This festival now takes place every single day giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film (All accepted films get all four tiers).
1) Screening #1 where you will also obtain your audience feedback video. 2) Screening #2 virtually on the streaming service WILDsound TV 3) Podcast interview at WILDsound Radio on ITunes 4) Blog interview promoting you and your film.
All festival dates have been relegated to private screenings with the same Audience FEEDBACK videos made for the short & feature films, and recorded script readings performed by professional actors for the screenplays. This is our way of showing community over distance so everyone around the world can experience our Audience Feedback videos.
WILDsound Writing and Film Festival – Daily Deadlines
Short Film Festival – Occurs at least 7 times a WEEK in Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto
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Watch ROOFTOP INTERMISSION using the main channel:
Seeking a momentary respite from the strains of life in 2020, two strangers from the same building end up on a roof together and make a socially distant connection. (Shot on a mobile phone by the sheltering-in-place cast.)
Directed by and Starring: Masa Gibson, Abby J. Smith
Director Statement Back in the spring of 2020, we found ourselves halting preproduction on a feature project we’d been developing while we sheltered in place. Naïve and hopeful that everything would be back to “normal” within a couple of months, we decided to shoot a quick-and-dirty little “meet-cute” sketch on our rooftop…
Marked as the final scene of the entertaining film “Scent of a Woman”. A remarkable speech by Pacino who delivers amazing lines like “I’ll take a flamethrower to this place.” and “This is such a crock of shit.” He’s a blind man so he simply sits in his chair for 5 minutes and chats with the full assembly of private school boys and the faculty. And he’s got them in the palm of his hand as the cliche goes. Some interesting reaction shots by the boy he’s protecting, Charlie (Chris O’Donnell), and the boy, George Willis Jr., he needs to take down to protect Charlie (a very young Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays this role. Go back and watch this film from the beginning. Hoffman has some terrific moments.) Charlie won’t rat on George because Charlie has a moral code. Ironically not the code he learned at the big private school…
REVERIE, 9min., USA, Dance Directed by Brian Bowers The past can be an unreliable narrator, and the future is simply a shifting reflection of where we are right now. Driven by choreographed movement, original music and sound, REVERIE is an experimental visual narrative that seeks to question and explore. An ensemble dance casts guides us through the delicately narrated introspective, inner dialogue that an emerging artist is having with time itself. Is it true, what they say, that life is but a dream?
REMAIN, 3min., New Zealand, Dance Directed by Kit Reilly “Remain” explores themes of solitude and subtlety within the naked body. It exists in an abandoned space where small shifts in movement create tides of energy that swell and reignite a sense of hope. This project was self filmed during a Covid-19 lockdown and is part of the 9 part dance film series “Turbulent Kingdoms.”
PICTORIAL WAY, 3min., France, Dance Directed by Laura Bonnefous To give life by color, to make live the bodies and their emotions is the stake of this poetic and dreamlike film.
BE STILL, 5min., USA, Dance Directed by Nicole Manoochehri An improvised dance film in collaboration with dancer Mélissa Guérin-Torres, Paris-based composer Arnaud Drieu and award-winning cinematographer Steven Fadellin.
PRIMORDIAL, 4min., USA, Dance Directed by Madison VanDerLinde A movement based film depicting the love story between Life and Death. Unable to be together, Life and Death send each other gifts, humans, to express their love for one another. An explanation for existence on Earth.
CANA, 14min., USA, Dance Directed by Ana Maria Alvarez This film is an investigation of movement within a natural landscape, of rich textures and textiles in motion, and of the mystery of ritual. It provides a window into a private world of a group of women, dancing together unselfconsciously among natural landscapes and dressed in lusciously colored textiles. Throughout the film, sugar cane is ripped, bitten, and swung about as a meditation on this indulgent substance—echoing themes of vice and virtue.
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