Friday, November 7, 2025

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• 10:00 AM - Feature Film
   

Tonight and Maybe Tomorrow (78 mins/SC) - SOUTH CAROLINA PREMIERE - A party at the end of the world reunites two acquaintances. Taking the chance to finally have their first date, they and the rest of the party process their fears, regrets, and futures. Directed by Michael Smallwood
 

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 12:00 PM – So Animated: Animation Shorts Block
   

Bwinky’s Little Big World of Love (3 mins/NC) - Bwinky happens upon earth and while exploring he comes across a cow. As their connection grows we get a look into her impending fate of which she is resigned to. Bwinky attempts to save her, and with some alien magic and love they launch into space and newfound freedom. Directed by Stacia Black

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FR<-O-+GGY STYLE (5 mins/OH) - Two frogs engage in a mating ritual, but they discover that their spawn may be more gender amphibious than they demand. Directed by Jonathan Riles

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Marginalia (3 mins/SC) - When a young monk gets creative in the scriptorium, things take an unexpected turn as his doodles come to life! Directed by Alex Gentemann

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Bark (17 mins/CA): - He stole her heart. She stole his dog. After a breakup, an obsessive woman steals her ex’s dog in a desperate attempt to reconnect. Bark twists love, revenge, and grief into a visually striking exploration of emotional chaos. Directed by Searit Kahsay Huluf
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In Half (24 mins/Spain) - Through a child's imagination it tells the journey of a man who after falling prey to his fears, he must cross a strange world, a universe full of magic, where he will be confronted with his own fears and conflicts from the past and where he must find solutions for the future to discover his self-identity. Directed by Jorge Morais Valle

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Illuminatus! (10 mins/IL) - A young reporter is recruited by a mad genius and his anarchist followers aboard a giant yellow submarine headed to the lost city of Atlantis. The crew plans to thwart an Illuminati conspiracy that runs absurdly deep. Based on the acid-tinged book trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Directed by Chris Kalis

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 1:30 PM - Feature Film
   

Freak Bikes (78 mins/CA) - EAST COAST PREMIERE - L.A. bicycle activist Jimmy Lizama travels to bike-friendly cities with his 12-year-old son, hoping to inspire him to imagine cities without cars. Directed by Ryan Mekenian

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 4:00 PM - Documentary Shorts Block

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The Endless Wave (5 mins/SC) - Professional wake surfer Evan Feierabend takes us through different aspects of the sport, exploring the craft and what it's like to compete. Directed by Anil Dhokai
 

Unlikely Mermaid (18 mins/FL) - Two Mermaid wannabes, Peggy and Lorraine, audition to be performers at Weeki Wachee, the Florida roadside tourist attraction that is older than Disney World. It’s never too late to dream or drown trying. Directed by Lorraine Portman

 

Once Upon A Wetland (16 mins/NC) - As restrictions tighten across the country, Durham, North Carolina preps for the annual Beaver Queen Pageant a campy, un-beaver-lievable celebration of LGBTQIA activism, environmental conservation, and outrageous critter cosplay. Directed by Elizabeth Miller-Derstine

 

F-A-K-E (23 mins/Ohio) -A lone man travels to universities bearing a message that the moon landings were staged and warning that the earth is not what it seems. Directed by Stephen Crompton

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 6:00 PM - Feature Film
   

The Misadventures of Vince & Hick (108 mins/CA) - SOUTH CAROLINA PREMIERE - A live action comic book crime odyssey that tells the Legend of your two new favorite bandits, Vince & Hick. The Winners of Slamdance 2018 Grand Jury Prize and Audience awards for their first feature film, "Rock Steady Row", return with their second feature. Directed by Trevor Stevens

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 8:30 PM - Made in the South: South Carolina Shorts Block 1
   

Snatch’D (5 mins/SC) - What looks like a perfectly normal informercial for a dating app turns out to be something much more sinister. Directed by Alex Raileanu
 

Safety First (5 mins/SC) - A comedy in which two people find different meanings in what it means to be a friend! What happens when you tell a friend to be safe, and they aren't? Directed by Barbara Zagrodnik
 

The Lemon Man (9 mins/SC) - In this gripping satirical thriller, citrus fueled chaos unfolds when one man's thirst spirals out of control into a deadly identity crisis. Directed by Jack Bergren

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SEEK (8 mins/SC) - Derek is a young adult who is a tying to find his way in life. He has a hard time stepping out because his father is a member of the church. So he seeks around trying to find answers. Directed by Xavier Gibson
 

