A Strange CalmScreens with Sweet River and the following short films: A Strange Calm | Fragile.com | Kalley's Last Review | We All Scream US Premiere Showtime: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 - 4:15am Run Time: 14:30 Country: USA Synopsis: When 12-year-old Rosie and Miles encounter a strange man on the 4th of July, their journey to the watch the fireworks on the outskirts of town becomes an unexpected fight for survival. Directed by: Austin Rourke Produced by: Jai Marquel Pellerin Written by: Austin Rourke Main Cast: Giovanna Bush, Jacob Sandler & Price Carson About the Director(s): Austin Rourke is a Los Angeles-based writer/director currently in pre-production on his sixth short film, WITHOUT ADDRESS. His American Film Institute short film, A STRANGE CALM, is an official selection at a number of festivals around the country, and has been awarded Best Director, Best Short Film, and Best Thriller by Indie Short Fest in Los Angeles. Most recently, Austin was hired as 2nd Unit Director by Palme d’Or-nominated director, Michael Spiccia, based on the strength of his film wo...read more |
StalkersScreens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule of Three | Stalkers West Coast Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 12, 2020 - 7:30pm Run Time: 11 minutes 3 seconds Country: U.S Synopsis: A story about two stalkers who are stalking each other for different purposes Directed by: Dongjun Kim Produced by: Jiani Zhou Written by: Dongjun Kim Main Cast: Jordan Carlson, Ronaldo Madera About the Director(s): Writer/Director Dongjun Kim is originally from Seoul, South Korea. He is currently an international student in New York Film Academy in Burbank. He recently directed the short film, "Stalkers," that is currently in circuit. He won and nominated from several international film festivals that is represented on the record list. He is currently working on another short/feature film that he hopes to shoot in 2020. |
The PoppingScreens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Popping | The Teachers Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 12, 2020 - 4:00am Run Time: 2 minutes 8 seconds Country: United States Synopsis: A popcorn character from the “Let’s All go to The Lobby” advertisement accidentally runs off his film strip and into the world of the movie playing next, a slasher horror film. As Popcorn explores this new world he comes face to face with the villain of the story and the horrors he has left lying around. After seeing the slasher villain murder someone in a bedroom, Popcorn is frightened and runs for his life. Popcorn is able to find momentary safety in the bathroom of the house until the slasher villain breaks in the door and has popcorn in his clutches. Popcorn is able to escape the hands of the slasher by shoving his popcorn in the slasher’s mouth and choking him. As the slasher villain is choking and struggling to breathe popcorn steals his sickle off the floor and breaks through the film strip, jumping out. Popcorn is free falling on the outside the film strip until he sees the lobby world again, and he jumps back in. Traumatized from the situation Popcorn is gasping for breath back in the advertisement. As the snacks walk back in singing “Let’s All go to The Lobby” one of them accidentally bumps into Popcorn. This startles Popcorn greatly, and the other snacks run off in fear after seeing him with a sickle, covered in blood, and screaming. In a panicked fear Popcorn takes his sickle and slashes at the film revealing the end. Directed by: Shelby Pogue Produced by: Ringling College of Art and Design Written by: Shelby Pogue Main Cast: Popcorn voice acting- Ben Acevedo About the Director(s): My Name is Shelby Pogue. I graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design with a BFA in Computer Animation in May of 2020. I am currently 22 years old and grew up in Edmond, Oklahoma. During my senior year in college I created my senior thesis film, The Popping. In college I really developed a love for what animation can bring to the horror genre. I very much have my family and peers at Ringling to thank for helping me make it to this point they constantly motivate and inspire me. |
The History of MonstersScreens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule of Three | Stalkers Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 12, 2020 - 1:30am Run Time: 19:40 Country: United States Synopsis: Haunted every night by monsters of unknown origin, an isolated woman finds a stranger in the woods and struggles between her safety and her sexual desires. Directed by: Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz Produced by: Talya Stern Executive Producer(s): AFI Conservatory Written by: Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz Main Cast: Valeria González
Oscar J. Peña About the Director(s): Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz is a Chilean writer-director based in Los Angeles, California where he received an MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory. He is a Fulbright Scholarship Award recipient and winner of the 2020 HBOAccess Directing Fellowship for diverse emerging directors. His short films and music videos have been presented at dozens of film festivals around the globe, including the New York Film Festival, the Stockholm International Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film ...read more |
