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Animals (Mowth) (USA)
SYNOPSIS: Official music video for “Animals,” by Utah rock band Mowth, which explores themes like abuse of power, humans turning on each other, and the rising need for revolution, inspired by the Orwell novella “Animal Farm.”
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Intense Imagery
DIRECTOR: Ryan Margetts
GENRE: The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Monday, Oct. 26th @ 5:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Ryan Margetts is an award-winning cinematographer, camera operator, and director based in Salt Lake City, Utah. His credits include short and feature length narrative and documentary films, national and global commercial campaigns, and music videos. Ryan’s work has received recognition from film festivals and international short film competitions, including winning Best Music Video at FilmQuest 2024!
IMAGES FROM THE FILM: Coming Soon
TRAILER: Coming Soon
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Anthrax’s The Edge of Perfection (USA)
SYNOPSIS: For the video, the multi-GRAMMY® Award-nominated New York hard rock titans – Scott Ian (guitar), Charlie Benante (drums), Frank Bello (bass), Joey Belladonna (vocals), and Jonathan Donais (guitar) – teamed up with director and Academy Award-winner Joel Harlow (Star Trek and Alice in Wonderland) to create a spectacular cinematic experience that takes the hero from a dream into an evening of magic where he encounters underworld evil, interspersed with live performance footage. The clip includes appearances from martial artist Wes Scarpias, actress Ashley Edner-Tancharoen, actor Troy James, actor and Academy-Award winning make-up and special effects creator Rick Baker, actor Rod Maxwell and actor Fedor Steer.
RATINGS GUIDE: Inense Imagery
DIRECTOR: Joel Harlow
GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Wednesday, Oct. 28th @ 8:00 PM
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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Dancing Monkey (Jeff Hilliard) (USA)
SYNOPSIS: TBD
RATINGS GUIDE: TBD
DIRECTOR: TBD
GENRE: TBD
PREMIERE STATUS: TBD
SCREENING DATE: Thursday, Oct. 29th @ 11:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: TBD
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Dreamwalker (Anita Aysola) (ICELAND / USA)
SYNOPSIS: Artist and composer Anita Aysola slips into a beautifully strange dreamworld, seeking refuge in the space between waking and sleep. As she wanders through portals of mystery and uncertainty, she begins to wonder: is she being followed or led? Something lurks in the darkness, waiting to answer. Shot entirely in the otherworldly landscapes of Northern Iceland, DREAMWALKER is an immersive short film and cinematic entry point to Aysola’s forthcoming full-length album of the same name.
RATINGS GUIDE: All Audiences
DIRECTOR: Cameron
GENRE: The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: World Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Tuesday, Oct. 27th @ 11:00 AM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Cameron’s work has garnered multiple Emmys for Netflix and has appeared on major streamers such as Hulu, PBS, and beyond. He has worked with the likes of Aaron Sorkin, Jessica Chastain, Owen Wilson, and Idris Elba to name a few. According to GoIndieNow, Cameron is a filmmaker “born to tell stories” and his groundbreaking feature Disposable Humanity was named “one of the most important documentaries of 2025” by HorrorBuzz.com. As a triple threat Writer/Director/Producer, Cameron’s work has graced the stages of the DGA theater and won countless film festivals internationally including appearances at Slamdance, Filmocracy, Holly Shorts, and Edmonton. His work has been described as pathbreaking, including his pilot “Elsa” which inspired the series “Renegades” on PBS American Masters. His latest work DREAMWALKER is a long form visual music album that was made to accompany the release of the full length DREAMWALKER album by Anita Aysola
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Fingers Crossed (The Moth & The Flame) (USA)
SYNOPSIS: A terminally ill girl imagines escaping the hospital and moving through the stages of a life she may never live, always in the same hospital gown and red sneakers.
RATINGS GUIDE: All Audiences
DIRECTOR: Rebecca Thomas
GENRE: Fantasy
PREMIERE STATUS: Utah Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Monday, Oct. 26th @ 5:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Rebecca Thomas premiered her first feature, ELECTRICK CHILDREN, starring Julia Garner, at the Berlinale in 2012, for which she earned a FIPRESCI and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. A graduate of Columbia University’s Film Masters Program, Rebecca has directed television for the last decade, including STRANGER THINGS and ARCHIVE 81. Her new film WARDRIVER, starring Dane Dehaan, is a taut thriller that explores loneliness and the illusion of control in the digital age.
