 Home Education
Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 22, 2016 - 7:00pm Run Time: 24m 50s Country: United Kingdom Synopsis: An inquisitive girl is convinced by her controlling mother that her dead dad will resurrect if they show how much they miss him. That is, until he begins to rot... Directed by: Andrea Niada Produced by: Chiara Cardoso Executive Producer(s): Anthony Alleyne Written by: Andrea Niada Main Cast: Kate Reed
Jemma Churchill
Richard Ginn About the Director
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 Perfect (Wan Mei) No Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 22, 2016 - 7:00pm Run Time: 15m 4s Country: USA Synopsis: When a man realizes his girlfriend has been unfaithful to him, he resorts to revenge… and the love of a mannequin. Directed by: Yiyi Yin Produced by: Saad Nawab Written by: Yiyi Yin Main Cast: Allen Theosky Rowe, Wei-Yi Lin About the Director
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 Bobo World Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 22, 2016 - 7:00pm Run Time: 9m Country: Pakistan Synopsis: A mother discovers the horrible truth about Bobo, her daughter's imaginary friend. Directed by: Maazin Kamal & Munis Rashid Produced by: Asad Faruqi
Maazin Kamal
Munis Rashid Written by: Maazin Kamal & Munis Rashid Main Cast: Malika Zafar
Mariam Khalif About the DirectorS
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 Pigskin BEST STUDENT SHORT Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 22, 2016 - 7:00pm Run Time: 13m 24s Country: USA Synopsis: When high school cheerleader, Laurie, is asked out by the dreamy quarterback, her budding physical attraction is plagued by a grisly manifestation of her own bodily insecurities. As the threat of intimacy closes in, Laurie is pushed headlong into a self-destructive nightmare. Directed by: Jake Hammond Produced by: Paula Andrea Gonzalez Written by: Jake Hammond & Nicola Newton Main Cast: Isadora Leiva, Pablo Gonzalez, Isabella Groff, Julie Moss, Luke Evans About the Director
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 The Ghost US Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 22, 2016 - 7:00pm Run Time: 16m 47s Country: South Korea Synopsis: Mi-young, a mortuary cosmetologist, makes money by pulling gold teeth from dead bodies. Then one day an unidentified body was taken to the morgue. Directed by: Sueng-Hyeun Lim Produced by: Han-Jae Kim Executive Producer(s): Sueng-Hyeun Lim Written by: Sueng-Hyeun Lim Main Cast: Jin-A Kang, Dong-Hee Han About the Director
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 Charlie Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 22, 2016 - 7:00pm Run Time: 9m 59s Country: United Kingdom Synopsis: Charlie is a story about a London family that prepares for a possible new family member. Ben, Simone and Charlie welcome five-year-old orphan Clair for the weekend. Although Clair is only visiting, she will quickly notice that something is off with these three and that Ben and Simone might not be the perfect new parents she hoped for. Directed by: Clementina Lugo Produced by: Francesco Vaira Executive Producer(s): Daisy Gili and Anna MacDonald Written by: Maggie Drahovska Main Cast: Crystal Bennett,
Ben Cutler,
Sienna Chamberlain,
Maisie Donald, and
Emijiliana Ellen About the Director
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 Aqua ad lavandum - in brevi US Premiere Showtime: Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 7:00pm Run Time: 15m Country: Germany Synopsis: aQua ad lavandum - in brevi tells of a man named Debitus who tries to free himself from his guilt following an unintentional murder but becomes more and more trapped in the situation until there seems to be no way out. Directed by: Helge Balzer and Florian Metzner Produced by: Florian Metzner, Helge Balzer, Dennis Rettkowski Written by: Helge Balzer and Florian Metzner Main Cast: Alexander Schubert, Mirko Hanneman |
 Clemency Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 7:00pm Run Time: 19m Country: USA Synopsis: In 1993, a sadistic killer, Arthur Poe was captured and convicted. He was sentenced to death by the state of Virginia for several gruesome murders. Days before his execution the governor granted Poe clemency based on the testimony of a psychologist from Poe's murder trial. A reporter (Maury Morgan) takes on Poe in an interview seeking to shed light on the emotionally charged topic.
