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DIY

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Tony Gardiner ACS

Director | DP | Producer
Synopsis
DIY follows Alex, a young woman
grieving the death of a beloved pet, as she decides to hang a new frame on her apartment wall. But
when she drills into the plaster… blood spills from the resulting hole?!
Bewildered, she runs next door, only to discover a strange man dead on the floor beside a bag full of
cash. Their common wall has been torn open, the hiding place for the loot. Then, right as Alex finds
neighbor Jerry ties and gagged in the bedroom, someone else steps through the front door: Gus, a
hitman running late for his first job with a new crew. When Gus mistakes Alex for ‘Sam’, the bagman he’s
meant to meet and is miffed she’s already ‘done his job for him’, Alex realizes her only hope of survival is
to play along…
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NIGHT SHIFT

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Lynda D'ALEXIS

Synopsis
An ordinary gas station employee finds himself facing a series of unexpected events during his night shift, uncovering the mystery behind the disappearances haunting the town.
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Imago

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Rafa Dengrá Oliver

Synopsis
Lidia wants to tell a story to her sister Marta, but there is a problem: it's so much scary.
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Clifton Park

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Maren Lavelle

Director
Synopsis
Mari loves The Ambassadors. The aspiring actress, and college undergrad, has seen every single one of their experimental theater productions in NYC, and now she has been chosen to travel to upstate New York with the famed theater troupe to work on their new play about a real-life sex cult.

When the group announces that they will be building this new show by staying in character all weekend, Mari salivates at the opportunity to show off her commitment to her craft. But when the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred in a deadly way, Mari must choose between giving over to the dangerously unconventional methods of The Ambassadors or escaping with her own life.

CLIFTON PARK is a short psychological horror that highlights the parallels between coercive communities and auteur directors while exploring the lengths that one will go to for their art.
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Very Prosperous Men

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Josiah Walker

Director
Synopsis
A struggling door-to-door Bible salesman navigates the haunting consequence of his actions.
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Trespassers

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Cyril Vrancken

Director
Synopsis
A thief breaks into a house, only to find the TV showing three shadowy figures by the pool. They're waiting for him...
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Striya

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Paige Campbell

Director, Writer
Synopsis
In the middle of the night, the beis din of a small medieval town is embroiled in an argument over whether – and how – to put teenage Gele to death for an unnamed offense. Her father, Ansel, soon arrives to make his case for allowing her to live, but his pleas fall on deaf ears. Meanwhile, Gele escapes and makes her way to the rabbi’s home, where the true horror of her supernatural transformation is revealed.
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The Gnawer of Rocks (Mangittatuarjuk)

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Louise Flaherty

Director, Producer, Writer
Synopsis
Two young women out for a walk follow a trail of coloured stones left on the ground, which leads them to danger. They are trapped in the lair of the Mangittatuarjuk, the Gnawer of Rocks. The women are terrified when they realize what the monster has been doing. The young women and their village must use the teachings of the elders to defeat the monster.
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TheThingsWeDo

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Nick Cremers

Director, writer, producer, editor, vfx
Synopsis
A young boy makes a cake for his mother and hopes it will satisfy her extreme hunger.
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NAILS

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William Lott

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Composer
Synopsis
Three ambitious podcast hosts prepare for their biggest episode yet, featuring Charlie Baker, the sole survivor of a brutal attack by Southern California's latest serial killer - The Beast. However, their pursuit of fame collides with the very horror they've been chronicling when they find themselves fighting to survive against a terrifying figure that may be The Beast himself.
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Empty Jars

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Guillermo Ribbeck

Synopsis
A lonely landlord falls in love with a charismatic spirit and helps him find a new body so he can feel again.
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Worst Thing You've Ever Done

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PJ Germain

Director / Co-Writer
Synopsis
Highschool really sucks… and no one knows that better than best friends Aaron and Keith. So when they set out to crash a small graduation party, buried emotions and teenage tensions explode, forcing everyone to face the worst parts of themselves.