Final Prayer (aka The Borderlands)

Film

A team of Vatican investigators descends upon a church in a remote area to demystify the unusual happenings, but what they discover is more disturbing than they had first imagined. With strong elements of cosmic horror and deep time, this terrifying film redefines the paranormal "found footage" genre... even if you don't like that kind of movie, this feature will make you a believer. 

Performance-craft

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The Pulp Stage theatre company will be performing a world premiere adaptation of Alex Shvartsman's short story "Explaining Cthulhu To Grandma": When Sylvia gets Cthulhu on pawn, she thinks she's made a great score for her grandmother's shop. Grandma disagrees. Now Sylvia must find a way to sell the volatile god while making sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

Evan J. Peterson will perform a poetic diatribe of cyclopean proportion!

Early Wristband and Badge Pickup

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If you purchased your 3-day pass, either through Kickstarter or the Hollywood Theater's box office, you may come to Sam's Hollywood Billiards (1845 NE 41st Ave) and pick up your 3-day wristband or 3-day *Kickstarter Badge early! This is a great way to avoid the lineup at the theater on Friday evening.

Kickstarter Backers with 3-day passes will have early entry to the Theater on Friday from 6:00-6:15 pm. Doors will open for general entry at 6:15 pm.

*VIPs can pick up their badges at the VIP Party on Thursday evening.

Ron Hilger

Guest

Ron Hilger is a Northern California native who has organized such Clark Ashton Smith related events as "The CAS Centennial Conference" in 1993 and "The CAS Plaque Dedication" in 2002.

Balloon

Film

A little girl frees all of her balloons. Halfway across the world, one of those balloons arrives at its destiny.

Rion Smith

Guest

Rion Smith is a bipedal mammal with an unhealthy obsession with Lovecraftian tales and is chained to the insanity of his job in order to pay for his film habit.  He is currently trying to relearn what “sleep” means after the recent birth of his a baby girl, and this will be her first of many HP Lovecraft Film Festival attendances.  

Jeff Richards

Guest

Jeff Richards has worked in the film industry for over 15 years as an independent film development executive, writer, filmmaker, and consultant. As a screenwriter, he has been hired to write everything from multi-million dollar feature films to zero-budget indies. In addition to feature and short films, his writing includes episodic television and web series, comics, video games, short fiction and novels, children’s animation, and even co-composing a musical. He writes a column for Script Magazine and serves as an Advisory Board Member for Toronto film and media start-up Spidvid.

Mehgan Atchison

Guest

Mehgan Atchison has had a life-long love of performing. With an early focus on dance, she then found acting and singing - especially, opera - to be where her talents could really shine. After completing music performance degrees at the Universities of Victoria and Toronto, she built a professional singing career, with engagements from Victoria to Halifax, including nearly a decade of performing with the prestigious Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. A change of scenery led her back to Vancouver where an interest in film began developing.

Brett Stillo

Guest

Brett Stillo is a San Francisco-­‐based filmmaker with an eye focused on cinematic imagery of the past: a shadowy place that appears black and white on the surface, but is actually composed of myriad shades of grey. He is the principal cameraman, editor and director of “Flesh and Bone,” a music video in collaboration with San Francisco post-­‐punk band Roadside Memorial, which infuses dark romantic melodies with visual cues to hardboiled detective movies and 1930’s pulp horror.

Nick Szostakiwskyj

Guest

Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Nick began his filmmaking career at a young age. He began writing screenplays at the early age of thirteen. Shortly afterwards, he invested in a cheap camera and began directing his scripts. After high school, Nick went to The University of Calgary where he studied film studies and creative writing. After two years he moved to Vancouver where he graduated in film production. Immediately after film school, Nick began working in the industry. To date, Nick has worked on over 150 films in the sound, camera, grip, post and art departments.

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