2019 Selections
Every year our horror short film festival receives thousands of submissions, and our committed judges watch each and every one of them to ensure we're bringing you the best original horror entertainment!
The decisions are finally in. Check out all of these amazing artists for new original horror films.
Micro Shorts - Films Under 5 Minutes
Shorts - 5 - 19 Minutes
Harper Finch
Old Mrs. Jenkins
Hippopotamus
The Cult of June
Mental
Espelho Meu (Mirror, Mirror)
Mind Game Demon
Merry Christmas Massacre
Dead Bolt
Mute
An Endless Procession
Dead Air
Welcome To Hell
Blood, Bitch, Popcorn
The Way
Moulage
Mesmerize
Trespass
No Strings Attached
Herd
Night Crosser
Cell
Ring Around The Rosie
Popcorn
The Portrait
In Perspective
Extended Short - 20+ Minutes
Wayward Nature
How To Make A Garden Omelet 1:40
An instructional video on how to cook a world class breakfast, that goes differently than expected.
Credits
Robert Wagoner - Director
Desmond Confoy - Writer
Desmond Confoy - Producer
Austin Reed Alleman - Key Cast “Chef”
I Am Albert - 2:30
Credits
Aurélia Raoull - Director
Aurélia Raoull - Writer
Born in 1988, Aurélia Raoull grew up in New-Caledonia where she began to watch horror films and became fond of this genre. Her Malagasy and normand roots gave her the passion of legends and tales.
She left Nouméa for Paris where she studied cinema first at University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle and then at Louis-Lumière Now she works as a director and assistant director. She shoot small interviews for an association of lawyer and directs short horror films.
The Book - 0:15
What happened right before Charlie enters the library stacks.
Credits
Richard Schertzer - Director
Richard Schertzer - Writer
Richard Schertzer - Producer
Wrong Day - 1:05
The knock on your door at midnight reveals a strangely-dressed Killer Clown. But there's no need for alarm as it's just a crazy Halloween prank...or is it?
Ater Trick or Treating in the Deep South in the 80s as a sugared-up tiny ghoul, writer/producer Nina Romain has never stopped being obsessed with Halloween. This is why three of her horror shorts are about 31st October.
Shot in the grimy streets of South London's Peckham, "Wrong Day" shows why you should always be cautious about those October treats. They may turn out to be tricks!
Country - United Kingdom
Language - English
Credits
Doug Rollins - Director
Nina Romain - Writer
Nina Romain - Producer
Negative - 2:59
Negative images invert memories. A female photographer makes a disturbing discovery and counts the cost of her own fears.
Women In Horror
Country - Italy
Language - English
Credits
Antonella Barbera - Director
Antonella Barbera - Writer
Antonella Barbera - Producer
Adriana Tuzzeo - Key Cast
Lorenzo Prestipino - Key Cast
To Be Together Forever - 4:59
This is the longest night in the life of shehi. The magic of heart, the continuous appearance of hallucinations, Xie Xi feel more fear, regret and uneasiness intertwined, time like being stopped, she is also stuck in those emotions... "We say we're going to be together forever."
Student Film
Women In Horror
Country - Taiwan
Language - Chinese
Director - Chuyi Chen
Chen Chuyi, a Libra girl born in 10 in 1993. She graduated from Xiamen University in the digital media department of Xiamen University. Now she is a graduate student in the Department of film, University of the Arts, Taiwan. From the third year, she began to join the drama group and the film and television company to learn and practice.
Credits
CHUYI CHEN - Director
CHUYI CHEN - Writer
CHUYI CHEN - Producer
ZHEN XIE -Key Cast “XI XIE”
XIAOHUI MA - Key Cast “ZHIYUN”
The Dress - 3:05
"An heirloom dress comes back to haunt the woman who discarded it."
Country - United States
Language - English
Student Film
Women In Horror
Director - Charlotte Gordon
Charlotte Gordon is a writer and artist. She is excited about combining her love for writing and art by venturing into visual storytelling. "The Dress" is her first short film.
Charlotte Gordon - Director
Charlotte Gordon - Writer
Jeff Toner - Producer
Melissa Jobe - Key Cast
Cowboy's Girl, Jane the Virgin
Abducted - 3:00
"Held against her will, a reporter must escape the treacherous experiments of a scientist who knows no bounds."
Country - United States
Language - English
Women In Horror
Director - Manuel Villarreal
Manuel Villarreal is an actor, writer, and director based in Los Angeles, California. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Film from California State University, Northridge.
During his time in college, he was nominated for the Irene Ryan Award for his performance in the play: "Juarez: A Mexican Docudrama."
Manuel's short films, "Good Mourning" and "Deathly" have been featured at the Los Angeles CineFest.
