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A showcase of the best new films from around the world today.

AUDIENCE AWARDS (from audience feedback festival):
Best Short Film: Cheap$kate
Best Direction: If Only For Memories
Best Story: Controller
Best Micro-Short Film: Desert Reforestation: Rivals and the Dropped Camera
Best Performances: Sugar

If Only For Memories, 6min., USA
Directed by Ari Roman
A grieving young man searches his dreams for a few more sweet memories with his fiancé

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-if-only-for-memories

Cheap$kate, 6min., USA
Directed by Calvin Catania
While a crafty detective teaches you his unique style of catching criminals, another criminal is on the run and heading down a dark alley he shouldn’t be going down. In the end, someone has to pay for their crimes.

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

CONTROLLER, 7min., USA
Directed by Clint Younkin
In this dark and unknown universe, an age of consumption has enslaved society and almost all are bound by their obsessions. A particular man desires new levels to his relationship with his own obsession: technology.

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

Desert Reforestation: Rivals and the Dropped Camera, 5min., Czechia
Directed by Stanislav Skricka
The film captures real, unplanned moments in which divided communities — rivals in politics, work, and sport — come together in a desert reforestation project. In a place where conflict might be expected, tension unexpectedly transforms into strong bonds of friendship.

http://www.lucernavision.com/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-desert-reforestation

SUGAR, 20min., USA
Directed by Sutton Alexander Fry
A boy and his estranged father settle their differences in the ring

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

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Spike: Geoff Mays
Andrei: Shawn Devlin
Nadine: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

In the storm-ravaged summer of 1816, young Mary Godwin arrives at Lord Byron’s villa for a ghost story competition. What begins as creative rivalry becomes something darker when Mary channels a nightmare into the pages of Frankenstein.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Mary: Val Cole

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Malcolm: Shawn Devlin
Sahara: Hannah Ehman
Mary: Val Cole

England in the fifteen-thirties. Superstition clashes with the institutional corruption of the church and the State clashes with the status quo as Henry V111 is becoming psychotic. In the dark forests, the animals and their gods walk freely amongst those people who accept their place in the world.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Tasmin: Val Cole
Susan: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

The true story of the trials and tribulations of Dred and Harriet Scott’s fight for freedom and the Supreme Court decision that changed America.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Val Cole
Taylor Blow: Shawn Devlin
Dred Scott: Sean Ballantyne

Alex Mercer just wanted a steady government job — dental, pension, and no explosions. Instead, he reports to the Department of Unseen Affairs: a crumbling bureaucracy where ghosts punch timecards, werewolves complain about overtime, and the coffee machine occasionally levitates. His new colleagues include Claude, a centuries-old vampire with the attitude of a jaded tax auditor; Lila, a caffeine-fueled witch running HR like a crisis hotline; Gary, a snarky werewolf perpetually one paperwork error away from a full moon meltdown; and Gail, a human receptionist who’s seen too much and stopped caring around 1958.

https://www.instagram.com/sarantosmelogia/

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Val Cole
Gary: Shawn Devlin
Claude: Geoff Mays
Alex: Sean Ballantyne

A haunted Missouri musician searches for the cursed Paganini music that killed his parents — and uncovers a sinister plot involving Baba Yaga, steampunk vampires, and a psychopathic immortal to use it to summon the Devil and destroy NYC.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Flynn: Sean Ballantyne
Stone: Geoff Mays

After an accident leaves his wife in a coma, Marcos faces a heartbreaking decision when a mysterious company offers to preserve her consciousness inside him. How far is he willing to go to avoid losing her?

https://instagram.com/j_h_allely

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Marcos: Geoff Mays
Dr. Vega: Sean Ballantyne

When a successful HR professional realizes her soulmate is quickly marrying someone else, she must center her goals around the idea of truly being single forever.

https://instagram.com/cheja_tucker

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Mariah: Hannah Ehman
Dave: Geoff Mays