FESTIVAL PROGRAM
Midnight Screams
Embroiled in an argument on their drive home, Derek and Jess slam into a living nightmare. What they hit isn’t dead ... and very angry.
Director: Sean Menendez
Writer: Sean Menendez
How to Dance With Monsters
The domestic trauma within a cycle of abuse a woman faces over her life has taken the form of a horrifying monster that she must confront to face her own reality.
Director: Megan Baer
Writer: Megan Baer
Box Cutter
Esther contemplates leaving her job at the grocery store, but the grocery store has other plans.
Director: Ryan Akler-Bishop
Writer: Ryan Akler-Bishop
Display
Rosie, an assured businesswoman who needs professional photos of herself, hires an eccentric photographer who secretly plans to use her for a demented art project.
Director: Zach Goodwin
Writer: Zach Goodwin
Vigilante Grammy
A maniacal grandmother discovers her family's plan to put her away in a home.
Director: Max Albert
Writer: Kevin Armento, Taylor Jackson, Eric Lee
Dormancy
A woman cleans out her dead grandmother's home and unleashes the dormant spirit of a masked killer.
Director: Sarah Goras Peterson
Writer: Sarah Goras Peterson
Inamorata
Most people feared the darkness. Some people feared, more wisely, the things within the darkness. As the sun sets, and the streets darken, a vampire descends into the night in search of his next prey.
Director: Pelan Le
Writer: Pelan Le
The Infiltration
A professional cult infiltrator is hired to penetrate a mysterious group and extract his client's mind-controlled daughter. He quickly discovers that the undercover job is much more dark and dangerous than he originally bargained for...
Director: Flynn Falcone
Writer: Flynn Falcone
The Muse
An artist encounters his muse in the surreal realm of his imagination.
Director: Juliana Lee White
Writer: Juliana Lee White
Blue Zenith
Gregory undergoes a daring metamorphosis.
Director: Jacques Manjarrez, Nathan Kim
Writer: Jacques Manjarrez, Nathan Kim
Grave
A family run funeral business seems normal on the outside. The longer the Grave family is around, the more questions arise. Fighting the natural clock of death and a nosy investigator; what is the grave secret they are hiding?
Director: Cole J. Durham
Writer: Cole J. Durham, Xavier Galloway
Dark Ages
Chet, a washed up fake knight, loses everything after being fired from his job at a Medieval themed restaurant. In a booze fueled depression, Chet wanders into a house from hell and faces the fight of his life against an undead warrior. A battle ensues and Chet learns that it’s never too late to be your own hero.
Director: Natasha Pascetta
Writer: Natasha Pascetta