Cast
Manuel Villarreal - Director
Found, Deathly, Good Mourning
Manuel Villarreal - Writer
Sona Sood - Writer
Mormon Boys, Found
Manuel Villarreal
Producer
Sona Sood - Producer
Sona Sood - Key Cast “Janice ”
Dagny McCartney - Key Cast “Dr. ”
Manuel Villarreal - Key Cast “Doug”
Black Widow - 1:46
"A Passionate Kiss with fatal end"
Director - Julie Boehm
Julie Boehm is a multimedia artist for dance & choreography, paintings on canvas, composing, body paintings, film, and animation.
After her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, she is now at the Filmacademy Baden Württemberg in Ludwigsburg (west Germany).
Credits
Julie Boehm - Director
Julie Boehm - Writer
Aleksandra Todorovic - Producer
Nina Schwarz - Producer
Alina Ruppel - Key Cast
Eric Figula - Key Cast
Dominik Moos - Director of Photography
Marc Zimmermann - VFX Supervisor
Julie Boehm - VFX Artist
Julie Boehm - Editor
Stay With Me - 1:00
"A widower make a wish that should never have come true."
Directors - Nahuel Srnec, Eduardo Hunter
Nahuel Srnec studied physics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a graduate of the Diseño de Imagen y Sonido career (Design of Picture and Sound) at the same university.
Eduardo Hunter is a graduate of the Diseño de Imagen y Sonido career (Design of Picture and Sound) at the same university.
Credits
Nahuel Srnec - Director
Eduardo Hunter - Director
Eduardo Hunter - Writer
Nahuel Srnec - Writer
Nahuel Srnec - Producer
Eduardo Hunter - Producer
Juan Carlos Aguilar - Key Cast
Mirta Echeverria - Key Cast
Nahuel Matias Srnec - Cinematographer
Ragdoll: The Chronicles of Death 4:14
Credits
Martin Lafrance - Director
Ragdoll, Revolution, Evolution, the last
Martin Lafrance - Writer
Martin Lafrance - Producer
Melissa Lafrance - Producer
Tony SKy - Key Cast “Kevin”
Sharon Lea - Key Cast “Ragdoll”
Martin Lafrance - Key Cast “the Clown”
Melissa Lafrance - Key Cast “female victim”
Tanya Ziegler - Key Cast “Catherine Mcalis”
Hammer Down - 3:00
"Two employees endure another late night on the job in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. It’s a supremely dirty job but it’s a living. Humor coupled with explicit depictions of graphic cartoon violence."
Director - Dan Pasto
Dan Pasto is a stop motion animator who graduated MassArt in 2018. Though primarily an animator, he believes fabrication to be of great importance and finds great joy in building devises and constructing objects. He has little interest in preserving the status quo.
Credits
Dan Pasto - Director
Shadow - 2:27
"A girl walks through a park. Suddenly, listen to something."
Director - Joaquín Vallet
Escritor, crítico e historiador cinematográfico. Miembro de la Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Autor de los libros “Diccionario de películas. El Western” (T&B Editores, 2018), "Roman Polanski" (Cátedra, 2018), "El cine de terror" (Notorious, 2017), “Roger Corman. Poe, monstruos y extraterrestres” (T&B Editores, 2016), "Terence Fisher" (Cátedra, 2013), "Diccionario de películas. El cine de terror" (T&B Editores, 2012) y "Joseph Losey" (Cátedra, 2010). Ha coordinado "Mariano Barroso" (T&B Editores, Festival de Curtmetratges K-lidoscopi, 2015) y participado en las obras colectivas "Joseph Losey" (Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián, 2017), "Fritz Lang. Universum" (Notorious, 2016), "El universo de los Hermanos Marx" (Notorious, 2016), "Richard Matheson. El maestro de la paranoia" (Gigamesh, 2016), "El universo de Orson Welles" (Notorious, 2015) y "Cine XXI. Directores y direcciones" (Cátedra, 2013), entre otros. Ha trabajado para la distribuidora Avalon y la editorial Notorious en la redacción de numerosos libretos para sus colecciones en DVD. Iniciado en el mundo de la crítica a partir del año 2003 en la web "Miradas de Cine", es miembro de la Associació Catalana de Crítics i Escriptors Cinematogràfics (ACCEC). Crítico de cine en la revista "Dirigido por...", también ha escrito en "Versión Original", "ScifiWorld", "La Furia Umana" y en la publicación peruana "Godard!". Ha dirigido una veintena de cortometrajes, muchos de ellos premiados en festivales internacionales como Cinema Jove, el The Mediterranean Film Festival de Italia o el Alternative Film Festival de Canadá. Ha sido jurado en el Festival Internacional de Sitges o el REC de Tarragona y ha impartido conferencias sobre distintos periodos del cine en universidades, filmotecas y centros culturales de todo el país, además de impartir clases de Historia del Cine en el Centre de Cultura Contemporània Octubre de Valencia. Fundador, asimismo, del Festival de Curtmetratges K-lidoscopi, el cual ha dirigido entre 2012 y 2015.