What she learns can never be forgotten or forgiven. Directed by: Joseph Albanese Produced by: Doug Thagard Written by: Chris Frazier, Joseph Albanese Main Cast: Maury Morgan, Cris D'Annunzio, Gerald Brodin, Brittany Rossie Shaw, Mark Irvingsen, Anthony Ray Parker, Zarah Mahler |
 Else US Premiere Showtime: Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 7:00pm Run Time: 18m Country: France Synopsis: A strange disease is spreading out there ; but Betty and Todd love each other stronger than anything else.
Betty gets sick. She begins to merge with everything around : the bed, and eventually the whole room. Unable to give up on her, Todd tries to run away into his memories. But then he decides he will learn how to love her new body.
Till he also becomes something else, something completely new. Directed by: Thibault Emin Produced by: Rebecca Mourot-Levy Written by: Thibault Emin & David Lucas Main Cast: Gilduin Tissier, Caroline Breton |
 Sinkhole Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 7:00pm Run Time: 13m Country: USA Synopsis: After discovering that the Chinese have found a way to extinguish coal mine fires, a broker for a coal company sets out to a remote region of Pennsylvania to offer a deal to a mysterious landowner named Schuttmann. He finds the land ravaged by smoking sinkholes, formed by the collapse of the burning coal seams. In the end, however, Schuttmann will reveal to the broker something far worse than the coal fires. Directed by: Eric Scherbath Produced by: Sarna Lapine Written by: Eric Scherbath Main Cast: Jason Harris, Dan Leventritt |
Born in Milan and raised in London, Andrea is an ambitious and versatile filmmaker, with a particular inclination towards the absurd, the grotesque and the darkly comic. After graduating with a BA in Theatre & Performance from the University of Warwick, he was accepted on an MA course at The London Film School. During his time at the school, Andrea wrote and directed several shorts, both fiction and documentary, which have since been shown in major film festivals around the world. Home Education is his graduation project. He is currently working on the feature version of the script as well as a number of other ideas.
Yiyi Yin is an art explorer from China. Her painting won the first prize of "The 4th National Students Fine arts and Calligraphy Competition” in China. After she got her bachelor degree in Economics in Nankai University and her first master degree in TV Management in Drexel University, Yiyi entered the Florida State University MFA program in Film Production, where she continues to develop her love of art, and excitedly explore our humanity and lives.
Maazin Kamal was born and raised in Pakistan and completed his BFA in Cinema Studies at York University in Toronto. In 2013, he graduated with an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Maazin's thesis screenplay, BURAQ, advanced to the semi-finals of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting and was short-listed for the Disney Features Writers Program. He is based in Karachi, Pakistan. BOBO is his third short film as a director. Munis Rashid grew up in Houston, Texas and graduated from the University of Texas with a BBA in Finance and a BS in Radio-Television-Film. He graduated with an MFA in Screenwriting at the American Film Institute in 2016. His teleplays THE JACKAL, RHODES, and POPPY were nominated for the Huma
Jake Hammond is a recent graduate of the undergrad program at Florida State University's College of Motion Picture Arts. He has always been drawn to the little things in life that make us scared out of our minds. Throughout public schooling, he obsessed over films involving satanic children, child-eating grizzly bears, and masked murderers stabbing babysitters. To many of his peers, this was something that needed psychological attention. But to him, these films helped instill an immense passion. He began to make his own projects in high school and hasn't stopped since. 'Pigskin' is he and his collaborator Nicola Newton's (the cinematographer and co-writer) student thesis film. Jake currently resides in Los Angeles, using his childhood inspirations to fur
Sueng-Hyeun Lim is a student filmmaker from South Korea.
Venezuelan born Clementina Lugo, studied filmmaking at London Film Academy. During her time in London, Clementina directed two short movies. The first one, also written by her "The Babysitter" a short comedy, and "Charlie" her first horror short movie. Clementina continued expanding her filmmaking abilities and produced two short movies "Deadly Dinner Date" and "147 Feet" short movie.