WILDsound Best Scene Reading: BLEEDING BEAUTIES, by Jason Parks

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.

HORROR Festival Best Scene: The P.I.’s (Paranormal Investigators), by Krista Crawford

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.

HIGHLIGHTS: August 2025 THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival

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.

http://www.sistastalk.org/taleboneshttps://instagram.com/Nellamovieproduction

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.

https://www.instagram.com/versipellis_film

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-versipellis

HIGHLIGHTS: August 2025 ACTION/CRIME/MYSTERY Festival

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.

https://instagram.com/official_stephanie_santana

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.

https://www.instagram.com/studio138dubbo/

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

Turning 29 Today: Zendaya

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  • This is so beautiful… doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it. To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.

  • [on why she dropped her last name] I dropped my last name because I just thought it was cool, like Cher or Prince.

Turning 76 Today: Richard Gere

Watch the best of new films from around the world today by signing up for the FREE 3-DAY trial going to http://www.wildsound.ca (Also on Roku, FireStick, and your Itune (app)) [in 1993] I’ve always maintained that actors are best when they find characters that are congruent with the emotions they’re going through at the moment. [in 1993] My wife doesn’t understand why I’m a sex symbol. She says I don’t look different from a guy on the street. [In 2012, reflecting on working with Debra Winger in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)] I was delighted, she was perfect for the part . . . She has a really interesting quality. Again, I haven’t seen this film in 30 years. But she is, she’s really a kind of true heart in the camera. It’s very hard to be as kind of open and unguarded and nice. You know, a nice person and kind of a genuine person and true heart on camera. That’s not an easy thing to do. She’s able to pull that off. I could never be that way. I was too complicated. There were too many things going on. Just the straightforward presence is an extremely difficult thing to do. There doesn’t appear to be any sort of basis for any of this. I have a feeling something hidden is at work here that will someday see the light of day. I keep asking myself where all this personal enmity between George Bush and Saddam Hussein comes from. It’s like the story of Captain Ahab and the great white whale from “Moby Dick”. We have to say, “Stop”. There’s no reason for a war. At the moment Hussein is not threatening anybody. It’d be different if he was staring somebody down with a loaded gun in his hand. But there doesn’t seem to be any indications whatsoever that this man poses an immediate threat to anybody. America has never paid any attention to other people, so it’s absurd for Bush to say that it’s all in the best interests of the Iraqi people. If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.