The Solution

Narrative • Thriller/Horror/Drama • USA • 2025
17 Minutes

A math professor, rejected over and over again for publication, finds herself supplanted by her genius-level teaching assistant, and resorts to drastic measures to re-assert her authority.

Director: John Klein & Steve Kniss
Writer: Ben Kurstin
Cast: Diana Simonzadeh, Jocelyn Zamudio, William Ryder
Producers: Ben Kurstin & Tin Nguyen
Executive Producers: 54 Scripts Productions
Cinematographer: Ben Kurstin
Editor: Ben Kurstin & Amber Ray Snyder
Composer: Alexa Borden & Connor Cook

Festivals & Awards: St. Louis

Public Contact: John Klein
Email Address: adultchildrenfilms@gmail.com

Don’t Watch This

Narrative • Drama/Science-Fiction • USA • 2025
15 Minutes

A woman slowly realizes she’s a character in a movie. As she spirals in terror, everyone around her dismisses her as delusional-unaware that she’s the only one who knows we are watching.

Director: Daniel Pineros
Writer: Daniel Pineros
Cast: Natalie Polisson, Keoki Trask
Producers: Daniel Pineros, Lina Sanchez, Justin Potter

Imago Diabolus

Narrative • Thrille/Crime • Germany • 2021
9 Minutes

While chasing a serial killer, a police officer receives a package with mysterious clues in form of photographs.

Director: Abraham "Mike" Yousaf
Writer: Abraham "Mike" Yousaf
Cast: Adrian Topol, Ufuk Buyar
Producers: Abraham "Mike" Yousaf
Cinematographer: Leon Brinkmann, Ekkehard Winkler
Editor: Maximilian Weishaupt

The Beneath

Narrative • Thriller • Netherlands • 2025
8 Minutes

Haunted by pressure and self-doubt, young model Lone retreats to her garden, her only refuge from a world that consumes her. But when a mysterious underground creature begins destroying her sanctuary, Lone’s battle to save it forces her to confront something far darker than what lurks beneath the soil: herself.

Director: Lisette Vlassak
Writer: Lasse Feijen
Cast: Frieda Barnhard, Daniël Boissevain
Producers: Ramon Etman
Cinematographer: Ruben van Weelden
Editor: Tim Straver
Composer: Max Abel

Festivals & Awards: SITGES
Fantaspoa,

The Woman In Bed

Narrative • Horror • UK • 2025
5 Minutes

An elderly woman awakes to discover she is unable to speak or move. Trapped in her bed, she soon realises that she is not alone.

Director: Victor Mellors
Writer: Tom Mellors, Kate Mellors & Victor Mellors
Cast: Sue Maund, Jenny Wall, Bruce Allinson
Producers: Sam Gruskin, Victor Mellors, Kate Mellors
Cinematographer: Oli Ledwith
Editor: Victor Mellors

Public Contact: Victor Mellors
Email Address: victorasmellors@hotmail.com

The Finger Wife

Narrative • Horror/Comedy • USA • 2025
8 Minutes

She just needs a minute.

Director: Taryn Stickrath-Hutt, Dan Lund
Writer: Taryn Stickrath-Hutt, Dan Lund
Cast: Taryn Stickrath-Hutt, Kellie Hoover, Bruce Wright, Carlos Luna, Grady Hutt
Producers: Taryn Stickrath-Hutt, Dan Lund
Editor: Dan Lund

The Pearl Comb

Narrative • Drama/Horror • UK • 2025
21 Minutes

A doctor, hell bent on proving a woman’s place is in the home and not practising medicine, is sent to investigate her miraculous claim – only to discover the source of her unearthly power…

Writer: Ali Cook
Cast: Ali Cook
Producers: Matthew James Wilkinson, Ross Williams
Cinematographer: Dave Miller
Editor: Sadaf Nazari

Ripple

Narrative • Thriller/Crime/Drama • USA • 2025
13 Minutes

Three interconnected people tell a tragic story of loss and regret, connecting a mother, her estranged daughter facing her own struggles, and a remorseful man in a heartbreaking chain of events.

Director: Erick Juarez
Writer: Erick Juarez
Cast: Heidi Johanningmeier, Mehmet Can Aksoy, Stephanie Ramos, Christian Litke, Jimmy Chung
Producers: Erick Juarez & Josh Ramos
Cinematographer: Joe Martinez Jr.
Editor: Hugo Escobar
Composer: Rodrigo Montfort

Blindsided

Narrative • Sci-Fi/Horror • USA • 2025
8 Minutes

Synopsis: A blind schoolteacher struggles to survive through a nightmarish night when an alien spaceship crashes and unleashes a monstrous predator. This unique horror short film features an all low-vision cast and places the audience in the POV of a blind protagonist who is only able to hear what happens around her.

Director: P. Patrick Hogan
Writer: P. Patrick Hogan
Cast: Crystal Loverro, Florence Wilder, Jamey Lewis
Producers: Ana Krista Johnson
Cinematographer: James Suter
Editor: P. Patrick Hogan

Festivals & Awards: Chicago Horror Film Festival – Best Sci-Fi Horror Film
FilmQuest – Best Sound
Slamdance
LA Shorts
Dances With Films: NY

Public Contact: Patrick Hogan
Email Address: patrick@jhdanger.com