The Chair-MakerScreens with these short films: The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule of Three | Stalkers } The Chairmaster World Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 12, 2020 - 1:30am Run Time: 10:30 Country: USA/Mexico Synopsis: After receiving an anonymous letter, Marie develops an epistolary relationship with the sender who mysteriously can see everything she does. Directed by: Esteban Garcia Vernaza Produced by: Alejandra Mojica Reyes Executive Producer(s): Jennifer Sciarra Written by: Hanjie Bao Main Cast: Paulina Güitron, Alejandro Mendicuti, Adriana Mojica, Ramiro Antonio Sandoval About the Director(s): Esteban Garcia Vernaza is a Colombian filmmaker based in New York. His films usually revolve around suspense and horror. After working in Colombia as a freelance editor, Esteban moved to New York City to pursue an MFA in Film Directing at Columbia University. Esteban’s Thesis Film Silento was awarded a production grant from the Colombian Film Fund, received Jury Honors, an IFP Audience Award and the National Board of Review Student Production Grant during the past Columbia University Film Fes...read more |
I love EveScreens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule of Three | Stalkers US Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 12, 2020 - 1:30am Run Time: 16 min 36 sec Country: Russia Synopsis: Nastya has only one friend called Eve. A dark creature living in a tunnel at an abandoned hydroelectric station. One day, the girl decides to escape from her mother and her new lover, but Eve comes to their house. Directed by: Kristina Manzhula Produced by: Vladislav Severtsev Executive Producer(s): Olga Sysoeva Written by: Kristina Manzhula, Marina Glushkina Main Cast: Diana Shulmina, Julia Silaeva About the Director(s): Kristina Manzhula - 28 year old director, screenwriter, ex-journalist based in Moscow. A graduate of the Moscow Film School. She made her debut short film, a zombie comedy called Brainsmoothie on a preparatory course at 2017. |
The Rule Of ThreeScreens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule of Three | Stalkers Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 12, 2020 - 1:30am Run Time: 14 Minutes Country: USA Synopsis: A woman haunted by her OCD and intrusive thoughts must overcome herself and face her inner demons to survive the night in the event of a terrifying home invasion by three masked slashers. Directed by: Elwood Quincy Walker Produced by: Elwood Quincy Walker Written by: Elwood Quincy Walker Main Cast: Hannah Barefoot About the Director(s): Elwood Quincy Walker is a horror film director & writer living in Los Angeles. As a child his love for halloween & Blockbuster Video led to his passion for horror filmmaking. Since then he has gone on to work as a professional commercial director at age 13, making spots for Disney & TEDx, intern at Blumhouse Productions, & make several short films that have screened & received accolades around the world. After a successful run on the festival circuit, his short film “Kisse...read more |
Necro-Men (OV)Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule of Three | Stalkers US Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 12, 2020 - 1:30am Run Time: 17:34 Country: Israel Synopsis: A con-artist Duo, one's a Jewish the other's Muslim, performs (false) exorcisms and rituals for the religiosity naive, comes across a real live Dybbuk that confronts them with their most private sins. Directed by: Tal Shmunis Produced by: Hanita Yudovski Executive Producer(s): Tal Sarig, Evyatar Markovich Written by: Tal Shmunis Main Cast: Yaniv Biton, Loai Noufi, Alona Zimberg About the Director(s): Gratuated film school 2020 (Minsahr For Arts - Israel) |
Out of OrderScreens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule of Three | Stalkers World Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 12, 2020 - 1:30am Run Time: 17 minutes, 5 seconds Country: United States Synopsis: In 1946 New York City, three total strangers board their first-ever automatic elevator. When it lowers them into a strange world of darkness and danger, they must find a way to escape. Directed by: Brandon & Cameron Laventure Produced by: Brandon Laventure and Alexander Wiske Written by: Brandon & Cameron Laventure Main Cast: Aimé Donna Kelly
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Ian Unterman About the Director(s): Brandon Laventure is a filmmaker who finds inspiration in the struggle we all share: to do right by each other in a dangerous world. While working the graveyard shift in a Michigan auto parts factory, he wrote, produced, and directed six independent films with his sister Cameron and a close team of friends, before moving on to a dual MBA/MFA program at New York University. Cameron Laventure is an award-winning writer/director who aims to use classical narrative to tell radical stories....read more |
Let the ghost passScreens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule of Three | Stalkers World Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 12, 2020 - 1:30am Run Time: 13 min 44 sec Country: USA /Shot in Sweden Synopsis: A homeless man tries to keep people away from Priest Street in Stockholm every night when a furious ghost comes, but one day the man dies and becomes a ghost himself. Directed by: Andreas Thelander Produced by: Shelley Phillips Executive Producer(s): Andreas Thelander Written by: Andreas Thelander Main Cast: Homeless Man - Bo G. Lyckman,
Sarah - Daisy Davis,
Gerton - Andreas Modig,
Ghost girl Fredrika - Alma Cederquist,
Jonathan - Markus Berg, About the Director(s): Andreas Thelander is a Swedish film director based in Los Angeles. He is a fourth-year Graduate MFA Director at UCLA and is in postproduction with his first feature film Just like me he wrote and directed. 2002-2003 he went to Stockholm Film School and his short film “Old in Sweden” was screened on the Swedish film channel TV1000 for almost 1,5 years. In 2010 he was part of the location team of David Fincher’s Girl with the dragon tattoo. Andreas has written and directed over ten short film...read more |