My Boyfriend, My Prince (13 mins/SC) - Every step with Hawk is exactly how Arianna imagined it, perfect smiles, captions she could write herself, memories that never smudge. It’s the love story she’s been waiting for… until one dropped call breaks the spell and the seams begin to show. Directed by Mark A Williams
 

Rosa’s Dilemma (15 mins/SC) - Rosa finds herself in a whirlwind of emotions as she navigates an unexpected love triangle between her two coworkers at a fast food joint. Directed by Maya Simone

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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Everyone is invited to join us at
Hendrix Roof Top: 1649 Msin Street, Suite 200, Columbia SC 29201
for an official unofficial after party take over!  Have a few drinks and mix and mingle with the filmmakers and attendees. Located just steps away from the theater.

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End Day 1

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Saturday, November 8, 2025

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• 10:00 AM - Feature Film
   

Starstruck! (71 mins/MD) - SOUTH CAROLINA PREMIERE - An actress in hiding must fight for her life when the stalker of her nightmares discovers her whereabouts. Directed by Kenneth Brossoie

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 12:00 PM - Horrific Shorts Block

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The Video (7 mins/SC) - John, the new director of The Southern Reach, watches the classified tapes from an expedition into the enigmatic zone called Area X. Only allowed four minutes of access to the footage, he begins to feel the mentally spiraling effects it has on him. Directed by Dallas Kline
 

Prom Party Massacre (19 mins/CA) - In a genre-bending musical full of teenage rebels, poodle skirts, and betrayal, a young gay man tries to woo his crush with a swinging prom party - but when popular kids start turning up dead, the partygoers discover a slasher killer amongst the student body! Directed by Jordan Gustafson

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Baby Blues – Going Dark (19 mins/CA) - Barney needs a tooth out. His regular dentist is not in the office, but that's OK -- Dr Carroway and her assistant Penny will take care of him today ... He really should have rescheduled. This is not going to go well, especially after the power goes out. Directed by James P Gleason

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A Thousand Paper Cuts (27 mins/NM) - After killing her husband, a suburban housewife’s emotional shock manifests through mundane household chores, troubling reflections on her marriage, and absurd sexual fantasies. Directed by Sam Quinn

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 2:00 PM - Feature Film

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The Rows (71 mins/OH) - EAST COAST PREMIERE - Little girl hides from masked home invaders in mysterious cornfield. Deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues as the rows reveal their secrets. Directed by Seth Daly

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 4:00 PM - Comedy Shorts Block 
   

The Clam Guy (12 mins/NY) - A clam-obsessed deadbeat plagued by otherworldly visions searches for connection as his life spirals out of control. Directed by Jen Nista, Max Beckerman
 

A Good Script is Hard to Find (11 mins/FL) - Failing screenwriter Alex and her broke roommates decide to commit a robbery, but instead of money, they bring home someone who actually likes Alex’s script… a script only a psychopath could like. Directed by Jeff Miller, Mary Riche Miller
 

The House of Pussy (14 mins/CO) - Laura, a nearly middle-aged woman, is forcibly checked into The House of Pussy, a rehab facility that re-educates women who suffer from love addictions, molding them into the perfect woman for their male partners. Directed by Fiona Lynette McNeal

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​The Time Capsule (6 mins/TX) - Four childhood friends reunite to dig up a time capsule after 30 years... and encounter some unexpected visitors. Directed by Michael Charron
 

Lucy and the Devil (13 mins/KS) - In this 1950s sitcom turned horror short: Lucy has an established relationship with The Devil, performing small acts of mischief for him from time to time in order to maintain a perfect life. In this weeks "episode", The Devil asks Lucy to assist him in procuring a soul. Directed by Adam Raynes​

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 6:00 PM - Drama Shorts Block
   

RYDE (6 mins/SC) - A rideshare driver's routine shift spirals into a harrowing test of resilience and empathy when a troubled passenger with nothing left to lose forces her to drive into the dark corners of his grief. Directed by Ebony V Wilson

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A Bird in the Hand (12 mins/FL) - A brother and sister have turned to selling drugs to pay the bills. When they stumble into another dealer's territory, they are forced to reckon with a drug lord turned cult leader. Directed by Janssen Swent, DJ Laguna

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Dilemma (14 mins/NY) - When high school friends find themselves trapped in a situation they can’t escape, panic sets in, and their once-close bond begins to fray. With each choice they make, the weight of their actions grows heavier, and the line between right and wrong blurs. Directed by Trevan Jay Hiatt

