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Midwest Sci-Fi Short Film Festival 2022

A mother desperately yearns to escape an oppressive dystopian society where humans have merged with machines and life is automated by artificial intelligence, but her family would rather live in technological comfort than escape with her into the unforgiving wilderness.

Artificial Existence

After a freak accident in space, a mechanic crash lands on a barren ice planet unaware his ordeal is only just beginning.

Beacon

A man seeks help to save himself from a mysterious and Northern entity.

The Bogadai

When a space captain (Carolynn Stouder) damages the navigation system after taking control of her ship from her AI companion, C.H.A.R.L.I.E. (Adam Rebora), she must overcome her fears and make repairs before it's too late.

Captain

CHAPS AWAY is a revolutionary new product. One that will get rid of your chapped lips immediately. But there's a catch. When a man finds a mysterious bottle of Chaps Away, things are looking up...until the side effects start...

Chaps-Away

Nothing is ever really perfect, except the reviews for this 5-star secluded getaway under the stars.

Cicada

Curtis, a gleefully sadistic serial killer who preys on young women, follows Leslie home one night and terrorizes her only to discover he may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Compulsion

A teenage cutter in recovery and her overbearing mother are haunted by a ghost who seeks to keep them at odds.

Cutter

An avenging piñata is fighting back against the brutality of birthday party piñata murder on a mission to save his fellow brethren.

Fiesta Blood

No one knows why the aliens came or why they never made contact. But when their true intentions are revealed, unspeakable tragedy unfolds.

The Gift

In order to stay tethered to the Earth, Zoe wears bricks and blocks to weigh her down. Why? Gravity doesn't affect her. While she tries her best to live a normal life, she constantly feels like an outcast. Then, she decides to open herself up to the world and celebrate her different-ness!

A Grievance With Gravity

A short neo-noire thriller centered around a mysterious druggist visited by Sangstrom, a seemingly ordinary man in search of an undetectable poison. Yet, Sangstrom winds up getting more than he bargained for from the sagacious alchemist.

The Hobbyist

A powerful shadow organization offers its agents ‘eternal life’ in exchange for their brain matter, in order to create a super intelligence that could spell an end to war and conflict.

Launch at Paradise

A noise awakens a woman who finds something sinister looking for a MIDNIGHT SNACK.

Midnight Snack

A failed engineer seeking multiversal travel encounters his younger self from an alternate timeline — a successful inventor with secret intentions.

Miller

In this fun horror-comedy, an awkward first date at the movies takes a horrific turn when the cinema turns out to be owned and operated by demons.

Slurp

While housesitting, Tom encounters a supernatural sourdough that takes hold. A 90 sec. comedic thriller.

Sourdough

Just as an astronaut successfully lands on the moon and prepares to plant his flag, the astronaut discovers that a rival astronaut has the same goal in mind.

Space Race

A lonesome truck driver picks up a mysterious hitchhiker who may be more than he appears.

Strangers in the Night

To save his dying wife from the curse, Luke must train himself and go back in time to kill his wife's past self, a deadly assassin.

String of Fate

Randall, flat broke and in debt, discovers golden treasure in an ancient strong box. The treasure can be his...if he grants one small request.

The Strong Box

An astrophysicist discovers infinite zooming capabilities in his telescope which diverts his research into a completely new direction.

SUPERSCOPE

When Kiara, an AI satellite, is sent to observe a blackhole, she forms a friendship with Noelle back on Earth. Despite the growing distance, the two sprout an unlikely dialogue that examines humanity's greatest question.

To Err

Twins Lake and Lucas hate each others’ guts. One day after school, their sibling rivalry gets out of hand.

The Twins

Enya is preparing to meet up with a new friend. He wants to make a good impression, but his buddy Jonesy complicates things in a major way

Un-Portalable!

A woman is haunted by a presence. Every night it comes back. But is it real, or just her imagination?

The Witch

A woman is haunted during the night by a spirit in her home.

The Witching Hour
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A man alone in his high rise apartment hears something outside his window. Despite its impossibility, he makes sure there's no one outside. Believing he's alone, the man lets go of his paranoia. Unfortunately for him, he is mistaken.

