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B.E.

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 11:00pm
Run Time: 
14 minutes
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A man matches with two women who share a profile on a dating app.
Directed by: 
David Mikalson
Produced by: 
David Mikalson, Jonah Vallez, Ester Song Kim, Trevor Elliott
Written by: 
David Mikalson & Jonah Vallez
Main Cast: 
Christine Medrano, Nika Burnett, Ryan Nemeth

Carne Fresca (Fresh Meat)

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Showtime: 
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 11:00pm
Run Time: 
18:06
Country: 
Brazil
Synopsis: 
Junior is a young and successful realtor. Addicted to hook up apps, he uses the vacant real estate he has access to for quick and anonymous sexual encounters. On a full moon night, Junior meets an attractive and mysterious man and what was meant to be just sex takes an unexpected turn.
Directed by: 
Marcus Neto
Produced by: 
Alcides Buba Júnior, Erick Ricco, Fernanda Salgado
Written by: 
Marcus Neto
Main Cast: 
Isaque Ribeiro, Lucas Franco
Marcus Neto
About the Director(s): 

Marcus Neto has been working as a director, screenwriter and producer since 2007. He graduated in 2010 at Centro Universitário Una in Belo Horizonte. He wrote the short films "The Door to Door Salesman" (2009) and "Princess" (2011). He works as a producer for cinema, TV and advertising. “Fresh Meat" (2019) was a project winner of a public production fund and marks his debut as a director. Marcus Neto is currently developing his first feature film.

We Follow You

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 9:00pm
Run Time: 
6:35 mins
Country: 
United States
Synopsis: 
A famed influencer tries to escape her followers after the government conducts a nationwide social media shutdown.
Directed by: 
Brandon Espy
Produced by: 
Brandon Espy
Executive Producer(s): 
Brandon Espy
Written by: 
Brandon Espy
Main Cast: 
Zeta Morrison David Alan Madrick Vince Turner
Brandon Espy
About the Director(s): 

Brandon grew up in the Inland Empire, specifically Diamond Bar, CA. As a graduate from the University of San Diego with a B.A. in Communication & Media Studies, he picked up a camera in his mid-20's and started telling stories through images. Beginning his corporation, Espy, Inc., last year, he creates digital content for various companies. While discussing the negative effects on the rise of social media in today's society, he came up with the concept for "We Follow You".

Phaenicia

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Showtime: 
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 9:00pm
Run Time: 
18m 57s
Country: 
México
Synopsis: 
Ale, 11 years old, lives with her bed-ridden mother in a mountain cabin where she is harassed by a mysterious shadow and the town folk who have estranged them for no apparent reason. Valo, a kid of the same age is the only one to give her a humane treatment, which will make her deepest feelings surface, revealing the truth that lies behind the lurking shadow.
Directed by: 
Alberto Ordaz
Produced by: 
Reyna Escalante & Alberto Ordaz
Executive Producer(s): 
Feroz Carmesí Films
Written by: 
Alberto Ordaz
Main Cast: 
Sofía Gomez - “Ale (girl)” Diego Sanchéz - “Valo” Dominc Hernández - “Luis”
About the Director(s): 
Alberto Ordaz, 32 years old, was born in the city of Cordoba Veracruz. He moves with his family to the city of Puebla. He has a Psychology major from the Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP) and also has a Major in Criminology, Criminalistics and Forensic Techniques from the Free School of University Studies (CLEU). He took the courses "Digital Cinematography" (2012), "Photography in film" (2012) and the workshop " experimental cinema "(2012), all taught in" F64 Audiovisual Training Center "....read more

Insania

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Showtime: 
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 9:00pm
Run Time: 
15m 30s
Country: 
Spain
Synopsis: 
Tono is continuously harassed by her mother, who is uncannily cruel and authoritarian. His obsession with a woman's voice recorded on cassette and his favorite doll will help him fight out of his mother's control.
Directed by: 
Carlos Salado
Produced by: 
K.O Company (Uniacords)
Executive Producer(s): 
Rubén Ferrández, Miguel Quintanilla, Narciso Ibañez, Alejandro Ibañez, Gonzalo de Castro
Written by: 
Carlos Salado
Main Cast: 
Miguel Ángel Puro, Elizabeth Sogorb
About the Director(s): 

Carlos Salado is a flmmaker and music composer that aims at revealing a bold and rulebreaking
vision to cinema in Spain. He is the author of the Criando Ratas (Breeding Rats)
movie, which has been claimed by the media and press as the XX of the neoquinqui genre
in Spain. The movie has appeared in more than 100 press and media releases and has
received over 2.7 million visits in Youtube.
Carlos holds a BA/MA in Media Communication and he has specialized in symphon...read more

Dinner For One

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 1:00am
Run Time: 
1:59
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A dutiful housewife prepares dinner for her ungrateful husband... but tonight, the menu may not agree with him!
Directed by: 
Brad Jacques
Produced by: 
Limary Vargas & Brad Jacques
Written by: 
Brad Jacques
Main Cast: 
Jessica Yang & Jason Saiko
Brad Jacques
About the Director(s): 

Brad Jacques was born and raised in Topsfield, Massachusetts. Upon seeing "STAR WARS" at the tender age of eight, Brad realized he wanted to pursue filmmaking.

After attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Brad began working as a Production Assistant in the Boston area on studio films such as "MERMAIDS", "HOUSESITTER" and "SCHOOL TIES". On “DISTANT JUSTICE”, Brad was a personal assistant to the late David Carradine.

Eventually, Brad became one of the "go to" ...read more

Babykeeper

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Showtime: 
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 1:00am
Run Time: 
28 minutes
Country: 
France
Synopsis: 
One summer evening, Judith, a young student, goes to her babysitting, which she found through the BABYKEEPER application. Upon arriving, Judith meets the father of the little girl who’s already in bed. Once Judith finds herself alone, she heads out to the terrace for some fresh air. In the backdrop, the apartment lights go out. Now locked from the inside out, she will attempt almost everything in order to get back in ; that whilst slowly uncovering the chilling narrative she has gotten roped in...
Directed by: 
Antoine Devulder and Vincent L'Anthoen
Produced by: 
Persistance
Executive Producer(s): 
Adrien Djerbetian
Written by: 
Antoine Devulder and Vincent L'Anthoen
Main Cast: 
Marie Cluzet, Alex Blanchard, Axel-Jazz Salmon
Vincent L'Anthoen (left) and Antoine Devulder (right)
About the Director(s): 

ANTOINE DEVULDER : Growing up on French Cinema of the 1930s, he wanted to study science and ended up choosing filmmaking. As a graduate of the École Polytechnique, he discovered his passion for cinema in student associations for which he directed many short films. At ENS Louis Lumière, he learned to brighten faces and film sets. Since 2018, he is bettering his craft in the production department of La Fémis.

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VINCENT L'ANTHOEN : The name is Breton, the influences, American. Dur...read more

Sunnyvale

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Showtime: 
Saturday, October 12, 2019 - 11:00pm
Run Time: 
18:57
Country: 
United States
Synopsis: 
Sunnyvale, a "happy healing home" uses cutting edge technology to free its patient's minds... But happy comes with a cost.
Directed by: 
Richard Greenwood jr.
Produced by: 
Richard Greenwood Jr & Collin Watts
Executive Producer(s): 
Collin Watts
Written by: 
Collin Watts
Main Cast: 
Willam Knight as Vincent Deboli Roy Abramson as FRED Jenna Enns as Nurse Murray Patrick Finerty as Dr. Werner Dylan George as Chris Deboli Richard Bradsher as The Executive
About the Director(s): 

Richard (Rick) Greenwood Jr is a writer/director/producer 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 his work, but the appreciation and value in all he sought s after and obtains.

Rick's film have been official selections in over Fifty Festival earning more
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SHELLY

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Showtime: 
Saturday, October 12, 2019 - 11:00pm
Run Time: 
12m 38s
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
SHELLY is the story of a Halloween party gone very, very wrong...
Directed by: 
Emmet Dotan
Produced by: 
Emmet Dotan & Max Lakner
Written by: 
Emmet Dotan & Zack Weiner
Main Cast: 
Madison Hine, Zack Weiner, Gia Gonzales, Jonathan Fine
About the Director(s): 

Emmet Dotan is a 23-year-old filmmaker and editor based in New York City. He graduated from Bard College in 2017 with a BA in Film History & Criticism, earning the school's film award for his thesis,
"Why Did I Marry A Sentimentalist?", an exploration of domestic space & the childhood perspective in the films of Steven Spielberg.

Honour Thy Mother

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Saturday, October 12, 2019 - 11:00pm
Run Time: 
17m
Country: 
China/America
Synopsis: 
Liz is homeless, living life adrift. In a moment of despair and loneliness, she returns home after many years to her God-fearing mother and discovers time has changed more than she ever could have imagined.
Directed by: 
Yinghui Fu
Produced by: 
Yinghui Fu and Kyle Baughman
Written by: 
Yinghui Fu and Kyle Baughman
Main Cast: 
Sarah Bentley, Julie Gibson Josephson, and Raluca Andreea Raduta
Yinghui Fu
About the Director(s): 

Yinghui Fu is a writer-director based in Shanghai, China. Yinghui earned her PhD in systems engineering before discovering her passion for filmmaking. Now, she explores diverse topics and genres through a distinctly humanistic point-of-view in her films. Her two latest narrative shorts, "Natalie" and "Honour Thy Mother", were shot in Prague, Czech Republic. Yinghui is currently developing her first feature. contact@honourthymother.com