Credits
Joaquín Vallet - Director
In the Park, Between Walls, Night
Joaquín Vallet - Writer
In the Park, Between Walls, Night
Joaquín Vallet - Producer
In the Park, Between Walls, Night
María Andrés - Key Cast
Here Comes The Maniac - 0:21
"You might survive an atomic bomb in a dystopian future, but there’s no way in hell you could cheat death when coming across Maniac."
Director - Armin Monibi
Credits
Armin Monibi - Director
Armin Monibi - Writer
Armin Monibi - Producer
Blackout - 4:30
"A young woman comes home one night and parks her car in the garage. Suddenly there is a blackout and she is trapped in the dark, but she is not alone..."
Director - Konstantinos Gourgiotis
George Leontakianakos
Konstantinos Gourgiotis is an awarded film producer, director, and writer. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film Studies. He is dealing with making movies since the age of fourteen. He has earned 18 awards in total until today. Three out of eighteen are "Best Producer" awards. His films have participated and screened in more than 40 film festivals and cities all around the world such as Sangai, Toronto, Kairo, Wisconsin, Los Angeles e.t.c. His passion is the horror genre as his 3 out of 5 films are horror. Alongside, besides of directing, Konstantinos undertakes the line producing of short films and works on commercial, Tv and film productions in Greece in the camera and production department. Also, he was selected as Film Ambassador at Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival for the year 2018 in Toronto, Canada.
Konstantinos lives in Greece but is also an American Citizen. His dream is to work in the film and video production industry in America. He loves food, traveling and of course horror movies.
Credits
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Director
After Dark, Trap Door
George Leontakianakos - Director
After Dark, The Kiss
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Writer
After Dark, Trap Door
George Leontakianakos - Writer
After Dark, The Kiss
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Producer
After Dark, Trap Door, The Kiss
Ntenia Pssilia - Key Cast
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Production Manager
After Dark, Trap Door, The Kiss
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Production Coordinator
After Dark, Trap Door, The Kiss
Konstantinos Gourgiotis Production Accountant
After Dark, Trap Door, The Kiss
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Casting Director
After Dark, Trap Door, The Kiss
George Leontakianakos - Casting Director
After Dark
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Line Producer
After Dark, Trap Door, The Kiss
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Art Director
After Dark, Trap Door
George Leontakianakos - Art Director
After Dark, The Kiss
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Location Scouter
After Dark, Trap Door, The Kiss
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Location Manager
After Dark, Trap Door, The Kiss
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Editing
After Dark, Trap Door, The Kiss
Manos Meletis - Assistant Director
After Dark
Tonia Giannouli - Script Supervisor
Dimitris Kirou - First Production Assistant
After Dark
Maria Konialian - Second Production Assistant
Mike Kalidonis - Director Of Photography
After Dark
Mike Kalidonis - Camera Operator
After Dark
John Boursinos - First Assistant Camera
Mike Kalidonis - Drone Operator
Mike Kalidonis - Gaffer
After Dark
Antonis Kyritsanis - Digital Image Technician (DIT)
Danae Neonaki - Creature (Actress)
Konstantinos Gourgiotis - Post Production Supervisor
After Dark, Trap Door, The Kiss
Karolina Garyes - Backstage Photographer
Antonis Kyritsanis - Backstage Photographer
George Leontakianakos - Film Funding
My Red Ball - 2:47
An urban legend about a girl who has been bullied and socially alienated in school because of her learning disabilities. She is so lonely that she makes friends with a boy in the forest and soon disappears with her red ball (her heart)
Director - Esabella Strickland
Esabella Strickland: An Award Winning Actress, This is Esabella's first Film as a Director, Esabella wrote, co-directed and starred in My Red Ball. Esabella is working on her Second Film called call the note book which is about another urban legend of a notebook that takes the souls of kids
Credits
esabella strickland - Director
esabella strickland - Writer
Young Movie Makers - Producer
Border Line
esabella strickland - Key Cast “Esabella ”
Enligthenment
Nocnitsa - 2:58
"Nocnitsa" is a short story developed from a horror story made popular by a Reddit blogger. The original story featured in a blog called "Two-sentence horror stories". The producer loved this story so much he contacted the writer to ask to bring his terrifying story to life.
Nocnitsa is Polish for "Night-hag" which is were we get the term "nightmare" - and this story is what we all fear when we turn out the lights and pray for daybreak!"
Country - United Kingdom
Language - English
Director - Nathan Williams
Nathan produces and directors comedy shorts and horror films. “Time Lapse” won the Ruby Award at the Los Angeles Horror Competition 2017 & officially selected for the LA Horror Film Festival 2017 & Lost Sanity Horror & Sci-Fiction Film Festival 2017. Nathan’s comedy web series pilot “The Colour of Dead” was shortlisted for BEST PILOT at Raindance Film Festival 2014.
