A tentacled lake monster exacts revenge upon a noble but flawed fisherman.

Fisher of Men

Alone with a deadline, a tormented illustrator unravels—becoming a beacon for evil.

The Stay

Penelope is a darkly comedic short about an undead misfit with “female Beetlejuice” energy who wakes up on her 666th day with one job: build an army of the undead to make her father proud. But after sleeping through most of her mission, she scrambles to recruit anyone she can—an angry neighbor, a pair of stoners, and a morose boy next door she just might have a crush on. When her father arrives, unimpressed with her ragtag recruits, Penelope is forced to face the crushing weight of his expectations. Equal parts creepy and coming of age, Penelope explores the absurd lengths we go to for approval—and the universal struggle of never feeling good enough.

Penelope

An undead misfit named Penelope wakes up, after 666 days, with a mission to build an army of the undead to make her father proud.

Stuck in endless droning Zoom meetings, a programmer daydreams about the stranger next door—until she finally gets a chance at love.

Max Distance

In a famine-ravaged dystopia, a desperate group survives through ritualistic cannibalism. When one man dares to reject the practice, their nurturing yet ruthless leader silences him by manipulating the rules he refuses to follow.

Feast

When a duffel bag explodes into existence over the Nevada desert, Dyson Wheeler — set to be hanged — seizes the moment and makes his escape, killing his captor with the shovel he was just using to dig his own grave. Now free, Wheeler sets out to avenge the death of his beloved Rachel, and in the process, create our particular pocket of spacetime, The Future That Matters to Us.

The Lord of All Future Space & Time

Logline: A grief-stricken cowboy is saved by a duffel bag from the future. The rest is history.

After moving into his parents’ basement, Bronson Somatz deals with his breakup the only way he knows how: impromptu therapy sessions in the back of an ice cream truck, escapes to his ever-devolving daydreams, and a whole lotta Tennessee whiskey.

Always On

Ana Sanchez and her mother Silvia share a very Latina bond—warm, playful, and steeped in guilt. But Silvia suffers from a rare illness that’s slowly turning her into a giant silverfish. As Ana bends to her mother’s escalating needs, her own life begins to unravel. The longer she avoids setting boundaries, the closer she comes to doing something she'll regret.

Imago

When Ana's mom starts transforming into a bug, their codependent relationship reaches its boiling point.

A peculiar takeout delivery driver, hoping to lead the wayward home to the Father, makes a sinister adjustment to their orders.

And They Shall Handle Serpents

A lonely woman takes desperate measures to make new friends.

triptrap

When a young shepherdess is kidnapped by a mysterious beast on the eve of her wedding, it is Red, a fierce mercenary, who is hired to find her and slay the creature. Yet, deep in the forest, a horrifying truth comes to light: the worst monsters don’t live in the woods.

Red: Beast Huntress

Victory lies in the palm of your hand. In a ruthless underground arena, a fighter prepares for war, but when her estranged sister shows up to challenge her path, the battlefield shifts from the ring to their fractured bond…proving the hardest battles are fought outside the ring.

When a Spanish immigrant who's trying to invent teleportation in his garage draws too much power from the electrical grid, a Department of Water and Power inspector vows to shut him down, putting both his invention and his relationship with his pregnant wife at risk.

The One-Minute Problem

Gayle is a self-described true crime aficionado, and she has managed to find the one guy who doesn’t see it as a major red flag. Her boyfriend Cameron even throws her a surprise birthday party where all her friends dress up as infamous killers, victims and talking heads.&nbsp;But when her dreamboat slips out in the middle of the night, Gayle’s favorite pastime faces off with her lifelong quest: true crime vs true love. Can she have both?

My Favorite Murderer

A girl obsessed with true crime finds her perfect match.

A young woman on her way home from an all-night rave stumbles into the domain of strange and terrifying creatures, and finds herself irreversibly changed.

Yolk

After defeating a bloodthirsty maniac, Blossom needs a ride home. What a hassle.

Blossom Needs A Ride Home

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