personal spiritual quest of Bill W and his thirst for transcendence. www.instagram.com/billwconsciouscontent http://www.billwconsciouscontact.com/ Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod

Dancing With Waves, 29min., USA Directed by Emmitt Thrower Tammi Judge, the founder of a transformative dance program, leads young dancers on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth, using the power of movement to heal, inspire, and change their lives forever. Watch Emmitt’s other short film, DISABLED ARTIST SHOWCASE: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/watch-disabled-artist-showcase https://w...

Routine, 5min., Canada Directed by Abo Fall Meet Benedicte, a happy young woman living in a beautiful, heavenly garden where she doesn't have a single worry in the world. She loves to wander around, lay on the grass and simply live in the moment. What motivated you to make this film?   In an ironic way, I think I was trying to get out of a routine myself. It had been a minute since I made any shor...

FIELD REPORT | FLACK FAMILY FARM, 15min., USA Directed by Travis Limoge Nestled in the hills of Enosburg Falls, Vermont Flack Family Farm has been contributing to the vibrance of their community through their symbiotic work in the soil for nearly a half a century. https://www.instagram.com/underblkflag/ https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-field-report What motivated you to make this...