A peek inside the absurd and whimsical mind of Mel, a woman with severe OCD trying to do something new with her day. Selections/Awards Official Selection at Slamdance Film Festival Official Selection at Brooklyn Film Festival Official Selection at Nashville Film Festival Official Selection at LA International Short Film Festival Official Selection at Bushwick Film Festival Official Selection at Dallas International Film Festival Official Selection at NewfilmmakersLA Official Selection at Australian Independent Film Festival Official Selection at London Super Shorts Fest Official Selection at Sydney World Film Festival Official Selection at City of Angels Film Festival Official Selection at Hollywood Comedy Shorts Best Short Film at Broad Humor Film Festival Best Actor at Boston Short Film Festival Best LA Short at Los Angeles Super Shorts Fest

When Graig leaves on a bogus work trip, his wife Charlotte is left alone in the perfect conditions to live out her deepest BDSM fantasy. A house robbery ensues, and Charlotte finds herself tied up in the middle of her living room questioning whether the man behind the mask is who she thought it was.

Anna is a young woman stuck in the midst of a quarter-life crisis who learns how to keep on living after being haunted by an undead spirit from her summer camp past. From screenwriter Michael Calciano and director Beth Fletcher, a weird mish-mash of genres and tones collide in this short about emerging adulthood and millennial angst; about letting go of our pasts and embracing what it means to grow up. A selection of Short of the Week, the web's leading curators of quality short films. SUBMIT A FILM: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/submit/ FULL REVIEW: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2019/10/28/come-creepy-us/ COME BE CREEPY WITH US Directed by Beth Fletcher https://flethbetcher.com/ "In a genre defined by formula, it’s always exciting to watch a horror film that feels...well...different. Director Beth Fletcher and screenwriter Michael Calciano’s "Come Be Creepy With Us" is a tough nut to describe. An absurdist horror comedy that is as nostalgic as it is fresh, it’s the kind of thing that refuses to be pigeon-holed into a particular classification. It’s weird...it’s unique...it’s also dealing with "real" things, not just playing the same “monster in the room” notes we’ve seen again again in the countless horror shorts. Admittedly, calling "Come Be Creepy With Us" a horror film is somewhat generous. It’s not scary—at least not in a “boo” jump scare way. But whereas those kind of films get their kicks out of a sort of theme park derivation of cinema (it’s all about the ride, baby!), Fletcher’s film is more about an underlying sense of surrealism and dread. After all, good horror isn’t just about the monster...it’s about what the monster represents. Here, Fletcher and her team are tackling depression and the existential aimlessness that comes with it. The fear comes from not knowing what to do next; about being stuck and feeling lost as the world moves on around you. As Fletcher relates in her director’s statement: “Recently I've been discovering how terrifying it can be to try to figure out how to 'be' without being told what to do. I no longer have schedules for school, I don't have any sort of consistency at work, and to be quite honest it feels like I'm lost a lot of the time. When I was a kid my mom always told me to stay put. ‘If you're lost, stay where you are and I'll come find you.’ But here's the kicker: no one's coming to find me.” Depression isn’t exactly a new topic for cinema, but I’ve rarely seen it tackled in such an interesting conceptual and visual way. Thankfully, we don’t get the usual, navel-gazing indie film brooding. Rather, this sucker moves (it feels quicker than it’s 16 minute runtime) conveying depression without ever being slow and boring—a feat in and of itself! Likewise, the visuals evolve with verve. Cinematographer Jesse Coyote Sanchez-Strauss and the film’s production design team do great work here, slowly transforming an apartment into a summer camp and back again. It’s a really interesting way to expand upon what is essentially just a bottle episode of a film—it’s one location, alright, but it’s executed in such a creative visual way that you don’t notice. Moreover, it allows the film to reference the cliché of the horror summer camp milieu, but give it a new spin. The result is referential and nostalgic rather than derivative. Fletcher and her crew (almost everyone involved with the production is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts) Kickstarted the budget for the film and shot it over the course of four days out in Los Angeles. For those who say horror can’t be fresh, "Come Be Creepy With Us" feels like an illustrative counterpoint. Come! Hop into the swamp...the water is just fine..." - S/W Curator, Ivan Kander CREDITS Directed by: Beth Fletcher Written by: Michael Calciano Produced by: Mike Labbadia Co-Produced: by Michael Calciano, Adelaide Lummis and Beth Fletcher Director of Photography: Coyote Edited by: Ede Bell Crowder Production Designer: Melissa Woods Starring: Adelaide Lummis Jasmine Kimiko Co-Starring Michael Calciano Tierra Luckey Dylan Arnold Carissa Bazler Reproduced on this Channel With the Permission of the Filmmakers

Official Selection: Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase, Official Selection: Five Continents Int. Film Festival, Independent Shorts Awards, Phoenix Monthly Short Film Festival, & Honorable Mention - Best Children Short at Indie Short Fest. - visit https://www.lisalcole.com/shipwreck for more

Five Continents International Film Festival - Best Editing Short Film, RiverRun International Film Festival, Official Selection Visions 9 Film Festival, Official Selection Longleaf Film Festival

A young musician battling against a crippling loss faces her biggest fear; in hope of regaining her passion and the connection to her family. Selection: CAMERAIMAGE STUDENT ETUDES 2016 LONG LEAF PINE FESTIVAL BEAUTFORD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FULL BLOOM FILM FESTIVAL Director: Chris Mathews Producer: Nathan Knox Producer: Moriah Hall Screenwriter: Marylea Wiley Cinematographer: Trent Spivey Production Designer: Laura Cox Editor: Ede Crowder