Credits
Nathan Williams - Director
Time Lapse
Olivia Derbyshire - Writer
Nathan Williams - Producer
Money Kills (feature film)
Jamie-lee Parker - Key Cast “Nocnitsa”
Dean Hull - Key Cast “man in bed”
Abi Timmins - Cinematographer
Nikoletta Tzani - Special Effects Make Up
Chris Peirse - Editor
Uzir Mohammed - Editor
Sonny Boogaar - Production Design
Home Early - 2:15
Dustin comes home early to surprise his wife, Holly. However, he is in for the surprise. Then there is hell to pay.
Credits
Larry Rosen - Director
Bloody Slumber Party, After the Outbreak
Larry Rosen - Writer
Bloody Slumber Party, After the Outbreak
Larry Rosen - Producer
Bloody Slumber Party, After the Outbreak
Alex Aldea - Key Cast “Dustin”
All About Rita, Man from Mars
Kate Brandenburg - Key Cast “Holly”
"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
Mike Vezza - Key Cast “Peter”
Reality Disorder, Girlfriend's Past
There's Something Here - 1:38
Directed by 12 year old Abby Kay. There's Something Here is about a troubled little girl, upset by the splitting of her parents, has a nightmare about a killer clown.
Directed by Abby Kay, 12 years old.
Country - United States
Language - English
Student Film
Women In Horror
Credits
Abby Kay - Director
Larry Rosen - Key Cast “Charles”
No Clue
Franlis Rodriguez - Key Cast “Sydney”
Last Night Stand
Annabelle Renee - Key Cast “Mathilda / Clown”
Peekaboo - 3:49
"Kelly comes home, hoping to relax with her boyfriend. What she gets is much worse..."
Director - Nathan Ragland
Nathan Ragland is an up and coming filmmaker from Georgia. Born on May 15, 1996, Nathan is currently studying Mass Media at Valdosta State University to make his dream of being a filmmaker possible, filming or helping with several student films. He's an award-winning director, winning the Spotlight Bronze Award for Peekaboo in the July 2018 Spotlight Horror Film Awards.
He hopes that his films one day will inspire people in some way, whether that be the message of the film for the audience to try and follow or some aspect of the productions that inspires others to be creative with what is presented. Nathan posts most of his works on his YouTube channel, where you can see a wide arrange of films directed by the young filmmaker.
Credits
Nathan Ragland - Director
Grammar Nazi Killer
Nathan Ragland - Writer
Grammar Nazi Killer
Nathan Ragland - Producer
Grammar Nazi Killer
Jordan Van Dyke - Key Cast “Kelly”
Church Barnas - Key Cast “Jacob”
Alex Foster - Key Cast “Tri-State Killer”
Nathan Ragland - Props
Grammar Nazi Killer
Kate Green - Props
Nathan Ragland - Cinematographers
Grammar Nazi Killer
Church Barnas - Cinematographers
Nathan Ragland - Audio
Grammar Nazi Killer
Church Barnas - Audio
Don't - 4:49
"A group of children enjoy an innocent day at the beachside until suddenly things go terribly wrong."
Country - Australia
Language - English
Student Film
Director - Orlando Bailey
Orlando is the baby of the family at age 10. His older brothers Oscar 13 and Oliver 11 and he, have had many wonderful opportunities on set: short films, feature films, out-of-the-box music film clips and lifestyle shoots. All 3 O's are passionate about the film industry - either in front or behind the camera! In his spare time, Orlando loves wake boarding, snow boarding and generally leading an active outdoorsy lifestyle :)
Credits
Orlando Bailey - Director
Oscar Bailey - Writer
Careful What You Wish For
Zarlia Chisholm - Writer
Orlando Bailey - Writer
Careful What you Wish For
Oscar Bailey - Key Cast “Bailey”
Careful what you wish for
Zarlia Chisholm - Key Cast “Ellie”
Orlando Bailey - Key Cast “Jett”
Careful what you wish for
Oliver Bailey - Key Cast “Jason”
Careful what you wish for
Nathan Bailey - Key Cast “Angler”
Oliver Bailey - Drone Cinematography
Triple O Productions - Producer
Date Fright - 4:21
"After an unsuccessful date, a young man offers to walk his date back to her car... unfortunately she has parked it on the other side of a spooky forest..
Credits
Kelsey Sneddon - Director
Kelsey Sneddon - Writer
Lauren Davidson - Producer
Lou Kolodziej - Credits
Molly McCarthy - Credits
Angus Dunn - Credits
The Weeping Woman - 2:16
La Llorona (The Crying Woman) Is a legendary ghost prominent in folklore Spanish America. This myth has a tendency to take aspects of an urban legend and is present throughout Mexican culture. According to the tradition, La Llorona is the ghost of woman who lost her children and now cries while looking for them in the river, often causing misfortune to those who are near or hear her.
