- October 6th – Opening Night Party
- Friday October 7th
TITLE: Parasites
PREMIERE: U.S. Premiere
SYNOPSIS: Three friends find themselves lost on Skid Row and are captured by an angry homeless gang.
WRITER(S): Chad Ferrin
DIRECTOR(S): Chad Ferrin
PRODUCER(S): Robert Miano, Silvia Spross, John Santos.
Co-Producer: Suzanne Sumner Ferry
Executive Producer: Robert Rhine
CAST: Robert Miano, Sean Samuels, Rich Lee, Silvia Spross, Robert Rhine, Suzanne Sumner Ferry, Tim Halpin, Joe Pilato
RUNTIME: 81m
TITLE: Occupants
PREMIERE: L.A. Premiere
SYNOPSIS: A documentarian named Annie has roped her husband into a project that involved setting up cameras throughout their house. Complications arise when the cameras start showing that same couple in an alternate universe. Starring Robert Picardo (Star Trek Voyager, Gremlins 2, Total Recall), Briana White, and Michael Pugliese.
WRITER(S): Julia Camara
DIRECTOR(S): Russ Emanuel
PRODUCER(S): Howard Nash, Robert Kwartler
CAST: Briana White (as Annie Curtis)
Michael Pugliese (as Neil Curtis)
Robert Picardo (as Dr. Alan Peterson)
RUNTIME: 80:35
TITLE: Teleios
PREMIERE: North America Premiere
SYNOPSIS: A deep space mining vessel has been adrift for two years off Saturn’s moon Titan. It is suspected the crew brutally killed each other, but the reason for the bloodbath is unknown. A rescue crew of genetically modified ‘superior’ humans aboard the explorer vessel TELEIOS are sent to find if there are any survivors, what happened and why.
WRITER(S): Ian Truitner
DIRECTOR(S): Ian Truitner
PRODUCER(S): Jeffrey Magnussen, Hayley Helmreich
CAST: Sunny Mabrey (Once Upon a Time, Snakes on a Plane), Michael Nouri (Damages, Flashdance), Lance Broadway (Colony, Olympus Has Fallen), TJ Hoban (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Weetus Cren (W.M.D.), Mykel Jenkins (Containment), Christian Pitre and Ursula Mills.
RUNTIME: 87m
- Saturday October 8th
Short Program 1:
12:00PM – 1:41PM
Demo Reel (Cornelius Broderick) (2 minutes)
Touch of Love (7 minutes)
The Captors (16 minutes)
It’s All In Your head (6 minutes)
The Last Bullet (4 minutes)
FLYSPY (21 minutes)
Crazy (13 minutes)
Borderline (11 minutes)
Eat (10 minutes)
The Voodoo Dick (11 minutes)
Short Program 2:
2:00PM – 3:39PM
Starfucker (1 minute)
Somniloquy (3 minutes)
Yummy Meat: A Halloween Carol (5 minutes)
Shutter (7 minutes)
The Light Thief (19 minutes)
Girl #2 (9 minutes)
The Scared One (13 minutes)
Surgery (11 minutes)
Used Body Parts (8 minutes)
Blight (15 minutes)
How Deep Can I Go? (5 minutes)
TITLE: Gehenna : Where Death Lives
PREMIERE: L.A. Premiere
SYNOPSIS: Five people travel to the remote, pristine Pacific island of Saipan to scout locations for their company’s new luxury resort. They find curious natives, strange dolls, and learn of historic curses, but they finally find an ideal spot. On this spot is a cave – and when they enter, what appears to be a Japanese WWII bunker turns out to be much more, and they learn that curiosity can kill, that everyone has private secrets and inner demons, and that there are some places on Earth where death itself can live.
WRITER(S): Bradley A. Palmer, Nathan Long, Hiroshi Katagiri
DIRECTOR(S): Hiroshi Katagiri
PRODUCER(S): Koodae Kim
CAST: Doug Jones, Eva Swan, Justin Gordon, Simon Phillips, Sean Sprawling, Matthew Edward Hegstrom, Lance Henriksen
RUNTIME: 106m
TITLE: I Had A Bloody Good Time At House Harker
PREMIERE: North American Premiere
SYNOPSIS: In order to save a home that has been in their family for generations, the descendants of Dracula’s slayer hire a vampire-actor to scare the town; things get out of hand when the “vampire” turns out to be the real thing.
