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NASH (USA)
SYNOPSIS: Nine-year-old Nash is determined to find the monster that killed his mother; his father George is equally determined to stop him.
RATINGS GUIDE: Intense & Scary Imagery
DIRECTOR: Tim Warren
GENRE: Horror, The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: Utah Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Friday, Nov. 3rd @ 2:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Tim Warren is a filmmaker and commercial director from Miami, FL. He graduated from the University of Miami in 2014 with an MFA in Directing. This is his first narrative film.
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NIGHT NURSE (USA)
SYNOPSIS: A year after giving birth to a stillborn, Bri is still lost in a forest of grief. The recent birth of a healthy daughter has done little to ease her suffering. And when her husband insists they hire a Night Nurse to help care for the child, Bri begins to suspect that the stranger they’ve let into their home isn’t at all who she claims to be…
RATINGS GUIDE: Nudity, Adult Content, Intense & Scary Imagery
GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: World Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Sunday, Oct. 29th @ 2:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Jacob Colman is a writer/director based out of Los Angeles. His screenplay BLUR made the annual Black List in 2018. He has participated in the writers’ rooms of GODZILLA VS. KONG, DETECTIVE PIKACHU and the forthcoming SHERLOCK HOLMES 3. Prior to that he worked in documentary film, receiving a ‘written by’ credit on the film KOBE BRYANT’S: MUSE which premiered on Showtime in 2015. The short NIGHT NURSE marks his directorial debut.
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NO OVERNIGHT PARKING (USA)
SYNOPSIS: A woman fleeing from her abusive husband gets trapped in an underground parking garage with a masked killer.
RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Language
DIRECTOR: Meg Swertlow
GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Utah Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Saturday, Nov. 4th @ 11:00 AM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Meg Swertlow is a Los Angeles-born and based screenwriter/director who focuses on creating badass female-driven projects in the horror genre. She has directed eight short films in the last three years. Most recently she shot No Overnight Parking, a horror proof of concept starring Alyssa Milano, which was selected for K. Period Media/Blumhouse’s Inaugural “Screamwriting” Lab in March 2023.
Her short films have been included in some of the world’s top genre fests including Fantastic Fest, Brooklyn Horror Fest, Scream Fest, FrightFest UK, Nightmares Film Festival, Etheria Film Night and Film Quest. She was selected for the Ryan Murphy Half Initiative Director Shadowing Program and shadowed on 911: Lone Star in November 2022 – at nine months pregnant. She is repped by Echo Lake Entertainment.
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NOSEPICKER (UK)
SYNOPSIS: A ‘tale of the unexpected’ about an 8-year-old British schoolboy with a nasty habit of picking his nose. Bullied by classmates, unhelped by authority figures, Georgie retreats into himself with macabre results.
RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Mild Language, Intense & Scary Imagery
DIRECTOR: Ian Mantgani
GENRE: Horror, Comedy, The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Saturday, Oct. 28th @ 11:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: A mixed-race filmmaker based in London zipping ambitiously between documentary and genre projects not unlike a wannabe Friedkin. Also a founding curator of The Badlands Collective, which shows underscreened films of beautiful 35mm prints.
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NOT US (USA)
SYNOPSIS: Inside a mysterious group audition, pressure mounts for approval from a god-like director. As one performer cracks, another must decide whether to fall in line… or break the toxic pattern and offer comfort. NOT US is a visceral psychological thriller, reckoning with the abuses of an industry at odds with the transformative power of empathy.
RATINGS GUIDE: All Audiences
DIRECTOR: James Kautz
GENRE: Fantastic
PREMIERE STATUS: World Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Friday, Nov. 3rd @ 2:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: James Kautz (he/him) is a multifaceted artist of stage and film, hailed by The New York Times as “fearless” and as “fiercely talented” by Time Out New York. James is the Founder of Red Seed Films, an independent film production company whose stories focus on personal transformation, gender, and identity. Red Seed’s films have been accepted into over a hundred film festivals, including Oscar, BAFTA, and Canadian Film Award qualifying festivals.
