Friday, October 11th, 2024 Night Feature 7 pm
The Inheritance (WI)
*Runtime: 7 minutes
*Director: Craig Anthony Knitt and Ian Teal
*Summary: After recently losing his Grandpa, Sam must find a way to deal with his guilt over a lifetime of poor choices. He’d make a deal with anyone.
A Time to Die (WI)
*Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
*Director: Robert William Love
*Summary: Half human / half zombie, a soldier from the future is pulled back in time to the present day where everyone considers her to be a monster. But it’s her mission to battle the Zombie Queen and save all of humanity from a zombie apocalypse.
Saturday, October 12th, 2024
Festival Shorts Block #1 12:30 pm
Dustbusters (WI)
*Runtime: 8 minutes
*Director: Earl Martin
*Summary: A cleaning company has been called to vacuum the hallways of an empty, for sale, apartment complex that may be haunted.
Cart Return (TN)
*Runtime: 4 minutes
*Director: Matt Webb
*Summary: Melanie is just too busy and self-absorbed and refuses to return her shopping cart, leading to an unfortunate turn of events when she’s transported directly into a 1960’s Hitchcock-like thriller.
Deadline (Israel)
*Runtime: 13 minutes
*Director: Idan Gilboa
*Summary: Deadline is a black comedy Stop-motion short that explores the power balance between bureaucracy, death and feline devotion of the elderly. At its center is a story of a brave friendship and solidarity between two senior ladies sickened by society’s disregard and disrespect.
Pastor Jameson’s New Plan (WI)
*Runtime: 5 minutes
*Director: Emmett Charles Loverde
*Summary: The desperate leader of a group of starving settlers unveils a new path to riches and prosperity… but the price might be too high.
The Crane Wife (WI)
*Runtime: 12 minutes
*Director: Caleb C Adams
*Summary: A take on the Japanese wives tale of the same name, The Crane Wife tells of a poor, lonely dress-maker who, one night, receives a knock on the door from a bird that will change his view on life.
The Key (WI)
*Runtime: 7 minutes
*Director: Daniel J Pico
*Summary: A powerful psychic is recruited by the CIA to communicate with an otherworldly being who doesn’t have the ability of speech.
The Gatekeeper (WI)
*Runtime: 13 minutes
*Director: Sam Sorenson
*Summary: New owners of a small-town building discover an ancient secret in the walls of its basement.
Pests (CA)
*Runtime: 17 minutes
*Director: Sean Cruser
*Summary: To distract himself from a severe breakup, a man begins obsessing over a creature destroying his backyard.
Sentinel (WI)
*Runtime: 13 minutes
*Director: Jake Viaene
*Summary: A reporter experiences bumps in the night after the whistleblower of a local corporate conspiracy goes missing.
Saturday Matinee
The Old Ones (MN)
*Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes
*Director: Chad Ferrin
*Summary: In 1930, sea captain Russel Marsh saw the light, and for 93 years his body was not his own. Inhabited by a Great Old One, he committed unspeakable acts in the name of the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Now free, he is in search of a way to go back in time to reverse the horrors wrought upon the world. But the cult has other plans and will stop at nothing to destroy him.
Saturday Festival Shorts Block #2
When You’re Here, You’re Pizza (WI)
*Runtime: 71 minutes
*Director: Tim Schwagel
*Summary: River orders the same pizza every day. What could go wrong?
Mending (WI)
*Runtime: 8 minutes
*Director: John Carlo Rosillo
*Summary: It’s 1974 and Gary Campbell has set out to go camping with his three daughters, Nancy, Judy, and Wendy. A planned vacation turns out to be a nightmare as no one gets along and side characters interrupt their family bonding.
The Alley (Canada)
*Runtime: 8 minutes
*Director: Brady Palubiski
*Summary: A serial killer targets young women with recently deceased fathers and lures his victims into an abandoned bowling alley.
Lurker (WI)
*Runtime: 8 minutes
*Director: Savanna Wrobel
*Summary: Chelsea, a recent art-school graduate, is living at home with her penny-pinching parents while pursuing her passion. Determined to follow her passion, she finds herself facing an unexpected adversary: Could it be a ghost, or a manifestation of her darkest self?
Sincopat (Spain)
*Runtime: 13 minutes
*Director: Pol Diggler
*Summary: Ona, a creative executive of a large company, is about to launch the latest technological revolution into the market: a device that allows listening to music directly inside the brain.
Bedtime Story (WI)
*Runtime: 6 minutes
*Director: Kal Kociss
*Summary: A young boy summons a monster after listening to a scary story.
Nightmare (WI)
*Runtime: 16 minutes
*Director: Lillian Slivinski
*Summary: In “Nightmare,” young college student Lizzie, is plunged into a nightmarish existence when a sinister entity from her dreams begins to stalk her in the waking world. As her grip on reality slips, Lizzie must navigate a maze of fear, isolation, and impending doom. With each sleepless night, the line between dreams and reality blurs
Last Rung on the Ladder (WI)
*Runtime: 25 minutes
*Director: Jeff Blankenship
*Summary: When celebrity psychologist Larry Gatlin returns to his home state of Wisconsin to receive an award for his work fighting the stigma of mental illness, all is not well. An unexpected turn with his estranged sister and personal demons collide, creating a narrative that goes beyond the surface of celebration.
Saturday Night Feature
Top Secret Jazz (WI)
*Runtime: 7 minutes
*Director: Tommy Simms, Joe Ludwig
*Summary: A lone stranger rides into a weathered settlement and tussles with the locals. After a lethal encounter, the gunslinger is transported to a mysterious lounge, where he learns secrets of a trade he never imagined.
Purgatory Jack (Canada)
*Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
*Director: Brett Butler, Jason Butler
*Summary: Purgatory Jack is a neo-noir mystery thriller set in the afterlife, a dangerous landscape that’s run by a bloodthirsty, limb-collecting gang and populated with outlaws and outcasts. The latest case for musician turned grizzled private detective, Jack Marlin, is helping new arrival Viv Vacious, a punk pop star who overdosed, stay safe as she races against time to find her mother who committed suicide twenty years earlier. While navigating the treacherous terrain of hell’s waiting room, these two musicians from clashing eras unlock a murderous conspiracy and discover why blood is more than a drug in Purgatory.
