Shenandoah Film Studio Holds Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival

Purchase your tickets at the Alamo for Friday Night Horror Shorts

Friday. April 12

Registration in Alamo Drafthouse Cinema lobby | 5 – 6 pm

Take pictures on the red carpet!

Horror Shorts | 5:45 – 7 pm

Parkway

Director Ryan Vaughan, USC

Virginia detectives discover an unsettling truth while investigating a crime scene off the Colonial Parkway. Inspired by true events in the 1980s.

12:07 minutes 

Switch

Director Kelci Halferty, Liberty

All Thomas wants in his life is a woman to love and will stop at nothing in order to get her.

12:30 minutes 

Run

Director Michelle Burger, Bergen County Academies High School, NJ

Basil discovers that her new friend group may have Satanic leanings.

12:32 minutes

Full Moon

Director Kenny Brossoie, Towson University

15:00 minutes

Psychosis

Director Ben Feldman, UVA

Psychosis takes you deep into the mind of a neurotic programmer who begins to suspect that a technological entity is trying to abduct him.

14:26 minutes 

Purchase your tickets at the Alamo for Idle Hands Screening with Director Q&A

Idle Hands | 9:00 pm 

Director Rodman Flender joins us in person to present his 1999 horror film Idle Hands starring Jessica Alba and Seth Green. The screening is part of Alamo’s Psycho Cinema group and will be followed by a live Q&A with Rodman Flender.

Purchase your tickets at the Alamo for Saturday Morning Films

Saturday Morning, April 13

Registration in Alamo Drafthouse Cinema lobby: 9:45 am – 2:15 pm

Take pictures on the red carpet!

Girl in the Yellow Sweater

Director Lainey Auwarter, High School, Roanoke, VA

A music video for the song “Girl in the Yellow Sweater” by Sarah Wade, produced by Grandin Theatre Film Lab in Roanoke, VA.

2:52 minutes

Wanderer 

Director Reid Burton, High School, Roanoke, VA

A homeless youth struggles to reconnect with the gift he’s been given.

14:34 minutes

Waiting Room

Director James Werbe, High School, Woodland Hills, CA

Four teens consider their deaths, and find things are more familiar than first expected.

8:32 minutes

Possibly

Director Natalie Christensen, High School, Richmond, VA

Through a series of fantasies, a girl decides whether she will talk to an intriguing stranger or walk away.

1:56 minutes

Cody Isn’t Cool

Director Maddy Wade, High School, Purcellville, VA

14:59 minutes

Torment

Director Trevor Stevens, James Wood High School, Winchester, VA

A normal student undergoes the anguish of dealing with a bullying situation.

7:18 minutes 

Espresso!

Director Kevin Nealon, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA

The development of espresso and how it’s made in a coffee shop and at home.

14:57 minutes

A Hint of Hope

Director AJ Cabbagestalk, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA

Convicted of murder, Ashton Wiggins looks to prove his innocence.

15:00 minutes

Nine Lives

Director Reece Schietinger, UVA

A music video for a song by On These Airwaves.

4:12 minutes

Jason’s Lump

Director Taylor White, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA

A sports documentary about a college track and field athlete’s journey and the adversity he went through along the way.

7:41 minutes 

The Magic Words

Director Domenic Porcari, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA

Two passengers on a train must confide in each other as they face their dark pasts and powerful memories.

12:59 minutes

Why Does Shenandoah University Hate Your Car?

Director Martijn Goossens, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA

Shenandoah University is desperate to slow down the traffic on an on-campus road.

2:25 minutes

Glaze

Director Osinachi Ibe, Chapman University, Orange, CA

A struggling pottery student must choose between the self-reliance that’s allowed her to survive and the vulnerability of allowing others to help her have a more stable future.

15:00 minutes 

Homegrown

Director Bryan Taira, Chapman University, Orange, CA

An elderly woman finds a toddler sized carrot in her garden and believes it holds the soul of her recently deceased husband.

10:00 minutes 

The Day

Director Andy Riddle, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Will faces challenges as he stumbles about his day, trying hard to be on time.

6:30 minutes

Projection Tour | 1:15 pm

Interested filmmakers can meet at the Shenandoah University table in the Alamo lobby for a 15 minute theater tour.

