Short

Jean-Paul DiSciscio is an eclectic filmmaker from Boston, Massachusetts. He has been obsessed with filmmaking ever since he watched Jaws for the first time on VHS at the age of six. It terrified him beyond the capacity for rational thought. To deal with this emotional stress, his mother bought him a beat up copy of The Jaws Log. The impressionable boy was fascinated by the blueprints of Bruce The Shark with its mechanical guts. Jean-Paul still stayed far from the ocean, but had found his calling.

Brendan is an award-winning writer and director. After running around Camden with a camera shooting local bands music videos, he thought the only way to make a dent into the professional world of promo directing was to write the music as well. He got a guitar, learnt to play, a year later his band won the biggest battle of the bands in the world and the music video he directed got nominated for a UK MVA. Soon after he was signed to a production company and spent a few years directing music videos.

He suddenly realised the reason he picked up a camera in the first place was to make films, proper films.

He then began writing his first short film 'Roger', proof of concept for a feature film. He shot Roger in 2016 staring John Bradley' (Game of Thrones) and comedian Seann Walsh, it then went on to be screened at over fifty film festivals around the world, many BAFTA and Academy award qualifying, it was nominated and won various awards.

His focus is creating worlds and characters different form normality, but highlighting human misgivings. His ideas are sometime weird, sometimes dark, but always fun and entertaining.

Brendan has since directed 'The Dead Collectors' starring Ivan Kaye (Vikings, Bubblegum Milkshake) and Elliot Langridge (Northern Soul), 'Living Next Door to Alex' starring Tom Bell (The Mash Report) and Richard Rycroft (Game of Thrones), 'The Lawnmower Men', 'Coldplay' and 'The Wrong Swipe', all screening at festivals worldwide.

He is currently in postproduction for his latest short 'Sam and Doug' a zombie thriller starring Craig Charles (Red Dwarf) and Karla Langly (Call the Midwife, Carnival Row).

The feature film script for the ‘Roger’ feature film got to the semifinal of every major screenplay competition in the world, and was featured on the Hollywood Blacklist websites 'Top Comedy scripts'.

Brendan is currently attached to direct his first feature film shooting in the UK in early 2022.

Jacque Rabie is a writer/director based in Los Angeles, California. He began his creative endeavors through game design and iPhone game development, but quickly found that his passion for those mediums extended even deeper in filmmaking. Since then he's studied directing at Chapman University's Dodge College, and is gearing up to direct an independent feature heading into production at the end of the year.

Mitowolksyphon was his "quarantine project" made without a crew and only the help of the incredibly talented actor Greg Lucey.

Felipe Martinez Carbonell is an award winning director, producer, writer, and editor born on October 21, 1990 in Rosario, Argentina. His first short film "Llantos" (translated as "Tears" in English) was selected by FEISAL (Federation of Schools of Image and Sound of Latin America) to be screened across the entire region of Latin America. His second short film Momento (translated as "Moment" in English), which he wrote, directed, edited, and produced, won Best Short Film at the Latin American Film Festival in Rosario, Argentina.

In 2014, Felipe moved to California to study film where he enrolled in and then graduated from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) In Los Angeles, he had the opportunity to produce content for Defiant Pictures with some of the world's greatest talent including Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange, Demi Moore, Hillary Duff, and others. Besides work in film, Felipe has also enjoyed the opportunity to direct, produce, write and edit advertising campaigns for companies such as the ad agency Acento Advertising and health care company Banner Health in the United States.

Currently, Felipe is busy running his production company, Hemisferio Films. They have finished production on their most recent short film, "Imaginary Portrait", which has already received attention & acclaim from various news, media sources, and film festivals from Latin America and abroad (Grimmfest in Manchester UK, Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, & Fantaspoa in Brasil). Now, Felipe is working on his debut horror feature film.

www.felipemartinezcarbonell.com

Nico van den Brink is a film director, based in Amsterdam. He studied Film at the University of Amsterdam and Fiction Directing at the Netherlands Film Academy. Nico has a passion for horror and magical realism.

His horror short Sweet Tooth (2017) was picked up by New Line Cinema and is currently being developed into a feature film with James Wan and Michael Clear’s Atomic Monster and Chris Bender’s Good Fear producing.

The Burden (2019) was acquired by JS Entertainment and Starlight Media. Atomic Monster together with Sam Raimi & Rob Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures are producing under their development deals there.

Nico is currently working on his debut Feature, titled Moloch.