2023 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
A woman is unknowingly forced to exercise her demons.
Director(s): Garrett Johnson
Writer(s): Garrett Johnson
Producer(s): Garrett Johnson
Key Cast: Scarlett Redmond
Flakkus
2023 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
A former intelligence operative turned rogue scientist has kidnapped an unsuspecting victim in order to carry out experiments with his mind control drug.
Director(s): J.Lee Vertz
Writer(s): Johnny Criscione
Producer(s): Brenton Siebenbaum
Key Cast: Johnny Rocko, Sawl Gud, John Mayes
Los Angeles Premiere!
Randy Nooman’s Greatest Day
2023 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
Rather than engage in conversation with a promising love interest, a social-anxiety ridden agoraphobe befriends a murderous pipe-dwelling monster from inside his home’s plumbing.
Writer(s): Aaron S Barrocas
Zits
2023 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
In Los Angeles, a charming but hard-boiled covert narcissist is doomed by fatal acne when she incurs the evil eye from a mysterious woman
Writer(s): David Bornstein
D.O.D.
2023 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
The world has come apart. Society has collapsed. The dead have risen. But this ain’t your daddy’s zombie apocalypse.
Director(s): Paul Davis
Writer(s): Paul Davis
Producer(s): Paul Davis
Key Cast: Joseph Lake Guffey, Paul Davis
The Ride
2023 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
When Blake picks up a young Marine hitching his way down the highway, he has no idea giving the veteran a simple ride will have such a life-changing effect on both of them.
Writer(s): Alysha Haran
Mind Thief
2023 Official Selection: Feature Film – SciFi
A novelist realizes that her neighbors may be under the control of unknown forces, which propels her into a harrowing, darkly humorous journey through the depths of the human psyche.
Director(s): Matt Steinauer
Writer(s): Matt Steinauer & Angelique Pretorius
Producer(s): Matt Steinauer, Angelique Pretorius, Dilip Isaac
Key Cast: Angelique Pretorius, Leslie Miller, Greg Berman, Michael Tighe, Jamie Lynn Concepion, Jason Sims-Prewitt, Alison Martin, Stefanie Estes
Los Angeles Premiere
Wilde
2023 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series
Wilde had already mourned the loss of her best friend before she received the call that she had passed away, but now there was a flight to take, a house to care for, and most importantly – Charlotte.
Writer(s): Resha Mahri
Roomies: Nashville
2023 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series
Roomies: Nashville is a sit-com following three old high school friends living together, striving for success as a best-selling author, world-renowned actor, and chef, while facing life’s challenges and societal pressures to “get a real job”.
Writer(s): DeAndre Harris II
Fish
2023 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
When one young man’s estranged dead mother becomes reincarnated in the body of his pet goldfish, he must set aside his grievances to help his fish/mom fulfill her final wish: attending the Mother’s Day dance.
Director(s): Jeremy Hsing
Writer(s): Jeremy Hsing & Patrick Zhang
Producer(s): Jeremy Hsing, Patrick Zhang, Victoria Wang, & Grace Leahy
Key Cast: Patrick Zhang, Rebecca Jensen Uesugi, Jacy Duan
