Bend Film Festival 2024

LATE NIGHT

Expired November 19, 2024 7:59 AM
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7 films in package
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 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.
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
A young woman tries to enjoy a night of housesitting at a couple's countryside home.
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Dream Creep
A couple awakens in the night to sounds emanating from an unlikely orifice.
Closed captions available
Bug Diner
This diner is crawling with secrets.
Make Me a Pizza
Bored Housewife seduces hot pizza guy for free pizza, but is desire worth $29.99?
Closed captions available
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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.

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:

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.




  • Runtime
    7 minutes
  • Language
    Sort of English
  • Country
    USA
  • Premiere
    Central Oregon Premiere
  • Content Warning
    This film contains nudity and/or sexual content
  • Director
    Phoebe Jane Hart
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