An opportunity to move to the edge of your seat and be prepared to find something creepy, shocking and hilarious all at once. Note: Dream Creep is the winner of the Best NW Short Award, and Bug Diner is the winner of the Best Student Short Award this year.

Mallory, a wealthy woman, discovers an abandoned baby in the middle of the wilderness. In search of the child’s mother, she realises that she is being followed. After finding an empty nearby car, she drives past a seemingly deserted campsite. An encounter with a couple of locals leaves her very confused and to make things worse, the baby’s cries are beginning to drive her mad. Beside herself and unable to understand how it's possible, she succumbs to breastfeeding the baby in a decrepit caravan park toilet. But there is someone outside the cubicle. Coming face to face with her stalker Mallory is confronted with the truth. Director's Bio: <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/45fafaef9dd37e2f6bc7e43e48643da0.jpg" width="145" style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;">Beth Park is an emerging writer/ director, whose first short film Fishwife accrued 465K views on Alter). Wild Animal is her second short film, and has already been selected at Oscar qualifying LA shorts and Hollyshorts in the US, and several BIFA qualifying festivals in the UK. She is a veteran video game director and recently worked on the official Dungeon's &amp; Dragons video game Baldur's Gate III (AAA game) which won three BAFTAs in this years’ Awards, including Best Game. Prior to her directing work she spent a decade working as an actor in the West End, at the Globe Theatre and the RSC.

This film contains nudity and/or sexual content

Wild Animal

A wealthy woman discovers an abandoned baby in the wilderness. Set on finding the child’s mother, she realises that she is being followed.

Two women—who have neither seen nor heard from one another in quite some time—run into each other while out and about and make a plan to get lunch sometime in the future. Director's Bio:<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/89f01b95812bdd72e4acf8bbfdbc15ac.jpg" style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;" width="149">Based in Los Angeles, Elizabeth Archer is a left-of-center director + writer who creates stories rooted in vibrant, stylized worlds and has a funny bone for offbeat, comedic filmmaking. Her cheeky sensibility, visual aesthetic and playful tone breathes life into both her narrative and commercial work. She explores the absurdities of modern life from an emotional palette of both subtle, nuanced performances and hilarious physical comedy. She has directed dozens of comedic short films, sketches, music videos and commercials - most recently, she directed a six-part workplace comedy series starring Keke Palmer for KeyTV and is in the process of developing her first feature film.

Two Women Make a Lunch Plan

Two women—who have neither seen nor heard from one another in quite some time—run into each other while out and about and make a plan to get lunch sometime in the future.

Two mysterious women ignite revelry and unexpected connections with the regulars in a neighborhood bar. But as closing time nears, the true nature of their presence takes a dark turn. Director's Bio:<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/5e285aa7216374adae6e7ea064bbf1c1.jpg" style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;" width="162">Mary Elizabeth Ellis, a writer/actor/producer, partially known for her epic recurring role as “The Waitress” on FX’s long running hit series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, originally hails from Laurel, Mississippi. Other TV credits include, Unstable (Netflix), Santa Clarita Diet (Netflix), Lodge 49 (AMC), The Grinder (Fox), New Girl (Fox), and Drunk History (Comedy Central), among others. This is her directorial debut project.

Last to Leave

Two mysterious women ignite revelry and unexpected connections with the regulars in a neighborhood bar. But as closing time nears, the true nature of their presence takes a dark turn.

Sleeping Alone is a short comedic thriller that follows Andy, a young woman from the city, as she attempts to enjoy a night of housesitting in the countryside. Over the course of the evening, her minor fears about sleeping in a house by herself begin to mount, forcing her to take increasingly extreme actions. Director's Bio:<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/d9c2cd35a123e38507e1d17d38185118.jpg" style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;" width="158">Kelsea Bauman-Murphy is a filmmaker and New Yorker who was technically born and raised in Los Angeles. She is currently the digital producer on HBO's flagship talk series "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." She starred in the independent feature film "Vanilla," and she has a leading role in Xavier Coleman's film "Feedback." Kelsea was previously an associate producer for HBO’s comedic docuseries Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas. Sleeping Alone is Kelsea's directorial debut. Her forthcoming sophomore short film stars Succession's Alli Brown.

Sleeping Alone

A young woman tries to enjoy a night of housesitting at a couple's countryside home.

David awakens in the night to cries for help emanating from his partner Suzy’s earhole. Instantly thrust into a harrowing, supernatural emergency, the couple face an impossible decision as a voice from beyond compels them to commit unthinkable acts of violence. If they comply, will these actions save them or open the door for an even more horrific nightmare? Director's Bio:<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/049d7c1f5f2755990c33176f8af12714.jpg" style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;" width="152">Carlos A.F. Lopez is a multifaceted filmmaker with over a decade of experience in the Seattle underground/DIY scene. His short film Ghosting the Party premiered at Nashville Film Festival 2017 and won a Special Jury Prize. Previously Lopez produced The Procedure, winner of the Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Dream Creep

A couple awakens in the night to sounds emanating from an unlikely orifice.

Bug Diner serves up a feast of clandestine delights: A Mole chef with suppressed desires, a super Fly waitress, and a host of pent up animal clientele. As tensions rise and desires reach their boiling point, this isolated restaurant becomes a hotbed of intrigue and passion. Mayhem follows when these creatures let their freak flags fly! Director's Bio:<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/f8037f8f1aaa379646518a8739cec1d6.jpg" width="129" style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;">Phoebe is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Working primarily in stop-motion animation, her films focus on the human psyche using dark humor and surreal imagery. Her short Bug Diner won the Short Film Jury award for Animation at Sundance 2024 and the Special Jury Award for animation at SXSW 2024. Her previous short JamieSonShine screened at Slamdance and won the Director’s Choice award at the Thomas Edison Film Festival. She graduated in 2023 with an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts and continues to work on her own films and commercial work.

Bug Diner

A woman tells a pizza delivery guy she can't pay for the pizza she ordered. But can the sex she offers instead of currency possibly equate to the true value of a pizza? Is there anything that can be worthy of pizza, aside from what the market has decided? Together the two decide that their only option is to become the pizza object themselves, to make each other into pizza, in order to become free. Director's Bio:<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/4fe8a8b23b5d254cfc622a5e990848e0.png" width="166" style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;">Talia creates new worlds in her work. Her absurdist erotic short film Make Me a Pizza premiered at SXSW 2024 and her road trip time travel short film Next Time won the Audience Award at the Nashville Film Festival. Her dance films have been featured on Short of the Week and Nowness. She holds a degree in directing and screenwriting from Carnegie Mellon and has continued her education at artist residencies such as PlayLab Film’s workshop in the Peruvian Amazon with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Make Me a Pizza

Bored Housewife seduces hot pizza guy for free pizza, but is desire worth $29.99?

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