HEIMAT – REQUIEUM FOR THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT was the winner of “Best Experimental Documentary” at the December 2021 Documentary Film Festival. Also pllaying at the WILDsound TV app TODAY, a part of the best of MODERN TIMES documentary festival. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform.

“Four theatermakers from Belgium travel to the melting glaciers on Greenland. Their goal: to play a new composed requiem and say goodbye to the world as we know it.”

Conversation with filmmaker Freek Vielen on the making of the film.

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PILLOW TALK was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the LGBTQ+ Short Film Festival. Also playing at the WILDsound TV app all day today. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is always a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform.

“With a new dating device that simulates physical touch, an isolated chef, Jerome, uses it to make a genuine connection. After only finding men looking for virtual one-night stands, he finally stumbles upon Minoru, an awkward artist who lives on the other side of the world.”

Conversation with James Elinski on the making of the film.

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LONESOME was the winner of best feature film at the December 2021 BLACK & WHITE Film Festival. Also playing at the WILDsound TV app next month. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform.

“Lonely city dweller Guy, is struggling to find his ideal partner. In a trip to the beach suggested by his roommate, he may have found his ideal match with the free spirited Roxie. ‘Lonesome’ is an ode to classic cinema, New Wave cinema, and an ode to silent film.”

Conversation with Milwaukee native Tony K. Hall on the making of the film.

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WANDER was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the January 2022 WILDsound Film. It’s also playing at our virtual festival next month. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform.

“After wandering through the desert a man must realize what are the important things in his life in order to survive the arid desert in moments of deep reflection triggered by his own survival.”

Conversation with Dimitri Luedemann on the process making this film with his producer/wife.

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A SIRENS CALL was the winner of BEST FANTASY Film at the December 2021 FANTASY/SCI-FI Film Festival. It’s also playing at our virtual festival next week. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS).

"A Sirens Call" tells the mythical tale of a woman driven by power who is willing to do anything to get it.

Conversation with director/actor Adam Moses & producer/actor Sof Puchley on the making of the film from concept to distribution. They also both co-wrote the screenplay together.

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I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE was the winner of Best Performances at the December 2021 COMEDY Film Festival. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS).

“After a young mother of two is coerced into a fancy dinner with her loving but self centered husband she is confronted with a proposition she is unprepared for.”

Conversation with filmmaker Lindsay Clift on the making of the film.

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TENTACLE HEAD was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the December 2021 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS).

“A homeless teen with tentacles on his head struggles to survive on the streets of a cold, strange, industrial dystopian city with the help of a kind homeless woman who aids him in defining his identity for himself.”

Conversation with the filmmakers on the making of the film.

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A VOID is one of the top Animation films that played at the Feedback Festivals in 2021. There is a 2nd screening on the WILDsound APP in February. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS).

This story is about how women experience fear and discomfort while walking on the street. In this film we see Maya going through this feeling of insecurity in a task as simple as walking home, a thing made dangerous by the current violent climate in Mexico. This is not an uncommon feeling found in all women who experience the fear and questionable security on the streets of their home towns.

Conversation with filmmaker/animator on the process making this film at the Vancouver Film School.

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“STAND UP, SPEAK OUT” is a documentary short film that played at the December 2021 FEMALE Filmmakers Festival. There is a 2nd screening on the WILDsound APP in February. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS).

Conversation with Executive Producer Katherine Brewster & Director Elisabeth Harris, from BC Voices, Inc. https://www.standupspeakout.org/

This Episode, "200+ Years: American Women Fight & Rise," serves as the introduction to the online DocuSeries "Stand UP, Speak OUT: The Personal Politics of Women's Rights" about the impact of the mid-20th century expansion in women's rights, and the hard-won freedom, independence, and opportunities at risk today. The Series continues with two more episodes: "Equal Pay for Equal Work" released May 2020 and "Voting Rights: From no vote to suffrage in 1920 to voter suppression in 2020, and why we still must fight for our right to vote," released November 2020. Reproductive Rights, currently in production, will be launched March 2022. Future episodes to be released in 2023/2024 will address such topics as: To Marry Whom We Love, or Not at All, Freedom from Sexual Harassment and Affirmative Action.

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DRIVE was the winner of BEST FILM at the December 2021 MUSIC Film Festival. There is a 2nd screening on the WILDsound APP in February. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS).

An intimate look inside a musician and producer’s collaborative process. Nationally renowned cellist and composer Joshua Roman records his 2020 Music Journal piece “Drive” with Ryan Hadlock, producer at Bear Creek Studio.

