2018 Film selections
Short Films
A Sweet Man
Screening: Saturday
- April 7 @ 5:30 PM with Short
Film BlockDirector: Javier Chavanel
Country: Spain
Run time: 13 min
Description: For the sorrowful Gustavo, it was an ordinary night: an uninspiring, silent night. But suddenly, fun knocked on this door… and it wouldn´t leave until it had run its course.
Arachne
Screening: Saturday
- April 7 @ 5:30 PM with Short
Film BlockDirector: Dieter Leitner & Dave Lojek
Country: Austria
Run time: 5 min
Description: Two athletic spiderwomen quarrel over one tasty man. Can he escape?
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APEIRON.FILMS
Cold Storage
Screening:
Sunday - April 8 @ 8:30 PM with Esc
& Tommy
Battles the Silver Sea DragonDirector: Thomas Freundlich
Country: Finland
Run time: 9 min
Description: Cold Storage is a short dance film that pays homage to the virtuosic physical performances and melancholy comedy of the classic silent screen. On a desolate arctic shore, a lonely fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the ice, and thaws him out as his newfound soul brother.
Crossing The Threshold
Screening:
Saturday - April 7 @ 5:30 PM with Short
Film BlockDirector: Sergio Hernández Elvira
Country: Spain
Run time: 14 min
Description: One morning, without a word, Laura's husband leaves the apartment and never comes back. Laura and their daughter are alone now and she goes to a psychotherapist to overcome the trauma. From that, crossing the spiderwebs left because of that sudden absence, Laura will begin her path to recovery.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/217963636
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cortometraje.Cruzar.el.umbral
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cruzarelumbral
Dana
Screening:
Friday - April 6 @ 9:00 PM with U.S.
Butcher & Playing
with Fire & CountrycideDirector: Nicholas Kleban
Country: Canada
Run time: 5 min
Description: Short film about a serial killer.
Death By Chocolate
Screening:
Sunday - April 8 @ 4:00 PM with Best
Served & Umbra
& Geek
GirlsDirector: Aashay Meshram
Country: Canada
Run time: 3 min
Description: A girl gets a box of magical chocolates for her birthday which leads to strange, fascinating events.
Dolphinman Battles the Sex Lobsters
Screening:
Saturday - April 7 @ 1:00 PM with Forgotten
ScaresDirector: John Brennan
Country: USA
Run time: 14 min
Description: Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD contracts a deadly new STD, The Sex Lobsters, and unknowingly spreads it around Tromaville while visiting the town's best orgy spots. Only Dolphinman can find the cure and save the day!
Includes a Tromatic all-star lineup of cast members from Troma's past and future: Zac Amico, Doug Sakmann, Lloyd Kaufman and more!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jjwv1BxIm0
Website: http://www.troma.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/troma_team
Esc
Screening:
Sunday - April 8 @ 8:30 PM with Cold
Storage & Tommy
Battles the Silver Sea DragonDirector: Shikher Kalyan
Country: Canada
Run time: 4 min
Description: Esc is a film about a failed marriage. It is an instance from a man's life where he is forced to make a choice between his marriage and his passion.
Evströnger
Screening: Saturday
- April 7 @ 5:30 PM with Short
Film BlockDirector: Silvia Conesa
Country: Spain
Run time: 3 min
Description: Marta and David are a couple politically committed and somewhat anti-capitalist. They try to do things right, like everyone else, being consistent with their values. In spite of it, the parents of Marta have given them a practical piece of furniture of a well-known Scandinavian brand that they must mount themselves. However the "Evströnger" assembly manual will order them to do something else ... Will they follow the instructions to the letter? Or, on the contrary, will they escape from the diabolical capitalist loop that grips us all ...?
Holy F__K
Screening: Saturday
- April 7 @ 5:30 PM with Short
Film BlockDirector: Chris Chalklen
Country: United Kingdom
Run time: 9 min
Description: A darkly erotic and comedic short film about a demon and an exorcist’s deadly sexual tangle towards release.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/218811620
Website: http://chrischalklen.com/
Lights Out!!!
Screening:
Saturday - April 7 @ 7:20 PM with Moral
Compass & The
Lone PaddlerDirector: Sean Wirz
Country: Switzerland
Run time: 5 min
Description: A hung over morning in an all-male household. Johnny wakes up to a filthy mess. Nothing out of the ordinary, except his roommate Freddy left all the lights on – again! Enough is enough. Johnny decides to bring some order into chaos but quickly realizes he should have cut his finger-wagging short.
