Skip to main content
Film Category

Isolation

Meet the Filmmaker

11 Directors

Director
Synopsis
Woven together are nine tales of terror that follow isolated citizens from around the world as they confront their darkest fears in an attempt to survive an increasingly deadly outbreak.
Film Category

The Island of the Dolls

Meet the Filmmaker

Julio Caesar Padilla

Director
Synopsis
This intensely emotional untold story explores the life of a teenager, Xóchitl. After discovering that her boyfriend is cheating, she makes a drastic decision that will take her to suffer traumatic experiences and to do things that she never imagined.
Film Category

Inch Thick, Knee Deep

Meet the Filmmaker

Anatasha Blakely

Director
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.
Film Category

Imaginary Portrait

Meet the Filmmaker

Felipe Martinez Carbonell

Director and Producer
Synopsis
Through the creation of a family portrait, a mentally imbalanced young artist connects with her dead mother to exact revenge on her ghoulish father and abusive grandfather.
Film Category

Good Head

Meet the Filmmaker

Matt Servitto

Director
Synopsis
When megastar Coop Bradley buys a sad, superhero franchise to resurrect his fading acting career he goes to Atlanta to shoot the latest installment and gets more than he bargained for when he goes to the lab of special effects artist Shane Morton to get a mold made of his head. Not only does Shane torture the claustrophobic actor--he may have in turn stolen Coop's soul--which leads to a madcap chase through Shane's "house of horrors".
Film Category

GIRLS NIGHT IN

Meet the Filmmaker

Alison Roberto

Director
Synopsis
Girls Night In is a satirical horror short that was created based on the Bechdel test. The test examines works of fiction to see whether there are interactions between female characters that don't involve discussing a man. Which of course begs the question, where is the most ridiculous place these two women could be fighting over some dude…
Film Category

FINAL PICKUP

Meet the Filmmaker

Kraig Krueger

Director
Synopsis
A share ride driver struggles with what to do when he realizes that there is something very wrong with the passengers in his backseat.
Film Category

Father of Flies

Meet the Filmmaker

Ben Charles Edwards

Director
Synopsis
A haunting tale of family life. A vulnerable young boy finds his mother pushed out of the family home by a strange new woman, and he must confront the terrifying supernatural forces that seem to move in with her.
Film Category

The Exorcism of God

Meet the Filmmaker

Alejandro Hidalgo

Director
Synopsis
Peter Williams, an American priest working in Mexico, is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due to a botched exorcism, he carries a dark secret that's eating him alive until he gets an opportunity to face his own demon one final time.
Film Category

Echthaar

Meet the Filmmaker

Dominic Kubisch

Director
Synopsis
The smell of shampoo and cigarettes hangs in the air. The hair buns tear at the scalp and the newest hits play on a small radio. It’s the golden 50ies and Victor has his hair salon in perfect order – or so it seems. Because from her first day at the new job, Paula just can’t take her eyes off the strange jukebox in the corner. She senses that the machine is somehow connected to a dark secret. As Paula starts to take a deeper look at it, she doesn’t understand that her own life is on the line.
Film Category

DYSTOPIA

Meet the Filmmaker

Laura Ugolini

Director
Synopsis
Forget reality shows and Instagram beauties; a young girl's fantasy becomes the playground for a gang of women set to create the perfect man, one limb at a time.
Film Category

Dream Board Nightmare

Meet the Filmmaker

Joe Zerull

Director
Synopsis
A chaotic love story based on true events.

Dysfunctional couple kidnap a successful real-estate broker, in an attempt to jumpstart their unrealistic aspirations for a better life.