She and the Darkness
Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Sunday, October 17, 2021 - 12:00pm Run Time: 13:10 Country: Spain Synopsis: A cleaner suffers a deep depression after the death of her daughter. On one of her night runs to fight insomnia, she feels someone is watching her from the darkness of an alley. Directed by: Daniel Romero Produced by: Rubin Stein and Daniel Romero Written by: Rubin Stein and Daniel Romero Main Cast: Beatriz Arjona, Claudia Placer and Paco Churruca  About the Director(s): Daniel Romero (Madrid, 1983). In 2010 he directed the fantasy short film FEARFUL JOHN that was selected in more than a hundred national and international film festivals and pre-selected for that year Goyas awards. In 2013, he premiered the short movie DON’T LOOK THERE, a horror and haunted house story which successfully toured around more than 100 festivals in the world competing in Seattle International Film Festival –qualifying fest for the Oscar awards- and several European fantasti...read more  |
 As Long As You Both Shall Live Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Sunday, October 17, 2021 - 12:00pm Run Time: 14:31 Country: United States Synopsis: A recent widower attempts to make amends after the death of his wife. Directed by: Peter Macaluso Produced by: Peter Macaluso, Andrew Saunders Executive Producer(s): Andrew Saunders Written by: Peter Macaluso Main Cast: Andrew Saunders, Peter Xifo  About the Director(s): Peter Macaluso founded Macarony Productions in 2005 and directed three no-budget features by the age of 23. He produced a 104 episode comedy webseries, Nepotism, from 2013-2015. His short, Lonely People, was selected as a Top 200 Finalist for HBO's Project Greenlight. He's passionate about Batman, Olympic wrestling, puppies, speaking in the third-person, and figuring out what makes a good horror movie. |
 Mad MachineScreens with the feature film #blue_whale Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 16, 2021 - 10:00pm Run Time: 7m 17s Country: United States Synopsis: In the not-too-distant future, personal security androids fill the void left by a fully privatized police force. When one woman's android malfunctions, she must fight to survive his murderous onslaught. Directed by: Sergio Guerra Produced by: Sergio Guerra Written by: Sergio Guerra Main Cast: Alison Pringle, Sergio Guerra  About the Director(s): Sergio Guerra’s fondness for suspense and the unsettling formed at an early age, the end result of too many impressionable "Twilight Zone" marathons. A San Francisco native, the Latinx filmmaker started making movies in high school using old family cameras, developing a particular affinity for the eerie graininess of Super 8. He honed his craft while attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His original horror pilot "Creature Comfort" was a winner in the ATX-Blacklist Script ...read more  |
 #Blue_WhaleScreens with the short films Anniversary & Mad Machine Check out the Reviews! US Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 16, 2021 - 10:00pm Run Time: 1 hour 31 min Country: Russia Synopsis: After her younger sister Julia commits suicide, troubled adolescent Dana decides to find out what led to her death. Examining her sister’s computer, Dana finds a secret chat group where adolescents are encouraged to kill themselves through a challenge called "Blue Whale". Dana’s investigation leads her ever closer to the truth, but to really discover what happened, she herself must play the deadly game.#blue_whale // #I_want_to_play_the_game is inspired by real events that happened in Russia in 2015 and 2017. Directed by: Anna Zaytseva Produced by: Timur Bekmambetov, Anna Shalashina, Igor Mishin Executive Producer(s): Timur Bekmambetov Written by: Evgeniya Bogomyakova, Anna Zaytseva, Olga Klemesheva Main Cast: Anna Potebnya, Timofey Eleckii, Ekaterina Stulova, Diana Shulmina, Olga Pipchenko, Polina Vataga, Daniil Kiselev  About the Director(s): Anna Zaytseva was born on April 2, 1985 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Russia) in a family of a director and an actress. She has lived in Moscow most of her life. Anna graduated from the international directing master program of FAMU (Czech Republic) in 2014. Her mentor was Ivo Trajkov, an acclaimed Czech-Macedonian director. |
 AnniversaryScreens with the feature film #blue_whale No Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 16, 2021 - 10:00pm Run Time: 6:30 Country: United States Synopsis: Rubin and Lilly are just married, expecting a baby and driving off into the sunset. It was supposed to be the best day of their lives... Directed by: Craig Ouellette Produced by: Craig Ouellette, James Simenc, Max Solomon Executive Producer(s): Craig Ouellette Written by: Craig Ouellette & Neal McLaughlin, Story by Neal McLaughlin Main Cast: James Simenc, Katie Peabody, David Crane  About the Director(s): Craig Ouellette is the writer/director of the independent feature “All The Days Undone” and more than 25 short films, most in the horror, thriller and action genres. They have over 70,000,000 views online, have played numerous festivals and won multiple awards. His most recent short "$TRIP" has won Best Horror Short, Best Makeup FX and the Director's Choice Award. It has been called "A great love letter to Clive Barker-esque horror." When his Mom was diagnosed with Cancer, Craig captur...read more  |
