AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: S
BEST PERFORMANCES: HIGH DESERT HELL performers
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: NIGHT OWLS
BEST MUSIC: S
Theme of night: Seclusion. (Or, trapped in a strange place)
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S, 29min., Spain, Horror/Thriller
Directed by Juan José Patón
Mary, a recent graduate, travels to Spain for an internship at a mental hospital. In addition to facing the difficulties of living in a foreign country, she will meet the first patient she must treat. This will affect her in a way she hadn’t expected.
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NOCTAMBULOS (NIGHT OWLS), 8min., Spain, Horror
Directed by Romén Rivero
In the middle of the night, a group of teenagers practice skateboarding without notice that somebody is watching them from the shadows. One of the girls separates from the group to return home through the lonely streets of the city and someone follows her.
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KUSHTAKA, 16min., USA, Horror/Thriller
Directed by Cameron Currin
Based in the 1900s, a recently widowed prospector remains alone in the Alaskan wilderness during his desperate search for gold. Something has been stalking him from the trees. Can he find his fortune and leave Alaska for good, or will he lose the only real valuable thing he has left, his own life?
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HIGH DESERT HELL, 17min., USA, Horror/Thriller
Directed by Francis Galluppi
Four young adults venture to a remote location in the high desert of California and are mysteriously preyed upon.
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THE ESCAPE ROOM, 17min., USA, Horror/Thriller
Directed by Bessy Adut
“Escape Room” is an award winning film (best screenplay, best editing, nominated for best film, best music score and best acting) about a brilliant student who is bullied in high school and suffers from OCD reluctantly joins her popular friends at a horror-themed Escape Room game. When the group realizes that a revenge-seeking Game Master has set them up in a custom-made deadly trap, the five teenagers start turning on each other. They have to join forces in order to get out of the room alive. The theme involves love, trust, teen issues and the importance of friendship. It is our hope to inspire audiences to pursue the idea of standing up for one another when confronted with adversities caused by a valued one.
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S, 29min., Spain, Horror/Thriller
NOCTAMBULOS (NIGHT OWLS), 8min., Spain, Horror
THE ESCAPE ROOM, 17min., USA, Horror/Thriller
HIGH DESERT HELL, 17min., USA, Horror/Thriller
KUSHTAKA, 16min., USA, Horror/Thriller