BLOCK CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING FILMS:
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BLOOD SHED
SYNOPSIS: Jack loves a bargain. And he loves sheds. When he buys suspiciously cheap second-hand parts to build his very own dream shed, he and long-suffering wife Helen get more than they bargained for: a killer shed with an appetite for blood. As the body count rises, and the shed’s ferocious appetite grows, Jack is faced with a horrifying dilemma. A comedy horror about a man’s twisted love for his shed… that eats people.
DIRECTOR: James Moran
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: James wrote the movies Severance, Cockneys Vs Zombies, Tower Block, and episodes of internationally acclaimed TV shows such as Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spooks, Primeval, Spooks: Code 9, Crusoe, The Sparticle Mystery, Crossing Lines, and Eve.
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BULLET TIME
SYNOPSIS: A desolate street in a small village in the Old West. Two cowboys face each other in a good-old-fashioned shootout! But when both of the colts fire their deadly bullets, those bullets immediately fall in love with each other, forgetting what they’re supposed to do! This has dramatic consequences…
DIRECTOR: Frodo Kuipers
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Frodo Kuipers (1976) studied animation at the ABV Tilburg (NL) and at KASK HogeschoolGhent (Belgium). In 2001 he graduated with great honours with his short ‘Antipoden’. This film won awards at several film festivals and was nominated for the selection of the Cartoon d’Or by Anima Brussels (B) in 2002.
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GOOD LUCK MARC
SYNOPSIS: Marc wins an apartment. He loves it, until a few months in when he notices that the place is slowly shrinking.
DIRECTOR: Ronen Eldar
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Ronen is a French/Israeli writer & director currently based in London. With a background in English literature and creative writing, he began freelancing as a filmmaker and a creative in Amsterdam. With a growing interest in film and a drive to tell stories, he enrolled for a master at the London Film School, where he got to work and collaborate on dozens of productions. He is now in post-production for his graduation film ‘Musing’ and working as a producer on several other projects.
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MY MONSTER
SYNOPSIS: Christmas is coming. If that’s not stressful enough, Lily (Brea Grant) has to contend with a clueless partner (Adam Egypt Mortimer) and an unexpected, inter-dimensional holiday guest who just wants two things — blood and cuddles.
DIRECTOR: Izzy Lee
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Izzy Lee is a writer, Rondo Award-nominated filmmaker, and journalist for Birth.Movies. Death., Rue Morgue, and Diabolique, as well as an editor for ScreenAnarchy.
Her recently published short stories include: “Famous Last Words” (“Lost Films”); “Tilberian Holiday” (“Wicked Witches”); and “The Lake Children” (“Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep” and “Hydrophobia”). She’s currently at work on several short stories and scripts.
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NIGHT CROSSER
SYNOPSIS: A strange Romanian trying to enter Canada is confronted by an overzealous custom officer and his curiously cooperative colleague.
DIRECTOR: Kevin T. Landry
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: A 2014 graduate from Montreal’s L’INIS (National Institute for image and sound), Kevin T. Landry began specializing in postproduction before venturing into production and screenwriting, thanks to the Kino film organization. He is interested in the imaginary, the absurd, and the fine line that separate the worlds of reality and fantasy. He now has over 15 short films under his belt, films that have travelled all over the word and won numerous prizes.
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STAY
SYNOPSIS: A cult of women summon a demon, but one rogue member, Carol, gets in the way of their plans.
DIRECTOR: David Mikalson
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: David Mikalson has been living in Los Angeles for the last six years making various kinds of videos and trying to keep it together.
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STELLAR HOSTS
SYNOPSIS: Margaret and Norm Duncan move from outer space to LA to start the vacation rental business they’ve dreamed of having: Stellar Hosts! Have an out-of-body vacation!
DIRECTOR: Keith Schneider & Katherine LaVictoire
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Over the years, Keith has worn many hats in the worlds of theatre and film. A director, writer, producer, designer, actor, editor, carpenter, electrician and so on – his primary goal is the collaboration and creation of something worthwhile. After studying theatre at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he made his way out to Los Angeles where he began a small production company with some close friends, and they have been creating and collaborating ever since.
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THE MUSIC LESSON
SYNOPSIS: A jaded music teacher turns the tables on a soul-sucking student.
DIRECTOR: Adam R. Brown & Kyle I. Kelley
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Adam R. Brown & Kyle I. Kelley are Brooklyn-based filmmakers that make up two-thirds of the independent production company BullMoose Pictures. Their work has screened at several film festivals across the world including; Maryland, Cucalorus, Fantasia, LES Film Fest, Athens, & the Nitehawk Shorts Film Festival.
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THE WEDNESDAY SESSIONS
SYNOPSIS: This is a shitty documentary *wink wink* about monsters in group therapy. They’re just people. Don’t judge…much.
DIRECTOR: Erin Smyth
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: A cantankerous introvert, Erin fell into filmmaking ass-first and still hasn’t landed on her feet. She can’t draw so she animates the cheater way by rotoscoping, and she wants to go into documentary so she can live vicariously through scientists.
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VOYAGE TREKKERS
SYNOPSIS: The worst starship crew in the Galactic Union struggles to complete their mission while dealing with an existential crisis that rocks the galaxy. TV Pilot based off of the web series.
DIRECTOR: Nathan Blackwell
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Nathan began his career like many of his counterparts … a manic eleven year-old running around with a camera, making terrible movies. He’s since directed two low-budget feature films, four web series, nearly fifty shorts, and won forty awards for film making.
In addition to his narrative work Nathan, also directs commercial and corporate video, for which he won five ADDY awards in 2016. He was profiled by the New Times as one of Phoenix’s 100 Creatives, and his work has been featured on Ain’t It Cool News, LA Weekly, and MovieMaker Magazine. His main non-film hobby is cooking, and really only pasta to be perfectly honest.
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