Screenplay by: Jacob Givens
Story by: Noel Carroll, Clayton Cogswell, Jacob Givens and Derek Haugen
DIRECTOR(S): Clayton Cogswell
PRODUCER(S): Noel Carroll
CAST: Derek Haugen, Jacob Givens, Noel Carroll, Whitney Moore, Arlan Godthaab, Nathan Lorch
RUNTIME: 80m
TITLE: Dead Awake
PREMIERE: World Premiere
SYNOPSIS: A young woman must save herself and her friends from an ancient evil that stalks its victims through the real-life phenomenon of sleep paralysis.
WRITER(S): Jeffrey Reddick
DIRECTOR(S): Phillip Guzman
PRODUCER(S): Galen Walker, James LaMarr, Derek Lee Nixon
CAST: Jocelin Donahue, Jesse Bradford, Jesse Borrego, Brea Grant, James Eckhouse, Lori Petty
RUNTIME: 99m
TITLE: Paramedics
PREMIERE: World Premiere
SYNOPSIS: What happens when those who are you supposed to care for you, are the ones you should fear the most?
WRITER(S): Rodney Wilson
DIRECTOR(S): Rodney Wilson
PRODUCER(S): Rodney Wilson
CAST: Joe Bocian, Jenice Marshall, Brian Landis
RUNTIME: 101m
- Sunday October 9th
Short Program 3:
12:00PM – 1:46PM
Demo Reel (Alan Chan) (2 minutes)
The Amazing Mr. Moji (15 minutes)
Ideal (12 minutes)
The Call of Charlie (14 minutes)
Darla (6 minutes)
The Cleansing Hour (18 minutes)
Ambulance (13 minutes)
Bounce House of Horror (3 minutes)
From Another Place (13 minutes)
Tales From the Toilet (10 minutes)
Short Program 4:
2:00PM – 3:36PM
Eveless (6 minutes)
Monsters (12 minutes)
PYOTR495 (15 minutes)
The Maiden (9 minutes)
Be Still My Heart (7 minutes)
Brentwood Strangler (18 minutes)
The Disappearance of Willie Bingham (13 minutes)
Flush (6 minutes)
Roadside Assistance (7 minutes)
The Chute (3 minutes)
The Shitting (3 minutes)
TITLE: Peelers
PREMIERE: L.A. Premiere
SYNOPSIS: A small town strip club owner must defend her bar, her strippers and her life when violent infected patrons show up on the final closing night and all hell breaks loose.
WRITER(S): Lisa DeVita
DIRECTOR(S): Sevé Schelenz
PRODUCER(S): Sevé Schelenz, Lisa DeVita, Todd Giroux, Brendan Smith
CAST: Wren Walker, Caz Odin Darko, Madison J. Loos
RUNTIME: 96m
TITLE: Cold Moon
PREMIERE: North American Premiere
SYNOPSIS: From the writer of Beetlejuice & The Nightmare Before Christmas….A chilling Tale of Supernatural Vengeance.
WRITER(S): Griff Furst and Michael McDowell
DIRECTOR(S): Griff Furst
PRODUCER(S): Richard Brown, Griff Furst, Stephen Furst, Isiah Laborde
CAST: Madison Wolfe, Christopher Lloyd, Robbie Kay
RUNTIME: 92m
TITLE: Capture Kill Release
PREMIERE: L.A. Premiere
SYNOPSIS: A couple plots to murder a random stranger just for the thrill of it, but things turn ugly when one of them decides not to go through with it.
WRITER(S): Nick McAnulty, Jennifer Fraser and Farhang Ghajar
DIRECTOR(S): Nick McAnulty, Brian Allan Stewart
PRODUCER(S): Graham Rogers, Ainslee Kennedy, Nick McAnulty,Brian Allan Stewart.
CAST: Jennifer Fraser, Farhang Ghajar, Jonathan Gates, Rich Piatkowski, Christina Schimmel
RUNTIME: 95m
Awards Show
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