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Los Angeles County Premieres at Screamfest

The first public screening of the film in Los Angeles County. 

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Sleepworking

Meet the Filmmaker

Gavin Williams

Director
Synopsis
In the near future a young woman becomes a sleepworker: her body is programmed to do menial labour while she is asleep. However, she starts to suffer disturbing side effects and embarks upon a dangerous journey to uncover what sleepworkers are really being made to do while unconscious...
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The Seasoning House

Meet the Filmmaker

Paul Hyett

Director
Synopsis
The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. Angel (Rosie Day), an orphaned deaf mute, is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
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Paranormal Activity

Meet the Filmmaker

Oren Peli

Director
Synopsis
After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.
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The Old Woman in the Woods

Meet the Filmmaker

Caroline Coutts

Director
Synopsis
A Gothic fairy tale combining live action and stop motion puppet animation to tell the story of two little girls who disobey their mother for a glimpse into a magical other world and end up paying dearly for their caprice. The screenplay, adapted from the classic tale "The New Mother," by Lucy Lane Clifford, is set in England in 1882. (www.kypufilms.com)
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Leave Us Alone

Meet the Filmmaker

Nicholas Treeshin

Director
Synopsis
Sam, a young single mother inherits a profitable piece of farmland from a grandfather she never knew. On the grandfather's deathbed, he tells Sam about a ship that crash-landed on the farm, and the deal that he made to not disturb the travelers when they return. Covering up the disappearance of three missing geologists, Sam is prepared to do anything to protect her son as well as the farm's dark secret.
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The Hunted

Meet the Filmmaker

Josh Stewart

Director
Synopsis
Chasing their dream of landing their own hunting show, Jake (Stewart) and Stevie (Blevins) head to the dense, secluded mountains of West Virginia. Equipped with only their bow and camera, they have just three days to kill a monster buck big enough to grab the attention of the Outdoor Channel...and they've found him. But the sun has set, and they realize they’re not alone. The pair decides it’s time to call it quits and leave the woods and their dreams behind. With the setting sun, their realization may have come too late as they are finding out escaping may not be so easy. Being a professional hunter, Jake has the skills and survival instincts necessary to make it out, but will that be enough? Has the sun set on their lives as well? Have the hunters become The Hunted?
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The Horizon Project

Meet the Filmmaker

Scott Belyea

Director
Synopsis
Survivors of a biological pandemic find refuge with Horizon Corporation, a company spearheading the global rebuild.
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Hide and Seek

Meet the Filmmaker

Kayoko Asakura

Director
Synopsis
A school girl visits a house to take a KOTO lesson. She meets her teacher
and her son and they seem to be playing "HIDE and SEEK" in the house. Koto lesson
starts but the girl soon realizes that there's something very odd about the teacher.
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Haunter

Meet the Filmmaker

Vincenzo Natali

Director
Synopsis
The ghost of a teenager who died years ago reaches out to the land of the living in order to save someone from suffering her same fate.
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Goldberg & Eisenberg

Meet the Filmmaker

Oren Carmi

Director
Synopsis
Goldberg is a mediocre computer programmer. Eisenberg is an emotionally disturbed thug. Unfortunately the two cross paths. "Goldberg & Eisenberg" is the first Israeli urban psychological thriller, and the first dark genre film ever to be approved for production by the Israel film fund. inspired by Coen bros, Polanski, Park Chan-Wuk. currently in preliminary talks to be remade as a mini series for a major American cable channel.
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The Girl

Meet the Filmmaker

John Hayes

Director
Synopsis
Following yet another devastating miscarriage, Sophie moves to the West of Ireland with her husband to try to build a new life. Left alone in the old house, the emotionally fragile Sophie encounters a starving young girl wandering the area and all her maternal instincts come to the surface. But is the little Girl a blessing or a curse?
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Frost

Meet the Filmmaker

Jeremy Ball

Director
Synopsis
An Arctic hunter's desperate search for food takes her beyond a sacred boundary and leads to a strange and terrifying discovery.