 WICKED GAMESScreens with short film Selfie World Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 16, 2021 - 8:15pm Run Time: 80 min Country: USA Synopsis: When Harley joins her new boyfriend for a long Halloween weekend at his country estate, they’re invaded by a band of masked freaks and forced to play a Wicked Game. To the intruders’ unpleasant surprise, Harley’s hard-boiled history has endowed her with a bag of tricks which give the game a surprise ending. Directed by: Teddy Grennan Produced by: Bennett Krishock, Heath Franklin, Christopher Walters Executive Producer(s): Burton Gray, Gill Holland Written by: Teddy Grennan Main Cast: Christine Spang, Markus Silbiger, Michael Shenefelt, Conner Ann Waterman  About the Director(s): Teddy is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Sun Valley Film Festival, the award-winning creator of RAVAGE (2019), and has spent years producing independent films. Wicked Games is his favorite and he’s looking forward to sharing it with you in 2021. |
 SelfieScreens with the feature film Wicked Games Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 16, 2021 - 8:15pm Run Time: 17:30 Country: USA Synopsis: Social media influencers are stalked by a killer wearing their faces as masks on the night of an event opening. Directed by: Dallas Harden Produced by: Kabir Chitre,
Irais Cardenas,
Dallas Harden,
Kelland Li,
Tiffanie Melgar,
Bryan Sosa,
Mina Vazirian,
Ellie Villa Written by: Jeremy Garcia & Dallas Harden Main Cast: Jordan Tovar,
Denis Shepherd,
Will Summers,
Morgan Harvill,
Bridget Heely,
Zedrick Restauro,
Eric Baker,
Yahnice Marie,
Jack Koester,
David Kopp,
Elvira Reyes  About the Director(s): Dallas Harden is an award-winning comedy and horror filmmaker in West Los Angeles for YA audiences in film and TV. He currently works at William Morris Endeavor as a Talent Assistant. Prior, he worked at UC Riverside in the film department for four and a half years educating student filmmakers on everything he learned in the independent film world. His production company, DTH Pictures, was founded in the Inland Empire over a decade ago and is still churning out short films, winning awards, an...read more |
 Nagual: The Sin Eater Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 16, 2021 - 6:15pm Run Time: 14:07 Country: United States Synopsis: Two outlaws, wounded and on the run, struggle across the unforgiving landscape of Northern Arizona after a botched robbery in 1887. Their foredoomed path is crossed by a mysterious nun bearing gifts who is not what she seems. Directed by: Dan "Laz" Lazarovits Produced by: Dan "Laz" Lazarovits, Phil Desanti & Craig Blair Written by: Phil Desanti & Dan "Laz" Lazarovits Main Cast: Ronnie Gene Blevins, Alen Kolenovic, Diahnna Nicole Baxter, Khrystyne Haje  About the Director(s): A native Angelino, Dan “Laz” Lazarovits, has been working in the film industry since graduating from film school at Cal State Northridge in 1999. As a First Assistant Director, Laz has worked on horror films such as Insidious 3 and Insidious 4, and the television series American Horror Story - Apocalypse. In recent years Laz has had the opportunity to pursue his dream of co-writing, producing and directing his own short film, Nagual: The Sin Eater. Laz still lives in Los Angeles, tirelessly...read more |
Z Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 16, 2021 - 6:15pm Run Time: 18:21 Country: Belgium Synopsis: A world ravaged by the apocalypse.
Two regular people (Marc and Stella) and four people with a disability have locked themselves in an abandoned office building where they seek protection against the danger from outside.
Marc and Stella get more and more frustrated with the four residents who are completely dependent on them for their survival. Directed by: Caroline Branders Produced by: Jacqueline De Goeij Executive Producer(s): Michèle Meire Written by: Caroline Branders Main Cast: Line Pillet - Stella
Kris Cuppens - Marc
Jelle Palmaerts - Tim
Tibo Vandenborre - Karel
Marijke Pinoy - Sarah
Aäron Roggeman - Pieter  About the Director(s): Caroline Branders has worked since 2013 as a feature film producer in Belgium. Initially she worked on Belgian feature films but she slowly transitioned into the international film marked. She worked with Brian de Palma on his dark detective movie ‘Domino’ and more recently on ‘Spider in the Web’ by Israeli award-winning director Eran Riklis. Caroline received support from the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government, Flanders Tax Shelter and the Flanders Audiovisual Fund...read more |
 Shielded North American Premiere Showtime: Saturday, October 16, 2021 - 6:15pm Run Time: 21 mins Country: The Netherlands Synopsis: Amidst a worldwide pandemic, two young sisters are stuck in an isolated home. An odd man appears in a hazmat, claiming he can help.. Directed by: Jan Verdijk Produced by: Daniel Dow Written by: Jan Verdijk Main Cast: Nola Elvis Kemper
Femke de Booys
Ward Weemhoff  About the Director(s): Jan Verdijk (1987) is a Dutch writer/director of psychological horror film. Jan made himself known with WILD (2018), winning the prestigious Méliès d’Or at Sitges Film Festival. A promising filmmaker on the rise who's talent for direction & world-building has been recognised by multiple Triple A festivals (A STRANGER FROM THE PAST (2020), VALT EEN MAN UIT DE LUCHT (2017). |