He is the Founding Artistic Director of the award winning, critical darling, Off Broadway theatre company, The AMORALISTS. As an actor, James has worked in television (HBO, CBS), theatre (Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage), independent films, webseries, and voice-over. He is a graduate of NYU’s Sight & Sound Filmmaking Program and has taught and directed in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and The Atlantic Theater Company Acting School.
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ODDITIES (USA)
SYNOPSIS: When a drugged-out duo attempts to rob an antique store, they realize the older woman running the shop isn’t as defenseless as she seems.
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Strong Language, Intense & Scary Imagery
DIRECTOR: Tyler Savage
GENRE: The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Saturday, Nov. 4th @ 11:00 AM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: After attending NYU Tisch, Tyler Savage worked as a Story Editor at Warner Bros before going on to work with Terrence Malick on four back-to-back features. He worked as a feature writer full-time for a few years before making his first feature (Inheritance, 2017), which was lauded by genre critics after premiering at Brooklyn Horror. His second feature (Stalker, 2020) was awarded at FrightFest and Austin Film Festival before getting picked up by Vertical Entertainment.
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OLD TIME RADIO: YOUR MOVE (USA)
SYNOPSIS: We find ourselves back in the macabre world of Old Time Radio. Riktus Grim and his half-brother, Edward Mise, have once again managed to climb their way out of their graves and make their way up to the ancestral home for a simple game of chess. What could go wrong…?
RATINGS GUIDE: All Audiences
DIRECTOR: Joel Harlow
GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Utah Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Thursday, Nov. 2nd @ 11:00 AM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Academy Award-winner Joel Harlow is one of the most innovative makeup and special makeup artists and designers in American motion pictures. He has proven himself to be one of a very few number of artists who is able to span the world of makeup effects design and creation to the world of on set makeup application. With his company Morphology Inc., Harlow has worked on some of the industries most popular tent-pole films to date.
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OVERNIGHTS (USA)
SYNOPSIS: An overworked veterinary technician picks up a late night shift to make ends meet. She’s soon tormented by the very thing she’s dedicated her life to.
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Strong Language, Intense & Scary Imagery
DIRECTOR: Shannon Brown
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Tuesday, Oct. 31st @ 5:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Shannon Brown began her career touring the country doing sketch and improv comedy and now lives in Los Angeles, where she writes and directs horror-comedy shorts. She has a passion for blending scares and belly laughs while bringing fun, relatable female characters to life. Shannon credits her family for nourishing her comedic talent and her Catholic upbringing for her comfort with gore.
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PINK REEF (AUSTRALIA)
SYNOPSIS: A mermaid struggles with identity in an alienating suburban world without running water.
RATINGS GUIDE: All Audiences
DIRECTOR: Chloe de Brito
GENRE: Fantasy, Comedy, The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Monday, Oct. 30th @ 11:00 AM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Chloe de Brito crafts visually hypnotic, visceral worlds that unite the imaginary with the real. Chloe is an ADG-award winning director. Her background in song, dance, improvisation and theatre informs her appreciation for preserving and recreating powerful yet temporal moments. Chloe’s expressionist short Pink Reef (2022) premiered at the Oscar-qualifying 70th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), has exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum and has been curated by ACMI at the BFI Southbank in London, as part of the You Beauties: New Australian Cinema programme in February 2023. Chloe is a 2022 alumni of the prestigious MIFF Accelerator Lab. Chloe was recently selected for Playlab Films 2023 Apichatpong Weerathesakul Creators Lab taking place in Yucatán, Mexico.
Keep It Up, her music video for artist Sonny Grin, which she wrote, directed and choreographed received ‘Best Direction’ from the Australian Directors Guild and the Clipped Music Video Awards. Chloe has directed music videos for an international slate of artists, which have gained international features and Best Video by Rolling Stone. In 2022, Chloe undertook a Screen Australia sponsored Director’s Attachment with Tony Krawitz on ABC limited series Significant Others. Currently, Chloe is in development on a variety of narrative and experimental projects. Chloe is a graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School and the University of Technology.