Filmmaker networking in the Alamo lobby | 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Purchase your tickets at the Alamo for Saturday Afternoon Films

Bravely With Grace

Director Lizbeth Nthanze Kariuki, American University, Washington DC

Grace Imhoff has channeled her personal challenges into her work, using business and entrepreneurship to empower herself and those around her.

7:19 minutes 

Missing

Director  Alazar Aklilu, UVA

Michelle Williams, in desperate pursuit to pay for her mother’s life saving surgery, faces her worst nightmare when her well-intentioned sister’s misstep unleashes an avalanche of chaos.

10:00 minutes

All My Friends

Director Derrick Owens, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Two friends try to navigate the modern dating scene over the course of one night.

12:50 minutes

Track1

Director Nabeel Raza, High School, Roanoke, VA

A music video for the song “Track1” by the band Her Majesty. Produced by Grandin Theatre Film Lab.

2:58 minutes 

The Last Cup

Director Hannah Thompson, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA

Jessie is moving, Phel isn’t. But when an unexpected Target rendezvous brings them together, things change.

15:00 minutes

Cypher

Director Corey Clark, Herndon High School, Herndon, VA

A new mobile ARG tasks players with finding clues that lead them to specially marked bags. Six weeks into the game, things begin to go south as some players take the game too seriously.  

12:33 minutes

Less

Director Isabelle Levent, The Brearly School, New York City, NY

Two members of Generation Z expound on their values and habits as they redefine minimalism in a world of consumption, technology, and information overload.

11:00 minutes

Shiloh

Director Morgan Elizabeth Bowman, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA

Shiloh is a nervous college freshman out on her own for the very first time. When she is chosen by a ubiquitous girl for a school project, she takes on a new role of flawlessness which quickly surfaces a darkness within her.

14:05 minutes

Clock-Boy

Director W. Trent Welstead, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Welcome to the world of Clock-Boy, where the idiosyncrasies of campus culture exist only in the absurd.

5:00 minutes

White Lie

Director Joe Fisher, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA

10:57 minutes

Birthday

Director Mojtaba Mirshekari, Chapman University, Orange, CA

Frank tries to celebrate his 70th birthday by throwing a party and inviting his friends, family and neighbors, but no one comes to his party except some new neighbors. They make good memories together, but not everything goes as he expected.

13:22 minutes

Forever

Director Evie Shih, Marshall High School, Falls Church, VA

The interactions between a Grim Reaper and a little girl named Ari.

3:07 minutes

World Class

Director Ibrahim Bundu, Shenandoah University

Musical Process of Bundu.

7:25 minutes

Badland

Director Drew Phillips, USC & Temple University

What if a special kind of drug granted you telekinetic abilities?

15:00 minutes

Purchase your tickets at the Alamo for Saturday Evening Films & Awards

24/7

Director Hannah Weatherford, Clover Hill High School, Midlothian, VA

An experimental film that explores the possibility of time reversal and the consequences that can arise from it.

3:10 minutes 

To the Boy Who Broke My Heart

Director Mike Woods, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Ever been ghosted? Rock band Cinema Hearts sulk with their romantic demons in this haunting Victorian-style music video.

4:52 minutes

Shenandoah University Esports

Director Jeremy Flaherty, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA

A brief look into the eSports program at Shenandoah University

2:51 minutes

Lively 

Director Dylan Smith, Clover Hill High School, Midlothian, VA

A glimpse inside the mind of Matt Lively, a leader in the Richmond muralist art scene.

5:48 minutes

Writer’s Block

Director Steve Aderton, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

A woman in London experiences strange things while dealing with her writer’s block.

2:30 minutes

First Date

Director D.T. Bullock, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

After two years of intensive counseling for her PTSD from an event that removes her from an ordinary life that she deserves, Adriana prepares for a first date with someone she barely knows.

8:34 minutes

Mending

Dir. Natalie Piszcz, Lilly Parker, Meera Gandhi, Sarah Wimbish, Clover Hill High School, Midlothian, VA

A paper stop motion animated film created by all female Honors Photo 3 students at Clover Hill High School, Mending symbolically tells the story of a female who is entangled in a tumultuous relationship and faces severe obstacles.

2:54 minutes 

The War of Two Wolves

Director Monica Baranko, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA

15:00 minutes