Girls Game-( Natalie Rossetti, 64 mins, US/Netherlands) In a new modern era, women have now been a vital part of the video game industry. We showcase an array of different women and backgrounds, to show the diversity of the industry and encourage future girl gamers to flourish. Starring: Hollyanne Setola, Rebecca Heineman, Jeri Ellsworth, Josie Nutter, Jennifer Zhang, Keisha Howard, Faithie Knucklez, Imoto Arcade, Billy Mitchell, Rudy Ferretti, and more!
Feature Films
To Your Last Death After emerging as the sole survivor in a deadly revenge game set up by her father to punish his children, Miriam receives an offer from a supernatural entity to go back in time and try again. Now, Miriam must survive both her father’s bloodlust and the Gamemaster’s ever-changing rules to save her siblings as she relives the worst night of her life.
Short Films
A Typical Fairytale (Annette Reilly, 10:33, Vancouver/BC/Canada)
A young couple have a romance fit for a storybook- told entirely in rhyme. They live happily ever after until their child diverges from the classic narrative. Will they find the bravery to write a new story? Starring: Annette Reilly, Brendan Taylor, Ameko Eks Mass Carroll, Amy Fox, Mike Klemak
Balloon (Jeremy Merrifield, 17 mins, CA) For fourteen-year-old Sam, surviving junior high means staying below radar. But that becomes impossible after he becomes the target of the school’s next viral video. He’s pressured to “hit back,” but Sam isn’t so sure—even if he does have super powers.
Chromophobia (Keith Adams, 13mins, Brooklyn, NY) chromoPHOBIA is a psychological horror short film based on a story by renowned dark fiction writer Brian Evenson. Clinical psychiatrist Dr. Haver becomes obsessed with her mysterious new patient’s artwork and realizes he possesses a dark gift. After learning of the patient’s fear of color, fascination turns to obsession, and Dr. Haver is forced to confront her own darkness.
First Time (Lukas Lane, 11 mins, CA) The 80s slasher comes back to life as a series of teens have gone missing – but the truth takes a back seat when the mysterious masked suspect finds out he isn’t the only one with a sinister agenda…Starring Eliana Yeager, Sam Bevill, Mason Greenberg.
Hello, World (Nathan Hong Fisher, 12 mins, NY) A near future love story; HELLO, WORLD is about the trials an elderly couple will go through to hold on to one another. Gayle and Bennet are at the end of their lives and make the decision to try to continue their life together through technology. Starring: Robert W. Smith, Sharon Van Ivan, Sean Michael Wilkinson, Alison Layman.
Henchman (Mike Roe, 12 mins,Chicago, Illinois) Set in the golden era of the spy genre, HENCHMAN is a day-in-the-life of a mild-mannered footsoldier named Terry Jacabowski. Terry has never considered the tradeoffs that come with protecting an evil genius. Until today. And today, he must decide the biggest decision of his career: Save the world? Or save his 401(k)? Starring Karl Hamilton, Sarah Chalcroft, Richard Cotovsky
Home In Time (Patrick Hagarty, 17min, Toronto/Ontario/Canada) Kate and Felix get a surprise visitor for Christmas – an older, drunken Felix, from 2044.
He’s come back to visit his young family, when things were good. Before everything went to shizz. Starring Patrick Mckenna, Kristian Bruun, Jacqueline Byers, Sarah Allen, Michael Grajewski, Cara Gee
Horizon (Lance Pospiech, Jason Baker, 4 mins, CA) A science robot discovers that you can miss quite a bit if you never look up.
It Came Nameless in Spring (Brian Otting, 13 mins, Los Angeles, CA) Something bizarre has come to Los Angeles – men are dying and women are disappearing. Vulnerable and unprepared, Kat ventures out into the unknown. IT CAME NAMELESS IN SPRING is a sci-fi thriller inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft and features a determined female hero. Starring Magen Mattox, Corey Rieger. Check out the trailer
Life Upgraded ( Kyle Roberts, 8 mins ) In the future, robotic companions will provide aid, comfort, and companionship. When dwindling profits threaten the romance of a maintenance robot and the daughter of a robotics mogul, they’ll take matters into their own hands to protect their love in “Life, Upgraded.”
Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn (Raymond C. Lai, 10 mins, Los Angeles, CA) A coming of age, sci-fi, stoner comedy about Logan Lee, a scratch DJ who discovers a strain of marijuana that allows him to see that certain people are actually intergalactic, soul-sucking cyborgs. When he realizes his new romantic rival happens to be one of these creatures, he must team up with his Auntie Bobbie and best friend Beats to take it down. Starring: Osric Chau, Nikki SooHoo, Karen Maruyama, Luke Guldan, V. Nixie, and Lyrics Born.
