Category Archives: D-I

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Dark Roast

Directed by Pete Yagmin; Produced by Pete Yagmin; Written by Pete Yagmin

Directed by Pete Yagmin; Produced by Pete Yagmin; Written by Pete Yagmin

A supernatural horror-comedy about a Reaper who falls in love with the mortal she was assigned to usher into the after-life. When she doesn’t follow through, her presence causes an imbalance in the natural order of things leading to a string of unfortunate events which cause her love interest to question the relationship. In turn, he learns a valuable lesson in respect when the reaper is disappointed to find Shaun is just like every other man she’s encountered, alive or dead.

3 minutes
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Death Has a Son

Directed & Written by Zack Ogle; Produced by Peter Davis

Directed & Written by Zack Ogle; Produced by Peter Davis

Not looking to die young, Natalie makes a tawdry bargain with the Reaper: sex for her life. Six years later, Death has a mousey kid on his hands whose only friends are made of felt. Though apprehensive and terrified, Death’s doing his best to fill the role of Daddy Reaper, but how close can a father and son get with the touch of Death in the way?

9 minutes
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The Developer

Directed by Robert Odegnal; Written by Horvath Aron

Directed by Robert Odegnal; Written by Horvath Aron

The scene is an alternative Budapest, with a special kind of dictatorship controlled by a company group called Golden Dimension. The marvelous Hungarian capital the way we never wanted to see. Lens is a dark, cynical character of this world. With his special ability of unknown origin, under the influence of a drug, he can burn the pictures of the past and the future into photosensitive paper. Lens hates the present because he understands the past and sees the future.

He sells his ability as an outlaw private detective. One day the position of the oppressing power seems to get unstable as some strictly confidential documents are stolen from the home of the president of the Golden Dimension. Ironically, it is the specially skilled Lens who gets the task to find the person who could ruin the oppressing system by using the stolen incriminating evidence. When he gets to the robbery scene it’s all set up for the experiment. He administers his drug, sticks the photosensitive paper on his nape and waits for the vision to come…By retrieving the pictures of the past, Lens finds out the identity of the unknown thief and even gets a glimpse of some images from the near future. But this future offers nothing good for Lens: he is facing a gun and gets a bullet into his forehead. Is it possible for Lens to put together the pieces of his visions, can he catch the thief and prevent his own violent death?

18 minutes
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Dog

Directed by Robin Schmidt; Produced by Simon Wan, Robin Schmidt; Written by Robin Schmidt

Directed by Robin Schmidt; Produced by Simon Wan, Robin Schmidt; Written by Robin Schmidt

Dog is the local Triad enforcer, a simple gangster, addicted to violence, bound by a strict honor code. Standing outside an old warehouse Xian, the Boss’s right hand man takes a phone call confirming the order to go in and clear out the current occupants. Dog duly obliges, brutally laying the smack down to a group of scumbags.

As he leans in to light a post-fight cigarette he hears a noise, women’s voices and goes to investigate. He finds a group of what can only be prostitutes hiding out and makes as if to beat them too but relents. The boss calls again, ordering Dog to guard the building for a few weeks to ensure the gang don’t repossess it. Dog must not leave. He accepts but is clearly not happy. Dog’s life inside is one of routine, training, cooking noodles, patrolling the premises. But soon it’s clear that his need for violence is taking over, driving him mad.

40 minutes
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The Fog of Courage

Directed by John R. Dilworth; Produced by Jack Spillum; Written by John R. Dilworth

Directed by John R. Dilworth; Produced by Jack Spillum; Written by John R. Dilworth

In this animated horror comedy, a cowardly dog named Courage must rescue his lovely owner, Muriel from a vengeful supernatural Fog. Eustace, Muriel’s greedy husband, refuses to return the gold necklace belonging to the Fog’s long lost love.

8 minutes
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I Owe You

Directed by Mike McNeese; Produced by Jason Tostevin; Written by Randall Greenland

Directed by Mike McNeese; Produced by Jason Tostevin; Written by Randall Greenland

Old friends long gone their separate ways over a woman are brought crashing back together one fateful night by a dark secret that could destroy them both.

Fastidious Cam and carefree Todd were friends from childhood. Always between them was Diane, the love of both their lives. It always looked like it’d be Diane and Todd together, until Diane began to grow up, and her pragmatism won out: she picked responsibly instead of passionately, and she and Cam got married, leaving Todd adrift. Ever the friend, Todd helped Cam cover up an indiscretion that would haunt them both and finally split them apart. That was five years ago.

Tonight, Todd has shown up out of the past, dragging husband and father-to-be Cam out of his house in the dead of night with a phone call for help. Todd has a body in his trunk and is calling in their debt of friendship. Now Cam must choose: does he risk Todd outing their dark secret, or does he add another to his conscience by helping Todd in his own gruesome cover-up? Nothing is what it seems in this dark character thriller.

13 minutes