DATE: Sunday, August 20
TIME: 1:00pm
VENUE: “The Horror Collective Screening Room” at the O Cinema South Beach
Homegrown: 100% Pure Fresh Squeezed Florida Horror
Homegrown: 100% Pure Fresh Squeezed Florida Horror
Popcorn Frights’ “Homegrown: 100% Pure Fresh Squeezed Florida Horror” sidebar is dedicated to renewing and reinvigorating the audience’s engagement with Miami’s local filmmakers and Florida’s homegrown talent. This platform is designed to be a springboard for new filmmakers from Florida and a space that helps forge a new direction for Miami’s genre scene by further cultivating and nurturing its growing film community.
Harmonious
Directed by Valery Garcia
USA | 6 minutes | 2023
Directed by Valery Garcia
USA | 6 minutes | 2023
FLORIDA PREMIERE. Guided by greed and naïveté, two young women take the extreme avenue of summoning a demon. Now they must choose between their desires and friendship.
The Housefly
Directed by Darshan Patel
USA | 10 minutes | 2023
Directed by Darshan Patel
USA | 10 minutes | 2023
FLORIDA PREMIERE. While trying to cook dinner after a long day, a man is bothered by the presence of a fly. As he starts to take more drastic measures to kill the insect, he slowly loses touch with reality.
Normal Porn for Normal People
Directed by Rostislav Vaynshtok
USA | 8 minutes | 2023
Directed by Rostislav Vaynshtok
USA | 8 minutes | 2023
WORLD PREMIERE. The grisly contents of a grainy VHS detailing a series of violent and disturbing crimes, that’s been mailed to a local police department.
Nycto
Directed by Angel Barroeta
USA | 7 minutes | 2022
Directed by Angel Barroeta
USA | 7 minutes | 2022
EAST COAST PREMIERE. In a chain of unfortunate events, a group of mysterious individuals struggle to come to terms with their true nature in what turns out to be one tragic night.
POV
Directed by Brian K. Rosenthal
USA | 17 minutes | 2023
Directed by Brian K. Rosenthal
USA | 17 minutes | 2023
WORLD PREMIERE. On the eve of the most dangerous night of the year, a couple attempt to survive a home invasion by a masked assailant.
They’re Real
Directed by Jack Kierski
USA | 14 minutes | 2023
Directed by Jack Kierski
USA | 14 minutes | 2023
WORLD PREMIERE. While a group of former high school friends are on vacation, they must fight for their lives from an Alien-masked maniac.
Unknown
Directed by Jay Henric
USA | 8 minutes | 2023
Directed by Jay Henric
USA | 8 minutes | 2023
WORLD PREMIERE. Following her roommate’s death, a girl finds a phone with a sinister presence attached to it.
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Date:
July 30, 2023
