Daniel Slottje directed, wrote and co-stars — as the father — in this film about a young girl (Lilliana Ketchman) battling leukemia and being haunted by a sinister being she calls The Tumor Man (Kelsey Strauch).
You must decide if this monster is real or a metaphor for the pain that Casey, the little girl, is enduring. Slottje — who had a hormone-based disease in his childhood — is now developing the story into a feature film. I can’t wait to see it.
At the California Men’s Colony in Central California, dogs and their inmate handlers — who are preparing them to become fully operational service animals — share a special bond that helps both.
Director and writer Alex Astrella also made Trial By Fire, a documentary about inmate firefighters. As a dog owner, this movie spoke to me and shows how we are saved by animals instead of us saving them.
As a prisoner (Tazi Starfire) remembers a crime from years ago, he’s being visited by a ghost (Simon Boughey) from his past to either punish him or help him atone.
Directed by Chandler Gibson, this has a great story and good effects. There’s an interesting story here and it would even lend itself to a longer film.
A young boy named Shah (Bryce Thompson) is convinced that the Devil lives in a hole in his backyard. I mean, I’ve been there, trust me.
Directed by Noah Glenn, who co-wrote the short with Imakemadbeats, this is a film about the power of a seven-year-old child’s imagination. It’s pretty wonderful and imaginative even with its short runtime.
Directed and written by Spencer Zimmerman, this film is about astronaut Sam Bowman (Blakely David) who accepts an interstellar mission to save the lives of a missing crew on a deep space voyage. After abandoning his life on Earth and his wife Sara (Siobhan Connors), a critical failure leaves him without a crew, without hope and plenty of guilt.
The question is, “Who saves you when you can’t save the people you were supposed to be saving?”
Created as part of the Motion Picture Arts Program at Capilano University, Darkside uses practical effects, physical sets and remote locations to achieve its unique look. Production of the film took over 720 days to complete — 16 shooting days over two years and 9 months of post.
You can learn more at the official site.
An excerpt from Dr. Malcom J. Backer’s Hyperexpiology Companion [revision 2b]: “…the destructive system is self-replicating and self-propelling. Functioning like a clock. Systematically. Efficiently. Relentlessly. A mindless machine. It will never be enough. The clockmaker eventually loses control. We are dreaming of a new day when a new day isn’t coming.”
This film by Matt Eslinger is a stop-motion animated film of, well, shapes moving in and out of one another. It’s intriguing, but I have no idea what the story is, if there is one or what I am supposed to get out of this than beauty.
Austin Quarles and Ryan Gentle are filmmakers out of Chattanooga, TN that “met as random roommates in college and hated each other so much that they decided to open up a film company together. They’ve been arguing about it ever since.”
Their film — co-written with Chris Holmes — In the Balance is about how Dr. Marie Mitchell and his assistant Jonathan Meyers face a moral dilemma after achieving a medical breakthrough. It feels like the start of something bigger and I hope at some point they expand it to become a full feature.
When Indigo (Maye Harris), a sheltered teenager with congenital heart disease, meets and befriends Sarah (Ellie Adrean), a more rebellious teen about getting a heart transplant, she decides to break free of her New Age parents’ strict worry and start living as an actual teenager.
Director and co-writer (with Max Kaplow) Alessandra Lichtenfeld has put together a cute glimpse into teenage life while being smart enough to reference The Parent Trap. There’s plenty of emotion in the short run time of this film.
In the year 2038, a rise in authoritarianism — look, let’s just admit this is our future and move on. Isaac (Nathan Whitfield) is trying to keep his sister Taylor (Kenny Cumino) safe — they live on the outskirts of society — which means keeping her old handheld game sticked with batteries to keep her from going through a painful and loud panic attack.
Director and writer John Christian Otteson has created a tense short that’s about family in the face of a rough world, while also having a Game Boy Color that has held up way better than mine.
Directed and written by Allison Shrum, this film finds Beverly (Lindsey Akers) and Suzette (Sara De La Haya) deciding that because Roger (Taylor Novak) is the worst husband of all time, he has to go. And if that death happens to be in the middle of a decent meal, well, then so be it.
Shrum has a lot of credits in front of the camera and a few behind it in production, makeup and directing. Being this assured so soon in her career points to amazing things.
You can learn more at her official website.
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