SYNOPSIS: Suzanne wasn’t always this confused. She wasn’t always dead either… When an ex-con takes a job as a handyman for an unstable elderly woman to avoid a parole violation, it becomes a choice he may regret. From the makers of Dementia and Contracted comes the unnecessary midnight-movie sequel you never knew you wanted… made script-to-screen in one month!
DIRECTOR: Matt Mercer & Mike Testin
CAST: Matt Mercer, Suzanne Voss, Graham Skipper, Najarra Townsend
USA / 2017 / 1 hour, 6 minutes
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: MIKE TESTIN: Mike Testin studied Directing and Cinematography at the Los Angeles Film School. Directing credits include “Dementia”, which was a New York Times Critics Pick of the Week, and “Browse”. He has worked as a Cinematographer on various films including Contracted, Get the Girl, Dismissed and the upcoming “The Mandela Effect.”
MATT MERCER: As an actor, Matt has appeared in over 40 films, including Beyond the Gates, The Mind’s Eye, The Toybox, All the Creatures Were Stirring, Dam Sharks, and Madison County. A few years ago, Matt began stepping behind the camera. He produced and starred in the hit horror feature Contracted (IFC Midnight). The film garnered a sequel, Contracted: Phase II (in which Matt returned in the lead role). Matt has also directed and edited several shorts including the award-winning “Feeding Time,” and the features “You or A Loved One” and “Dementia Part II.”
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DEEP DISH APOCALYPSE
SYNOPSIS: As a zombie-riddled Los Angeles erupts in chaos, two co-workers bump into each other beneath the city on an abandoned subway platform. One of them makes a confession, the other makes a move, and both try to escape alive.
DIRECTOR: David Codeglia
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: David Codeglia is an award-winning Director of films like “Key Change” (Best Comedy at ITSA), “Is It Your Refrigerator?“, and Our RoboCop Remake – Scene 9, popular for is giant robot and puppet violence. He’s also directed web series like “Hill Yes“, music videos like “Awkward” (Best Music Video at IndieFest), and secret projects for Disney & Bad Robot. He is currently developing several feature films.
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HAIR WOLF
SYNOPSIS: In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
DIRECTOR: Mariama Diallo
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Mariama Diallo is a Senegalese-American writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. After graduating from the Film Studies program of Yale University, Mariama traveled to Veracruz, Mexico to film the experimental documentary project, “African Scramble,” now in post-production and slated for completion in early 2018. In 2015, Mariama co-wrote “Everybody Dies!” which formed part of the omnibus feature film “Collective:Unconscious,” premiering at 2016’s SXSW Film Festival and now streaming on Netflix. In 2016, she wrote and directed the short film “Sketch,” which had its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s African Film Festival, and which won the Fox Inclusion Emerging Artist Award at the BlackStar Film Festival.
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MEETING MACGUFFIN
SYNOPSIS: In a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has fallen apart, a group of scientists and an animated sign complete the construction of a new human race and meet a groundhog climatologist who prepares them for their mission to restore balance to the decimated Earth.
DIRECTOR: Catya Plate
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Catya Plate, born in Barcelona, Spain, and raised in Germany, is a Brooklyn based award winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. Her animated films, sculptures, paintings, and drawings explore the ephemeral nature of existence by creating an alternative universe, which exposes, among other things, humanity’s impact on the environment. Catya is a Fulbright Alumna and has been exhibiting internationally since the mid-1980’s. Her work is in public and private collections worldwide, like the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York City. Articles and reviews about her films and projects have appeared in Film Threat, BOOM!Film Reviews, The New York Times and The Independent, and others.
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SEEING GREEN
SYNOPSIS: A cake shop owner turns unsuspecting women into Bridezillas.
DIRECTOR: Chelsea Stardust
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Chelsea Stardust has been a horror film fan since the
age of 10 when her father showed her George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and Tod Browning’s Dracula. Since leaving her post at Blumhouse Productions, Chelsea started directing full time. Her first short film, Where Are You?, was part of the 2016 Etheria World Tour and was also featured on Nerdist’s SHORT ENDS on Alpha. Chelsea also released four short films on Crypt TV, Slay Per View, Marco Polo, Project Hope, Under The Bed, two of which have exceeded over 1M views.
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