Push the Point A musical short film set between the worlds of fandom and pop culture, PUSH THE POINT follows four online gamers through their squad-based mission. Harder than defeating the red team, however, is sticking together while trying to navigate toxicity, super-fandom, and the futility of having an argument on the internet.
Spiral (Steve Burger, 3 mins, NY) Spiral dives deep into young love and forbidden desires…. A young couple contemplates the morality of what they just did.
STALAG III-C (Jason Rogan, 12 mins, Belarus/US) In the final days of World War II, US paratrooper Joe Boyd leads a daring escape from a Nazi POW camp, only to face a more horrifying evil beyond the prison walls. Inspired by true events. STALAG III-C was filmed entirely on location in Minsk, Belarus. Starring: Sam Falconi, Vadim Gitlin, Henri Falconi
Steel Cut Oats (Harry Chaskin, 16 min, Los Angeles/CA/United States) A washed-up boxer builds a monster out of oatmeal to protect himself against the mobsters who betrayed him… and ends up raising it as a son.
Starring Rachel Bloom, Brian George, and Peter Banifaz.
The Weighing of the Heart (Rosemarie E. Benson and Laura M. Weber, 6 mins, Switzerland) For thousands of years Anubis, the ancient Egyptian Guardian of the Underworld, has performed the Weighing of the Heart. Once however the Scales of Justice cannot decide whether the heart is good or bad. Anubis must prove himself against Ammit, a crocodilian goddess, thereby becoming the true God of the Dead.
Would You Like To Try Again? (Michael Felker, 10 mins, CA)– A teenage girl runs away to a local arcade and finds a mysterious game that pushes her to replay her biggest regret.
Zero Lives Left (Zak Wundowa, 14 mins, United Kingdom) Ivy has secluded herself to playing video games after losing her job. An accident leads her to awaken in one of these video games she plays leading her on a world-jumping adventure where there are no resets, no pause menus and no continues. Starring: Jessica Jayne Harney, Louis Brogan, Hayley Russell, Dru Jones
Web Series
Life XP– An awkward bookworm fired from a mundane bookstore job is resurrected as an international VR gaming hero.
Mirage (Matthew Kreiner, 11 mins, NY/USA) Diagnosed with a brain tumor, a young woman is desperate to give her life and death some meaning. She chooses to intervene in the violent crimes plaguing her neighborhood and discovers that her fears are actually premonitions, which she embraces to become a kick-ass superhero. Starring Megan LeKnapp, Robin Rose Singer, Alessandro Colla, James Kautz, Lily Zahn.
Necessary Evil (Chris Donaldson, 11mins, CANADA) As a low level, data-entry demon working at Hell LLP, Azmodeus’ existence is rather miserable. When he receives a call to the top office, Az’ life will change forever, and not necessarily for the better. Starring: Randy Brososky, Kimberley Philpott, Aaron Talbot, Erika Conway, Nicole Grainger, Rodi Heatherington.
Fan Films
Captain America Fan Film ( Godefroy Ryckewaert, 3 mins, Paris, France ) Captain America faces soldiers. Starring Quentin d’Hainaut as Captain America and Jerome Gsapard as the special soldier.
Growing Shadows: The Poison Ivy Fan Film (Sophie Black, 10 mins, UK)
Someone’s been poisoning the residents of Gotham, using venomous plants. All signs suggest this is the work of Poison Ivy – but as she’s locked up inside Arkham Asylum, how could she be responsible? A mysterious visitor will find out. Starring Aislinn De’Ath, Robert Dukes and Clair Gleave.
Friday Night in Gotham (Christopher Sheffield, 7 mins, NY) FRIDAY NIGHT IN GOTHAM is the first chapter in the GOTHAM NIGHTS series, introducing a smart, feisty, and ultra capable Barbara Gordon.
Hood (Damon Wellner, 6 mins, Hollywood / CA / USA ) Tells the comedically tragic backstory of the Star Wars universe’s favorite background character, Willrow Hood. Starring the voices of Mychael Anthony as Willrow Hood, and Jennifer Yarbrough as Chi Eekway Papanoida
Laundry Day (Joshua Weathersby, 15 mins, CA) A new spin on a meet-up in a laundry mat. It re-imagines Clark Kent and Lois Lane meeting for the first time, in a laundry mat. Full of the anxiety of meeting someone you like… and ruining it. Meet Superman before he was the Man of Steel, and see just how tough as nails Lois Lane really is when she’s watching… soap operas?
Scoundrels: A Star Wars Story (Brittany Joyner, 10 mins, Florida, US) Take a ride with the galaxy’s next generation of scoundrels. Years prior to the events of The Force Awakens, a band of friends team together to take out some of the galaxy’s biggest scum. Starring: Curtis McGann, Kelsi Umeko, Brian Ballance, Lynde Schmidt, Manuel Graves, and Josh Russell.