The RepeaterWorld Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 18, 2021 - 9:00pm Run Time: 18:24 Country: Spain Synopsis: A radio repairman hikes up a mountain to fix the repeater tower. A simple task turns into an arduous journey when he encounters a string of strange occurrences that forces him to face a painful truth in his life. Directed by: Grete Suarez Produced by: Alejandro Suarez Lozano (Arce Producciones & Mad Motif) Executive Producer(s): Alejandro Suarez Lozano & Fernando Arce Written by: Grete Suarez Main Cast: Oliver Green, Ricardo G. Prada About the Director(s): Grete Suarez is an Asian-Australian filmmaker, making her directorial debut with THE REPEATER, a supernatural dark comedy short. She’s also the co-writer of feature KEPLER SEXTO B slated to be filmed in 2022. Her feature LITTLE FOODIE is a Stowe Story Labs Selected Project, HEATHENS is a Final Draft Big Break Quarterfinalist, and GRAY COLLAR is a Screencraft TV Pilot Launch Quarterfinalist. Prior to reincarnating as filmmaker, Grete was a journalist at CNN, Fox and Yahoo in New York. |
They're HereWest Coast Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 18, 2021 - 9:00pm Run Time: 14m28s Country: Canada Synopsis: They’re Here is a short film about a twelve-year-old girl named Sam whose grandmother suffers a severe stroke that leaves her catatonic. Unable to cope, Sam becomes convinced that her grandmother has been invaded by an alien and will stop at nothing to prove she is right... before it’s too late. Directed by: Sid Zanforlin Produced by: Patricia Gomez Zlatar (Head on the Door Productions) Written by: Sid Zanforlin Main Cast: Samantha Fielding: Melia Cressaty
Mark Fielding: Al Goulem
Gran Jude: Bronwen Mantel
Father Plowman: Matt Keyes
Nurse Francis: Julie Trépanier About the Director(s): Sid “Santiago” Zanforlin is a Chilean Canadian that has directed over ninety episodes of television, numerous shorts, plays, music videos and two anthology features. He has won a Mecca award for theatrical revelation of the season, nominated for a Banff Television award, won many short film awards including Best Short at the Fantasia Film Festival and his music videos have been on display at various museums including the MAC. |
LAKELANDWorld Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 18, 2021 - 9:00pm Run Time: 12:27 Country: United States Synopsis: This retro-horror nightmare follows a historic preservationist who digs too deep into the twisted past of a now demolished Lakeland Asylum only to discover that some secrets are better left buried. Inspired by a true story. Directed by: Mark Alex Vogt Produced by: Liz Kraushaar and Addison Reyes-Toney Written by: Mark Alex Vogt Main Cast: Tiffany Montgomery
Dara Tiller
Gunnar Renjard About the Director(s): Mark Alex Vogt is a 23-year-old Writer/Director from Louisville, Kentucky. Over the past 7 years, Mark Alex has directed over 4 hours of produced content and been awarded over 20 accolades including Best Young Director by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. To quote him after his latest project, "Creating Lakeland was an experiment to see how far we could take the concept of a lost early-90s reel being shown to the world. It was an exercise that took us back to the technique...read more |
THE RELICLos Angeles Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 18, 2021 - 9:00pm Run Time: 14m Country: USA Synopsis: A group of adventurers in search of a mythological object get more than they bargained for when they discover the legend foretelling the end of all life in the universe could actually be true. Directed by: J.M. Logan Produced by: J.M. Logan
Matt Falletta
Roger Nall
Jesse Einstein
Dixon McPhillips
Victor Paul Wajnberg Written by: J.M. Logan Main Cast: Stephanie Einstein
Johnny Wactor
Jesse Einstein
Andrew Oliveri
Megan Le About the Director(s): Josh has never wanted to do anything but make monster movies with his friends. After thirty years in movies and more than a hundred feature films, there's still nothing he'd rather be doing. |
The LakeWest Coast Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 18, 2021 - 9:00pm Run Time: 5:49 Country: United States Synopsis: When a young man takes his girlfriend out on the lake to propose, they come face to face with the dark spirits beneath the surface. Directed By: Joey Greene Produced By: Alexander Anderson, Julian Terry, Joey Greene Written By: Written By - Joey Greene
Story By - Joey Greene, Julian Terry Main Cast: Michael - Tommy Schneiders
Jaimie - Gina Vitori
Lake Spirit - Sonny King About the Director(s): Joey Greene was born in Seattle, WA. While in college, he began shooting music videos for local artists. Soon after graduating, he moved to Los Angeles and began writing and directing horror films. The short film, DOOR IN THE WOODS, which Joey wrote and directed for Eli Roth’s digital outlet Crypt TV, has accumulated over 18 million views on YouTube, making it one of Crypt’s most successful shorts to date. The film was recently adapted into the series Girl in the Woods on Peacock. He is curre...read more |
