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Immortal

Q&A with Tony Todd, directors Rob Margolies & Danny Isaacs
Screens with Zebra

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Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 2:00am
Run Time: 
94 min
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A chilling horror/thriller anthology film, IMMORTAL boasts career-best performances from Tony Todd, Dylan Baker, Robin Bartlett, Samm Levine, and Agnes Bruckner. Thrown into the face of death only to emerge unharmed, the characters of Immortal are left staring at their lives in the face with uncertainty and fear like they've never imagined.
Directed by: 
Jon Dabach, Danny Isaacs, Tom Colley & Rob Margolies
Produced by: 
Jon Dabach & Rob Margolies
Written by: 
Jon Dabach
Main Cast: 
Tony Todd, Dylan Baker, Samm Levine, Robin Bartlett, Agnes Bruckner, Vanessa Lengies, Brett Edwards, and Lindsay Mushett
Jon Dabach, Danny Isaacs, Tom Colley & Rob Margolies
About the Director(s): 

Danny Isaacs:
Danny graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in film theory & rhetoric, and although he understood how to tell a story, he had no clue how to make a movie. So he did what any good jewish boy would do: he became an attorney. Since law school, he reignited his flame for filmmaking and learnt his craft by shadowing industry friends on film sets. He has written & directed several award winning shorts, web series and sketch comedies. Immortal is his first venture into...read more

The Soul Conductor

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US Premiere
Showtime: 
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 12:15am
Run Time: 
1 hour 29 min
Country: 
Russia
Synopsis: 
The heroine of this film is Katya, a 22-year-old disaffected gloomy girl. But she is endowed with a mystical gift: she can see ghosts. Yes, Katya is a conduit between the world of the dead and the world of the quick, and she helps earthbound souls to regain peace. It’s difficult relationships, between Katya and her ‘guests’, for ghosts, too, like real people, have human emotions, habits and sentiments, and they long very much to find peace eternal.
Directed by: 
Ilya Maksimov
Produced by: 
Anna Kurbatova, Mikhail Kurbatov and Grigoriy Podzemelnyy
Written by: 
Anna Kurbatova, Alexander Topuria
Main Cast: 
Aleksandra Bortich, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Vladimir Yaglych, Aleksandr Robak
Ilya Maksimov
About the Director(s): 
Born in Leningrad in 1981. Studied in Netherlands Film Academy NFTA in Amsterdam and in Rome International Film School. In 2001 he graduated from The All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography of S. A. Gerasimov (VGIK).

Rabid (2019)

Q&A with The Soska Sisters

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US Premiere
Showtime: 
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 4:30am
Run Time: 
110 minutes
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
In this remake of David Cronenberg's 1977 classic film, aspiring fashion designer, Rose Miller, has her dreams torn away into a nightmarish reality when a freak accident leaves her horribly disfigured. After receiving a miracle procedure involving an experimental skin graft from the mysterious Burroughs Clinic, Rose is transformed into the beauty of her dreams. But nothing comes without a cost and Rose begins to feel terrifying side effects that tear at her last threads of sanity. Still driven by her ambition she struggles to keep up appearances as the procedure reveals that something much darker than she ever could have imagined is being brought to the surface. What price will Rose have to pay to have everything she ever wanted? It may just cost her her humanity.
Directed by: 
The Soska Sisters
Produced by: 
John Vidette, Paul Lalonde, Michael Walker
Written by: 
The Soska Sisters, John Serge
Main Cast: 
Laura Vandevoort, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Phil Brooks, Stephen McHattie
The Soska Sisters
About the Director(s): 

“Canadian identical twin sister writing and directing duo, Jen and Sylvia Soska, known as the “Twisted Twins“, first broke onto the scene with their DIY love letter to Grindhouse filmmaking, DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK. The film quickly grew into an award winning, critically acclaimed, cult classic sensation, even getting the attention of director Eli Roth (HOSTEL) who praised it saying, “it’s fucking awesome”. The Twins went on to follow up their break through indie gem with the accomplished and ...read more

The Deeper You Dig

Q&A with John Adams & Zelda Adams will follow the screening.
Screens with The Fortune Teller

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West Coast Premiere
Showtime: 
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 2:00am
Run Time: 
1:35:26
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Ivy and Echo are not your typical mother-daughter team. Ivy, once a talented psychic, makes an easy buck as a bogus tarot card reader; 14 year- old Echo likes old jazz, hunting, and black lipstick. When reclusive Kurt moves down the road to restore an abandoned farmhouse, an accident leads to Echo’s murder, and suddenly three lives collide in mysterious and wicked ways. Kurt assumes he can hide his secret under the ground. But Echo burrows into his head until he can feel her in his bones. As she haunts his every move, trying to reach her mother from beyond, Ivy must dig deep to see the signs and prove that love won’t stay buried.
Directed by: 
John Adams & Toby Poser
Produced by: 
Toby Poser
Executive Producer(s): 
Toby Poser
Written by: 
Toby Poser & John Adams
Main Cast: 
John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams
John and Zelda Adams; Toby Poser
About the Director(s): 
John Adams, Toby Poser, and their daughters, Lulu and Zelda, are a film making family under the creative marquee of Wonder Wheel Productions. They have 5 features under their belts: Rumblestrips (2012), Knuckle Jack (2013), The Shoot (2014), Halfway to Zen (2016)— all earning a hearty reception on the indie festival circuit, including Best in Show and Audience awards— and their latest The Deeper You Dig (2019). For each they've employed the same DIY ethic: between the four of them (well, now thr...read more

