Beyond Shorts: Prey Tell

ABOUT THE EVENT: A forbidden summer camp romance, a demon striking bargains on a snowbound mountain, a garbage bag hiding god-knows-what in the woods: this block delivers horror in primal, atmospheric forms. Eerie, immersive, and steeped in dread, these shorts hammer home the point that isolation (in the woods, the mountains, or your own mind) is where real terror begins and ends. ABOUT THE FILMS: “Camp Oleander ,” Dir. Alyssa Aldaz, 14 Min, USA At Camp Oleander, two girls’ forbidden connection is tested by a seductive ritual. FORMAT: DCP “What We Carry,” Dir. Karl-Mary Akre, 14 Min, USA Stranded in the rural American South, an Ivorian couple must fight to escape an unknown predator. FORMAT: DCP “Udders!,” Dir. Michael Spencer, 6 Min, USA What is this naked man running from? FORMAT: DCP “Kāalgaon,” Dir. Amit Gupta, 13 Min, USA/India In a remote Indian village where women vanish without a trace, a journalist’s investigation awakens a supernatural presence buried beneath generations of silence. As the victims’ voices rise through her, so does a force of karmic vengeance. FORMAT: DCP “Feed the Dark,” Dir. Rob Himebaugh, 8 Min, USA Snowbound high in the mountains, a ski patroller realizes her injured colleague has been possessed by a ravenous demon. FORMAT: DCP “Sola,” Dir. Brian Hernandez, 18 Min, USA A young woman who suffers from chronic sleep paralysis awakens to find the world around her has descended into a zombie apocalypse. FORMAT: DCP “Don’t Pick Up,” Dir. Ben White, 15 Min, USA Tye, a young aspiring junior attorney working on behalf of a Texas oil company, is tasked with falsifying documents connected to a wrongful death lawsuit. However, Tye quickly learns the victim, a worker who drowned in crude oil, haunts the case and now him. FORMAT: DCP “Bagman,” Dir. Vaughn Gaston & Connor Gaston, 10 Min, Canada A graduate researcher monitoring wildlife cameras notices a garbage bag suddenly appear in a forest clearing. She sends her supervisor to check it out–watching his every move through the live camera feed to see what’s inside the bag. FORMAT: DCP