Shorts
Doorman
Genre: Drama, Suspense
Running Time: 20 minutes
A night doorman, Mike, holds watch in the lobby of a luxury apartment building during a harsh Manhattan winter. He kills time watching passerby's shuffling through the cold and listening to his radio, completely isolated and alone. Excluded from the world, Mike begins to receive anonymous packages in the mail. He slowly begins to lose his ability to comprehend the world around him, hearing unintelligible words and feeling like his brain has been infected by something inexplicable.
Directed by Collin Kornfeind
A summa cum laude film studies and production graduate of Hofstra University, Collin Kornfeind currently works as a full-time producer and editor at Plenty in Manhattan.
This will be the film's West Coast and European premieres!
For additional information, please visit www.doormanmovie.info.
Running Time: 20 minutes
A night doorman, Mike, holds watch in the lobby of a luxury apartment building during a harsh Manhattan winter. He kills time watching passerby's shuffling through the cold and listening to his radio, completely isolated and alone. Excluded from the world, Mike begins to receive anonymous packages in the mail. He slowly begins to lose his ability to comprehend the world around him, hearing unintelligible words and feeling like his brain has been infected by something inexplicable.
Directed by Collin Kornfeind
A summa cum laude film studies and production graduate of Hofstra University, Collin Kornfeind currently works as a full-time producer and editor at Plenty in Manhattan.
This will be the film's West Coast and European premieres!
For additional information, please visit www.doormanmovie.info.
Dubai
Genre: Time lapse Photography
Running Time: 5 minutes
This short timelapse film contains no video or film. It is purely created with still photographs, 6,600 of them. A DSLR was used to take the stills with varying intervals and exposures. They were then treated in software and edited to music. Experience the electricity and pulsating beat of Dubai in this futuristic film.
Directed by Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley is from Nottingham, England; the home of Robin Hood and Paul Smith, the fashion designer. He first picked up a camera only 18 months ago, at the tender age of 41. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?! Bentley makes his time lapse films as a hobby. They are often photographed late at night and edited on the flight home at 35,000 feet!
This will be the film's WORLD premiere!
For additional information, please visit www.richardbentleyfilms.com.
Running Time: 5 minutes
This short timelapse film contains no video or film. It is purely created with still photographs, 6,600 of them. A DSLR was used to take the stills with varying intervals and exposures. They were then treated in software and edited to music. Experience the electricity and pulsating beat of Dubai in this futuristic film.
Directed by Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley is from Nottingham, England; the home of Robin Hood and Paul Smith, the fashion designer. He first picked up a camera only 18 months ago, at the tender age of 41. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?! Bentley makes his time lapse films as a hobby. They are often photographed late at night and edited on the flight home at 35,000 feet!
This will be the film's WORLD premiere!
For additional information, please visit www.richardbentleyfilms.com.
Hollywood Zombies
What happens when the people who make horror films suddenly find themselves in one?
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Running Time: 15 minutes
If Living in Oblivion and Shaun of the Dead had an ugly love child, that love child would be Hollywood Zombies. The film follows an indie film crew as they struggle to make the next big zombie film. Problems arise when they accidentally succeed in raising the dead. As the cast and crew succumb to the horde, it falls to the abused production assistants to stop the zombies and save the film.
Directed by MATT THOMPSON
Matthew Thompson is a young filmmaker hailing from Philadelphia, where he has spent the last five years mastering the art of film production. With a love of campy horror films, Hollywood Zombies serves as his thesis from Drexel University and is a testament to what he has learned so far.
For additional information, please visit www.hollywoodzombiesthefilm.com.
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Running Time: 15 minutes
If Living in Oblivion and Shaun of the Dead had an ugly love child, that love child would be Hollywood Zombies. The film follows an indie film crew as they struggle to make the next big zombie film. Problems arise when they accidentally succeed in raising the dead. As the cast and crew succumb to the horde, it falls to the abused production assistants to stop the zombies and save the film.
Directed by MATT THOMPSON
Matthew Thompson is a young filmmaker hailing from Philadelphia, where he has spent the last five years mastering the art of film production. With a love of campy horror films, Hollywood Zombies serves as his thesis from Drexel University and is a testament to what he has learned so far.