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Gold Star, Good Citizen (Die Shiny) (USA)
SYNOPSIS: Official music video for edgy electropop band Die Shiny’s song, “Gold Star, Good Citizen,” which is a brutally cutting commentary on how hyper-individualism and complacency make all of us complicit in global terror.
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Mild Language
DIRECTOR: Ryan Margetts
GENRE: The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Wednesday, Oct. 28th @ 11:00 AM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Ryan Margetts is an award-winning cinematographer, camera operator, and director based in Salt Lake City, Utah. His credits include short and feature length narrative and documentary films, national and global commercial campaigns, and music videos. Ryan’s work has received recognition from film festivals and international short film competitions, including winning Best Music Video at FilmQuest 2024!
IMAGES FROM THE FILM: Coming Soon
TRAILER: Coming Soon
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Hole (Faetooth) (USA)
SYNOPSIS: A woman’s desperate journey through grief draws her into the realm of the Triple Goddess.
RATINGS GUIDE: Inense Imagery
DIRECTOR: Joe
GENRE: Horror, The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: None
SCREENING DATE: Virtual Exclusive Screening
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Joe uses film as an empathy machine—built to unsettle, provoke, and reveal.
IMAGES FROM THE FILM: Coming Soon
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Last Night (USA)
SYNOPSIS: An infatuation that turns into toxic love, seen through dance and heard through music. Second guessing is a nightmare.
RATINGS GUIDE: All Audiences
DIRECTOR: TBD
GENRE: The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: World Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Monday, Oct. 26th @ 5:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: I’m a Director/Editor based out of Lehi Utah. While studying Jazz in college I found a passion for film through acting, which then turned into editing after graduation. Since then I’ve produced and edited for various short films and viral YouTube channels. “Last Night” is not only my festival directorial debut, but the colliding of my musical and film worlds. My band Atlas Slave and I are proud to present our first of many music videos.
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Lightning Scar (Bronco Forte) (USA)
SYNOPSIS: Adventurers traverse hand-drawn dungeons, battle skeletons, and meet their grim fates one by one. Lighting Scar is a lo-fi medieval fantasy packed with miniature sets, animation, and kooky composites featuring all handmade elements.
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, All Audiences
DIRECTOR: Danger
GENRE: Fantasy, Comedy
PREMIERE STATUS: None
SCREENING DATE: Wednesday, Oct. 28th @ 5:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Danger is a filmmaker working as a a cinematographer who grew up in St. Louis before running away to live in my truck and be a dirtbag climber. He’s fabricated puppets, restored and lived in an old sailboat, and was deeply involved in the immersive art community in Oakland. Nowadays, he specializes in highly technical story-driven cinematography, and occasionally directs.
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Monty (Yvette Young & Novo Amor) (UK)
SYNOPSIS: When a lonely man decides to reanimate his dead dog with a mail-order contraption, things don’t quite go to plan.
RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, All Audiences
DIRECTOR: Leo Villares & Victor Nauwynck
GENRE: Sci-Fi, Comedy
PREMIERE STATUS: None
SCREENING DATE: Thursday, Oct. 22nd @ 5:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Leo Villares and Victor Nauwynck direct commercials and music videos together, including their IRL video for Lowswimmer, which screened at SXSW and was shortlisted at the Berlin Commercial Awards. Separately, Leo’s horror-comedy short The Farm won prizes across Europe while Victor’s narrative work has screened at BFI London, Tallinn Black Nights and Cannes, where he won the Young Director Award; the two are co-founders of Picloc.
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Size Two (Vanity) (USA)
SYNOPSIS: TBD
RATINGS GUIDE: TBD
DIRECTOR: TBD
GENRE: TBD
PREMIERE STATUS: TBD
SCREENING DATE: Wednesday, Oct. 28th @ 2:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: TBD
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(T)ouch! (Vanity) (USA)
SYNOPSIS: Inspired by classic horror movies in which a woman lusts for a monster that wants to hurt her, (T)OUCH! follows Crybaby as she falls for a seductive vampire; only to take back control in a blood-soaked climax.
