Los Angeles Premiere

Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz is a Chilean writer-director based in Los Angeles, California where he received an MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory. He is a Fulbright Scholarship Award recipient and winner of the 2020 HBOAccess Directing Fellowship for diverse emerging directors. His short films and music videos have been presented at dozens of film festivals around the globe, including the New York Film Festival, the Stockholm International Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival. Juan Pablo has also won various international prizes including Best Director, Best Iberoamerican Short Film, and the prestigious Prix Courtoujours at Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse, a French festival dedicated to the best of Latin American cinema. Aspiring to tell stories that are both entertaining and thought-provoking, Juan Pablo is developing several television series and features that dissect morally-conflicted characters through elevated genre and magical realism.

Elwood Quincy Walker is a horror film director & writer living in Los Angeles. As a child his love for halloween & Blockbuster Video led to his passion for horror filmmaking. Since then he has gone on to work as a professional commercial director at age 13, making spots for Disney & TEDx, intern at Blumhouse Productions, & make several short films that have screened & received accolades around the world. After a successful run on the festival circuit, his short film “Kissed” recently premiered online on ALTER.
Elwood’s latest film “The Rule Of Three” is currently making it’s way on the festival circuit & he is developing it into a feature length script.

To see more of his work & to keep up with him check out his website & instagram:

https://www.elwoodqwalker.com

@elwoodw

Damian Mc Carthy is an award winning filmmaker based in Cork City Ireland. He studied Film & TV Production for 3 years at St Johns College Cork where he received a Distinction in Scriptwriting and Directing. His films to date (He Dies At The End, Hatch, Hungry Hickory, Never Ever Open It, How Olin Lost His Eye) have screened in many prestigious film festivals worldwide including Film4 Frightfest in London, Screamfest in LA, The New York City Horror Film Festival and the San Sebastien Horror & Fantasy Film Festival. Damian is a two time winner of the Melies d’Argent Award for Best European Short Film, the Delta Film Award, the International Indie Short Film Award and the Cutting Edge Award for Best Emerging Horror Director, among other festivals prizes and audience awards. In early 2020 he completed post production on his first feature film ‘Caveat’. http://hediesattheend.com/

Shot entirely under quarantine. Starring the real-life children of horror-veteran Tiffany Shepis-Tretta (The Violent Kind, Victor Crowley) and written/directed by husband, Sean Tretta (writer/producer, FX’s Mayans MC and Syfy’s 12 Monkeys). Featuring socially distant cameos by Dee Wallace (E.T.), Cerina Vincent (Cabin Fever), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Parry Shen (Victor Crowley), and Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead).

Day 14 began as a creative family project during COVID-19 lockdown, but quickly escalated into something more. Star, Mia Tretta, was wounded in the Saugus High School shooting in November of 2019 and just as life started to return to normal for Mia, COVID-19 hit. Under the intense isolation of lockdown, this emotional and Amblin-esque film emerged about the strength of family during dark and uncertain times.

Danilo Bećković graduated in Film and TV directing from Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts, as well as in Comparative Literature from Belgrade Faculty of Philology.

He directed two of the greatest blockbusters of Serbian cinema of the last decade: a black comedy LITTLE BUDDHO and a martial arts - romantic comedy mixture THE SAMURAI IN AUTUMN.

Danilo is currently preparing two new features: TRIALS OF CHUL is an action comedy, designed as a Serbian-South Korean-German co-production, while MONTE ZOMBIE is a zom com set in Balkan highlands.

Frank H. Woodward is an award-winning producer, director, and writer with over 30 years experience in film and television production.

His feature documentaries are fueled by a deep love of sci-fi, horror and fantasy. His first documentary was the award winning "Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown". This chronicle of the life, work and mind of author H.P. Lovecraft featured interviews with Neil Gaiman, John Carpenter and Guillermo Del Toro.

His other documentary work includes the critically acclaimed "Men In Suits", a look at the art of creature suits and the actors that bring those characters to life including Doug Jones, Tom Woodruff, Jr. and the original Godzilla, Haruo Nakajima.

As a screenwriter, Frank wrote the sequel "Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort" for Fox and the SyFy Original Movie "Black Forest". He was also an executive producer on the SyFy International film "Firequake".

In the world of short films, Frank has written and directed "Balloon" and "Pinata" (Parts One & Two of the unofficial Birthday Trilogy). He also collaborated with director Jack Bennett on the Jaws spoof, "Quint In '58" which was featured on Bite Size Horror.

Frank continues to explore new frontiers for independent filmmakers in these uncertain times through his podcast Film Sense (available on LibSyn and iTunes).