My latest short movie SIREN (2020) is having a successful film festival run this year.

Here are the accepted film festivals and awards garnered:

FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS/NOMINATIONS

PEEPHOLE filmfest
Winner for Best Horror Short Film

Vancouver Independent Film Festival
Winner for Best Thriller Short Award for the Spring 2022

Snow Leopard International Film Festival
Winner for Best Horror Short Award
Nominated for Best Color Editing and Best Sound Design

The South African Independent Film Festival
Winner for the Best Experimental Film

The Rio Grind Film Festival
Winner for Best Cinematography

Montreal Requiem Fear Fest
Winner for Best Actress (Dalit Holzman)
Nominated for Best Canadian Short Film

HORROR-RAMA 2022 International Short Film Festival
Winner for Best Actress – Scream Queen (Erin Morgan)

Demonic Brilliance Film Festival
Winner for Best Visual Effects (Christopher Beaubien)
Runner Up for Best Cinematography (Ben Dawson)

Mad Monster Party Film Festival
Winner for Best Sound Design (Noah Meyer)

GenreBlast Film Fest
Nominated for Best Cinematography

L’Hospitalet de Llobregat International Film Festival
Nominated for the Best International Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Actress (Dalit Holzman)

Shockfest Film Festival
Winner for Best One-Sheet Movie Poster
Nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Director’s Reel

Mumbai International Cult Film Festival
Outstanding Achievement Awards:
Best Thriller Short and Best Cinematography Nominated for Best Editor and Best Sound Design

Haunted House FearFest
Semi-Finalist for Best Movie Under 20 Minutes

Milwaukee Twisted Dreams Film Festival
Nominated for Best Ensemble, Best Actress (Erin Morgan), Best Supporting Actress (Madison Isolina) and Best Cinematography

Houston Horror Film Festival
Nominated for Best Cinematography

Underground Indie Film Festival
Winner for the Most Creative Film Award

Genre Celebration Festival
Nominated for Best Horror Short and Best Cinematography

Oregon Scream Week Horror Film Festival
Nominated for the Best International Film Award

FILM FESTIVALS ACCEPTED

HARD:LINE International Film Festival
Splat!FilmFest – International Fantastic Film Festival
A Night of Horror Film Festival
HorrorHound Film Festival Spring
Portland Horror Film Festival
Idaho Horror Film Festival
Visioni Notturne – Horror Film Festival
Russian International Horror Film Awards
South Carolina Underground Film Festival
NOX FILM FEST Salto International Horror and Fantasy Film Fest
FIXION Fest, Fantastic & Horror Film Festival
Apulia Horror International Film Festival
Cinemafantastique 5
Milwaukee Twisted Dreams Film Festival
Nox Film Fest: Salto International Horror and Fantasy Film Fest
The Dark Hedges International Horror Film Festival
Dead in Decatur Presents: The Art of Fear
Dead Northern Horror Film Festival
New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival
Haunted House FearFest
CELLUDROID Sci-Fi Film Festival
HorrorHound Film Festival Spring
Something Wicked Film Festival
Trí Rivers Film Festival
New West Film Fest
FOGFEST – Nwefoundland & Labrador’s Horrror Film Festival
Secret Treaties – Strange Political Bedfellows
FKM, Fantastic Film Festival of A Coruña
CELLUDROID Sci-Fi Film Festival
Happenstance Horror Fest
The Fear Faire Film Festival
Obscura Filmfestival
The South African Independent Film Festival
Siding Festival of Film
Rock And Metal International Film Festival
CRASH – International Fantastic Film Festival
Dante Sunset Film Fest
The Sick ‘n’ Wrong Film Festival
Chaos Film Fest
Demonic Brilliance Film Festival
The Sick ‘n’ Wrong Film Festival
Pumpkin Fantasy Film Festival
Hallucinea Film Festival
Purgatory Film Festival
Videoscream International Film Festival
FlickFair
Genre Star
Glasgow Horror Festival
LA Underground Film Forum (Honorable Mention)
Boobs and Blood International Film Festival (Finalist)
Hollywood Horrorfest (Finalist)
Boden International Film Festival (Finalist)
Nasty Frames Independent Film Festival (Finalist)
Hollywood Horrorfest (Finalist)
Shiver International Film Festival (Finalist)
Blow-up Film Festival (Semi-Finalist)
Horror Unleashed (Semi-Finalist)
JellyFEST – Season 6 (Semi-Finalist)
The Optical Theatre Horror Film Festival (Semi-Finalist)

SYNOPSIS

Driving on a highway late at night, distracted driver April (Dalit Holzman) and her combative lover Brooke (Erin Morgan) are pulled over for speeding by two sinister police officers (Eryka Alanna and Madison Isolina). During a strange and increasingly frightening interrogation, the two women find themselves under the power of a supernatural force that changes everything they ever knew about themselves… and each other.

ASH IS PUREST WHITE

Zhangke Jia’s Ash is Purest White bares witness as a young couple’s commitment to a criminal code and each other is thoroughly tested by the passage of time. The finest moments are when Tao Zhao’s character improvises her inspired grifts. The latest by Zhangke Jia doesn’t rise to the sublime and astonishing developments of his previous masterwork Mountains May Depart (2015), which will blow your mind by taking its premise farther than most filmmakers dare. The proverbial volcano in ASH trembles, but doesn’t erupt. In a riveting fight sequence, you will also see how motorcycle helmets can be put to brutal use.

AT WAR

Stéphane Brizé’s Measure of a Man (2014) stars Vincent Lindon as an unemployed family man enduring many indignities in a jobless market. The latest At War is a thematic continuation where Lindon leads a workers’ strike against capitalist exploits and gaslighting. Like a fly-on-the-wall Frederick Wiseman doc, At War is full of long-held meetings that gradually deepen with ideological conflict, obstruction and clarity. It is a slow burn where tempers, betrayals and resolve rise to a boil. A demanding and enraging experience.

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It’s official!

The NSI Online Short Film Festival will screen Socket (2016) on January 22nd.

Click HERE where my short film will be made available.

The film festival Cinema New York City has officially selected my new short film Socket (2016)!

My producer Matt Seeley (Hamster Wheel) and I are thrilled to be included in the film festival’s lineup.

So what’s Socket about?

A doctor punishes a photographer for ridiculing her amateurish attempts at his profession.

You can read more about it HERE.

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