Break Any Spell (Directed by Anton Jøsef, 13 mins, Fantasy) A teenage girl uses Live-Action-Role-Playing to cope and escape from her mother who suffers from early-onset Alzheimer’s. Starring Rachel Boyd, Catherine McGregor, Kelly Seo, Vanessa Mitchell, Tyrnan Driscoll
Creature (Directed by Larissa James, 7 mins, Horror (Rated R)) On Halloween night, a young woman is terrified into a monstrous transformation. Starring Lily Gibson, Kate Amundsen, Rob Banks, James Craigmiles, Drew Lipson, Daniel Broadhurst, Erick Johnson, Nick Hinman, Jenny Rolapp.
Good Head (Director- Matt Servitto, 30 mins, Rated R, Comedy Horror) When Hollywood mega-star Cooper Bradley goes to a special effects lab in Atlanta to get his head molded–all hell breaks loose–and he has to not only get his head –but his very soul– back from the VFX master who cast it. Starring
Hunter’s Cabin (Directed by N’cee van Heerden, 15 mins, Horror) A young father withdraws to a remote cabin to face his curse alone, but he’s not the only one with a dark past in the woods tonight. Starring Jedidiah Goodacre, Toby Hargrave
Kamikaze: Trial by Fire (Directed by Carrie Tupper, Esteban Valdez, 15 mins, Animation) Kamikaze is a fledgling covert operative in a oppressive city where fresh food is more precious than gold. When a crucial retrieval mission goes sideways in order to survive, Kamikaze must master the fine line between fight or flight. Starring Dani Chambers, Monica Rial, Jonathan Young, Lee Shorten, Kevin Paculan, Damon Alums
Message From The Future ( Directed by Dan Johnson, 4 mins, Animation) A time traveler tries to save the future. It doesn’t go well. Starring Meghan O’Neill, Kevin Maher, Sophie Santos
Origin (Katherine Sisak 6 mins, Animation) Origin follows the adventures of Dennis -a superhero obsessed boy- when he is dragged to his father’s office on ‘Take Your Child to Work Day.’
Ourselves in Stories (Marjee Chmiel, 24 mins, Short Doc) In the last 25 years, the independent comics community made deliberate efforts to be inclusive and elevate under-represented voices. This is the story of how the community has changed over those years and evidence that if you want to change a culture, you need to change its stories, starting with the storytellers.
Narcoleap: Season 2 (Directed by Kate Green, 15 mins, SciFi) When college student Kelsey Atkins unexpectedly begins to leap into the bodies of other people during her bouts of narcolepsy, she becomes a target in the deadly world of military espionage. Starring Chelsey Reist, Madison Smith, Austin Eckert, Nicole Oliver, Cameron Bancroft, Aleks Paunovic
Side Quest (Directed by Mike Fink, 14 minutes, Los Angeles, CA)A hero’s journey takes a detour when a video game protagonist abandons his responsibilities, leaving the princess he was meant to avenge and the villain he was destined to destroy to find their own purpose in a complex world where there are no heroes to save the day.
The Way The Future Was (Raphael Kryszek, 24 mins, Science Fiction) When a system error on Matt’s Amazon Alexa saves him from a fatal train crash, his co-worker Charlie discovers that he’s caught between two realities, and its up to her to save him from death through a new form of digital time travel.
Understanding Scott McCloud’s Zot! (Dallas Hallam, Short Doc, 25 mins) Understanding Scott McCloud’s Zot! takes us back to the 1980s, to the epicenter of the indie comics explosion, a tipping point in creator rights, and the first American Manga wave, to explore the stories before McCloud’s seminal work Understanding Comics.Starring- Scott McCloud
My Roommate the Jedi ( Director- Byrne Owens, 30 mins, Fan Film) The evil Empire from Star Wars invades Earth in search of an ancient weapon hidden by a Jedi Master. When an average guy discovers the weapon hidden in his LA apartment, it falls onto him and the Jedi’s apprentice to keep it out of the Empire’s hands. Starring Lu Louis, Chloe Carabasi, Byrne Owens, Tyler Seiple
Peter Parker’s First Day ( Patrick Rills, 6 mins, Fan Film) Peter Parker arrives in Metropolis for his first day as a photographer for the world’s largest newspaper, The Daily Planet. Meeting new coworkers can be awkward but especially so when Parker is assigned to star reporter, Clark Kent.
Stalled Trek: The City On the Edge of Foreclosure (Director: Mark Largent, 18 mins, Fan Film) When Captain Krok and Mr. Spott hop through a stone donut to travel back to 1930 New York City, Krok finds he can’t have his fate and Edith, too! Stalled Trek: The City On the Edge of Foreclosure is an Animated Puppet Parody of what many consider to be the greatest Trek of all time.
Stegasaurus (Directed by Barry Wilkinson, 9 mins, Fan Film) On a trip to Jurassic Park, a young girl leaves her phone-obsessed mother behind in order to find her favourite dinosaur – the stegosaurus. Starring Gemma Reynolds, Olivia Wilkinson
Who Wants Dessert? (Directed by Venita Ozols-Graham, 7 mins, Horror) Annie loses her entire family but can’t let them go…in a very creepy and unhealthy way. She creates a psychological house of cards that her court appointed therapist threatens to take down. But Annie isn’t about to let that happen and the therapist discovers the depths of how deadly this alternate reality is for anyone outside of it. Starring Sean Young, Brigitte Graham
Scorekeeper: A Star Wars Fan Film (Directed by Roman Santa Croce, 17 mins, Fan Film) An Elite Rebel Team infiltrates an Imperial outpost on a mission of securing an asset that has vital information. Unbeknownst to them, they are not the only ones on the hunt. Starring Matthew Sumner, Brian Lee, Courtney Chen, Bijan Moshgelani, Alexis Louder, Thom Williams, Freddy Boyd, Roman Santa Croce
The Newly Dead | a What We Do in the Shadows fan film (Directed by Jake Rubin, 17 mins, Fan Film) In order to survive the pandemic two young vampires must do the unthinkable- find a third roommate. A fan film set in a different borough of the What We Do in the Shadows Universe. Starring Eric Williams, Silvana Carranza, Jake Rubin
Balance of the Force (Directed by Steven LaMorte, 15 mins, Fan Film) When a Bounty Hunter and a Jedi Knight find themselves stranded on an uninhabited planet, they find themselves pitted against each other while trying to retrieve a mysterious Imperial cargo. Starring Amy Schumacher, Veronica Roy, Christine DiTillio, Chris Sanders, Leon Sheen, The Official 501st Legion
FORSAKEN MANDALORIAN AND THE DRUNKEN JEDI MASTER (Directed by Anthony Ferraro, 10 mins, Fan Film) A Forsaken Mandalorian must hunt down a seedy Twi’lek Hutt Courier to recover a sensitive asset that has personal value to The Mandalorian. When the Mandalorian finds the Courier, the Twi’lek pleads with him for mercy and reveals that there is a Drunken Jedi Master in the area. As the recovered asset is only one piece of the Mandalorians mission, he ventures to confront the Drunken Jedi Master. Curiously, this unexpected development may be valuable in fulfilling his mission. Starring Jonathan Castile, Clint Carney, Anthony Ferraro
Ghostbusters Reanimated (Directed by Steven Shea, 8 mins, Fan Film) Taking place 30 years after Ghostbusters II, Ghostbusters ReAnimated follows two Columbia college students and Ghostbuster super fans, who try to change the mind of their unbelieving friend when they manage to score a jar of actual mood slime on Ebay and accidentally unleash something that hasn’t been seen in decades.