WA State Finalists Block

BUCOLIC
Directed by Daniel Gildark
BUCOLIC is a rural tale about family bonds, unseen forces, and how quickly the ordinary can turn into the unthinkable.

Crumbz
Directed by John D Otteni, Paul Otteni
A grieving pet owner leaves out a nightly bowl of chips to lure back his lost dog.

Axed
Directed by Kent Loomer
Each year, a killer emerges from the shadows to unleash a series of brutal, symbolic murders— always precise, always unsolved. When a determined FBI profiler joins two burned-out detectives on the trail they uncover a chilling pattern and go after the predator who kills with purpose and vanishes without a trace.

Bumbo
Directed by Hannah Walls-Scott
Jane loves clowns, but she isn’t quite sure how she should feel about the massive one that has broken into their house.

Dotted Line
Directed by Michael Rognlie, EE Tallent
A reclusive woman is drawn into a waking nightmare when she is stalked by a deranged lunatic, who is convinced that she holds the key to his twisted redemption.

STARGAZER
Directed by Justin Robert Vinall
A fragmented astronomer looks to the stars to find comfort in the darkest of places.
A Cosmic Ghost Story.

Best Friend Material
Directed by Mel McCarthy, Nathan Blanchard
A horror comedy about a guys weekend gone wrong.

Holy Afterbirth
Directed by Alesandra Caroline
Holy Afterbirth is an experiment in absurdist horror. A person holds many versions inside themself. Religious and patriarchal ideals imbed arbitrary rules. The mind tries to make sense of pain through nightmare. Thoughts act as ghosts, haunting reality. Like memory, the film degrades, distorts, and reimagines a moment in time.
Interweaving live action, stop-motion and rotoscope animation, Holy Afterbirth captures the breakdown where divisions between real and imagined dissolve. At its heart, this mirrors the deconstruction and transformation in queer lives. Queer bodies are villainized by church and state, which are allied in the current nationalist regime. Yet, our bodies remain precious.

Nun Better Exorcism
Directed by Kyle Boynton
Sister Mary Margaret and her “nuntern” face their toughest challenge yet – a demon with a vendetta.

Plastic Boy
Directed by Alex Bulger
A young man realizes there is a horrific secret inside his body.

Conquistadors
Directed by Byron Gouette
After Akecheta’s daughter narrowly escapes a demonic cult, he realizes they are desecrating his ancestral homeland and must take matters into his own hands.

Delirium Rites
Directed by Easton Sartor, Jeff Kastelic
A wanderer partakes in a set of ceremonies, leading to a horrifying transformation.

What’s That Smell?
Directed by Alex Furnas, Tommy Heffernan
James is cursed with a terrible affliction right before having to give a presentation at his new job.