Cast
Cynthia Bergen - Director
The Cop Cam, The Face Swap, The Stream, The Watcher, Witchboard, The Session, The House of Prey, The Green Eye, The Mist, Delirium, The Russian, House For Sale, Ghost Tour
Isaac Rodriguez - Writer
Delirium, The Watcher, Witchboard, Wood Man, Night Light, The Green Eye, No Sleep, The Session, The House of Prey, The Face, Cop Cam, No Sleep, The Stream
Cynthia Bergen - Producer
The Cop Cam, The Face Swap, The Watcher, Witchboard, Wood Man, Night Light, The Green Eye, No Sleep Horror Trailer, Delirium, The Session, The Stream, The House of Prey, Strange Places
Alina Tarasikova - Key Cast
Matryoshka, The Russian Doll
Michael C. Rayne - Key Cast
House For Sale
Andrew Martinez, Jr. - Key Cast
Birder - 12:26
"When passion for nature creates its own beautiful freak."
Director - Steven Sterk
As a young boy Steven was influenced by movies. Every Saturday his father rented a movie in the local video store. Not many years later he would have loved to go to film school, but his parents decided it would give him no future. As music was another passion he deeply cherished he started making music and till this day he still is a music producer. Still, his passion for movies, in particular the darker genre like; horror,scifi and mysteries gave him the envy to work with this and in his late 20's he met Stefaan Borremans. They talked about making a film, but it took almost ten years before they made their first step. After the success of "The View" a shortfilm by Kurt De Meuter and Stefaan Borremans, the three guys teamed up and that's how Pine Peak Entertainment came to life. At Pine Peak Entertainment Steven has taken the lead role in the art department. That includes editing, artwork, webdesign, effect, creating soundtracks and social media.
Meanwhile he did some basic background acting and "directed" two shortfilms.
Credits
Steven Sterk - Director
Het Bos Door De Bomen
Steven Sterk - Writer
Stefaan Borremans - Writer
Bart Van De Vyvere - Writer
Pine Peak Entertainment - Producer
Kurt De Meuter - Key Cast “Birder”
De Premier
Bart Van De Vyvere - Key Cast “Delivery boy”
Maarten Debrouwer - Key Cast “Camper”
Lynn Janssens - Key Cast “Camper girl”
Kill Those Who Catcall - 5:57
After Stephanie and Alice leave a local Savannah GA bar, a group of men catcalls and follows them as they try to make it home; when the harassment escalates, the girls decide to kill the men, thus taking care of the problem themselves.
Director - Nikole Pryor
Nikole Jenae Pryor lived in Tenessee before moving to Savannah, GA to study film & television at SCAD. Her films embody the struggle and triumph of women everywhere through both comedy and drama.
Credits
Nikole Pryor - Director
Abby Thomas - Writer
Lisa Bowman - Producer
April Consalo - Key Cast “Stephanie”
Gloria Villacorta - Key Cast “Alice”
Dylan Genis - Cinematographer
The Child Monster - 7:08
"How can a principal handle a situation where a child has cut off the ear of another child?"
Joona Möttö is a 23 year old independent director from Helsinki -the cold capital of Finland, who yearns to give the audience thrills. Möttö is an active member of Euphoria Borealis, an organization working towards giving everyone interested in film a chance to make their own. Through international Kino Kabaret workshops Möttö has met many new friends and colleagues from all over the world, and it shows in his short films, which often feature the performer's own native language.
Cast
Joona Möttö - Director
Tanja Lebedeff - Writer
Joona Möttö - Producer
Guillaume Bursztyn - Key Cast “The principal”
Paul Riemann - Key Cast “The parent”
Natasha Borisova - Key Cast “Sammy”
Paula Lebedeff - Key Cast “Elina”
Encosto - 7:00
"After performing a macumba (Brazilian black magic), a man discovers that the price of your desires may be too high! "
Director - Joel Caetano
Joel Caetano is director, screenwriter and film actor since 2001. He has directed several short films were selected from hundreds of festivals around the world as "CAT" which won the award for Best Short Film at Montevideo Fantastic Latinoamericano 2010 and “ENCOSTO "beyond that three awards, was selected in over 70 festivals in 20 countries.
As an actor, as well as short films, made two feature films, “The “night of the Chupacabras” where he is the protagonist and “The Black Sea".
Currently, Joel launched his new film "Judas" and “The “Black Fables, an anthology of horror stories feature where Joel directed the segment “Blood Blond” a legend of Brazilian ghost terrorizes the youth of all generations. The film also tells stories Rodrigo Aragão and Coffin Joe.
Credits
Joel Caetano - Director
CAT, STRANGE
Joel Caetano - Writer
CAT, STRANGE, My Wife is a zombie, Blood June
Mariana Zani - Producer
CAT, STRANGE, My Wife is a zombie, Blood June
Joel Caetano - Key Cast
CAT, My Wife is a zombie, Blood June, The Night of Chupacabras, Black Sea
Judas - 10:35
"Synopsis: Holy Saturday is a day of burning the Judas Doll ... do you have courage?"
