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Good Night

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US Premiere
Showtime: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 4:45am
Run Time: 
29m
Country: 
Slovakia
Synopsis: 
Somewhere, in the middle of nowhere a couple is looking for a room to spend the night. The guests are rather weird. Their hosts are very tempted by the black suitcase. Something of tremendous powers is to be unleashed upon this world.
Directed By: 
Peter Czikrai
Produced By: 
Peter Czikrai
Written By: 
Peter Czikrai
Main Cast: 
Marko Igonda, Zuzana Sulajova, Tomas Gal, Stanislava Vlcekova, Gabriela Marcinkova & Alexander Barta

About the Director

Peter Czikrai Peter Czikrai - born on 12th May 1981 in Bratislava, attained bachelor degree in Animation and being graduated in Film and Television Direction from Academy of Perfoming Arts. Peter is a big fan of horror scenes and exploitation genre. He has been dedicated to animation film for nine years, makes advertising storyboards and writes headlines for TV trailers.

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Transito

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Showtime: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 4:45am
Run Time: 
13m
Country: 
Spain
Synopsis: 
Pablo is going to an important business meeting. Absent-minded and talking on the phone, he realises that he has lost his way. The car engine stops. From there on, nothing will be the same for him.
Directed By: 
Macarena Astorga
Produced By: 
Sensi Nuevo
Written By: 
Macarena Astorga
Main Cast: 
Daniel Grao & Sebastián Haro

About the Director

Macarena Astorga Macarena was born in Madrid. She’s got a degree in Audiovisual Communication and graduated in Sciences of the Education by the University of Malaga. Carried away about the image in movement and for the technology. She makes several courses of script and filmmaking. Since 2004 she is professor of Image and Sound in the IES Guadalpín of Marbella where he teaches class in the Senior Cycle of Audio...read more

The Banishing

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Showtime: 
Monday, October 14, 2013 - 2:45am
Run Time: 
11m 35s
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Kara must go to supernatural lengths to save her little sister from the violent spirit that haunts her.
Directed By: 
Erlingur Thoroddsen
Produced By: 
Jacey Heldrich
Written By: 
Jacey Heldrich & Brian McAuley
Main Cast: 
Haley Kotch, Danielle Kotch, Alicia Harding & Stephanie Wortel

About the Director

Erlingur Thoroddsen Erlingur Thoroddsen is a writer and director born and raised in Reykjavik, Iceland and currently based in New York. He is a recent graduate from Columbia University's MFA Film Program. A devout horror movie fanatic, Erlingur spends most of his free time dreaming up terrifying situations for his protagonists. He also likes pop music, 24/7 daylight and chocolate. He has read all...read more

Forever

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Showtime: 
Monday, October 14, 2013 - 2:45am
Run Time: 
13m
Country: 
France/USA
Synopsis: 
A love story goes terribly awry when she wants out and he feels compelled to keep her.
Directed By: 
Niav Conty
Produced By: 
Niav Conty
Written By: 
Niav Conty
Main Cast: 
Àlex Lora Cercós & Aundrea Fares

About the Director

Niav Conty Niav studied acting at Skidmore College, then moved to France where she began making films and videos. In France, she participated in workshops with renowned filmmakers Boris Lehman and Pedro Costa. She was also oscarized filmmaker Joseph Strick's personal assistant for many years. She has had several shorts in festivals worldwide, and her first feature Un peu plus d'éternité, recently came out on ...read more

The Wretched Prologue

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US Premiere
Showtime: 
Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 4:30am
Run Time: 
21m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
395 A.D. Roman Centurion Markus Valerius leads a rag-tag outpost of soldiers in the isolated Germanic Black Forest that has come under attack by a horde of bloodthirsty barbarians inflicted with a horrendous virus that reanimates the dead into ravenous bloodthirsty beings known as the WRETCHED. One last tour for Rome, one last dangerous post to retire...but fate has other plans. Escape is no longer an option... it's Kill of be Killed.
Directed By: 
Richard Greenwood Jr
Produced By: 
Collin Watts, Richard Greenwood Jr, Shawn Shekarchian & Julie Lynn Thompson
Written By: 
Collin Watts
Main Cast: 
Ashlynn Yennie, Joey Kern, Nicolas Charles & Bob Mclean

About the Director

Richard (Rick) Greenwood Jr. Richard (Rick) Greenwood Jr is a writer/director/producer/cinematographer who earned his MFA degree in filmmaking from the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles CA in December 2010.  Rick was born and raised in upstate New York and came from a hard working background which not only breeds a great work ethic and determination in him and hi...read more

Para Elisa

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Showtime: 
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 4:30am
Run Time: 
1 hour 20 mins
Country: 
Spain
Synopsis: 
A student enters a terrifying world of obsession and misery when she answers a job advertisement requesting a nanny. Held prisoner in a house full of antique toys, she must overcome her deranged captors or become a living doll.
Directed By: 
Juanra Fernandez
Produced By: 
Jordi Carbonell & Alex Carbonell
Written By: 
Juanra Fernandez
Main Cast: 
Ana Turpin, Ona Casamiquela, Luisa Gavasa, Jesus Caba, Sheila Ponce, Pep Anton Munoz & Enrique Villen

About the Director

Juanra Fernandez Juanra Fernandez was born in Madrid and made his first short film MESERICORDIAN TUMAN in 2008. PARA ELISA is his debut feature film as writer/director.