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POV (USA)
SYNOPSIS: An ideologically opposed couple attempt to survive a home invasion by a masked assailant on the single most dangerous night of the year… Halloween.
RATINGS GUIDE: Strong Violence, Strong Language, Sensuality, Adult Content, Intense & Scary Imagery
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Sunday, Oct. 29th @ 8:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Born and raised in New York, and entirely self-taught, Brian Karl Rosenthal cut his filmmaking teeth shooting on S-VHS camcorders in High School and editing deck-to-deck. In 2013 Rosenthal launched a geek-oriented YouTube channel which hosted several of his viral fan-films, parodies and assorted shorts to the combined tune of more than 20 million views.
In 2019, he was awarded BEST FLORIDA FILM for his short, “Fever”, at iHorror Film Festival, BEST TRAILER for “The Last Blockbuster” at 2020’s HORRORHAUS FILM FESTIVAL, and most recently BEST FLORIDA FILM for “POV” at 2023’s POPCORN FRIGHTS FILM FESTIAL. Rosenthal is currently developing several projects, including a feature adaptation of POV.
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PRUNING (USA)
SYNOPSIS: When a political commentator discovers she has inspired a mass shooting, she must contend with her conscience–by any means necessary.
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Language, Intense & Scary Imagery
DIRECTOR: Lola Blanc
GENRE: Horror, Fantastic
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Wednesday, Nov. 1st @ 2:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Lola Blanc is a filmmaker, musician, and actor whose directorial work has been spotlighted by Pitchfork, Billboard, Fangoria, and Omeleto, and screened at film festivals like Fantastic Fest, Fantasia, and Palm Springs International Shortfest. As an artist, Blanc’s music has garnered tens of millions of streams. Her cult podcast “Trust Me” has been featured by the New York Times and Harper’s Bazaar.
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QUIET (SPAIN / ANDORRA)
SYNOPSIS: A father desperately searches for his daughter Joe, missing from the building where he works. His loss will reveal a terrible past…
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Adult Content
DIRECTOR: Hèctor Romance
GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Thursday, October 26th @ 5:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Hèctor Romance (Sabadell, Spain, 1987). Multidisciplinary independent filmmaker, he has directed the feature-length documentary “Mr. Hand Solo” (2020), the short film “Impact” (2018) and the music videos “Water Woman” (2022) and “Llueve en la Massana” (2021), apart from the Second Unit of documentary “Crossing the Yellow Blocks” (2018). He has also worked as assistant director on titles such as “Under the Ice”, “Plastic Killer”, “El fred que crema”, “Esperando a Dalí”, “El cas Angelus”, “73 minutos” o “Llana negra”. In 2020 he founded his production company, Romance Produccions, and he directs advertising for Andorra Government and other companies in this country. “Quiet” is his second short film as a director and he is currently developing the feature film based on the short.
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QUIET! MOM’S WORKING! (USA)
SYNOPSIS: One happens in mom’s basement…stays in mom’s basement.
RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Language, Brief Nudity, Adult Content
DIRECTOR: Patrick Hogan
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Thursday, Nov. 2nd @ 11:00 AM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Patrick Hogan is a ten-time Emmy nominated sound editor. He is also a 4-time FilmQuest alumni. His films have played at hundreds of festivals around the world and won all sorts of awards. But he won’t rest until he has a Cthulhu, the most coveted of all.
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RADIO TELESCOPE (USA)
SYNOPSIS: Set in 1984, a former NASA Scientist and his young son make a discovery in his make-shift laboratory located in the garage.
RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Intense & Scary Imagery
DIRECTOR: Tanner Beard
GENRE: Sci-Fi
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Saturday, Oct. 28th @ 2:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Tanner Beard is a film maker who was born in Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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RECOLLECTOR (AUSTRALIA)
SYNOPSIS: A futuristic detective (a Recollector) attempts to solve a murder case by infiltrating the victim’s last moments of life, while dealing with the mental anguish and torment his profession brings.
RATINGS GUIDE: Sensuality
DIRECTOR: Nabil Chowdhary
GENRE: Sci-Fi
PREMIERE STATUS: North American Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Saturday, Nov. 4th @ 5:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Nabil is a British-born, Australian-based director represented by Alex Creasia (Sugar 23, Los Angeles) and David Boxerbaum and Sara Nestor (Verve Agency, Los Angeles)
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RED VELVET (USA)
SYNOPSIS: Upon learning the end of the world is taking place, a lonely man locks himself in a motel room when a female escort arrives at his door…
RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Language, Brief Nudity, Sensuality, Intense & Scary Imagery
DIRECTOR: Blake Simon
GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Friday, Nov. 3rd @ 11:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Blake Simon is a writer and director with a passion for creating emotionally engaging genre thrillers. Blake has also worked in a variety of roles on numerous studio films including most recently as a Producer on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023). In 2016 Blake’s student film Goldilocks was honored at the DGA as part of the Film Outside the Frame Awards before amassing over half a million views online. In 2022 his sci-fi screenplay Return to Sender placed on the Coverfly Red List in the top 2% of the platform. Now in 2023 his horror short Red Velvet has hit the festival circuit earning comparisons to Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone. Blake is currently preparing his feature film directorial debut.
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REMOTE (USA)
SYNOPSIS: Two young siblings make an otherworldly new friend, just as their family-owned pawn shop is attacked by criminals.
RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Mild Language, Intense & Scary Imagery
DIRECTOR: Eric Jungmann
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
PREMIERE STATUS: Utah Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Friday, Oct. 27th @ 5:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Eric Jungmann grew up studying acting and filmmaking in Texas, beginning his career with a few small roles in local films like “Varsity Blues” and Robert Rodriguez’s, “The Faculty”. His ambitions soon led him to Los Angeles, where he’s continued evolving as an artist, working steadily in TV and Film, creating memorable characters in what’ve now become cult favorites like, “Not Another Teen Movie” and “Winning London”.
He’s collaborated as an actor on a large number of shows for networks like HBO, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC and WB – as well as multiple feature films premiering at festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW and Sitges. With twenty years of experience in the business, Eric has now begun developing his filmmaking career as a writer and director. He has just finished production on his latest short film, a sci-fi horror adventure called, “REMOTE”, produced by 20th FOX Digital and airing on Hulu.
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RIDE BABY RIDE (USA)
SYNOPSIS: This 1978 camaro was her dream car. Now it’s her nightmare.
RATINGS GUIDE: Strong Violence, Mild Language , Adult Content, Intense & Scary Imagery
DIRECTOR: Sofie Somoroff
GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Thursday, Nov. 2nd @ 11:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Sofie Somoroff is a filmmaker based in LA. Her recent horror short, LOVE IS A FIRE, took home Best Midnight Short at FilmQuest 2022 and Nightmares 2022, and was noted for “its terrifying ending that will quench any horny feelings you have for the next hour” (Film Threat). Prior to that, she made a series of musicals about living in LA: My First Night in LA, about learning self love while crashing on a friend’s couch, and My Worst Night in LA, about pooping on a Hinge date. Her sci fi short, CUT, inspired by her grandmother’s experiences in a home for unwed mothers, is available to watch on Dust.
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ROBBIE AIN’T RIGHT NO MORE (USA)
SYNOPSIS: A young girl’s brother returns from war with a most disturbing souvenir.
RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Strong Language, Intense & Scary Imagery
GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Utah Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Friday, Nov. 3rd @ 2:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Kyle Perritt is a former US Marine turned filmmaker who resides in Charleston, SC. He has worked in the film industry as an IATSE lighting technician for a decade and spends his free time making indie movies.
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