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Mouras

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 9:00pm
Run Time: 
12m 42s
Country: 
Spain
Synopsis: 
Do you want to meet the fairies?
Directed by: 
Olga Osorio
Produced by: 
Miss Movies
Written by: 
Olga Osorio
Main Cast: 
Rosalía Castro Machi Salgado Claudia Suárez

About the Director

Olga OsorioOlga Osorio. Director, writer, editor and producer of Mouras. Her first short fiction film, reStart (2015), was in the official selection of the Sitges Film Festival and featured at international film festivals, including Fantasia in Montreal, PIFFF in Paris, Les Utopiales in Nantes and BIFFF in Brussels and received a Vimeo Staff Pick Badge. Her second film, Einstein-Rosen (2016) won 64 awards and has been selected in more than 200 festivals, including Seattle IFFF (Best of Fest), Rhode Island Film Festival (Kidseye Prize), New York International Children Film Festival (Best of Fest), Sitges, Palm Springs, Leeds, etc. and selected of Short of the Week. Mouras was selected as a project for EuroConnection in Clermont-Ferrand.
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Waterloo

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 9:00pm
Run Time: 
11m
Country: 
United States
Synopsis: 
In the backcountry of Missouri, an unhinged man struggles to murder his wife.
Directed by: 
Nicolas Sicurella
Produced by: 
Nicolas Sicurella & Mike Dazé
Executive Producer(s): 
Nicolas Sicurella, Mike Dazé, Guy & Linda Sicurella, Matthew & Danielle Gerrish, Justin Strassfield, Dante & Jessica IaFrate
Written by: 
Nicolas Sicurella & Ali Eldin
Main Cast: 
Tracy Willet & Mike Dazé

About the Director

Nicolas SicurellaNick was born and raised in Long Island, New York. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Film. For his senior thesis film, he wrote and directed his first feature length film "Behind Closed Doors." In the summer of 2015, he moved to Los Angeles. His cross country road trip to LA with his best friends was pure inspiration for the feature length version of Waterloo. After completing the feature screenplay, and with the overwhelming support from friends and family, he was able to create a proof of concept, which showcases the opening of the feature: Waterloo.

Young Liars

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Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
20m
Country: 
United States
Synopsis: 
In hopes of breaking a lucrative story, a young journalist tests out an experimental psychic technology only to find himself trapped inside someone else's nightmare.
Directed by: 
Adam Christy
Produced by: 
Gilbere Forte
Executive Producer(s): 
Kevin Yorn, Jeremy Wineberg
Written by: 
Adam Christy
Main Cast: 
Brendan McGowan, Alissa Filoramo, Adam Christy

About the Director

Adam ChristyAdam Christy is a filmmaker and active member of the artist collective “Clarinet Marmalade”. After winning "Best Actor" and "Best Picture" for two of his films at AT&T's Nationwide Campus Moviefest in 2008, Adam relocated to Los Angeles to bring his projects to life. Since then Adam has written and directed several short films and specs for the large and small screen including two feature screenplays and one scripted series.

Kevin Yorn of Morris Yorn Law is Executive Producer on his latest project "Young Liars". Other artists aligned with Kevin include Scarlett Johanssen, Jordan Peele, Nick Cassavetes, Gaspar Noe and Martin Scorcese.

I Am the Doorway

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Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
19m 48s
Country: 
United Kingdom
Synopsis: 
After a journey to investigate desolate Pluto, astronaut Arthur returns home a shattered man. He sees eyes forcing their way through the skin of his hands, eyes that distort his friends and the landscape itself into monstrous visions. Believing himself the doorway to alien invasion and gruesome murder, he must take desperate action.
Directed by: 
Simon Pearce
Produced by: 
Wolfram Parge, Robert Shulevitz
Executive Producer(s): 
Phil Méheux
Written by: 
Jeffrey Stackhouse, Richard A. Becker, Wendy Lashbrook
Main Cast: 
Simon Merrells Grant Masters

About the Director

Simon PearceSimon has been making films since he first picked up the family video camera at 11 years old. After leaving school he continued honing his skills by working in a variety of on-set roles, such as a production and video assistant, self-shooting camera operator and as an editor. He had the opportunity to direct his first feature 'SHANK' in 2008, a coming of age drama set in his hometown of Bristol, UK. The film went on to play in over 60 film festivals around the world and was released on DVD in the UK and US in 2009. In 2015 his second feature was released, "Judas Ghost", a supernatural horror filmed in a single location and written by New York Times best-selling author Simon R. Green. He continues to develop short and feature projects whilst working as a ...read more

CODA SACRA

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US Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
10m 11s
Country: 
SPAIN
Synopsis: 
A small group of people are determined to protect their way of life. They know they are exposed to the worst stalking, because their enemy is nature dressed in Satanism and witchcraft. They will have to face that darkness only with the help of their faith, and against the unknown until their last breath.
Directed by: 
Pol Barrós
Produced by: 
Pol Barrós
Written by: 
Pol Barrós
Main Cast: 
Helana Prat

About the Director

Pol BarrósPol Barrós (Barcelona, 1988) starts showing his perso- nal side, after some short lms (GYNOID, 2015; Sama- ritan, 2017), music videos and advertisement projects. Currently, with his own production company (alter.), achieves to direct a work to explore his own artistic comfort, and a path of narrative experimentation. CODA SACRA (2018) is his last ction lm-work, and promises not to leave anyone indifferent.

