A young and inexperienced actress is hand selected by a high profile director whose manipulative and abusive directing style is enforced for the sake of art.
Social & External
The people behind it
Alysa Arias
Natalie
Jackson Tillotson
Nathan
Brian J. Ames
The Director
Brad Naso
John/Samuel
Pertiwi returns to her hometown after spending two decades in prison to rebuild her life. There, she finds power in things that have been abandoned: discarded electronic devices that mysteriously light up and a community of outcasts living on the fringes of society. But coming home also means confronting the four men who sent her to prison and now rule the village. Together with the outcasts, Pertiwi begins to uncover the darkness that still haunts the place - and the past she thought she had left behind.
Two young farmhands, led by an experienced prospector, venture up the dangerous and haunted Shine Mountain in search of life-changing fortune.
On the eve of the Apocalypse, a motley group of strangers plays Russian Roulette with a man claiming to be the Devil for a chance to save the world.
A reunion weekend spirals out of control for four college friends when the host - a science fiction writer on the verge of newfound success - fights to maintain his sense of reality in the face of sudden, uncanny dangers.
Five friends travel onto sacred tribal land while searching for a good place to party. Their lack of respect for the land and locals awakens an ancient, violent guardian who won't let them leave unpunished.
Khosrow is an elderly man living alone, exercising his daily routine, haunted by the overwhelming fear that one day he will die in solitude and his body will go unnoticed, left to rot. Beneath his strange isolation, however, Khosrow harbors a dark and terrifying secret.
Two resilient detectives are on the hunt for a serial killer who has left a path of drug related murders. They finally have him cornered... or do they?
A young man gives his opinion on the state of modern cinema.
A short fil that follows a body subjected to institutional and diffuse forms of power: medicalization, psychiatric labeling, regimes of sexuality, and everyday violence. Moving between a white clinical space, a cemetery in Toulouse, and ordinary interiors, the film unfolds through gestures, textures, and encounters with other bodies. Inspired by Michel Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Rancière, and critical thought from Latin America, this short film traces a sensitive cartography of emancipation and asks a simple yet difficult question: what can a body do when it attempts to reclaim its own history?
Fadli is a member of the NTSF who wants to take revenge on the ESLM (extra sensory liberation movement) which is believed to be the cause of his father's death 20 years ago. After the existence of the Helang in ESLM, the NTSF is increasingly threatened when the Helang try to destroy their organization. Fadli began to investigate and suspected the NTSF of having spies who leaked their information. Fadli begins to distrust anyone until he discovers the truth within his own organization. The situation becomes more complicated when there is a final battle between NTSF and ESLM which will reveal all the secrets and evil motives among them.
An actor stuck with the pathetic supporting role of Mephisto on a student film starts method acting as the powerful lead character Faust to get his role, leading to disastrous consequences.
An inattentive babysitter ignores the warnings of a child who knows something she doesn't... The later the night gets, the more things take a turn for the worse!
Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
An artist, surrounded by the mess in her studio, struggles with frustration as she tries to find inspiration for her new painting.
Two guys coming up together for an idea for a short films
The story follows the lead singer of a punk rock band who is haunted by an enigma of a woman after a terrifying encounter with the newest street drug, Black Toad.
In 2008, a deer hunter was taken by something in the Alabama woods. Only his rifle, blood and a 16" footprint were left behind... Five years later, his son seeks revenge.
After Dev finally convinces his girlfriend, Ishika, to try LSD with him in their apartment, she wakes up the next morning feeling lucky to have come out of that crazy trip. But Dev is missing, and right about then, she’s struck with a memory of her killing him, the night before. While she’s trying to wreck her mind to distinguish between the trip and the reality, she’s met with another surprise in the form of her Dev’s parents’ visit!
"Infliction" is the actual assembled footage taken from the cameras belonging to two brothers, who documented a murder spree in North Carolina.
A woman travels to Holland in search of her missing sister who may have been forced into prostitution in the infamous Red Light District of Amsterdam. Ever wondered what would happen if John Waters went to the Netherlands to make a giallo? Wonder no more!
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
A couple's lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star.
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. Cogburn's search for who is behind the manipulation and mental torment he encounters leads to an emotional roller-coaster ride full of fear and danger, where things are not always as clear as they seem to be, and where past deeds can have dire consequences.
A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.
High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned private investigator – Marley’s search for what really happened leads her down a treacherous maze of deception and betrayal.
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.
The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.