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Hypnagogia

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Saturday, October 23, 2021 - 3:00pm
Run Time: 
11:42:00
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 

Jake has been suffering from terrifying nightmares, but it's ok, they're just dreams. Right?

Directed By: 
Arvid Cristina
Produced By: 
Freddy Mangia, Alexander A. Garcia, Pedro Lucero
Executive Producer(s): 
Nancy Cristina
Written By: 
Arvid Cristina
Main Cast: 
Tevin Marbeth, Sylvia Grace Crim
About the Director(s): 

Arvid Cristina was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and has lived all over the world. He has been a movie fan as far back as he can remember. Like so many before him he started making movies with the family video camera utilizing what he had around him. He has worked in film in various capacities throughout the years, while continuing to hone his skills as a director. In 2021 he started Psychoscope Studios to bring imaginative horror films to the rest of the world.

The Scout (Free Screening)

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Showtime: 
Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 5:00pm
Run Time: 
82 min
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Being in the entertainment industry can be "cut-throat!" For first time, independent film director, Jeff and his small, rag-tag cast and crew, trying to make a movie has its ups and downs. When they find out their original shooting location has become unusable, they scramble to find a suitable place to shoot the sci-fi/slasher film, "Terrestrial Evil." The micro-budget film crew ends up on a new group location scout, thanks to their leading lady, Patty but, when they arrive, they are attacked by a mysterious masked killer, who appears "hell-bent" on murdering them one by one. It's LIGHTS! CAMERA! MAYHEM! in the new micro-budget, found-footage/slasher film, The Scout.
Directed by: 
Michael Kallio
Produced by: 
Meredith Petran, Michael Kallio
Written by: 
Michael Kallio, Anthony Leone
Main Cast: 
Anastasia Elfman, Ken Guertin, Marla Lizbeth Perez, Eric Marq, Jessica Moore, Derrick Zonca and McKenzie Kelly featuring special appearances by Carl Crew and The Radioactive Chicken Heads
Michael Kallio
About the Director(s): 

Born at an early age in Detroit, Michigan, award winning writer/director, Michael Kallio started making Super-8 movies at the young age of 6 after seeing Star Wars. In his early 20’s, he made his first feature film, “Hatred of a Minute,” a psychological thriller starring himself and Gunnar “Leatherface” Hansen and produced by Bruce Campbell. A second feature followed entitled, “Mutant Swinger from Mars,” a 50’s sci-fi spoof inspired by Ed Wood and the Jerry Lewis film, “The Nutty Professor,” ...read more

LAKELAND

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Showtime: 
Monday, October 18, 2021 - 9:00pm
Run Time: 
12:27
Country: 
United States
Synopsis: 
This retro-horror nightmare follows a historic preservationist who digs too deep into the twisted past of a now demolished Lakeland Asylum only to discover that some secrets are better left buried. Inspired by a true story.
Directed by: 
Mark Alex Vogt
Produced by: 
Liz Kraushaar and Addison Reyes-Toney
Written by: 
Mark Alex Vogt
Main Cast: 
Tiffany Montgomery Dara Tiller Gunnar Renjard
Mark Alex Vogt
About the Director(s): 

Mark Alex Vogt is a 23-year-old Writer/Director from Louisville, Kentucky. Over the past 7 years, Mark Alex has directed over 4 hours of produced content and been awarded over 20 accolades including Best Young Director by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. To quote him after his latest project, "Creating Lakeland was an experiment to see how far we could take the concept of a lost early-90s reel being shown to the world. It was an exercise that took us back to the technique...read more

The Occupant

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Showtime: 
Monday, October 18, 2021 - 9:00pm
Run Time: 
20m
Country: 
Mexico
Synopsis: 
Pedro, a miserable office worker, finds a cheap place to rent, the only problem is that it is haunted. Not being a believer in the paranormal he moves to the apartment, unleashing a war between him and the ghost.
Directed by: 
Francisco Ohem
Produced by: 
Brujos y Curanderos
Executive Producer(s): 
Francisco Ohem and Pablo Ortiz
Written by: 
Pablo Ortiz and Francisco Ohem
Main Cast: 
Fernando Memije, Gabriel Pascual, Angélica Bauter, Tienn Cheng, Yaqin Deng, Denise Castillo, Andrés Cendejas and Viviane Arenas
About the Director(s): 

Mexican director, graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He is an award winner from IMCINE and the FICG. He has worked with brands such as Modelo, Don Julio, Vice and is a director of the production company Brujos y Curanderos. He directed the film show Contracampo (2013), produced by Canana. He is currently in the process of finishing his debut feature: the documentary Los Mariachis Perdidos

The Repeater

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Monday, October 18, 2021 - 9:00pm
Run Time: 
18:24
Country: 
Spain
Synopsis: 
A radio repairman hikes up a mountain to fix the repeater tower. A simple task turns into an arduous journey when he encounters a string of strange occurrences that forces him to face a painful truth in his life.
Directed by: 
Grete Suarez
Produced by: 
Alejandro Suarez Lozano (Arce Producciones & Mad Motif)
Executive Producer(s): 
Alejandro Suarez Lozano & Fernando Arce
Written by: 
Grete Suarez
Main Cast: 
Oliver Green, Ricardo G. Prada
Grete Suarez
About the Director(s): 

Grete Suarez is an Asian-Australian filmmaker, making her directorial debut with THE REPEATER, a supernatural dark comedy short. She’s also the co-writer of feature KEPLER SEXTO B slated to be filmed in 2022. Her feature LITTLE FOODIE is a Stowe Story Labs Selected Project, HEATHENS is a Final Draft Big Break Quarterfinalist, and GRAY COLLAR is a Screencraft TV Pilot Launch Quarterfinalist. Prior to reincarnating as filmmaker, Grete was a journalist at CNN, Fox and Yahoo in New York.