Conversation with director Hayley Young on the making of the film. http://www.hayleyyoung.com/

Hayley Young began working as Staff Photographer for Seattle Magazine and Seattle Business Magazine in 2009. In the years since, she has personally photographed over 2000 people and places across Washington State. Her work has been published nationally as well, taking assignments for The Guardian, Washington Post, Fast Company, OUT Magazine and The Sunday Times (UK).

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The COMEDY Festival has shown an unprecedented three films in the past 3 months from David Levin.

• HARVEST MOON, a film starring Don Most & Anson Williams (from Happy Days fame).

• BEST BUDS, a film starring Jenny Leona (who also wrote the film), & Mary Chieffo.

• TOOTH FAIRIES IN QUARANTINE, starring Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), and Yvonne Jung.

Conversation with David on the making of these films and others during the Covid-era.

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David P. Levin is an American producer, director, writer and editor. In the early days of MTV, he produced Rockumentaries on Madonna and Michael Jackson, and later went on to help create and develop the "Uncensored" brand for MTV. Later on he created, produced and directed TV Land Confidential for TV Land, and also produced and directed When Pop Culture Saved America, Which Entertainment Weekly cited as one of the 10 specials to watch on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. He is the founder of BrainStorm Inc., a video production company with a focus on television projects.

TRIP 27 was the winner of Best Direction at the December 2021 MUSIC Film Festival. There is a 2nd screening on the WILDsound APP in February. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS).

A visual album that unfolds over 5 chapters. Lacking inspiration for his music, Huck goes on a wild hitchhiking adventure that takes him across the American Southwest.

Conversation with Oscar De Leon on the making of this film.

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THE LAST CROISSANT was the winner of BEST COMEDY FILM at the December 2021 COMEDY Film Festival. There is a 2nd screening on the WILDsound APP in February. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS).

Conversation with filmmaker Jessica Redish on the process making the film.

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POTTERO is an animation short that played at the December 2021 WILDsound Film Festival. There is a 2nd screening on the WILDsound APP in February. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS).

“Based on family folklore and issues surrounding mental health, accessible healthcare and social mobility.”

Conversation with Lindsey Martin on the 3 year personal journey making this film.

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NAKUSA is a special film that played at the December 2021 MUSIC Film Festival. There is a 2nd screening on the WILDsound APP on February 10th. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS).

Conversation with director/actor Jennifer Kramer on the making of the film. “Nakusa is a disabled girl who is deeply traumatized by the rejection of her mother at one week of age. Stuck inside her alienation, distorted perceptions and longings – she searches endlessly for the love we all need to survive or risks ceasing to exist.” A must see film for everyone.

Jennifer also is the youngest daughter of legendary director Stanley Kramer (It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World!, Guess Who’s Coming to Diner?) and actress Karen Sharpe (appeared on over 70 TV shows). She chats about her experiences as a child and we also talk about the recent passing of her father’s good friend Sidney Poitier.

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CARLOTA played to rave reviews at the Female Filmmakers Festival in December 2021. There is a 2nd screening on the WILDsound streaming service on February 1st. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS).

Conversation with talented Mexican filmmaker Malu Solis on the making of this truly original short film and the process making it.

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AMERICA BOXED IN is the 2022 Documentary Festival feature film winner. A story that examines a world where globalization reigns supreme. It explores the consequences of the “heart of the global economy”—the freight container.

Conversation with filmmaker Casey G. Williams on the 7 year journey making this film.

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HELLAS was the 2021 winning TV Pilot from the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film Festival. Listen to interview with screenwriter Matthew Evans on his motivation and process writing this award winning script. Followed by the 1st scene reading of the script performed by artist Steve Rizzo.

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In the dystopic near-future, an undercover agent is sent to the Hellas Basin of Mars to break up a mining union—only to side with the miners and help lead a revolution for Martian Independence.

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WE ARE NATURE was the winner of Best Direction at the December 2022 Environmental Film Festival. Co-produced by Bacon Productions, based in Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm.

Conversation with filmmaker Christian Holm-Glad on the making of the film. He also shares the amazing story when he caught the Black Plaque in 2017, the first Norwegian in hundreds of years to do so.

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MEDIAN was the winner of Best Cinematography at the December 2021 LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

“A gay activist rallies the queer community after he and a trans activist are assaulted by a group of religious extremists.”

Conversation with Bay area filmmaker Matthew Riutta on the process making this award winning short film. We also dive into Matthew’s “day job” career as a Location Manager and working on films like “Fruitville Station”, “The Master”, and “Moneyball”.

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