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Fragments of a Crime (14 mins/SC) - A disgruntled detective recounts multiple versions of the same crime to a stranger in hopes of finding an answer to his mystery. Directed by Damon Rios, Dexter Blanchard, Jacob Goldberg

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Nowhere Good (13 mins/OH): Explore the human experience of an aging woman who has been grifting for her entire life and the moral compass of how she moves through life. What happens when her past shows up to confront her? Directed by Bryant Carroll

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 8:00 PM - Feature Film

Weekend at the End of the World (82 mins/CA) - EAST COAST PREMIERE - Best friends Karl and Miles head up to a cabin in the woods. What starts out as a weekend of partying, getting Karl over his ex, and fixing up the cabin in the hopes of becoming property tycoons, quickly descends into an adventure of inter-dimensional portals, possessed demonic heralds, and the fate of our world in the hands of two idiots. Directed by Gille Klabin
 

Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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Everyone is invited to join us at

Hendrix Roof Top: 1649 Msin Street, Suite 200, Columbia SC 29201

for an official unofficial after party take over!  Have a few drinks and mix and mingle with the filmmakers and attendees. Located just steps away from the theater.

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End Day 2

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Sunday, November 9, 2025

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• 10:00 AM - Feature Film
   

Battersea (90 mins/OH): SOUTH CAROLINA PREMIERE - Siblings reconvene at their childhood home, where they spend a precarious weekend drinking and talking. Directed by T.J. Sandella

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 12:00 PM - THE LAB: Experimental Shorts Block

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Still Water (7 mins/TN) - 1961. A bloodied young woman and her boyfriend are dragged to the river's edge for a baptism. As the cold water rises, so do the sinister forces that threaten to drown them all in terror. Directed by Spenser Fritz
 

Micro-Short (6 mins/NY) - A woman hypnotized by her microwave finds out how far she'll go to satiate its hunger. Directed by Beth Fletcher
 

The End in Slow Motion (13 mins/NY) - A woman develops heightened awareness of the cruel world outside of an unnervingly calm house, as the threat of apocalypse stokes chaos. Directed by Joshua Kaufman
 

BORGLESQUE (7 mins/NV) - A greedy burlesque club owner hires a mad scientist to resurrect his most profitable girl, but this she-borg refuses to be an object of men’s desires. Directed by G. Wilson

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Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 1:30 PM - Feature Film

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Don’t Say Earth (80 mins/NC) - FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE - A man wakes up in an escape pod with no idea how or why he’s trapped inside. He must find a way out before he runs out of air. Directed by Ben Carland

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​Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 3:30 PM - Out Of This World: Sci-Fi Shorts Block

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A Darker Place: Cases from the DCA (26 mins/VA) - A team of elite D.C.A. special forces operatives becomes the prey of a rogue anomaly, trapped inside a nightmarish dimension where reality bends to the creature’s will. Directed by Rowan Kelley

Emily’s Mountain (22 mins/Israel) - Emily celebrates her 6th birthday on a magical trip with her family and is slowly exposed to the horrifying reality that her parents are trying to conceal from her using modern technology and entertainment systems. Directed by Tal Somech

Tachyon Deliverance (21 mins/GA) - A leather-jacketed, anxiety-ridden food delivery driver is hired to transport a precious cargo across space. Directed by Connor Wright
 

Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 5:30 PM - Feature Film

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FIRST DRAFTS: The Outcasts (90 mins/SC) - SOUTH CAROLINA PREMIERE - What if you rediscovered the script you wrote when you were 12? And what if you performed it with real actors, without changing a word? In this unique comedy, actors faithfully bring their director's hilariously bad childhood script to life, while their "Teacher" Michael Smallwood uproariously reacts to the chaos. Directed by Michelle Iannantuono
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​Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
 

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• 7:30 PM - Made in the South: South Carolina Shorts Block 2

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The Other Within (19 mins/SC) - Rosie's relationship with Piper is costing her friends and having deadly consequences, but maybe that's exactly what she wants. Directed by Collins Abbott White

 

Carolina Rain (17 mins/SC) - A depression era teen and his older sister escape to the Carolina woods to find freedom from their abusive uncle after murdering one of his johns. Directed by Scott Allan Pardue

Behind Closed Doors (25 mins/SC) - A genre-bending coming-of-age thriller following an anxiety-ridden teenager going to a high school house party to try and find connection, but an unexpected connection finds him instead. Directed by Eugene Rocco Utley

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Toreador (6 mins/SC) - A bullfighter faces himself to renter the ring after a devastating goring. Directed by Chad Henderson

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​Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

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• 9:00 PM - SCUFFY Awards