Director - Joel Caetano
Joel Caetano is director, screenwriter and film actor since 2001. He has directed several short films were selected from hundreds of festivals around the world as "CAT" which won the award for Best Short Film at Montevideo Fantastic Latinoamericano 2010 and “ENCOSTO "beyond that three awards, was selected in over 70 festivals in 20 countries.
As an actor, as well as short films, made two feature films, “The “night of the Chupacabras” where he is the protagonist and “The Black Sea".
Currently, Joel launched his new film "Judas" and “The “Black Fables, an anthology of horror stories feature where Joel directed the segment “Blood Blond” a legend of Brazilian ghost terrorizes the youth of all generations. The film also tells stories Rodrigo Aragão and Coffin Joe.
Credits
Joel Caetano - Director
CAT, STRANGE
Joel Caetano - Writer
CAT, STRANGE, My Wife is a zombie, Blood June
Mariana Zani - Producer
CAT, STRANGE, My Wife is a zombie, Blood June
Devorame/Eat Me - 9:00
Late at night, two policemen attack the owner of a local restaurant. Her sister steps in, however, and soon the secret ingredient of their sandwiches is revealed. It’s to die for!
Credits
Helena Aguilera - Director
Helena Aguilera - Writer
Helena Aguilera - Producer
Ramón Medina - Key Cast “Pedro”
Ale Tribiani - Key Cast “Lucía”
Mario - Key Cast “Jesús”
Ghost Image - 6:30
"When a ghostly apparition shows up in a photographer’s work, she’ll have to find a way to eliminate all cameras from her life or risk losing it to the thing that haunts her."
Director - Katie Damien
Katie Damien is an award-winning filmmaker born and raised in Florida. She started making movies when she was twelve. Back then, her plan was to make a string of amazing movies and win an Oscar. After being bombarded with offers, she would escape the overwhelming demand for her talent by getting a cabin in the woods accessible only by helicopter or pack mule.
Today she's still a filmmaker, she's won various awards and even had a film play at the Cannes Film Festival. She doesn't have any Oscars, but she does have a house in North Carolina accessible by helicopter, pack mule or your average car.
Credits
Katie Damien - Director
Katie Damien - Writer
Katie Damien - Producer
Greg Hudgins - Producer
Rebecca Morris - Key Cast
Sleepy Hollow, Tangled Web, Drop Dead Diva
Kay Galvin - Key Cast
Penny Munroe - Key Cast
Tina Ostergaard - Key Cast
Jennifer Trudrung - Key Cast
Vampire Diaries, Goosebumps
Conditioning - 7:00
"Love will tear them apart.
A gory horror film that's more than meets the eye! Going beyond the gore and exploring deep rooted prejudice and it's influences."
Country - United Kingdom
Language - English
Director - Philip Pugh
"Philip Pugh has written, produced and directed dozens of short films and is currently working on his first feature length narrative film Own Worst Enemy."
Credits
Philip Pugh - Director
Own Worst Enemy, To Live For, One Minutes
Philip Pugh - Writer
Own Worst Enemy, To Live For, One Minutes
Joe Capella - Writer
Philip Pugh - Producer
Own Worst Enemy, To Live For, One Minutes
Joe Capella - Key Cast “Blake”
Aron Wood - Key Cast “Oli”
Mike Baughan - Key Cast “Father”
Mac Mackenzie - Key Cast “Mother”
Caged - 6:00
"While closing his small pet store, Ian is terrified at what he must do to satisfy the terrible hunger of the creature he has locked away behind the store."
Director - Mark Nugent
"Mark Nugent is an Irish filmmaker based in Co. Down, Northern Ireland. After graduating from Liverpool John Moores University, Mark has worked on independent short films as a camera operator and editor. Learning from other writers and directors, Mark started to direct his own films such as Casion (2016) and Waves Over Sand (2017). Mark is a passionate storyteller and filmmaker, still learning his craft."
Credits
Mark Nugent - Director
Life In Colour, Casion: A Chiptune Documentary, Waves Over Sand
Mark Nugent - Writer
Life In Colour, Casion: A Chiptune Documentary, Waves Over Sand
Alec Liddle - Producer
Cameron McCauley - Producer
Andy Dickson - Key Cast “Ian”
Maria McCamley - Key Cast “Amy”
Elaine Donnelly - Key Cast “Grace”
Saturn Through The Telescope - 10:53
"Max is a ten-year-old boy obsessed with insects, telescopes and monsters. One night he decides to escape from his bed to watch a terror film in the TV. Surprised by his mother, he is returned to his bedroom. However, he is fascinated by the images he has seen, but they will give him nightmares."
