SCHEDULE & BLOCK INFORMATION TBD (LIKELY SPRING 2021)
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AFTER RAY (USA)
SYNOPSIS: In the aftermath of the singularity, Cole, the first “modified” human, struggles with memory loss, indicating an unstable future for humans and potential end to humanity.
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Brief Nudity, Sensuality, Intense Images
DIRECTOR: Natasha Halevi
GENRE: Sci-Fi
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Natasha Halevi is an award-winning director and actress recognized for her female focused work. Her 2019 all-female short “Beauty Juice” won the Atlanta Horror Film Festival Audience Choice Award and screened internationally, and in 2020, her sci-fi micro-series “After Ray” premiered at the Philip K. Dick Film Festival. Her webseries “Lunch Break Feminist Club” won Best Series and Best Ensemble Cast from HVFF in 2015. As an actress, Halevi has been a featured guest at San Diego ComicCon, Dragoncon and Stan Lee’s Comic-Con for her role in Troma’s “B.C. Butcher” and appeared on panels for the film and women in horror. She is a FilmQuest alumni and shares the Director’s Award for Cinematic Achievement with Fatale Collective.
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AMERICAN TOURIST: NIGHTMARE IN THAILAND (USA / THAILAND)
SYNOPSIS: An American Tourist tries to track down her kidnapped best friend in Thailand.
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Mild Language, Nudity, Strong Sensuality
GENRE: Horror, The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: World Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Bradley Stryker’s feature film debut, LAND OF SMILES, took the International film festival circuit by storm on its way to becoming a 35x Award-Winning film. The film, the screenplay, and his direction received acclaim, including the London Film Awards, the American Film Awards, Los Angeles Film Review, and the Toronto Independent Film Awards. His brand of storytelling has been said to be “Emotionally raw” and “Unnervingly honest, subtle, and terrifying.”
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DARK BEFORE DAWN (CANADA)
SYNOPSIS: On the trail of his missing son, a man and his long-time friend are led to a decrepit CARAVAN, where a nefarious merchant resides.
RATINGS GUIDE: Strong Violene, Language, Adult Content, Intense Images
DIRECTOR: Brodie Spaull & Paul Krysinski
GENRE: Horror, The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: USA Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Paul Krysinski and Brodie Spaull have gone from a couple of kids shooting movies in rural Ontario, to professionals of physical special effects in Toronto. Their technical knowledge and yearning for a creative outlet is what led to the creation of their web series Dark Before Dawn. While it makes the festival rounds, Paul and Brodie are hard at work writing original feature scripts, and future DBD content.
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IN LIMBO (USA)
SYNOPSIS: Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, two childhood frenemies — a serial trust fund partier and a ruthless social climber — are sentenced to the Purgatory Level of Los Angeles and challenged to face their inner demons together to avoid hell and reach heaven — while sharing a trashy 2 bed, 3/4 bath. Can they take the heat?
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Language
DIRECTOR: Sylvia Ray & Antoine Perry
GENRE: Comedy, The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Sylvia Ray is an award winning director, writer, and co-founder of VKTRY Creative Studios. She has been selected for HBO’s and Hola Mexico Film Festival’s Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today program. She has also worked creatively with clients such as Magnopus, Disney, and Disney-Pixar. She is an active member of the selective Women in Film’s Insight group and Alliance of Women Directors’ InSalon group. She currently has two short films, Len(n)y and A Period Piece, screening at film festivals country wide. ——– Migrating from Oklahoma, Antoine recently graduated from the University of Southern California. Since college he has forged a career in entertainment as a working film and tv actor. Recently, he has turned his creative attention toward content creation. Though his experiences as an Afro-latino queer male has made him acutely aware of the systemic challenges the “others” in society face, as a content creator he seeks to show the commonality that tie us together, bridging the many differentiating aspects that often segregate our lives.
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KARATE TORTOISE (USA)
SYNOPSIS: An unimpressive vigilante known as the Karate Tortoise is on the run from Mayor Bonati’s secret police.
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Language
DIRECTOR: Mike Diaz
GENRE: Sci-Fi, Comedy
PREMIERE STATUS: World Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Mike Diaz has written, directed, and produced narrative features, documentaries, short films, and digital series. He’s based in Los Angeles and currently writing on a network television show.
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OVER AND OUT (AUSTRALIA)
SYNOPSIS: Two new parents struggle to survive the age-old trials and tribulations of raising toddlers… whilst being smack bang in the middle of the post-apocalypse.
