Writer/Director - Beyond The Drumlins
Writer/Director - "After The Fall"
Polly Schattel is a novelist and film director. Her previous films include Sinkhole, Alison, and Quiet River. Her novels include The Occultists, Shadowdays, and the Stoker Award-longlisted novella, 8:59:29 (JournalStone).
You may remember Bradford Selby from his legendary turn as Daddy Warbucks in his 5th grade production of Annie. Or perhaps from the back of his head in the Jeff Bridges/Tommy Lee Jones film Blown Away—a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment that sparked a lifelong love of acting. Originally from outside Boston, he spent nearly a decade in Los Angeles and now performs with The Tellers Garden Playback Theatre troupe in Portland, Maine. This year, you can catch him in Dan Bowhers' Beyond The Drumlins and Mariah Larocque’s Silent System.
Jeffrey Thomas is a prolific writer of science fiction and horror, best known for his stories set in the nightmarish future city called Punktown, such as the novel Deadstock (Solaris Books) and the collection Punktown (Ministry of Whimsy Press). Among other accolades, he has been a 2003 finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (Best First Novel) for Monstrocity, and a 2008 finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Deadstock.
CASSANDRA KHAW is the USA Today bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Library at Hellebore, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, The Salt Grows Heavy, Breakable Things, and coauthor of The Dead Take the A Train with Richard Kadrey. They are an award-winning game writer.
On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.
Our annual Kickstarter Fundraising campaign for the in-person festival September 19-21st in Portland, OR and our separate streaming event December 5-9th on Eventive is open now!
In the Kickstarter:
During a waterfront outbreak that drives the infected into madness and hallucination, dockworker Steven Dorre witnesses a bizarre murder, and finds himself in possession of a mysterious case that threatens to unravel everything he thought he knew.
Set in 1970, A BLIND BARGAIN reimagines the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film of the same name. A desperate young man strikes a dark deal with an unhinged doctor, offering his mother as a subject for the physician's twisted experiments.