Director - Didac Gimeno
"Graduated in Veterinary Sciences in 2011, I have worked as a veterinarian mainly in the fields of cardiology and in clinical practice with exotic animals. In 2014 I graduated in Film Direction in the Cinematography and Audiovisual School of the Community of Madrid (ECAM) with the highest mark in my speciality.
Oscillation (2014), my end-of-course short film, has been selected in around fifty international festivals and has won several awards and nominations, among them, the Best University Short-film Award in the Nocturna Madrid Festival; the Lunartis Award in the Videmedeja Film Festival, Serbia; Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (RTVE) Award in the Hispasat 4K Festival; the nomination for the Silver Méliès in the Imagine Fantastic Film Festival or the nomination for the Gold Panda in China for the most innovative short-film.
“Saturn through the telescope” (2018), my last short-film, has won the aid for audiovisual creation from both the Malaga Film Festival and the Community of Madrid. Nowadays, it is at the distribution stage.
Credits
Didac Gimeno - Director
Oscillation (2014), mi cortometraje de fin de carrera ha sido seleccionado en medio centenar de festivales internacionales y ha ganado varios premios y nominaciones, entre ellos el premio al Mejor cortometraje universitario en el Nocturna; el Lunartis Award en el Videmedeja film festival, Serbia; el Premio RTVE en el Festival Hispasat 4K, la nominación al Méliès de plata en el Imagine o la nominación al Gold Panda en China al cortometraje más innovador.
Didac Gimeno - Writer
Oscillation (2014)
Alvaro Hervás -Writer
Rafael Álvarez - Producer
Alejandro López - Key Cast “Max”
Elia Galera - Key Cast “Mother”
The Undone - 7:33
"Something in Lauren's ancestral home wants her family dead, and her son, Simon, is out of bed."
Country - United States
Language - English
Student Film
Credits
Sam Simonds - Director
Maggie Newell - Director
Luca Guo - Director
Sam Simonds - Writer
Maggie Newell - Writer
Luca Guo - Writer
Ross Morin - Producer
Sue Kessler - Key Cast “Lauren”
Kelsea Edgerly - Key Cast “Melissa”
Malachi Young - Key Cast “Simon”
Max Vivino - Key Cast “Peter Jones”
Nancy Sardeson - Executive Producer
Christian Vazquez - Gaffer
Sam Simonds - Camera Operator
Carson Bloomquist - First Assistant Camera
Sean Lee - Lighting Tech
Jillian Noyes - Lighting Tech
Charlie Losiewicz - Sound Operator
Luca Guo - Sound Operator
The Rage - 8:55
"This is not a drill.
A bio scientist tries to escape an infected lab and save his girlfriend."
Director - Joshua Cleave
Born in Gloucester, Joshua has always had a Passion for film and animation.
Playing with vhs cameras and remaking this favourite films with his mates as a teenager.
He began his working career as a car mechanic working for his dads company.
He then became a fabrication welder, and started writing and directing in his spare time.
He then followed his passion and moved to Leeds to study film and television production at Leeds Metropolitan University (Northern Film School) where he graduated with Ba hons in moving image production.
Since then he has gone on to write and direct several award winning short films including, The Lolly Ranger 2014, Time 2015 and the multi award winning, horror film, The Rage 2017, as well as continuing to work full time as a fabrication welder.
Credits
Joshua Cleave - Director
Time
Joshua Cleave - Writer
Time
Joshua Cleave - Producer
Time
Christian Greenway - Key Cast
The Reckoning
Noel Ross - Key Cast
Hitman 4 Hire
Harriet Davies - Key Cast
Time
Harper Finch - 8:50
"Driven by obsession, a young mental patient forcibly attempts to rekindle his relationship with an emotionally fragile fellow inmate. When she rejects his advances, the confrontation quickly escalates into a violent battle for survival and sanity. From the executive producer of Sundance Audience Award winner, CROWN HEIGHTS and the writer/director of Netflix's FACE 2 FACE."
Director - Matthew Toronto/Jonathan Baker
MATT TORONTO - An award-winning director, writer and producer, Matt Toronto’s coming-of-age feature Face 2 Face was recently released on Netflix and won the Jury Award for Innovation at the Edmonton International Film Festival (www.seeface2face.com). His first feature, The Pact, garnered top awards and official selection in twenty-two international festivals (www.watchthepact.com). He is developing several other film and television projects including the half-hour comedy, Move On, which he wrote with his wife Jordan. The pilot script landed in the Top 10 of The Tracking Board's 2016 Launchpad Pilots competition.
Jonathan Baker Executive Produced the film Crown Heights (dir. Matt Ruskin) which won the Audience Award at Sundance in 2017 and was bought by Amazon and released in theaters in 2017. He Co-Produced the feature musical film Basmati Blues, starring Donald Sutherland, Tyne Daly, Brie Larson and Scott Bakula, released in theaters in February of 2018, and Executive Produced Halfway, starring Quinton Aaron (The Blindside).
