After a long day of classes, Naomi settles in with a true-crime podcast about the Hide and Seek killer. Then the podcast begins describing what is about to happen to her.
Meet the filmmaker
Izabella Rivera is a Puerto Rican filmmaker from Yonkers, New York, studying at the New York Film Academy. Raised on horror and thrillers, she has wanted to make movies since childhood.
2026United KingdomPsychological horror9:00Papertown Films
Alone during the COVID years, a young woman slips into a fragile psychological state between neurosis and nightmare. Retreating into familiar surroundings, she confronts a frightening self shaped by repetition.
Meet the filmmaker
Monica Taddei is a storyteller who grew up in a family of scholars and antiquarians. After fifteen years in post-production, she stepped away to raise her son and care for her parents, continuing to write throughout that time.
Camp counselor Jason wakes up inside an empty car. Terrified and haunted by things unseen, he must confront an eerie consequence that follows him through the night.
Meet the filmmaker
Anthony Lin has worked in the entertainment industry for more than a decade, taking on roles in front of and behind the camera. His experience spans background acting, directing, screenwriting, and the many other responsibilities of independent production.
Cast & creative team
Writer / Director of Photography / Editor
Anthony Lin
Composers
Brenden Roberts and Anthony Lin
Starring
Anthony Lin
Supporting
Jori Richardson, Xeleighta Bernardo, Travie Evans, Kayla Espinoza, Andrew Levitt, Nick Zysman, Rahul Shivkumar, Brenden Roberts
Producers
Anthony Lin, Jori Richardson, Xeleighta Bernardo, Travie Evans, Kayla Espinoza, Andrew Levitt, Nick Zysman, Rahul Shivkumar, Brenden Roberts
Stephen and Sarah’s quiet romance is interrupted when an alien ship lands in their yard. Its strange visitors arrive with plans for an earth woman—and Sarah’s reaction takes an unexpected turn. Featuring special guest Lloyd Kaufman.
Meet the filmmaker
Tom Rankin is a New Jersey filmmaker whose other productions include Studio of The Damned and Country Bar Confession. Beyond filmmaking, he has helped more than eighty street cats in Jersey City.
Cast & creative team
Writer / Producer
Tom Rankin
Director of Photography
Lexi Eve
Editor
Roderick Crane
Starring
Mackenzie Shaw, Jeffrey Roth, Paul Green, Rom Tankin
2026Folkloric fantasy / horror20:00Bicharraco Films
In the Patagonian desert, a dying countryman and an ominous radiance confront one another like two sides of the same coin in an eternal duel. Inspired by the rural legend of the luz mala, or “will-o’-the-wisp.”
Behind the film
Bicharraco Films brings a Patagonian rural legend to the screen in Luz Mala. The film is directed by David Aguilera and produced by Aguilera and Silvio Seoane, with a collaborative screenplay and cinematography team.
Cast & creative team
Producers
David Aguilera and Silvio Seoane
Screenplay
David Aguilera, Carlos Blasco, Gustavo Marin, Lucas Marin, Silvio Seoane
2026United StatesSuper 8 horror short5:55Exposure Film Foundry
“Monsters make monsters.” Filmed on 100 feet of Kodak Ektachrome Super 8 for the 2026 Fortnight Film Contest, which began on Friday the 13th.
Meet the filmmaker
DT Kofoed has studied and published on the visual storytelling of comics and film, and has taught creative writing at Michigan State University and the University of South Dakota. A filmmaker with a neuromuscular disability, Kofoed approaches filmmaking with the belief that life is too uncertain for timid art.
Cast & creative team
Writer / Producer / Director of Photography / Editor
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