The Harmony Saga is a five-part mythopoetic cinematic universe culminating in a transcendent sixth finale. Combining visionary science fiction, sacred myth, and philosophical depth, it follows the rise of a divine AI, the collapse of a galactic Church, and the rebirth of cosmic balance.
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Inside The Laced House, a luxury cosmetic clinic wrapped in velvet and silence, seven patients are stripped of their identities and forced into grotesque fairytale roles-voiceless mermaids, sleeping dolls, obedient swans, and sculpted princes. Through invasive procedures, psychological conditioning, and relentless surveillance, their bodies become battlegrounds in a system that weaponizes beauty to control.
When a disgraced ghost hunter reluctantly returns to her hometown, she faces a paranormal fight for her life as she tries to mount a comeback.
Years after escaping a family and hometown that shunned her, Bates thought she had it all. A successful ghost hunting career and show, a beautiful woman by her side and an unreliable ghostly touch that allows her to touch something and see flashes of its history. But after being discredited and dismissed from her own show as well as dumped, Bates Crawford is forced to return home and face old demons, literally.
She reunites with her best friend, she develops a crush on her client’s daughter, and with the help of a couple old classmates, find herself in a paranormal battle from the past as she tries to rebuild her image and reputation as a ghost hunter.
In a 1960s rural community, a young girl navigates her coming-of-age only to discover family secrets of mental illness, love, and loss that change the course of her life.
A showcase of the best Thriller/Supense Films in the world today!
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Best Short Film: Versipellis
Best Direction: Tale & Bones – Dark Princess
Best Story: Chak-316
Tale & Bones – Dark Princess, 3min., USA
Directed by Daniella Meggoe, Benson Jackson
Dark Princess is a psychological short highlighting the unique relationship between a grandmother and her grandchild. The innocent yet menacing ques are overlooked as something mysteriously dark is brewing.
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https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-tale-bones
Chak-316, 12min., Pakistan
Directed by Shaheer Iqbal
Zara Ahmed, a driven and ambitious petroleum executive in her mid-30s, is on the brink of sealing the biggest deal of her career.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-chak-316
Versipellis, 26min., UK
Directed by James Rigby
In this spine-chilling horror film, a young girl, Sophia, faces the dilemma of choosing whom to trust when an imposter infiltrates her home.
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https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-versipellis
A showcase of the best Action/Crime/Mystery films from around the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Best Mystery Film: NOBODY’S BUSINESS
Best Crime Film: PRIOR BAD ACTS
Best Action Film: HUNTED
HUNTED, 5min., USA
Directed by Eleazar Valenzuela
Two sisters are fleeing from corrupt police officers intent on their destruction. Sofia possesses something highly sought after, and the officers are determined to obtain it, no matter the cost.
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https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-hunted
NOBODY’S BUSINESS, 11min., Australia
Directed by Erifili Davis
Set in 1920s Australian underworld of sly grog and illicit narcotics, a woman must choose between love and her reputation.
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https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-nobody-s-business
PRIOR BAD ACTS, 15min., USA
Directed by Thomas Allen Gear
Marine Leroy Brown tries to protect the other riders on a subway car and chokes a man to death. His public defender Emily Ann thinks Leroy can win at trial. Their intense conversation is the last thing before Leroy has to put himself in prison or take the advice of a less than Ivy League lawyer he has know for a half hour. He believes in honor, courage and duty. Emily Ann knows there is no such thing as a fair fight.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-prior-bad-acts
The First Night, 7min., Brazil
Directed by Gabriel Milessis Braga
After collapsing at the altar, Elise awakens inside an old church, and something inside her has changed. Guided by a mysterious man who seems to understand her condition, she begins to confront a new, terrifying hunger. The First Night is a gothic meditation on becoming, resistance, and the quiet seduction of darkness in our lifes.
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An absolute gem of a film festival that provides chances for a screenwriter to get non-AI feedback, hear actors perform their work, and be able to promote their works by competing in the festival. This should be the standard for all screenplay competitions!
I highly recommend that filmmakers of any skill level interact and engage with the Wildsound Film Festival.
Festival organizers Matthew and Alison Toffolo have created an awesome experience. Their passion for the medium of film and providing filmmakers with exposure, feedback, and connections is clear through the quality of their festival.
The feedback videos they offer are a perfect tool to gauge audiences’ reception of your film.
The podcast interview the festival provides is a great way to promote your film. Matthew is an awesome host who asks engaging and detailed questions.
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These in-person events happen biweekly and are an awesome opportunity to view, support, and discuss short films with other artists. I’m so grateful to have met so many truly talented and passionate film enthusiasts and creators at this event. It was an incredible honor to have The Callback, a short film I wrote and directed, premiere at this festival. I’m deeply grateful to have been a part of it.
Great festival with the very unique feature of excellent short videos with audience feedback – great!
WILDsound offers excellent opportunities to elevate your script to the next level. Matthew is incredibly kind and helpful — definitely check out his podcast!
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Thank you for awarding “Best Direction” to our film SWEET DREAMS! So humbled by the recognition. This festival is by far one of the best we’ve screened in. The feedback from audience members was inspirational; the podcast interview is one-of-a kind; the additional screening online brought us into homes across the world and communication from staff was timely and professional. WILDsound makes filmmakers feel welcomed, seen and supported–highly recommended!
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A young woman waits for her lover for a secret trip. However, he does not show up and does not respond to her messages. That’s when strange and inexplicable events begin to happen in her house. She asks for help from her lover, who ignores her. Realizing that she is hopelessly alone, she gives up waiting for salvation and surrenders to her own shadow.
Review by Victoria Angelique
The short film, SUBMERGED, is a world set in symbolism as a woman is trapped by her own feelings. She is left alone, during a time that she desperately needs another person, which leaves her feeling like she is drowning in darkness as she frantically continues to call and text her “Love.”
Something bad has happened, at first the audience assumes that her love has passed, since he isn’t answering, only for the truth to be discovered when she opens a bathroom drawer filled with pregnancy tests. This is the final plunge after years of trying for a family, with hope being dashed and this woman being left alone to deal with the news at the most inopportune moment. She has been submerged into a state of desperate psychosis, needing her “Love”, only for him to be unavailable at this moment.
Penélope is fighting with herself. Symbols to show her drowning manifesting in the form of a fish and water. There is dripping water, as she sits in shadow clutching her phone before she sees a fish. After she finds the drawer of pregnancy tests, she begins to see herself as a fish out of water. Lost in the world with no one to help her. She even begins to fight with herself as she drowns in a tub of water.
This film speaks to an unexpressed taboo that many women deal with when it comes to infertility and the feelings that come with it. Penélope shows what there are no words for and what the burden many women bear in silence when they learn that they can never give birth. She shows how devastating the news truly is and why a woman should not be left alone when given such a tragic diagnosis. The actress gave an award winning performance to depict a topic that many people are uncomfortable with discussing, even though it plunges many women into a deep depression where she feels like she might never surface again like it did Penélope.
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