Frost (Feature)

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Showtime: 
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 2:45am
Run Time: 
1 hour 20 mins
Country: 
Iceland
Synopsis: 
A young couple, physiologist Agla and filmmaker Gunnar wake up at a glacier drilling camp only to find the camp mysteriously abandoned and their co-workers gone. When searching for the lost team they realize they’re up against an unknown deadly force.
Directed By: 
Reynir Lyngdal
Produced By: 
Ingvar Thordarson & Julius Kemp
Written By: 
Jon Atli Jonasson
Main Cast: 
Anna Gunndis Gudmundsdottir & Björn Thors

Reynir Lyngdal Already in his teens Reynir Lyngdal was quite the prodigy, winning numerous awards for video art and short films. After studying cinematic arts at the prestigious CECC in Barcelona, Lyngdal returned to his native Iceland.

He directed a slew of choreographed shorts winning awards as far apart as Reykavik Short Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival. Among them Burst from 2003 a choreographed short ...read more

The Gauntlet

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Showtime: 
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 2:30am
Run Time: 
1 hour 25 mins
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
In a sunken castle underneath the earth, five strangers wake. They have no food. No memory. No water. And no way out. They don't know it yet, but in Hell only their sins can save them. They must organize and band together for the sinister adventure that awaits...
Directed By: 
Matt Eskandari
Produced By: 
Wellington Sun, Jonathan Shih, Daniel Wei, Adam Lawson and Philippe Wee
Written By: 
Adam Lawson
Main Cast: 
Bai Ling, Warren Kole, Dustin Nguyen and Jamie Ray Newman

About the Director

Matt Eskandari Eskandari is a former alumnus of Screamfest. His first film, "The Taking" was awarded 'Best Short Film' and continued an impressive run, racking up numerous accolades across the International Festival circuit. The film propelled him to nationwide exposure when he was chosen by Steven Spielberg, from a pool of 12,000 filmmakers, to participate in the FOX filmmaker competition 'On the Lot.'

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308

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Showtime: 
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 12:30am
Run Time: 
1 hour 60 mins
Country: 
Indonesia
Synopsis: 
Desperate for a job, Naya lucked out as her best friend offers her a job as a housekeeper at a 5 star hotel by the beach. But the hotel has one strange rule… Rule #1: Never ever open room number 308 under any circumstance. Based on the true legend of Nyi Roro Kidul, the spirit of the Queen of the South Sea that supposedly lives in room 308 in Samudra Hotel.
Directed By: 
Jose Poernomo
Produced By: 
Rocky Soraya, Ram Soraya & Sunil Soraya
Written By: 
Riheam Junianti
Main Cast: 
Shandy Aulia, Denny Sumargo

Jose Poernomo Started as music video director and helmed more than 200 music videos for most major Indonesian recording company such as Sony Music, BMG, Warner. Jose then made the horror movie titled “Jelangkung” (English: “Uninvited”) which was released in 2001 and became an unprecedented big hit in the Indonesian box office. Continuing his belief that all horror movie needs to be based on Indonesian urban legend, Jose then made the horror mo...read more

The Dead 2, India!

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Showtime: 
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 2:00am
Run Time: 
1 hour 33 mins
Country: 
UK
Synopsis: 
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the Ford Brothers’ African set ‘The Dead’, ‘The Dead, India’ move us to the hustle and bustle of India as the outbreak of the walking dead take hold. An American engineer teams up with a surviving orphan street kid to trek 300 miles across stunning but deadly rural Indian landscapes to the now infested slums of Mumbai to try and save his pregnant girlfriend. The first ever international zombie movie shot in Incredible India, 'The Dead 2, puts the Ford Brother's unique vision on a far bigger canvas, with breath taking scope, thrilling action and emotional resonance...
Directed By: 
Howard J Ford & Jon Ford
Produced By: 
Howard J Ford
Written By: 
Howard J. Ford & Jonathan Ford
Main Cast: 
Joseph Millson, Meenu Mishra & Anand Krishna Goyal

About the Directors

The Ford Brothers Howard has directed over 200 commercials for agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Lowe Lintas, McCann Erickson, Publicis, TBWA, Rosabel Leo Burnett and Ogilvy, including major for clients such as Guinness (Diagio), Nestle, Unilever (Lever Brothers), Proctor and Gamble, to name but a few. Howard has also directed four feature films including the worldwide hit 'The Dead' ...read more