Website: http://www.seanwirz.com/
One Hell of a Party
Screening: Saturday
- April 7 @ 5:30 PM with Short
Film BlockDirector: Austen Payne
Country: Canada
Run time: 8 min
Description: Roommates Sam and Lin are throwing a house party to try and up their social status during their first year at college. When Sam accidentally summons a demon while fooling around with some glitter glue, their party plans turn into a race against time to secure a pure soul for the demon they summoned... or risk getting taken to hell themselves. But when everyone they talk to at their party turn out to be huge jerks, they become desperate.
Playing With Fire
Screening:
Saturday - April 7 @ 5:30 PM with Short
Film BlockDirector: Carolyn Corkindale
Country: Australia
Run time: 8 min
Description: A deserted, ruined cottage and rural property were the scenes of bullying and a murderous arson attack 30 years ago and now they are visited by a family - the perpetrator and his children – only to encounter mesmerizing and lifelike spirits from whom there is no escape until revenge is complete.
Robo Greaser
Screening: Saturday
- April 7 @ 3:00 PM with He
Tried to Kill Me with a Forklift & Musclecar Director: Dakota Arseneault
Country: Canada
Run time: 9 min
Description: On the closing day of his beloved roller-rink, Robo Greaser does his best to skate through his final shift.
Scraps
Screening: Friday
- April 6 @ 7:00 PM with Wall
of Death & CharismataDirector: Christopher Giroux
Country: Canada
Run time: 13 min
Description: On a successful date, Jessica and Billy decide they don't want to the evening to end just yet. On their walk to Billy's place they run into a threat but who's really the threat to who when the truth is revealed.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScrapsShortFilms/
Super Science Friends - Episode 1
Screening:
Saturday - April 7 @ 5:30 PM with Short
Film BlockDirector: Brett Jubinville
Country: Canada
Run time: 16 min
Description: Super Science Friends was created by Brett Jubinville, animated by a lot of talented people at Tinman Creative Studios, and was successfully kickstarted November 2014. It features a team of time-travelling super scientists led by Winston Churchill who travel through time fighting nazis, zombies and all manner of sciency villains!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPQt2a1s65U
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/supersciencefriends/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/superscifriends
Termitator
Screening: Saturday
- April 7 @ 11:50 PM with Scream
Queen/King Competition & Don't
LookDirector: Camille Monette & Roxane De Koninck & Keenan Poloncsak
Country: Canada
Run time: 15 min
Description: Four douche-bags embark on a weekend of partying and debauchery at a cabin in the woods, unaware that they will be disturbing the humanoid-termite mutant: Termitator.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myPicSiPaDA
Website: http://www.pro-can.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FilmGoreUnderground/
The Candle
Screening: Saturday
- April 7 @ 9:30 PM with Blood
Opera - Shocker & The
ReturningDirector: René Ashton
Produced by: Richard Joel & René Ashton
Country: USA
Run time: 9 min
Description: Ryder makes a wish for all of her dreams to come true, but she didn't realize it included her nightmares.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGdAU2HWedI
Website: http://www.thecandlefranchise.com/
The Gardener
Screening: Saturday
- April 7 @ 5:30 PM with Short
Film BlockDirector: Julianna Brudek
Country: USA
Run time: 8 min
Description: A lonely and peculiar four year old girl, ignored by her cold and social media obsessed mother, finds an unlikely friend in the gardener working in her yard.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGardener2018/
Umbra
Screening: Sunday
- April 8 @ 4:00 PM with Best
Served & Death
by Chocolate & Geek
GirlsDirector: Brenna Baines
Country: Canada
Run time: 6 min
Description: A sentient shadow awakes to find brightly lit fireflies in his personal space, and making him squint. When Umbra discovers he can eat their light--and that it makes him bigger and stronger--he eats as much light as he can find in their valley. As the world gets darker, and Umbra more powerful, the fireflies try to stop him from taking them all into total darkness.
Wishing You Well
Screening:
Saturday - April 7 @ 5:30 PM with Short
Film BlockDirector: Carolyn Corkindale
Country: Australia
Run time: 10 min
Description: An orphan child is left with his grandfather. An overgrown well awakes his interest in his new home. He makes a wish, receives a reply.
Zandavi Lives
Screening:
Sunday - April 8 @ 6:15 PM with Not
This Time & All
Light Will EndDirector: Michael Pereira
Country: Canada
Run time: 20 min
Description: Two priests are called upon to perform their first exorcism on the newborn baby of an estranged family. They soon realize...they're in over their heads.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YS1aOpwFuM
Website: http://www.panicbuttonfilms.com/
Facebook: https://facebook.com/ZandaviLives
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