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World Premieres at Screamfest

The first public screening of the film in the world. 

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Matriarch

Meet the Filmmaker

Ben Steiner

Synopsis
After an overdose nearly takes her life, Laura Birch (Jemima Rooper, The Girlfriend Experience, Flowers in the Attic: The Origin) escapes from the high-stakes pressure of the advertising world to return to her roots. Accepting an invitation home from her estranged mother (Kate Dickie, Game of Thrones, The Green Knight), Laura hopes the time away in the secluded English village will help calm the demons raging inside of her. She soon discovers that the locals of the town are all protecting an unspeakably dark secret"”a secret that involves not only her mother but her own terrifying destiny as well. Matriarch is from writer/director Ben Steiner and is a thematic successor to Steiner's 2018 20th Digital short Urn. The film also stars Sarah Paul, Franc Ashman, and Keith David Bartlett.
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Watchful Eye

Meet the Filmmaker

Kris Cummins

Writer/Director
Synopsis
A mother and daughter face a night of terror when a strange man hacks into their home CCTV.
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Old Time Radio-Your Move

Meet the Filmmaker

Joel Harlow

Director
Synopsis
We find ourselves back in the macabre world of Old Time Radio. Riktus Grim and his half-brother, Edward Mise, have once again managed to climb their way out of their graves and make their way up to the ancestral home for a simple game of chess. What could go wrong...?
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Naked Zombie Girl is Back

Meet the Filmmaker

Rickey Bird

Writer and Director
Synopsis
Barbara is naked. Armed with only a chainsaw, she must survive the zombie apocalypse.
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South

Meet the Filmmaker

Carl Shanahan

Director
Synopsis
In the frozen expanse of the South, a weary scavenger discovers someone in need of aid.
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Ride or Die

Meet the Filmmaker

Minsun Park

Director
Synopsis
Three teens are on a road trip when a dangerous man with a strange affliction jumps into their car. The story he tells them is hard to believe...
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Followers

Meet the Filmmaker

Felipe Martinez Carbonell

Director and Producer
Synopsis
Gabriela, an unfulfilled psychiatrist, who is tempted by her greed ends up in a psychotic situation that she won't be able to escape.
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The Understudy

Meet the Filmmaker

Elizabeth Crummett

Director
Synopsis
An aspiring actress has an audition at a prestigious downtown theatre, but underestimates the sacrifice she needs to make to get the role.
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Robyn Hood

Meet the Filmmaker

Janeen "NEEN." Talbott

Director
Synopsis
A sultry succubus steals the belongings of an unsuspecting man to quench her insatiable thirst for his soul.
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Seeing Diane Arbus

Meet the Filmmaker

Lindsay Zibach

Writer, Director, Producer
Synopsis
A movie theater projectionist with dwarfism has a fateful, frightening reunion with the famously voyeuristic photographer, Diane Arbus.
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Alma Mater

Meet the Filmmaker

Matthew P. Higgins

Director
Synopsis
Arthur discovers disturbing information while reading his father's high school yearbook.