Credits
Matthew Toronto - Director
Face 2 Face - Writer/Director/Producer, The Pact - Writer Director Producer
Jonathan Baker - Director
Crown Heights - Producer (Sundance Audience Favorite); Basmati Blues - Producer (with Brie Larson, Donald Sutherland, Scot Bakula), Manifest Destiny Down - Feature
Matthew Toronto - Writer
Face 2 Face - Feature - Writer, Director, Producer; The Pact - Feature - Writer, Director, Producer
Aaron Toronto - Writer
Face 2 Face - Feature - Writer, Producer; The Pact - Feature - Writer, Producer
Jonathan Baker - Writer
Manifest Destiny Down - Feature - Writer, Director
Matthew Toronto - Producer
Face 2 Face - Feature - Writer, Director, Producer; The Pact - Feature - Writer, Director, Producer
Jonathan Baker - Producer
Crown Heights - Producer (Sundance Audience Favorite); Basmati Blues - Producer (with Brie Larson, Donald Sutherland, Scot Bakula), Manifest Destiny Down - Feature
Alexandra Winter - Key Cast
Jeff Kenny - Key Cast
Homewrecker - 12:00
"Stan is a successful businessman with a great house, a fast car, and beautiful wife - and he's having an affair. When his wife finds out about his cheating, no one is safe. She gives new meaning to "til death do us part."
Director - Robert Hensley
With over two decades of experience working in entertainment; first in theatre and then film, Robert began his career as a costume designer, later transitioning to makeup and special effects, and now film-making. As a costume designer, his work has included work on contemporary ballets, choreographed by Holly Evans of the world-famous Rockettes, and world premiere plays off-Broadway and in Los Angeles. His work on Gatsby in Hollywood by Joshua Rebell was nominated for Best Costumes at the 2003 Garland Awards. As a makeup artist, his talent and skills with cosmetics have allowed him to travel and create styles for some of the most famous faces in the world for red carpets, magazine covers, television shows, and on film.
Robert has also written several feature-length screenplays, several of which he would like to direct: the family drama Home to Roost and the supernatural dramedy A Moment. He originally wrote and directed the latter as a short film starring Tony-nominated actress Valarie Pettiford. Robert is currently attached to direct the romantic comedy, Roasted, from a screenplay he wrote.
Credits
Robert Hensley - Director
Robert Hensley - Writer
Robert Hensley - Producer
Danielle Inks - Producer
Versa Manos - Producer
Lee Marshall - Key Cast “Stan”
Logan Vamosi - Key Cast “Dean”
Gracie Be - Key Cast "Rona”
Danielle inks - Key Cast “Wendy”
Jason Lange - Cinematographer
Andrea Bellucci - Composer
Rachel McIntire - Editor
James Brown - Production Sound
The Game of The Clock - 7:40
"THE VICTIM is a teenage girl who visits a friend late at night. As she enters the empty house she finds herself involved in a survival game where she has to endure five minutes with a monster she must not look at, due to the game’s rules. The only information about the monster is held in several childish-like drawings that The Victim finds along the way, in which also bare the only clue to her survival."
Director - Michele Olivieri
Michele Olivieri is an Italian film director from Verona, now based in London.
Beginning in 2017 with his directorial debut comedy short "Butterflies", this West London Films production was a selected finalist at Cefalú Film Festival (Italy) and semi-finalist at Splice Film Fest (United States). The same year Olivieri’s sophomore project "The Game of The Clock," a horror short produced by Godiva Films, came to fruition. The independent drama "Sofa Surfer” – the most recent addition to the director’s filmography - is set for a 2020 release.
Other independent projects for which he directed include the experimental video “REUNION” and the music video “Not Over Yet” (Dee Lily) as well as the book trailer for the novel “La Herbaria” by Italian writer Barbara Coffani.
Further work-in-progress will be announced soon.
Credits
Michele Olivieri - Director
Butterflies
Michele Olivieri - Writer
Ian Reid - Writer
Simon Rickards - Producer
Simone Mumford - Key Cast
Old Mrs. Jenkins - 5:49
"Reminiscent of the campy horror films from the 80s, Old Mrs. Jenkins tells the story of what happens to a couple after a thunderstorm leaves them in the dark. With only candles, a broken flashlight and a fireplace to light the night, together they learn that some scary stories should never be retold.
Tagline: Let me tell you a scary story...."
Director - Taryn Hough, Thomas Norman
Credits
Taryn Hough - Director
Thomas Norman - Director
Taryn Hough - Writer
Thomas Norman - Writer
Taryn Hough - Producer
Thomas Norman - Producer
Phillip McCollum - Producer
Taryn Hough - Key Cast “Wife”
Jaclyn Carmichael - Key Cast “Old Mrs. Jenkins”
Bill Rogers - Key Cast “Husband ”
Phillip McCollum - Music Composer
Taryn Hough - Director of Photography
Taryn Hough - Production Designer