For additional information, please visit www.hollywoodzombiesthefilm.com.
A Man, Buried
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 16 minutes
Kyle is a drunk. In a permanent state of disrepair, he sits in front of his trailer all day, drinking beer, and attempting to ignore his family. His wife and two kids have long since given up on him— only his teenage son continues to acknowledge his existence, but even that seems to come under threat when the family discovers a crude coffin buried in the backyard. While Kyle is out on one of his binges, his family unearths, to their great surprise, a second version of Kyle! This "new Kyle" reveals himself to be sober, dependable, and caring—in short, superior in every way— and he quickly wins over the family's affections. The strange gets stranger when "original Kyle" arrives home from his binge and comes face-to-face with his superior doppelganger.
Produced by ADVENTUS FILMS
Producer Rick Walters and cinematographer/editor Chris Joseph Taylor together make up Adventus Films, the company that is most responsible for the production of “A Man, Buried”. They continue to make features, shorts, music videos and the likes in the Seattle and surrounding areas.
This will be the film's European and East Coast premieres!
*A Man, Buried won our Hollywood Fringe Audience Choice award for Shorts!
For additional information, please visit www.adventusfilms.net.
Running Time: 16 minutes
Kyle is a drunk. In a permanent state of disrepair, he sits in front of his trailer all day, drinking beer, and attempting to ignore his family. His wife and two kids have long since given up on him— only his teenage son continues to acknowledge his existence, but even that seems to come under threat when the family discovers a crude coffin buried in the backyard. While Kyle is out on one of his binges, his family unearths, to their great surprise, a second version of Kyle! This "new Kyle" reveals himself to be sober, dependable, and caring—in short, superior in every way— and he quickly wins over the family's affections. The strange gets stranger when "original Kyle" arrives home from his binge and comes face-to-face with his superior doppelganger.
Produced by ADVENTUS FILMS
Producer Rick Walters and cinematographer/editor Chris Joseph Taylor together make up Adventus Films, the company that is most responsible for the production of “A Man, Buried”. They continue to make features, shorts, music videos and the likes in the Seattle and surrounding areas.
This will be the film's European and East Coast premieres!
*A Man, Buried won our Hollywood Fringe Audience Choice award for Shorts!
For additional information, please visit www.adventusfilms.net.
A New Life
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 13 minutes
Ben is a young artist who has entered the real world, working a job he hates, as he transitions into his new life as a homeowner and newlywed. Ben struggles over whether to help his wife set up their home or fulfill his work obligations. The decisions that he makes are more important than he could ever imagine.
Running Time: 13 minutes
Ben is a young artist who has entered the real world, working a job he hates, as he transitions into his new life as a homeowner and newlywed. Ben struggles over whether to help his wife set up their home or fulfill his work obligations. The decisions that he makes are more important than he could ever imagine.
Without
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 9 minutes
Distracted from an unresolved fight with her lover, Laura is late for an important staff meeting that appears to have ended abruptly. She soon discovers that she is alone in the office building without explanation. Laura struggles to find a way out.
A New Life and Without, Directed by CHAD MCCLARNON
Chad works as a commercial photographer based out of Nashville, TN. He is the director, co-writer, producer and all around magician for the Best Part Production team. His visual storytelling style, amazing composition and nearly robotic work ethic is the driving force for all of the Best Part films.
For additional information about A New Life and Without, please visit www.bestpartproductions.com.
Running Time: 9 minutes
Distracted from an unresolved fight with her lover, Laura is late for an important staff meeting that appears to have ended abruptly. She soon discovers that she is alone in the office building without explanation. Laura struggles to find a way out.
A New Life and Without, Directed by CHAD MCCLARNON
Chad works as a commercial photographer based out of Nashville, TN. He is the director, co-writer, producer and all around magician for the Best Part Production team. His visual storytelling style, amazing composition and nearly robotic work ethic is the driving force for all of the Best Part films.
For additional information about A New Life and Without, please visit www.bestpartproductions.com.
