West Coast Premiere

Perry Blackshear is a filmmaker from North Carolina. He earned his MFA in Directing from NYU Graduate Film School. His first feature “They Look Like People,” became an international film festival darling and won dozens of awards including the grand jury awards at Slamdance, IFF Boston, and Nashville. It went on to play theatrically before landing at Netflix. His second feature film “The Siren” was acquired by Dark Sky, and his third “Soul Eater” is in post-production. Perry recently sold an original TV show to Netflix and completed a writing project for Amazon. Perry enjoys joy-sobbing to music and friends that are like family.

Venezuelan film director, screenwriter, and producer graduated from the Universidad Santa María in Audiovisual Communications (2008). Has been producing films for the last 12 years.

His first feature, “The House at the End of Time”, the first Venezuelan horror film, received more than 16 international awards, including Best Director and Best Picture at Screamfest 2014, it also became the highest-grossing horror film in the history of Venezuela, collecting $4.3M locally at the box office, and the widest distributed Venezuelan film in the world.

In 2017, a Korean remake of “The House at the End of Time” titled “House of the Disappeared” directed by Dae-Wung and starring Yunjin Kim was released collecting $897,077 at the Korean box office. An American Remake is now in development with Alejandro attached as director and producer. ok.
In August 2019, Hidalgo completed the principal photography of his first English language film titled "The Exorcism of God". The picture is represented by one of the most relevant sales companies in the industry (XYZ Films). It will also have worldwide theatrical and digital distribution.

Alejandro is currently represented by Scott Henderson at CAA, agent of filmmaker James Wan at one of the most influential talent agencies in Hollywood. Alejandro is also attached to direct the horror-thriller titled "The Vessel", produced by Richard Saperstein, executive producer of "Hancock" (2008), "The Mist" (2007) and "Se7en" (1995), and written by Paul Harris Boardman, writer of "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" (2005) "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (2008) and "Deliver Us From Evil" (2014).

The Returned (Los Que Vuelven) is Laura Casabe's second feature. A director, writer and camera operator currently based in Argentina, she graduated with a degree in Image and Sound Design from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Laura's previous work includes the feature film El Hada Buena - Una fábula peronista (2010), the short films La vuelta del malon (2010) and Despegue inminente (2019), a play (Los Muros), various music videos and documentaries for television and, most recently, a commercial campaign for Dove.

Erik Bloomquist is a two-time New England Emmy® Award winner (Outstanding Director & Writer), eight-time nominee, and Top 200 Director on HBO's Project Greenlight. His nationally syndicated series The Cobblestone Corridor (for which Erik served as writer, director, showrunner and lead actor) is the winner of three New England Emmy® Awards and recipient of nine nominations.

Erik's sophomore feature Ten Minutes to Midnight world premiered at Popcorn Frights, played a 50-city theatrical run, and is now on digital & VOD. His award-winning debut feature Long Lost is also available worldwide. Erik's romantic dramedy Weekenders ​(in which he also stars), horror feature Night at the Eagle Inn and holiday family film Christmas on the Carousel have been, or will be, released this year via 1091.

Erik graduated cum laude from Trinity and is an alumnus of the London Dramatic Academy, member of Connecticut Magazine's "40 Under 40: Class of 2019", and winner of Dancing With the Stars: Connecticut.