SYNOPSIS: Five high school girls form a coven as a joke but soon find themselves faced with an ancient evil that wants to control them.
DIRECTOR: Kyle Rankin
CAST: Holly Taylor, Paget Brewster, Britt Flatmo, Alice Ziolkoski, Tara Robinson, Adrienne Rose White
USA / 2018 / 1 hour, 30 minutes
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: After directing Shia LaBeouf in The Battle of Shaker Heights, Kyle Rankin wrote and directed Infestation for Mel Gibson, Nuclear Family for Michael Eisner, and created the viral videos Hellholes, Case Tape #347, and Exhibit B-5 (which led to a writing gig for Jeremy Renner & Indian Paintbrush). In 2015, Kyle produced and directed the ultra-low-budget feature Night of the Living Deb (now streaming on Netflix), then joined producer Scott Taylor for 2018’s The Witch Files. Dallas Sonnier (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99) will produce Kyle’s next film: Run Hide Fight (currently casting). Kyle lives in Encino with his wife and daughters.
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DANCE MACABRE
SYNOPSIS: A recently orphaned girl subverts feminine archetypes of dance, baking, and witchcraft to heal from her mother’s death, come into her own self, and get benign revenge.
DIRECTOR: Nathan Scoll
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: MA, MFA, and soon to be PhD. LA native trying to be the consummate film educator and practitioner. Dance Macabre is his first work as a director.
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DEVIL’S NIGHT
SYNOPSIS: A group of kids get into trouble messing around with a local legend on the night before Halloween. Its kind of a throwback to ” Are you afraid of the dark” but with blood.
DIRECTOR: Anthony Risen
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Anthony R. Risen is a first time filmmaker full time film lover. I grew up fascinated with the characters I seen in movies but never realized i could actually make them till a couple years ago. and now im obsessed. I have always had a creative side to me. I skateboard play guitar train in martial arts and draw ( attempt animation 😉 and do special fx as well ! ) – I’m just stoked to make more films. Hopefully making my next project – a feature film called Animus Blood !
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STICKS AND STRAW
SYNOPSIS: A disgruntled witch attempts to curse an unscrupulous broom repair shop owner who tries to swindle her when she brings him her defective broom.
DIRECTOR: Gino Vincelli
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Gino Vincelli is a teacher at NAD-UQAC school in Montreal.
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