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Watch Today’s Festival: Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival

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Watch the Film Festival HERE: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/wildsound-shorts-january-2025

Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 7 day trial to watch a new and original festival every single day.

Go to the festival page directly and watch dozens of films:
https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/

See the full lineup of films:

BARON MUNCHAUSEN, 20min., Ukraine
Directed by Ilya Noyabrev
Eternal love or eternal life? This difficult choice is facing a brilliant actor. His life in the gray real world and the life of the world of fantasies are so closely intertwined that bright pictures of visions in his imagination layered on each other, mixing and breaking into small fragments fold again into the incredible patterns of a magic kaleidoscope …

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-baron-munchausen


AN ARTIST’S CURSE, 10min., Australia
Directed by Steven J Mihaljevich
When a malevolent creature resides inside the artwork of a 10 year old girl, fate is sealed, with trauma from her childhood echoing across her life. Art and horror collide when the girl becomes a Mother and desperately tries to come to terms with her delusions and the shocking truth of her daughter.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-an-artists-curse


THE COORDINATES, 15min., Greece
Directed by Despina Moraitou
A husband and wife lawyer-team are caught between an ethical and a moral dilemma in the aftermath of their guilty client’s acquittal when the victim’s mother begs them to reveal her grave.

http://newbornshortfilmagency.com/https://www.instagram.com/newbornshortfilmagency/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-coordinates

VIATICUM, 14min., USA
Directed by Derek Frey
A priest performing Last Rites is challenged by a hospice nurse who believes her patient should not be absolved of a deadly sin.

https://www.derekfreyfilms.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DerekFreyFilms
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https://www.instagram.com/derek_frey_filmmaker/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-viaticum


REMEDY, 30min., USA
Directed by Pat Mitchell
An intelligence agent must relive his past to remedy a mistake he once made.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2147487/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-remedy

MINOTAUR, 14min., USA
Directed by Steven Wright Clarkson
I was just vibing on my adolescenct dungeon and dragons days in the late 70s/early 80s. 100s of AI renders on 12 different platforms were edited carefully together to tell the classic story of warriors fighting the dark creatures on their search for gold.

http://www.whenmountainsspeak.net/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-minotaur

Filmmaker Podcast EP. 1406: Vivian Sorenson (SERPENTINE PINK)

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SERPENTINE PINK, 78min., USA
Directed by Vivian Sorenson
A dark surreal experience. A first of its kind, vortex of a lesbian?? John Waters film meets Yellow Rose meets early Almodóvar on a Lynchian induced trip??in the Mojave desert.??Serious Lost Highway vibes!

https://hardknockprod.com/serpentine-pink/
https://www.facebook.com/serpentinepinkfilm
https://twitter.com/HardKnockProdCo
https://www.instagram.com/serpentinepinkfilm

Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?
What motivated me to make this movie was the beauty and raw emotion embedded in Megan Breen’s words (Screenplay writer and playwright). The pain these characters endure is both devastating and strangely beautiful, and I felt compelled to bring their experiences to life. I love the desert and the visuals you can capture there. I wanted dance to be a part of the film and the strangeness, hostility of the desert to be a character as well. I knew it would require a unique approach—boxing gloves to tackle the challenging, brutal scenes, and soft mittens to smooth, coax, and nurture the words, scenes, guiding them into a compelling narrative flow. I also always love a good driving scene!

I’m drawn to horror, the starkness of wilderness and desert landscapes, and the emotional complexity they evoke. I also love working with actors as sensitive and talented as this cast. This project offered the unique challenge of transforming a piece that began as a play and evolved into a film script into a cohesive and captivating narrative that offered a perspective not usually seen in cinema.

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Watch Today’s Festival: Female Directors DOC Festival

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Watch the Film Festival HERE: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/female-directors-docs

Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 7 day trial to watch a new and original festival every single day.

Go to the festival page directly and watch dozens of films:
https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/

See the full lineup of films:

TOXIC INFLUENCE: THE DARK SIDE OF DOVE, 6min,. UK
Directed by Alice Russell
You wouldn’t poison your daughter’s future, but Dove is doing it every day. Greenpeace research found that every minute, Dove floods low-income communities with 12,000 highly polluting plastic sachets. These super-polluting packets of plastic are choking our oceans, killing wildlife, and fuelling an environmental disaster of unprecedented scale. The very communities Dove claims to support are drowning in a sea of single-use plastic, their neighbourhoods transformed into unofficial dumping grounds for corporate waste. This needs to change.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-toxic-influence

SHARED LAND: A BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL, 47min., Azerbaijan
Directed by Vugar Khalilov
The massacre of 7 October 2023 shattered lives of thousands of people and changed the Middle East for years to come.

http://www.cbctv.az/
https://www.facebook.com/cbctvaz
https://www.instagram.com/cbctv.az/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-shared-land