4 DAYS
50+ FILMS
FILMS FROM 11 COUNTRIES
1271 (Australia)
Dir: Michael Warczak
Cat: Vampire Short (3min)
10/23 3:00pm (screening with The Kiss)
Have you found Jesus yet?
VAMPIRE FILM FESTIVAL
SHORTS PROGRAMS
Gothic Shorts Program #1 - October 23 5pm
Rakthavira (USA)
Dir: Aurelio Voltaire (1min)
RAKTHAVIRA (named after a demon of Hindu mythology) feels like a surreal fever dream with an underlying message on AIDS awareness. Narrated by Debbie Harry of Blondie.
Dreams (USA) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: Joshy Alvarez (3min) trailer
When a withdrawn girl wakes up in a daymare, she realizes that everything is stirring in reverse. In this bizarre world, she decides to bury her dreams and let go of the components in her life that have prevented her from seeing the light.
The Music of Erich Zahn (USA)
Dir: Jared Skolnick (38min)
A young student becomes fascinated by the strange music of the eccentric violinist living above him, leading him to a terrifying discovery.
Elektra Zen Suite (Italy)
Dir: Alessandro Brucini (22min)
Orestes, returned to the native land, kills the usurper Aegisthus, but not the mother; who dies by her daughter’s Elektra hand…
Dir: Chris Lackey (27min)
A short comedy-thriller in the tradition of The Addams Family about a family of rare book collectors who have opened their collection to the public and their patriarch's bumbling efforts to draw a young woman into his mystical cult.
Sucker (USA)
Dir: Troy Price Trailer
Cat: Vampire Short (12min)
10/23 7:30pm (screening with Shadowland)
A vampire seduces a young woman with the promise of immortality. But after offering herself willingly to his bite, she realizes a terrible truth...
Midnight @ Film Vampire Fest - October 23 Midnight (costume contest)
Dir: Chris Angus
Cat: Anime (2min)
We discover the horrifying truth behind the natural urges of a vampire and realize he is not that different from us.
CannibAlien (Japan)
Dir: David Kame Tsai
Cat: Anime (33min)
In this future vision of Planet Earth, aliens have taken over and begun to eat humans. These 'CannibAliens' find human dishes to be very tasty.
Childhood Fears (USA)
Dir: Cameron Roubique
Cat: Mythic Short (21min)
Jake's childhood fears come back to haunt him every night as his dead cousin starts coming out of his closet every night while he's asleep.
Exposure (USA) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: Ryan Bergara (5min) trailer
Orestes, returned to the native land, kills the usurper Aegisthus, but not the mother; who dies by her daughter’s Elektra hand…
Bloodrayne (USA) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: Edward Negron trailer
Cat: Vampire Short (11min)
Multi genre film short spanning horror, comedy, action and sci-fi, starring Vera VanGuard as Rayne. Based on a popular console video game 'BloodRayne'.
Nosferajew (USA) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: Mitch Yapko & Allen Rueckert trailer
Cat: Vampire Short (23min)
'Nosferajew' is a mockumentary about Maury Feinstein, a Jewish vampire (think Woody Allen with fangs) un-deading among the living in a suburban surreality, and his daily interactions with friends and family.
Blood Bound (USA)
Dir: Analee Autumn trailer
Cat: Vampire Short (10min)
A 500 year old vampires hunts and kills younger vampires in New Orleans.
International Vampire Shorts - October 24 2pm
Dir: Robert Vawter (15min) trailer
A young, sickly woman lives in an old run-down house with her elderly companion. Weak and weary, her condition can only be temporarily subdued by daily doses of special substances. Thus, by night, the two prowl the streets in search of remedy and visit desolate beaches for consolation
(United Kingdom)
Dir: Joshua Gaunt (25min)
After waking up to find a strange bite mark on his neck, estate agent, Jonathan, sets off on his last day as a human. His interactions with various strange characters and stories lead him to discover the harsh truth of what has befallen him and who, exactly, is responsible.
Dir: Nay Htat (8min)
One night, a guy sees a girl in a cafe for the first time, straightaway he is drawn into her. And when a mystery man who seems to be stalking the girl shows up, quickly he becomes a protector of the girl. But it turns into a real nightmare for him...
D’ Entre Les Morts (France)
Dir: Alain Basso(30min) Trailer
When Roger meets Pauline, the perspective to have finally found his next masterpieces'diva incites him to consider the remake of his fetich movie, 'Vertigo' by Hitchcock. But all is not gold that glitter.
Blood Sisters (Austria)
Dir: Maria Hinterkörner (22min)
Elizabeth and Lilith, two - let's say - good friends, participate in a party that will change their lives forever. A powerful vampire abducts one of the girls to make her his playmate for eternity. the other however, willingly reborn and raging will not condone and will do anything to get her girlfriend back and indulge in a bloody revenge.
Bad Reception (Australia)
Dir: Andrew Orman (7min)
Why would a vampire need a mobile phone?
Initiation (Canada)
Dir: Stéphane Beaudoin
Cat: Vampire Short (22min)
10/24 7:00pm (screening with The Death of Alice Blue)
By carrying out a mission that will make him a part of the gang, Vincent is taken in by another brotherhood, one from which he can't come back.