The OccupantWorld Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 18, 2021 - 9:00pm Run Time: 20m Country: Mexico Synopsis: Pedro, a miserable office worker, finds a cheap place to rent, the only problem is that it is haunted. Not being a believer in the paranormal he moves to the apartment, unleashing a war between him and the ghost. Directed by: Francisco Ohem Produced by: Brujos y Curanderos Executive Producer(s): Francisco Ohem and Pablo Ortiz Written by: Pablo Ortiz and Francisco Ohem Main Cast: Fernando Memije, Gabriel Pascual, Angélica Bauter, Tienn Cheng, Yaqin Deng, Denise Castillo, Andrés Cendejas
and Viviane Arenas About the Director(s): Mexican director, graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He is an award winner from IMCINE and the FICG. He has worked with brands such as Modelo, Don Julio, Vice and is a director of the production company Brujos y Curanderos. He directed the film show Contracampo (2013), produced by Canana. He is currently in the process of finishing his debut feature: the documentary Los Mariachis Perdidos |
Dark TalesLos Angeles Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 18, 2021 - 9:00pm Run Time: 13min 05sec Country: United States Synopsis: A dark and twistedly comedic tale of two lovers who embark on a series of violent events that all take place over the course of one night. Directed by: Michael Yosef Produced by: Michael Yosef Written by: Michael Yosef Main Cast: Husband - Newton Mayenge
Wife - Whitney Bowers
Edward - Alexander Medlicott
Brad - Jeremy Boone
Brenda - Sheree Abate
Lisa - Dana Cornelius
Charles - Stu Chaiken About the Director(s): Michael Yosef is an award winning independent filmmaker, as well as an actor, producer, and screenwriter. Michael studied film at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in which he primarily studied acting, directing, screenwriting, and staging. Michael's focus genre is comedy, yet he has a knack for blending genres such as horror, action, science fiction, drama, and even romance in with his comedic style of storytelling. |
Sleep TalkerLos Angeles Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 18, 2021 - 9:00pm Run Time: 7m Country: Australia Synopsis: A woman comes home to find that her husband is talking in his sleep, but soon realizes that something else is talking through him. Directed by: Carl Firth Produced by: Sarah Emery & Carl Firth Written by: Sarah Emery & Carl Firth Main Cast: Jessica Saras, John van Putten, Rhys James, Dean Nye About the Director(s): Carl Firth is a filmmaker based in Sydney and Los Angeles. With an imagination that has run wild all his life, Carl’s work embraces the macabre and the fantastic. His award-winning short film The Witching Hour (2015), a horror fantasy exploring what happens when the clock strikes midnight, screened at numerous festivals including Sitges, Fantasia, Telluride Horror Show and Flickerfest, where it was awarded the Special Jury Prize. His short The Immortal (2020), featuring Academy Award n...read more |
MisophoniaScreens with the feature film Night at the Eagle Inn World Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 18, 2021 - 7:00pm Run Time: 10:22 Country: United States Synopsis: A woman is driven mad by the sound of something chewing. Directed by: Julianna Robinson Produced by: Sean Kohnen and Julianna Robinson Written by: Julianna Robinson and Sean Kohnen Main Cast: Abby Eiland, Kelly Perine, John Gloria and Julianna Robinson About the Director(s): Julianna was born in Reno, Nevada to working class parents. Her parents divorced when she was very young and she spent her formative years raised by her single, working mother who often worked several jobs just to make ends meet. Although it was financially impossible, Julianna knew she wanted to go to college. She was accepted to UCSB and paid for her own tuition by working every morning as a personal trainer. She was the first in her family to go to and graduate from college. Her foray...read more |
The JunketWorld Premiere Showtime: Sunday, October 17, 2021 - 4:30pm Run Time: 10 mintues 29 seconds Country: Australia Synopsis: Celebrity interviewer and self-proclaimed feminist Stan hears something he shouldn’t when eavesdropping on Olivia Sarkin, the attractive star of a new vampire movie. She’s just taken a toilet break in the middle of their chat, but left her microphone on. Stan decides to listen in, but he’s not the only one doing something clandestine. Directed by: Sean Bell Produced by: Sean Bell & Katrina Olsen Written by: Sean Bell Main Cast: Sarah Krndija, Cameron Hutt and Violet Simpson About the Director(s): Sean Bell began his screen career in 2005 as an editor for the Australian public broadcaster SBS. During his time there he learned to hone his editing craft and expand into the roles of directing and producing. Over the coming years he worked for many other broadcasters and production companies in Australia, his job taking him to Britain,...read more |