2019 Film selections
Short Films
Exorcism
Screening: Saturday
- April 6 @ 9:15 PM with Reborn
& Skinny
Days - Alright Right Now
& Girl TripDirector: Lena Burmenko
Country: Canada
Run time: 3 min
Description: An intense first-person account of an acute demonomania psychotherapy extraction — more commonly known as EXORCISM — told via memory scan of the possessed Anna Haider.
False
Light
Screening: Sunday
- April 7 @ 6:30 PM with D-Railed
& Bad Coffee & Synthetic
LoveDirector: Kerrin Rafuse
Country: Canada
Run time: 14 min
Description: A group of university students search for answers at an abandoned settlement with a sinister history.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/falselightfilm
Future
Harvest
Screening:
Saturday - April 6 @ 3:20 PM with Short
Film ShowcaseDirector: Carolyn Corkindale
Country: Australia
Run time: 5 min
Description: An elderly woman relaxes on her quaint cottage veranda, enjoying the juicy fruit from her orchard and a scone, but there are hints that all is not as it seems. Armed with her secateurs, she takes pleasure in pruning the lush spring growth in her orchard. A horrific reality sets in and her harvest is still juicy but prophetic and terrifyingly unexpected.
Girl
Trip
Screening: Saturday
- April 6 @ 9:15 PM with Reborn
& Skinny
Days - Alright Right Now
& ExorcismDirector: Catherine Black
Country: Canada / USA
Run time: 20 min
Description: A fun road trip ends in murder and mayhem when hidden resentments between best friends surface and everyone learns the hard way never to get in the middle of a catfight.
Website: http://girltripfilm.tumblr.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/girltripfilm/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dubhcat
Hammer
Down
Screening:
Saturday - April 6 @ 3:20 PM with Short
Film ShowcaseDirector: Dan Pasto
Country: USA
Run time: 3 min
Description: 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.
Website: http://danpasto.com/
Hello,
Houston
Screening:
Saturday - April 6 @ 1:30 PM with Livescream
& Judge
MeDirector: Seunghoon Jung
Country: South Korea
Run time: 15 min
Description: A bellboy who kept telling guests he almost became an astronaut plunges into a swimming pool wearing a costume spacesuit made in China.
Helsinki
Mansplaining Massacre
Screening:
Saturday - April 6 @ 3:20 PM with Short
Film ShowcaseDirector: Ilja Rautsi
Country: Finland
Run time: 15 min
Description: Who will survive and what will be explained to them?
A horror comedy about one woman's desperate struggle to survive a pack of men who just want to explain everything to her.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO8poh0rH0c
Jog
Screening:
Friday - April 5 @ 6:30 PM with Last
Sunrise & AnimalsDirector: Jacob Stein
Country: Canada
Run time: 4 min
Description: Does the dreamer remember the dream?
Last
Call
Screening: Saturday
- April 6 @ 3:20 PM with Short
Film ShowcaseDirector: Blake Elder
Country: USA
Run time: 11 min
Description: The willpower of a recovering alcoholic is put to the test when he takes shelter from the apocalypse in a sports bar.
No One
Will Ever Believe You
Screening:
Saturday - April 6 @ 3:20 PM with Short
Film ShowcaseDirector: Frédéric Chalté
Country: Canada
Run time: 6 min
Description: It’s Halloween and Lucy wants to give a good scare to her sister by dressing up as a monster. But she might not be the only creature lurking in the teenager’s room…
Website: https://www.wlcmaboard.com/no-one-will-ever-believe-you
Revenge
of the Slasher
Screening:
Saturday - April 6 @ 11:20 PM with Scream
Queen/King & The
Next KillDirector: Julian Hoffman
Country: Canada
Run time: 23 min
Description: There are simple rules to survive a horror movie. What happens when the faithful virgin decides she wants to break every single one? What happens when the slasher becomes the star of the film instead? In this incredibly low budget horror satire we see what really happens when all the rules are broken.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5zJqZYBxCE
Rewind
Screening: Saturday
- April 6 @ 3:20 PM with Short
Film ShowcaseDirector: Rubén Pérez Barrena
Country: Spain
Run time: 13 min
Description: Elisabeth, a young college girl, comes to her faculty, amid a thick fog, prepared to study while everyone is celebrating Halloween night. With the only company of her walkman, sleep begins to take hold of her, but she hears a recording on her walkman, which will trigger the harassment of a terrifying presence.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/Rewindcortometraje/
Samantha
Screening: Saturday
- April 6 @ 3:20 PM with Short
Film ShowcaseDirector: Sebastian Ponton
Country: Canada
Run time: 6 min
Description: A mysterious place in a dark city is where this legend begins. The coldness of the humid walls embrace the environment of a novel writer. Long hours of work constantly maintain Frank focused on his next piece of art, his next great novel. An unexpected visit cause his worn hands become the owners of the novel.
