BLOCK CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING FILMS:
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ARTIFICIAL
SYNOPSIS: An engineer creates the perfect companion but a single decision threatens to ruin everything she has built. This is the 3rd music video from award-winning composer David Rosen’s 3rd album Head Like Fire.
DIRECTOR/FILMMAKER: Ben Yonker w/ Daniel Rosen
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Ben Yonker is a director and cinematographer. His company Outtatime Films specializes in commercials, music videos and narrative films.
Composer David Rosen usually leaves it up to filmmakers to come up with ideas for his music videos but “Artificial” is an idea that came to him while making the song so he wrote it and the director helped get it ready for the screen.
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BEAUTY
SYNOPSIS: Set in 1934, a black woman with mysterious abilities interviews to be the housekeeper to an eccentric white widow, but in order to get the job she must use her abilities in a way she didn’t intend.
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Virginia native, Joyce Sherrí, stepped off a Greyhound bus at New York City’s Port Authority bus terminal on August 23, 2010. Armed with her passion for creative writing, Joyce hurled herself into the independent film capital of the world in pursuit of a career as a writer and director. The following year, Joyce was accepted into the Tisch Graduate Film program at New York University and in 2016 received an MFA in Filmmaking.
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ELIAS BLACK: FIRE
SYNOPSIS: Music video for the band Elias Black, produced by the legendary Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies, Gogol Bordello, Neurosis, etc.).
A man transfers his consciousness into a robot just prior to a nuclear attack. The robot then goes out in search of his lost love.
DIRECTOR: Clint Carney
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Clint has worked on many different film projects as a director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and actor. He has recently directed music videos for the bands Aesthetic Perfection, Mankind is Obsolete, Elias Black, and more. Clint’s first feature, the surrealistic horror film “Dry Blood,” (that he produced, wrote, and starred in) has proven a huge success, having accumulated 25 festival awards and 15 additional nominations. He currently has several other features on the horizon.
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LOOK TWICE
SYNOPSIS: A night surveillance security guard spots a trespasser on the property; then regrets grabbing their attention once he realizes the intruder is paranormal.
DIRECTOR: Kyle Wilson
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Kyle Wilson is an upcoming director from Cleveland, Ohio. At an early age, he developed an interest in film and storytelling. This interest quickly evolved into a strong passion leading him to write screenplays and ultimately direct. Kyle loves directing especially due to the fact that it affords him an opportunity to facilitate the execution of an idea in a collaborative atmosphere.
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NADINE
SYNOPSIS: Born into a world of hate, Nadine must find a way to break free.
DIRECTOR: Phil Bucci
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Originally from New York Phil’s love of film brought him to directing after editing films, tv and movie trailers for over 10 years. His directorial short film debut Special Forces was accepted into several festivals notably Dances with Films, NYTVF, Hollyshorts, Dragon Con and Other Worlds Austin. He also co-directed and edited the award winning web series Brooding. which won LAWeb Fest’s Outstanding Comedy Series as well as Best Comedy Web Series at the LA Comedy Film Festival.
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PALEONAUT
SYNOPSIS: A scientist studying the first human time traveller falls in love with her subject. But if her research succeeds they will become separated by eons of history. She must find a way to connect with him across the ages or lose him forever.
DIRECTOR: Eric McEver
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Raised in Oklahoma, filmmaker Eric McEver relocated to Tokyo during college to pursue a passion for Noh theatre. While working variously as an actor, translator, game developer, and animation producer, he developed an offbeat cinematic vision fusing the languages and idiosyncrasies of his two homes.
Between 2010 and 2012 he created The Sansaku, a bilingual, genre-fusing triptych of experimental films consisting of “Tutor,” “Buddha Bento,” and “Out There Somewhere.” He further honed his skills at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he wrote, produced, and directed shorts in Japan, Singapore, the United States, and China.
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POWER(less)
SYNOPSIS: After losing the love of his life in a devastating encounter with his nemesis, superhero Ricky Power is left powerless – weak and alone, trying to make sense of a cruel world.
DIRECTOR: Jamison LoCascio
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: In 2012, Jamison LoCascio began to write the screenplay for his first union short, “Midnight Catch,” which garnished much acclaim at the New Jersey International Film Festival and Manhattan Film Festival. At 19 years old, LoCascio decided to form his production company, Halcyon Valor Productions Incorporated. LoCasio’s short films have since been honored by the Screen Actors Guild and screened at such festivals as the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival, and NewFilmmakers New York.
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RAB.BIT
SYNOPSIS: When not working, the citizens of city-factory ‘The Cylinder’ sleep connected to servers with a dogma echoing in their heads: “A life of work for a life of consumption”. However, a hacker decides to disrupt this routine, getting into their heads and giving them a dream, one they don’t want to wake up from anymore.
Jonas, a psychologist from the Corporation, must take care of one of the “victims” of this criminal, a girl the same age as his own daughter.
DIRECTOR: Federico de Manachino
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Federico de Manachino is an Italian writer and director based in London. He graduated in Law at the Catholic University of Milan and studied acting at ‘Quellidigrock acting school’ in Milan. As an actor, he worked first under the direction of Giorgio Albertazzi and Christian Poggioni, and then for the company ‘Ai due chiostri’, where he also directed two successful productions. He went on to study Filmmaking at The London Film School in 2015 and since then he directed three short films that have been shortlisted in several festivals around the world. Rab.bit is his fourth film.
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RICOCHET
SYNOPSIS: A heartbroken husband brings his dead wife back to life, but with tragic consequences.
DIRECTOR: Nick Peterson
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO:Nick Peterson grew up watching MTV, Sci-Fi films, anime from Blockbuster Video, and playing video games. He graduated from the Experimental Animation program at CALARTS, and after many years producing awesome visual effects he transitioned into full time writing and directing. Nick’s films have been screened in festivals such as SUNDANCE, and SXSW. His award winning music videos have garnered tons… like way over a hundred million views. Nick is also the Co-Founder of Joker Greeting Card. He currently lives in Los Angeles, but hopes to live in a castle with a moat someday.
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SKIN CREEPERS
SYNOPSIS: When alien doppelgängers show up, an occult journalist and a conspiracy theorist must fight for their lives.
DIRECTOR: Daniel Holliday
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Born in Sydney, Australia, Daniel’s debut short film ‘Corner and the Cutman’ travelled to festivals across North America in 2015, including HollyShorts in Los Angeles and Montreal World Film Festival. He strives to cultivate a holistic directorial style, drawing on his past lives as a musician, photographer, and graphic designer.
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THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD
SYNOPSIS: 1957, New York. A Tibetan monk rents an automatic sequence computer. The monks seek to list all of the names of God. They hire two Westerners to install and program the machine in Tibet… This short film is based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke.
DIRECTOR: Dominique Filhol
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Born in Paris in 1986, Dominique Filhol is a French director who graduated from the ESRA Paris Cinema School in 2009. Passionate about science-fiction and exploring the mysteries of the world, he directed and produced in 2017 his first short film, The Nine Billion Names of God adapted from a short story by Arthur C. Clarke.
He writes his own scripts inspired by this research and makes investigative documentaries on “unexplained phenomenas.”
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