The Familiar Fingers of Culture

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
20m
Country: 
United Kingdom
Synopsis: 
The Familiar Fingers of Culture is a dark psychological horror that explores our societies’ extremes through a high-class escort and mother of one.
Directed by: 
Conscian Morgan
Produced by: 
Kamal Patel, Conscian Morgan and Remi Shaham
Written by: 
Conscian Morgan
Main Cast: 
Emma Connell, Lauren Dickenson & Stephen Schrieber

About the Director

Conscian MorganConscian Morgan is a self-taught filmmaker, with ten years’ experience writing, directing and producing for film and TV. Previously, he directed dystopian TV pilot, The Tower, which laid the foundation for his directorial horror debut and award-winning short film, Immure, which played at a plethora of international film festivals.

The Den

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US Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
15m 59s
Country: 
Spain
Synopsis: 
Mario is driving under the rain. It’s dark in a lonely road. Suddenly he has to stop. In the middle of the way there’s a woman. She is disorientated and covered in blood. She doesn’t remember where she’s been or what happened to her. Mario needs to look for assistance. They stop at the first place they can find: A quiet bar called La Guarida / The Den. People in the bar kindly will help them out. Until the truth starts to surface… By then the bar won’t look like a safe place anymore.
Directed by: 
Iago de Soto
Produced by: 
Iván Pérez
Executive Producer(s): 
Raúl Cerezo
Written by: 
Joan Abelló Sanz / Iago de Soto
Main Cast: 
Daniel Ortiz, María Hervás, Felipe García Vélez, Mona Martínez, Pablo Vázquez, Juan Carlos Castillejo, Juan Carlos López Agustino

About the Director

Javi SalvagoAfter finishing his Studies at ESCAC (Catalonia Film School) he directed short films such as “Corre” (2002) and “Corre 2” (2003). In 2009 released “Versus” (produced by 24 Mentiras), his first full lenght feature. This independent action film was premiered at Sitges International Film Festival and had a long haul in festivals around the world. Since then he has been working as advertising director (nowdays exclusively for Atresmedia). “La Guarida / The Den” is his comeback to fiction.

Deep Clean

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Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
14m 07s
Country: 
United Kingdom
Synopsis: 
A troubled kid forced into boring work experience on his Uncle's road crew discovers it is hiding an amazing secret...
Directed by: 
Matt Harlock
Produced by: 
Matt Harlock & Rebekah Renford
Executive Producer(s): 
Mike Chapman
Written by: 
Krent Able & Matt Harlock
Main Cast: 
Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones)

About the Director

Matt HarlockDirector Matt Harlock's award-winning first feature American The Bill Hicks Story premed at LFF & SXSW, won several awards, and is 6th on iTunes UK All-Time Bestsellers Docs chart. His last short, mock-doc Ink, Cocks & Rock’n’Roll premiered on Vice. He is currently developing two genre features, one based on Deep Clean.

Bullets of Justice

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Saturday, October 13, 2018 - 11:00pm
Run Time: 
46m
Country: 
Kazakhstan, Bulgaria
Synopsis: 
During the Third World War, the American government initiates a secret project code named "Army Bacon" in order to create super soldier by inbreeding human beings with pigs. 25 years later a breed called "Muzzles" have occupied top of the food chain, eating and farming humans like animals. Rob Justice is an ex-bounty hunter working for the last line of human resistance - a group of survivors hiding in a nuclear bunker deep underground. His mission is to find out how muzzles came to power and destroy them.
Directed by: 
Valeri Milev
Produced by: 
Timur Turisbekov
Written by: 
Valeri Milev, Timur Turisbekov
Main Cast: 
Timur Turisbekov, Doroteya Toleva, Danny Trejo

About the Director

Valeri MilevValeri Milev attended New Bulgarian University, and graduated in 1999, majoring in Cinema and TV directing. Milev has directed over 200 music videos and 150 TV commercials. His first movie as director was released in 2009, "Re-Kill".

Prey

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Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Saturday, October 13, 2018 - 11:00pm
Run Time: 
4m 52s
Country: 
U.S.A.
Synopsis: 
While on a first date, a young couple finds themselves pursued by more than just each other.
Directed by: 
Bill Whirity
Produced by: 
Michael May
Executive Producer(s): 
Boman Modine
Written by: 
Bill Whirity
Main Cast: 
Jacob Zachar, Jessica Cook, James Sieczka, Monte Lamonte, Kim House

About the Director

Bill WhirityBill Whirity is a writer-director from Chicago. He earned a BA in Film/TV from Columbia College, snuck into classes in AFI but did not receive a Masters Degree... yet! ( *cough* honorary degree *cough*) He once won a boat on the Price Is Right then sold it to fund his unofficial AFI thesis film. He now resides in Los Angeles with his dog, Archer, and has yet to win another watercraft on a game show and has therefore resorted to seeking investors to fund his future films.