NELLY & LIO
***US Premiere***
Short - 11min - CANADA
Director - Etienne Langlois/Eric Reynard

Synopsis: Coming Soon

BLOOD & ROSES
***US Premiere***
Feature - 78min - UNITED KINGDOM
Director - Simon Altken
***Filmmakers will be in Attendance***

Synopsis:

A couple head to a remote cottage, where the wife falls under the spell of a mysterious vampire, who starts a painful and horrifying transformation in her.


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TELEFONE
Short - 5min - USA
Director - Jeffrey Anderson Bliss

Synopsis: Two isolated individuals desperately search to make connections. Amidst their loneliness, mysterious gift boxes containing rotary telephones begin appearing around them. Upon spinning the dial, the callers are transported to favorable experiences with the people they love and miss. However, the increasing number of calls overwhelms a manical switchboard operator. Connections become confused and ultimate destruction is never far away.

PLAY DEAD
Short - 33min - USA
Director - Vanessa Roman
***Filmmakers will be in Attendance***

Synopsis:

A mysterious prison murder sparks a young orphaned girl, Callie towards a journey to uncovering her secret past, but what is hidden there puts her in great danger from a supernatural force determined to exact revenge for a past wrong.

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MURDERABILIA
***WORLD Premiere***
Short - 30min -USA
Director - David Matthews
***Filmmakers will be in Attendance***

Synopsis: A compulsive collector searches for a belt that was worn during the brutal murder of a young woman. The journey leads him to a reclusive online vendor--a man whose unexpected offer forces the collector to confront the nature of his obsession.

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SHUT UP! I SAID SHUT UP!
Short - 10min - USA
Director - Ben Rock

Synopsis: Jen has had just about enough of her husband's negativity.

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EMERGING PAST
***Florida Premiere***
Feature - 81min - USA
Director - Thomas Churchill
***Filmmakers will be in Attendance***

Synopsis:

Pamela Garret (Krista Grotte), a photographer for a busy newspaper company has just taken a life altering photograph.. After her boss, Cameron (Stephen Geoffreys) hands her an easy assignment, she takes a photograph that will have her emerged into chaos. As she searches for help within her friend Dylan (Brooke McCarter) in a lost city filled with a dark mystery, in this insane situation she soon realizes that no one can help her. When trusting people around you is not an option, it's her past that can bring her down. EMERGING PAST.

HALF WAY
Short - 15min - USA
Director - Andres & Diego Meza-Valdes
***Filmmakers will be in Attendance***

Synopsis:

First they make the parents fight. Then they take the children...

PARASITIC
***World Premiere***
Feature - 78min - USA
Director - Timothy R. Martin
***Filmmakers will be in Attendance***

Synopsis: After a strange meteor destroys a communications satellite and crashes into Tampa Bay, A sickly looking fish finds itself the meal of a beautiful nightclub bartender named Val. Moments later as the bar is closed and locked tight, the infected Val quickly becomes ill and all Hell breaks loose. Hidden from the others, the parasite she has unknowingly eaten rapidly grows and violently bursts from her throat and becomes the puppet master for the chaos ahead. With no possible way to reach help or escape, the trapped club-goers must fight to survive and plan to destroy the creature before it is let loose into the world.

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DATING MATERIAL
***World Premiere***
Short - 10min - USA
Director - Jason Hoffman
***Filmmakers will be in Attendance***

Synopsis:
A TALE OF ONLINE DATING.
First dates can always be a bit scary. Meeting through an online dating service, a young man and woman make a date. After an evening on the town of wining and dining, the young couple returns to the woman’s apartment. With no electricity and a storm keeping them inside, the man and woman get to know each other better and learn just how scary a first date can be.

DOOMSDAY COUNTY
***World Premiere***
Feature - 90min - USA
Directors - Art Brainard, Shawn Haran, Joe Badiali & Steven Shea
***Filmmakers will be in Attendance***

Synopsis: DOOMSDAY COUNTY is a new feature length Grindhouse style film of four
intense short horror stories based around the area known as Doomsday County.In a town overrun with zombies, vampires, and a melting mad scientist with
plans for an impending alien invasion, it's up to a select few to try and
keep order.

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THE UNFUN HOUSE
***World Premiere***
Short Animation - 8min - USA
Director - Paul Carty

Synopsis: The Unfun House is a not-so-fun computer animated trip through an unsafe, "legally challenged" dark ride.  Life threatening props and zoning issues are
just a few of the problems management ignores everyday.  To make things worse a disgruntled former employee of the ride comes back to wreak havoc
during your tour!

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TRUE NATURE
***Florida Premiere***
Feature - 92min - USA
Director - Patrick Steele
***Filmmakers will be in Attendance***

Synopsis:The Pascal family has it all - wealth, power, privilege - but their picture perfect lives change forever when their daughter Marianne disappears one night while running. She mysteriously returns a year later with no recollection of where she’s been.
Haunted by violent visions, Marianne begins to suspect that her family
is hiding dark secrets and that the key to her disappearance may be
linked to them. As the fragile web of lies unravels, she fears that
her own life and sanity may be the price for discovering the truth.

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DEMIURGE EMESIS
***Florida Premiere***
Short Animation- 3min - USA
Director - Aurelio Voltaire

Synopsis:
A mummified cat is tormented by the skeletons of past meals in this
stop-motion short directed by Voltaire and narrated by Danny Elfman.

BEING JASON
Short - 8min - USA
Director - Mike Doyle

Synopsis:

"Kicked to the curb by his church group, Jason Voorhees ("Friday the 13th") embarks on a new kind of hunt -- a job hunt. Failing miserably at every new occupation he tries, a familiar face shows up just in time to give him some advice..."

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SHE WOLF RISING
***World Premiere***
Feature - 89min - USA
Director - Marc Leland
***Filmmakers will be in Attendance***

Synopsis: Starring Tiffany Shepis - Gina Skylar, the world's reining scream queen, wants to cross over into mainstream cinema and leave the B horror genre behind her. Gina's ticket out is her stellar performance in her latest slasher flick. The problem is that someone has stolen the footage. Gina goes undercover and recruits her number one fan, Jake Bubar to help. Together they explore the dark and dangerous side of underground filmmaking. Gina and Jake's beliefs are challenged as they discover myths, legends, bloody decadence and forbidden love.

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