30th Story

A lonely alien is unable to come to terms with the loss of a loved one and goes to extreme lengths to avoid accepting reality. He puts on a smile and pretends everything is fine, but until he learns to move on, he will be stuck in a peculiar endless loop, his life dominated and defined by the loss he suffered.

Alienated

A Fly frozen frozen inside of a piece of amber is brought back to life after it is struck by lightning. The Fly mutates into a larger Fly with a crystalized amber exoskeleton. A Spider ambushes the Fly and attempts to eat it, but the Spider fails to penetrate the Fly's armor. The Spider then hatches a plan to turn the Fly's new strength to the Spider's advantage...

The Amber Thief

After a cataclysmic event on Earth, 2 strangers wake up on a deep space vessel headed to a new habitable world. Soon they have to make a choice that could determine their survival.

Arbitrium

A short story about a struggling high school senior who comes across an amazing item with a glaring drawback. Will he be able to resist using it, or will he be blinded by temptation?

Blind With Temptation

The Box Fort

The Box Fort

An office worker's lunch break becomes a struggle for survival in the subterranean depths of a futuristic city.

Clarence of Tomorrow

A young Navy pilot’s life is shattered after being shot down by a UFO in World War II. Consumed by obsessive fear and hatred, he sets out on a quest to find and kill the creature that put him burning into the sea.

Colossus

Dash McCabe vs. The Evil
Devil Woman From the Moon is a parody of the cliffhanger shorts of the 1940's and 50's. It involves a powerful moon alien invading the earth while a team of adventurers attempt to stop her

Dash McCabe vs. The Evil Devil Woman From the Moon

Ori, the eternally vexed keeper of a living lighthouse, struggles through his daily chores in order to maintain himself, his home, and his best friend -- a chipper cat named Clam.

Fáros

A music video about an alien sent to infiltrate Earth, but accidentally becomes a film professor with a cult following instead

Hugh Manon

A young superheroine must make a great sacrifice to protect her secret identity when a caring educator takes note of her mysterious injuries and becomes suspicious.

Midnight Rose

The substitute janitor figures out a fun way to keep his mind off of the spooky rumors he's heard about this creepy factory as he cleans it at night when no one is there but him.

Mr. Mops

When professor of entomology, Dr. West, is confronted by the Dean of his school over a missing colleague and possible embezzlement, he takes it upon himself to seek out the professor in question. Arriving at the remote research cabin of Dr. Rhodes, West uncovers haunting clues that slowly reveal the true nature of Rhodes' latest research venture.

Nesting Grounds

A young girl gets so scared by the horror movie her older brother watches that she can’t sleep at night. Worse, the creatures from the film torment her, and she has to find a way to get through the night in this dialogue-free stop-motion film.

No Monsters Allowed

An old vinyl record torments a young woman.

Nonnina

"Once in a Lifetime"

"Once in a Lifetime"

Pimento! Follows a tiny goblin’s misadventures as she’s sent out on a special errand: stealing from the sprawling human-populated metropolis Ballyhoo! Only time will tell if she’s enough of a monster to commit heinous crimes—or if her moral compass will stand in her way!

Pimento!

How can a reverse mermaid compare to a beautiful mermaid? Long answer short: she definitely can't. Saddened by the Mermaid Queen's rejection, the reverse mermaid swims off and finds an old sea witch with a promise she can't turn down.

Dedicated to my older sister, Melody Miller.

Queen of the Sea

Michael, an alcoholic in recovery, is working a twilight shift as a ride share driver. He picks up Angie, a mysterious nurse. Unbeknownst to Michael, Angie has sinister plans for the ride.

The Ride of a Lifetime

After unwittingly unleashing an ancient horror, a timid, hungry cave dweller's only hope is his greatest fear– the surface.

The Sky Below

SPiN is a surreal sci-fi story about a kid who explores and plays in an ancient biome. His world encounters a strange, spinning artifact that sparks his curiosity.

SPiN

After investigating an Elder cult's meeting place, a professor wakes to find himself in an interrogation room with a grotesquely scarred hand.

The Statement
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