RATINGS GUIDE: Strong Violence
DIRECTOR: Hannah May Cumming
GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Thursday, Oct. 29th @ 8:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Hannah May Cumming is a writer, director, and producer originally hailing from Liverpool, UK. She is most known for her short horror films Baby Fever (2022) and Fanatico (2019) both of which are platformed Alter. She is the creator of Monstrous Femme Films, a queer-feminist indie horror production company based in Portland, OR. Hannah’s work is an amalgamation of queer and feminist horror, camp, and her love of retro design and fashion. She has a knack for creating highly stylized worlds and fascinating, complex female characters. As seen clearly in her films, Hannah is unafraid to take provocative, creative risks within the horror genre, especially when that work is taking a strong socio-political stance. She is currently in pre-production on her next horror short film, titled SEA LEGS.
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The Core (FRANCE / UK)
SYNOPSIS: At the twilight of his life, a man whose obsessive quest for truth has led him to the edge of an abyss is visited by metaphysical entities who try to prevent him from diving further into it. Each entity offers its version of order and salvation, but the need to gaze beyond and search as deep as possible is strong, even if it might result in a one-way ride to damnation.
RATINGS GUIDE: Intense Imagery
DIRECTOR: Craig Murray
GENRE: The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: US Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Monday, Oct. 26th @ 11:00 AM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Coming from a fine art background, Craig Murray is a film director specializing in narrative music videos. He has worked with Mogwai, Alcest and large firms like Samsung. His work seeks to provide viewers with an emotional and immersive experience, using real hand built elements to keep his audience connected. “The Core” is his second collaborative effort with French multidisciplinary artist Amine Boucekkine (writer, musician, producer).
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The Kill 2 (Lex Amarni) (UK)
SYNOPSIS: Two friends succumb to scrolling fever, and madness soon ensues. Embarking on a frenzied killing spree, they are determined to leave no survivors in their homicidal wake. This is Celebrity Deathmatch meets Tarantino!
RATINGS GUIDE: Violence
DIRECTOR: Chris Ullens
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
PREMIERE STATUS: US Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Thursday, Oct. 29th @ 11:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Chris Ullens is a Belgian director working mainly in stop motion animation who lives and works in London. He’s worked on high-end commercials whist his music videos and shorts are known for their bold, creative and playful character which have earned him multiple awards in festivals across the globe.
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The Misfits / The Rebels (Carpenter Brut) (FRANCE / USA)
SYNOPSIS: Rebels at full speed through the City of Light. The Misfits/ The Rebels explodes like a race toward freedom between neon lights, synths and chaos. Follow Lita and Bret in a high-speed chase through Midwichpolis in an animated music video directed by Jean Delaunay.
RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Sensuality, Intense Imagery
DIRECTOR: Jean Delaunay
GENRE: Sci-Fi
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Thursday, Oct. 29th @ 11:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Jean Delaunay is a French director and digital artist born in Normandy in 1986. He graduated from Supinfocom (now Rubika) in 2010 with the short film 8BITS, selected for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and awarded worldwide. Since then he has worked in advertising, branding design and film across Paris, New York and Los Angeles, directing music videos for artists such as NOISIA, Al’tarba & Senbeï and Bonobo. He works across animation, live action and design, and continues to make his own films alongside commissioned work.
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Thunder Strike (FLG & Corella) (UK)
SYNOPSIS: An emotional exploration finds a couple immersed in a fantasy of psychedelic sensory visuals and music. Beautifully shot on 35mm in an abandoned art deco amphitheatre, where world-bending animation disseminates from the powerful percussion of Thunder Strike.
RATINGS GUIDE: All Audiences
DIRECTOR: Giles Edward-N
GENRE: The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: International Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Monday, Oct. 26th @ 11:00 AM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: London based director Giles Edward-N inherited an eye for film and photography from a partially blind father who took photos for a living. Now I make films mostly in focus driven with fantastical techniques, stylized fashion, and a hint of dark folklore.
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Trophia (Kataria) (USA)
SYNOPSIS: N/A
RATINGS GUIDE: All Audiences
DIRECTOR: TBD
GENRE: The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: World Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Wednesday, Oct. 28th @ 2:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: TBD
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