Mythic Films - October 24 9:30pm (3 shorts will screen with mythic feature Mangal Sutra)
College Video #13 (USA)
Dir: Bryan Rodgers (8min)
College Senior Brett likes to video his girlfriend Heather as she hunts for alternative pleasures at a party.
Hellcat & Tala (USA)
Dir: Gary Schultz (19min) trailer
Hellcat is lousy at being a vampire. Tala is…more than she appears to be. She's very new to her abilities and more powerful than anyone realizes. In the short film “Hellcat and Tala” they discover each others secrets and learn if they can co-exist.
Trojans (USA)
Dir: Westland Armitage (8min) trailer
Then there was one.
Midnight @ Film Vampire Fest - October 24 Midnight (costume contest)
The Blind Date of Coffin Joe (USA)
Dir: Raymond Castile trailer
Cat: Gothic Short (10min)
A TV dating show pairs a beautiful young woman with a diabolical mass murderer. Tribute to Coffin Joe (Zé do Caixão) and the films of José Mojica Marins. Coffin Joe, an evil undertaker from Brazil, has spent years and killed many people in his quest to find the 'superior woman' to bear his child.
Dir: Julián Lara trailer
Cat: Vampire Short (9min)
Cansada de una vida llena de asesinatos sin sentido una Vampira decide llamar a un moderno cazavampiros a sueldo.Sin embargo la integridad y profesionalidad de este cazavampiros seran puestos a prueba en esta ocasion.
Night Moves (USA)
Dir: Jeremy Cole
Cat: Vampire Short (25min)
A twisted, dark, surreal, love story about a raging alcoholic and a vampire prostitute.
Shrove Tuesday (United Kingdom) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: Lee Matthews (22min) trailer
Cat: Mythic Short
In the UK, Shrove Tuesday was originally a pagan festival, where food was consumed in bulk before the onset of lent. But now it's mainly associated with pancakes...but there is still the legend of a woman, murdered for her religious beliefs, who came back from the dead on Shrove Tuesday to avenge herself. She became known as Pancake Marion. And she spared no one.
Vauville Dead (Samoa) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: Guillaume Tion
Cat: Vampire Short (30min)
A Romanian, a nympho, a male nurse and his catholic girlfriend weekend in an horrific french manor. Songs, blood and wafers : brave the zombie's dawn.
Gothic Shorts Program #2 - October 25 5:30pm
Dir: Jeff Ferrell (10min)
Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of love and obsession that transcends beyond the grave comes to life in this beautiful and haunting gothic horror film.
Dir: Aurelio Voltaire (2min)
MTV and SciFi Channel veteran, Voltaire, takes a dark look at gift-giving and the negative effect it has on the Earth in this one-minute Christmas parable. Animated in stop-motion by Voltaire and narrated by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance.
Dir: Lori Bowen (28min) trailer
A disillusioned priest grudgingly takes up the fight for a mysterious woman when he finds out that she's being hunted by fallen angels.
One Dark Night (Canada)
Dir: Jon Moxness (23min)
A hilarious and macabre gothic fairytale about an undead man and his pursuit of love, with help from his misfit friends.
Cafe (USA) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: Norman Magden (14min)
An infamous mythical figure exploits his legend by performing an extraordinary show in the heart of a major city at an anonymous cafe for the un-dead.
Fine Art of Poisoning (Out of Competition)
(5min)
Gothic short from musician Jill Tracy
Vampire Shorts Program - October 25 9:30pm
Vampire Killers (USA)
Dir: Tim Baldini (22min)
Vampire Killers involves a ruthless cabal of alluring female vampires and the relentess stalkers who want to take their empire down. The midnight streets of Los Angeles are the location for this epic struggle between the righteous and undead.
Dir: Tom Laughlin (15min)
The Union throws you into many wild twists and turns as a young bride Lithia finds out a horrifically dark secret about her groom, Vincent, on the eve of her wedding ceremony. Now, across the alter, she is faced with making the most important... and dangerous decision of her life.
Dir: Bruce Guido (16min)
Larry works the night shift at a convenience store. He can't get a girl, and he hates his life. But that's not his biggest problem: He's a vampire, and he has to learn how to become a vampire in order to become a man.
Mr. Moonlight (USA)
Dir: Mark Cornell (30min)
A lonely man with a secret attempts to understand his place in the world.
Diaries of a Teenage Vampire (USA)
Dir: Michael Curtis Johnson (6min)
A look inside the secret diary of a teenage girl struggling with the complexities of changing from a young woman into a blood-sucking creature of the night.
Haunted by the Thought of You (Out of Competition)
(7min)
Music Video from musician Jill Tracy
Now That You’re Dead (USA)
Dir: Patrick Rea
Cat: Vampire Short (15min)
10/26 2:00pm (screening with Strigoi)
A supernatural dark comedy about a cheating husband, his mistress and a murderous wife with a vampire twist
Grotesque (USA)
WORLD PREMIERE
Dir: J.D.Oliva Trailer
Cat: Gothic Short (30min)
10/26 4:30pm (screening with Let Me Die Quietly)
In the confines of St. George Catholic Church, a brisk reporter meets a gentle nun in secret to solve the haunting mystery of the Black Mary stories that may have lead to the death of a local priest.
Festival Winners
Titles TBA
10/26 7:00pm
The Hunted YouTube Contest Winner
