A cunning, but naive attorney gets in over his head with a Wall Street financier and the Russian mob.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Max: Sean Ballantyne
Ruben: Steve Rizzo
Vulture Capitalist: Matthew Camp
Neisha: Allison Kampf

When a brilliant young law grad with a talent for speed-reading takes a well paid gig scraping bulk data for dirt on a rival political candidate, his idealistic naiveté and misplaced loyalty land him in the crosshairs of powerful enemies, the FBI, and his murderous boss.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Dillan: Allan Michael Brunet
John: Shawn Devlin

Writer Biography

Tracy Schumer is a former freelance journalist, the author of five novels, a licensed pilot and a blue-water sailor. She has completed two global circumnavigations and traveled to 109 countries. She currently resides in Switzerland. To date she’s garnered 17 finalist awards and accolades, view her complete awards list here: https://writers.coverfly.com/profile/author37298#accolades.
https://www.trschumer.com/

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST CRIME/THRILLER FILM: IMAGINARY FRIEND
BEST ACTION FILM: THE LAST PIZZA
BEST PERFORMANCES: RETRIEVAL
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: ZEALANDIA
BEST SOUND & MUSIC: EMBLEM

Theme of night: Changing conventional thought.

NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private.

Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos:

ZEALANDIA 13min. New Zealand Sci-Fi

CURIOSITY 5min. USA Sci-Fi/Horror

WORLDLINE ABYSS 3min. UK Sci-Fi/Experimental

RETRIEVAL 10min. USA Sci-Fi/Action

DARK DAY 7min. USA Thriller/Crime

EMBLEM 25min. USA Action/Sci-Fi

THE LAST PIZZA 7min. China Action/Comedy

FUJIYAMA 9min. USA Action/Crime

IMAGINARY FRIEND 16min. USA Crime/Thriller

ODYSSEY OMEGA 24min. USA Mystery/Sci-Fi

The beginning of a (temporary) new era.

See you at the festivals. Whenever that happens!

– Matthew Toffolo

A family leaves the western rat race to pursue their lifelong dream to manage a tourist lodge in the rainforest. Unaware of the lodge’s murderous past, they are pulled into a psychological game unveiling the ultimate stake, life itself.

CAST LIST:

Daniel: Sean Ballantyne

Interbank Trader: Allan Michael Brunet

Annika: Julie Sheppard

Emily: Val Cole

Matt Szymanowski wrote, produced and directed his debut feature, a Sundance Screenwriting Lab Finalist The Purple Onion. The film premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival and went on to play a dozen festivals Internationally, winning the Best Feature: Drama-Comedy at the Indie Gathering International Film Festival. Cinemation Studios distributed the film in summer 2017 on all major VOD platforms. Szymanowski’s award winning short films have played at over 20 film festivals globally, including Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, San Francisco International, Tirana International, and Warsaw International, among others. He wrote and self-published the novel Cupertino, a dark tale about troubled adolescents loosely inspired by his teen years in the technology hub that’s home to Apple Computers.

The American-born son of Polish immigrants, Szymanowski returned to his parents native Poland to study film and theatre directing at the prestigious Polish National Film School in Lodz. A Berlinale Talents and MacDowell Colony fellow, he has a BA in Humanities from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and an MFA in Writing for Film and TV from Emerson College in Boston. “Glorious Empire” is his second feature film and is scheduled to shoot at the end of 2020.

A man has just committed a brutal crime. His wife comes home with the intent of telling him she wants a divorce. On this day both of their dark secrets come to light.

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST THRILLER FILM: MIRROR FINISH
BEST HORROR FILM: MALAKOUT
BEST PERFORMANCES: VIRTUALLY HAPPY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: ABSENCE
BEST SOUND & MUSIC: STAY

Theme of night: Death and Rebirth

NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private.

Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos:

ABSENCE, 13min., Germany, Sci-Fi/Thriller

VIRTUALLY HAPPY, 11min., USA, Sci-Fi/Magical Realism

IRONFIN, 2min., USA, Sci-Fi/Animation

GOD GLITCH, 8min., Netherlands, Sci-Fi/Romance

STAY , 6min., USA, Thriller/Crime

SNUB NOSE, 11min., USA, Thriller/Crime

MILK, 5min., USA, Thriller/Crime

MIRROR FINISH, 10min., Canada, Thriller/Crime

SWEET TOOTH, 4min., USA, Horror

EVERY CORNER, 8min., USA, Horror

MALAKOUT, 11min., Iran, Animation/Sci-Fi

INVASION, 16min., USA, Horror/Suspense

The beginning of a (temporary) new era.

See you at the festivals. Whenever that happens!

– Matthew Toffolo

Hannah Davenport is having a “good news, bad news” kind of day: A stranger appears in the haunted village of Harper’s Ferry and could be the father she never knew. That’s the good news. The bad news is that he could also be a cold-blooded killer.

CAST LIST:
Narrator; Allison Kampf
Hanna: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Sunday: Sean Ballantyne