Here Comes Hell

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Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 12:15am
Run Time: 
1 hour 14 min
Country: 
UK
Synopsis: 
A 1930s dinner party descends into chaos and carnage when the evening entertainment accidentally leads to the opening of Hell. Rivalries and old friendships are put to the test as the guests must battle ghosts, ghouls - and one another - before it is too late.
Directed by: 
Jack McHenry
Produced by: 
Olivia Loveridge
Written by: 
Jack McHenry, Alice Sidgwick
Main Cast: 
Tom Bailey, Margaret Clunie, Jasper Britton, Timothy Renouf
About the Director(s): 
Jack McHenry studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and directed short films including LAST GIRL, DUNGEON OF VAMPIRE NAZIS and GET ME TO ISTANBUL. He directed his debut feature film HERE COMES HELL in 2018 and is currently developing his next feature with his company Trashouse Films.

Resin

Q&A with director Daniel Borgman
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US Premiere
Showtime: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 4:30am
Run Time: 
1 hour 32 min
Country: 
Denmark
Synopsis: 
The dangerous paranoia lurking beneath the seemingly idyllic existence of a family of hermits living on a remote island begins to come to the fore when their daughter starts to question her parents' worldview.
Directed by: 
Daniel Borgman
Produced by: 
Katja Adomeit
Written by: 
Bo Hr. Hansen
Main Cast: 
Peter Plaugborg, Sofie Gråbøl, Vivelill Søgaard Holm
Daniel Borgman
About the Director(s): 
Daniel Borgman is a director and writer, known for The Weight of Elephants (2013), At elske Pia (2017) and Berik (2010).

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

Q&A with director Abner Pastoll
Screens with Glass Cabin

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US Premiere
Showtime: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 2:00am
Run Time: 
97 min
Country: 
United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland
Synopsis: 
A dynamic killer thriller, with its finger firmly on the pulse of stark social commentary and shattering suspense. Recently widowed mother of two Sarah is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr Big, she’s forced into taking drastic action to protect her downtrodden submissive to take charge vigilante.
Directed by: 
Abner Pastoll
Produced by: 
Junyoung Jang, Guillaume Benski
Written by: 
Ronan Blaney
Main Cast: 
Sarah Bolger, Andrew Simpson, Edward Hogg
About the Director(s): 
Abner’s debut feature ROAD GAMES, a France-UK co-production, has been distributed worldwide including theatrically in the US by IFC Films, in the UK & Ireland by ICON, in France by Sony and in Korea by CJ Entertainment. His short film ME OR THE DOG premiered in Coup de Coeur at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and had a limited theatrical release in London the following year. A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND is his second feature.

Sadistic Intentions

Q&A with director Eric Pennycoff

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Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Monday, October 14, 2019 - 4:30am
Run Time: 
1 hour 30 min
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A psychotic musician lures a fellow band-mate and an unsuspecting woman to a remote mansion for a night of romantic deceit and grinding metal mayhem.
Directed by: 
Eric Pennycoff
Produced by: 
Jason Walter Short
Written by: 
Eric Pennycoff
Main Cast: 
Jeremy Gardner, Taylor Zaudtke, Michael Patrick Nicholson, Larry Fessenden

Red Letter Day

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Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Monday, October 14, 2019 - 1:00am
Run Time: 
1 hour 16 min
Country: 
Canada
Synopsis: 
While adjusting to a new life in a quiet suburban community, a recently divorced mother and her two teens receive mysterious red letters instructing them each to kill or be killed.
Directed by: 
Cameron Macgowan
Produced by: 
Jason Wan Lim
Written by: 
Cameron Macgowan
Main Cast: 
Dawn Van de Schoot, Hailey Foss, Kaeleb Zain Gartner, Roger LeBlanc
Cameron Macgowan
About the Director(s): 
Cameron Macgowan is a Canadian filmmaker whose eccentric films have explored subjects ranging from Murderous Suburbanites to Erotic Trolls. His work has won awards and garnered critical acclaim at international film festivals across the world including SXSW, Fantasia, FrightFest and the Toronto International Film Festival.

The Wave

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West Coast Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 5:00am
Run Time: 
1 hour 30 min
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
When Frank goes out on the town to celebrate an upcoming promotion, his night takes an unexpected and bizarre turn when he is dosed with a hallucinogen that alters his perception and changes his life forever.
Directed by: 
Gille Klabin
Produced by: 
Joshua Bunting, Robert Dehn, Carl W. Lucas, Monte Young
Written by: 
Carl W. Lucas
Main Cast: 
Justin Long, Donald Faison, Tommy Flanagan, Sheila Vand, Katia Winter, Sarah Minnich, Bill Sage
Gille Klabin
About the Director(s): 
Gille Klabin was born to a Lithuanian Engineer and a Latvian Sculptor. He grew up in a combination of European nations, eventually ending up in England, where he began making videos at the age of 11. With stop-motion toy films in his past, Gille graduated from Westminster University’s Film School and worked as a production assistant and location scout, while directing music videos for unsigned bands. Gille’s colourful, energetic work eventually got him directing videos for several major reco...read more