Website: https://www.fantasmacinema.com/samantha
Skin Deep
Screening: Sunday
- April 7 @ 4:00 PM with Far
From The Apple Tree
& V.A.S.T.
- She is Murder & The
CollectorDirector: Ryan Couldrey
Country: Canada
Run time: 3 min
Description: A pastry shop owner tears herself apart to catch the eye of a customer... An absurdist parable about impossible beauty standards meets Face Off (served with a delicious croissant with just a smidgen of blood on it).
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rytron
Slapface
Screening: Saturday
- April 6 @ 3:20 PM with Short
Film ShowcaseDirector: Jeremiah Kipp
Country: USA
Run time: 8 min
Description: A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a relationship with a dangerous monster.
Website: http://kippfilms.com/main.html
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Slapface-1017410935030789/
Standby
Screening: Saturday
- April 6 @ 3:20 PM with Short
Film Showcase Director: Ethan Evans & Sean Toshach
Country: UK
Run time: 9 min
Description: A secluded young boy unintentionally enters the magical world of his television, only to discover a darker truth to the happy facade.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StandbyFilm2018
Twitter: https://twitter.com/standbyfilm2018
Synthetic
Love - Syntetychna Liubov
Screening:
Sunday - April 7 @ 6:30 PM with D-Railed
& False
Light & Bad CoffeeDirector: Vasyl Moskalenko
Country: Ukraine
Run time: 15 min
Description: When Corinna suffers a breakup with her boyfriend, she, on the recommendation of a friend, turns for assistance to Corporation "Synthetic Love". The company's head assures her: They will bring back her boyfriend; all she has to do is sign a contract...
Terra
Screening: Saturday
- April 6 @ 7:15 PM with Time
Perspectives
& Buzz
LightyearDirector: Johnny Han
Country: USA
Run time: 8 min
Description: A woman Rachel elicits the wrath of Terra, Mother Nature incarnate who takes the form of the precious water Rachel is wasting to get revenge for her sins against the Earth.
The
Chicken's Revenge
Screening: Sunday
- April 7 @ 9:00 PM with The
Final Ride & Third
Wheel & Cockroach
BrainDirector: Nicolas Gueniot
Country: Réunion
Run time: 23 min
Description: While trying to get revenge on a psychopath who thought he killed her (note to self: always check the body twice before burying it), Manon found herself trapped in a house surrounded by cops. To escape, she would have no choice but to work with with the guy who knows the "Chicken's curse"...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lamaledictiondupoulet/
The Collector
Screening: Sunday
- April 7 @ 4:00 PM with Far
From The Apple Tree
& Skin
Deep & V.A.S.T.
- She is MurderDirector: Jonah Bleicher & Min Ding
Country: USA
Run time: 20 min
Description: In this dark fairy-tale, a man collects the heads of his ex-girlfriends as hunting trophies. But his current girlfriend won't go down without a fight.
Website: https://www.minjostudio.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/minjostudioNYC/
The
Devil's Due
Screening:
Saturday - April 6 @ 5:10 PM with No
Man's Land & Thirsty
Eyes - 838Director: Ryan LaPlante
Country: Canada
Run time: 4 min
Description: The Devil made this film. He made it just for you. Don't you want to hear what he has to say?
Third
Wheel
Screening: Sunday
- April 7 @ 9:00 PM with The
Final Ride & Cockroach
Brain & The
Chicken's RevengeDirector: Daniel DelPurgatorio
Country: USA
Run time: 4 min
Description: Susan has more than just skeletons in her closet.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/233853725
Website: http://www.wecantallbeperfect.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThirdWheelMovie
Threshold
Screening:
Saturday - April 6 @ 3:20 PM with Short
Film ShowcaseDirector: Iain Forbes
Country: Norway
Run time: 9 min
Description: In another time and another world, four teenagers choose to seek out the mysterious door in the woods. When it suddenly opens, the teenagers fear the unknown. But is their fear justified?
Transcend
Screening: Friday
- April 5 @ 9:00 PM with The
27 Club & Cuts
You UpDirector: Kazuhiro Taira
Country: Japan
Run time: 26 min
Description: An aspiring actress who is suicidal and a girl trying to survive physical abuse live on a small tropical island. When they are both nearing their moment of death, a biological weapon strikes the island. A transformed world awaits them in which only those who are truly alone can survive.
Website: http://project-nine.info/
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