Misophonia

Screens with the feature film Night at the Eagle Inn

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Showtime: 
Monday, October 18, 2021 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
10:22
Country: 
United States
Synopsis: 
A woman is driven mad by the sound of something chewing.
Directed by: 
Julianna Robinson
Produced by: 
Sean Kohnen and Julianna Robinson
Written by: 
Julianna Robinson and Sean Kohnen
Main Cast: 
Abby Eiland, Kelly Perine, John Gloria and Julianna Robinson
About the Director(s): 

Julianna was born in Reno, Nevada to working class parents. Her parents divorced when she was very young and she spent her formative years raised by her single, working mother who often worked several jobs just to make ends meet. Although it was financially impossible, Julianna knew she wanted to go to college. She was accepted to UCSB and paid for her own tuition by working every morning as a personal trainer. She was the first in her family to go to and graduate from college. Her foray...read more

The Junket

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 17, 2021 - 4:30pm
Run Time: 
10 mintues 29 seconds
Country: 
Australia
Synopsis: 
Celebrity interviewer and self-proclaimed feminist Stan hears something he shouldn’t when eavesdropping on Olivia Sarkin, the attractive star of a new vampire movie. She’s just taken a toilet break in the middle of their chat, but left her microphone on. Stan decides to listen in, but he’s not the only one doing something clandestine.
Directed by: 
Sean Bell
Produced by: 
Sean Bell & Katrina Olsen
Written by: 
Sean Bell
Main Cast: 
Sarah Krndija, Cameron Hutt and Violet Simpson
Sean Bell
About the Director(s): 

Sean Bell began his screen career in 2005 as an editor for the Australian public broadcaster SBS. During his time there he learned to hone his editing craft and expand into the roles of directing and producing.
He put these skills to use to make his first experimental short films, on which he performed many roles including Director and cinematographer.

Over the coming years he worked for many other broadcasters and production companies in Australia, his job taking him to Britain,...read more

Inch Thick, Knee Deep

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Showtime: 
Sunday, October 17, 2021 - 4:30pm
Run Time: 
17:49
Country: 
United States
Synopsis: 
The heat gets turned up on a seething exchange between two women. There is Quinn, a haughty daydreamer, who is stewing over a heartbreaking situation with her soulmate; and Adrienne, the woman who’s caught his eye. Once brought to a boiling point, neither woman will leave tea time without peeling back the masks they’ve painted an inch thick and revealing who they are in the face of bitterness.
Directed by: 
Anatasha Blakely
Produced by: 
Jacob Sorling
Executive Producer(s): 
Aaron Blakely
Written by: 
Anatasha Blakely
Main Cast: 
Whitney Morgan Cox, Anatasha Blakely, Jacob Sorling
About the Director(s): 

Anatasha Blakely is an Asian American writer, director, and actor who was born in Orem, Utah.

A diligent autodidact, Anatasha began her filmmaking journey as an 8 year old sneak: creeping movies from her eldest brother’s shelf and stifling her screams during the likes of Scream in order to avoid being caught watching rated R movies. After Alien, Pulp Fiction, Event Horizon and some awfully strange nightmares, she began to daydream and fish for her own ideas. She never stopped. Inch Th...read more

My Condition

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Showtime: 
Sunday, October 17, 2021 - 4:30pm
Run Time: 
10m
Country: 
Spain
Synopsis: 
Walking home alone at night is not a tasteful dish for any woman. Nor for Sofia, who must wait at the stop for her bus to arrive. When a tired art teacher arrives there is a conversation between them in which nobody is who they say they are.
Directed by: 
Coke Arijo
Produced by: 
Silvia Bermúdez Cañete
Written by: 
Silvia Bermúdez, Javier Arón
Main Cast: 
Noemí Ruiz, Jaime Ordóñez
About the Director(s): 

After graduating in Audiovisual Communication and finishing his film studies, he worked as a freelance filmmaker for more than a decade. In 2019 he directed his first documentary entitled “The three steps”. Now he premieres “My condition”, his first fiction short film

Juiced

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Showtime: 
Sunday, October 17, 2021 - 2:15pm
Run Time: 
9m 57s
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Computer programmer Donald (Ian Gary) is a man on a deadline, grappling with sanity...and a roommate that spends a little too much time with his blender. When Donald’s cohabitant Mickey (Ekon Soong) and his girlfriend, Jessica (Tatiana Paris), go overboard with their smoothie-making as part of their prep for Burning Man, Donald is pushed to the brink. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” we see Donald’s professional success ultimately reveals his horrific actions.
Directed by: 
Stephen Steelman
Produced by: 
Erin Soole
Written by: 
Bucky Sinister
Main Cast: 
Ian Gary, E-kan Soong, Tatiana Paris
Stephen Steelman
About the Director(s): 

Stephen Steelman is a director, editor, and producer known for his work as a music video director, having worked most recently on the videos for “Everyone” and “Basic Needs” from Korn’s Jonathan Davis.
Steelman was born in Las Vegas, NV, and moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to work as an actor. His film and commercial work helped him earn entry into SAG, but he eventually realized his calling was to work behind the camera. An internship with Marty Katz Productions (“Reindeer Games,” “Mr. Wr...read more