BLOCK CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING FILMS:
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bnb
SYNOPSIS: Meet Harry and Sally, a couple of millenials who found love on tinder, get around in an uber, and can always find a “home away from home” using the rental site bnb. But for tonight’s stay, their host is no where to be found. Facing the new anxieties that come with the internet’s “sharing economy”, being strangers in a strange house leads Sally to fear for their online reputation… and Harry to fear for their lives.
DIRECTOR: Hunter Stiebel
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Hunter began his career in the arts working with Tony award winning theaters such as Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare and The National Playwrights Conference. Since moving to Los Angeles he regularly recurs in T.V. comedies such as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Thundermans and many more.
He has written for IO West comedy theater and multiple national publications. He wrote and directed the promotional trailer “Do You Hear Something” for film trailer industry staple Sencit Music. This is his first film.
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CANDYLAND
SYNOPSIS: Two hard-edged representatives from the Jupiter Candy Co. make their last stop for the night at Grimley Grocery, where the management may not be meeting their end of a pricey bargain. Things quickly turn from sweet to sour.
DIRECTOR: Taylor Bracewell
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Taylor Bracewell hails from Newnan, GA. She moved to Shreveport, Louisiana in 2015 to begin her career as a filmmaker via the network of the Louisiana Film Prize. She has since gone on to direct the award-winning short film Polterguys and now follows up with her second short Candyland.
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DELIVERY
SYNOPSIS: A flaky delivery driver’s night veers off course when he stumbles into a lover’s quarrel gone wrong.
DIRECTOR: Joe Boothe
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Joe is a writer and a director living in Los Angeles. A Kansas native, he traded wheat fields for palm trees and has never looked back (except during the college basketball season). His first short ‘The Morning After’ earned him a place in the American’ Pavilion’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. Joe recently wrote for the TNT drama ‘The Librarians’, co-wrote ‘Something Blue’ for Black Label Media, and adapted ‘Serpent’s Bite’, starring Anna Camp, for Grey Eagle Films. Joe himself is an alum of The Groundlings’ “Sunday Company”, a student of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and a sometimes chili chef.
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HEARTLESS
SYNOPSIS: Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”. An overlooked associate struggles to complete a corporate presentation as a horrific secret gnaws at her conscience.
DIRECTOR: Kevin Sluder
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Kevin Sluder is quickly making a name for himself writing award winning projects people want to be involved with and fostering a supportive environment for making unique films. He enjoys telling compelling stories by implementing creative structure within a strong visual blueprint.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill with a degree in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures, Kevin began his career as Director of Development with Esperanza Productions. While there, he marketed/developed projects by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries, On the Road) and Oxford Literary Award winning novelist Donald Harrington (With), among others.
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THE ADVENTURES OF PENNY PATTERSON
SYNOPSIS: High school student Penny Patterson faces growing obstacles to winning the science fair after Steve, her science partner and boyfriend, becomes a superhero overnight.
DIRECTOR: Stephanie Donnelly
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Stephanie Donnelly grew up on Long Island, NY. She recently received an MFA in Filmmaking from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. The Adventures of Penny Patterson was her thesis film. Her previous short films have screened at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, the Cleveland International Film Festival, and the Woodstock Film Festival, among others. Her feature screenplay The Sound of Settling was a Graduate Screenplay Finalist at the Fusion Film Festival.
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THE MISTRESS OF THE FOREST
SYNOPSIS: To meet an impossible deadline, a clueless illustrator must come face to face with his own creation: the mysterious Mistress Of The Forest.
DIRECTOR: Nicholas Hiatt
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Nicholas is an actor, filmmaker and illustrator from Perth, Australia. In 2008 he completed a BA in Multimedia Design at Curtin University, focusing on animation, graphic design and illustration. Realising he didn’t have the patience to be an animator he decided to pursue acting and was accepted into the BA Dramatic Art (Acting) at NIDA, graduating in 2013. Highlights there included playing the role of Iago in Othello and Betty in Caryl Chuchill’s Cloud 9. Since graduating he has appeared on stage in a variety of works ranging from children’s theatre, to opera and short films. Notably, in 2016 he toured Australia with a new theatrical adaptation of the beloved Australian children’s classic Snugglepot & Cuddlepie.
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TIGER
SYNOPSIS: A shark swims through the streets of Paris. An old lady tries to escape. Music video for the French/American band Joon Moon
DIRECTOR: Jethro Massey
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Jethro is an Anglo-French director based in Paris. His recent music videos for singers Hailey Tuck, Melody Linhart & Liset Alea (Nouvelle Vague) have featured in festivals around the world, gathering numerous nominations and awards for costume, make-up, cinematography and special effects.
Jethro also works in fiction & occasionally documentary film.
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TO CATCH A FLY
SYNOPSIS: A retiring gun for hire gets assigned the job of guarding a young, feisty Hungarian beauty in a remote cottage somewhere in the French Ardennes. Heat, stench and boredom push their relationship to the edge until only an irrevocable deed can establish some sort of new order.
DIRECTOR: Sanne Kortooms
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Sanne Kortooms (‘s-Hertogenbosch, 1985) is a Dutch director, writer and filmmaker. In 2010 she graduated from the HKU University of the Arts in Utrecht, the Netherlands (Master of Arts, with honors), with two films and a thesis. Her film The Blue Bus has been screened at many film festivals around the world and has won several awards, including Best Student Film at the Cambridge International Student Film Festival and the Audience Award at the NTR New Arrivals.
After finishing film school, she directed another short film (Verbonden), worked as an assistant director, unit production manager and script supervisor at different movie sets. In the summer of 2016, Sanne went to France to shoot her latest film, To Catch a Fly.
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YOU ARE THE CAPTAIN
SYNOPSIS: A young woman looking for direction in life signs herself up for a mysterious self-help guru’s method to enhance her life. But when she tries to opt out, she finds out that she may have signed up for more than she bargained for.
DIRECTOR: Dan Samiljan
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Dan Samiljan is a filmmaker in Los Angeles, CA via Boston, MA.
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