RATINGS GUIDE: Strong Violence, Strong Language, Intense Images
DIRECTOR: Connor Van Vuuren
GENRE: Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Over and Out sees Connor Van Vuuren directing his brother, sister in law, niece and nephew. After the viral web success of Bondi Hipsters, the Van Vuuren brothers have acquired an impressive collection of credits. In 2013 the both featured as directors on ABC’s The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting, and moved on to create and direct ABC2’s multi-platform comedy series Soul Mates in 2014. The second series of Soul Mates earned the pair an ADG Award nomination for Best Direction in a TV or SVOD Comedy Program. In 2017, the boys co-directed Squinters and Sando, are currently in development for a US series adaptation of 2012 telemovie ‘SICK’ and are set to co-direct comedy-horror ‘Croak’, produced by Jungle and Midwinter Films.
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SYDNEY SLEUTHERS (AUSTRALIA)
SYNOPSIS: When a true crime obsessed woman comes face-to-face with a real-life murderer, she teams up with the Sydney Sleuthers, an internet group of armchair detectives, to solve the murder of her neighbour before the killer gets her first!
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Mild Language, Adult Content, Intense Images
DIRECTOR: Joanna Beveridge, Nicole Delprado, Ivy Mak, Josh Mawer, Mukul Kandara, Rochelle Reidy, and Carla Bellomarino
GENRE: Comedy, Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Utah Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’SBIO: Sydney Sleuthers had a total of seven directors on the project because the Series Producers wanted to extend the opportunity of working on a competition winning web series to other emerging directors. The team, consisting of Joanna Beveridge, Nicole Delprado, Ivy Mak, Rochelle Reynolds, Josh Mawer, Mukul Kandara and the late Carle Bellomarino, has received numerous awards and nominations for the web series and worked closely together to achieve the look of the series.
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THE INFLUENCERS (USA)
SYNOPSIS: In her quest to become a high powered Hollywood agent… a young ambitious woman ends up at a tiny company managing crazy YouTube stars… not all of them are cats.
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Language
DIRECTOR: Katie Burris
GENRE: Comedy, Fantastic
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Katie Burris is an LA based comedy writer and director. Her original pilot LEFT ON DEAD was a semifinalist for NBC’s 2019 Writers on the Verge competition, and her sketch writing can be seen at UCB’s Maude Night. She’s currently enjoying a stint as a true crime writer for the Spotify podcast “Espionage.” As a director, Katie’s work on her web series THE INFLUENCERS has been recognized by the 2020 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, Seattle True Independent Film Festival, and the New Jersey Web Fest. Katie most recently worked as the assistant to Taika Waititi on his upcoming Fox Searchlight feature film NEXT GOAL WINS. You can find her oeuvre of selfies at @jemapellekatie.
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THE KARA MORGAN SHOW: WESTERN (USA)
SYNOPSIS: Kara Morgan and her tiny stop-motion animated alter ego face off, both on and off camera.
RATINGS GUIDE: All Audiences / Family Friendly
DIRECTOR: Kara Morgan
GENRE: Fantasy, Comedy, Western
PREMIERE STATUS: World Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Kara Morgan started out as an opera singer, but eventually she found her true calling as a singing goofball. She now creates The Kara Morgan Show, sings professional chamber choral music and does comedy improv and sketch at the Groundlings Theater and School. (She can also rap Psalm 23 in French and is available for birthday parties)
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THUMB RUNNER (USA / DENMARK)
SYNOPSIS: Waking up to find his wife missing, Johnny is forced, by an awkward and irritable mob boss of unknown nationality, into a twistedly violent but comedic gauntlet of tasks that he must complete to win her back. 10 episodes. 10 Brutal tasks. One hell of a scavenger hunt.
RATINGS GUIDE: Strong Violence, Language, Intense Images
DIRECTOR: Dylan Bruno & Kasper Vejlø Kristensen
GENRE: Comedy, Fantastic
PREMIERE STATUS: Utah Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’SBIO: Dylan Bruno was born on September 6, 1972 in Milford, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Saving Private Ryan (1998), Where The Heart Is (2000) and Numb3rs (2005-2010). Thumb Runner is Bruno’s first venture into directing.
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ZENITH RUN (USA)
SYNOPSIS: In A Galaxy Gone Mad A Rookie Bounty Hunter And Embezzler Team Up With A Rouge Hard Driver In The Zenith To Defeat The Mysterious Boss And Save Planet Zigon From The Corporate Hit List. Their Only Hope Is To Make A “Zenith Run”
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Language
DIRECTOR: Anthony Ferraro
GENRE: Sci-Fi
PREMIERE STATUS: Utah Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Anthony Ferraro was born and raised in Schenectady NY, Went to college in Manhattan for acting, received a Masters in Directing from RADA/ King’s College in London. He has an Emmy nomination and was a producer/editor at Al Gore’s Current TV. Last year His Sci-Fi short film “Aeranger” won Outstanding Film at the prestigious Berlin Sci-Fi Filmfest. Weekly Anthony shares his Sci-Fi filmmaking experience on his maker channel “Create SciFi.”
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