Imaginarium 2015’s Film Festival!
Imaginarium 2015’s Film Festival will again feature an array of categories and awards for shorts, features, and documentaries screened at the event from September 11-13th.
To see a list of the 2014 categories and award-winners, visit the Film Festival Awards page.
The screening schedule for 2015 has been released. Please visit the screening schedule page to see the times for Friday and Saturday screenings. You can also keep up with the Film Festival schedule on the EventBase App
The Movies to be shown in the Imaginarium 2015 Film Festival Include:
Features
Army From Hell
Synopsis: A mysterious stone tablet becomes the focus of a worldwide hunt for ultimate power. When the tablet falls into the wrong hands, an army of demons arrives to destroy mankind. Appearing in human form, these demons are able to invade human society before they can be stopped. With the world at the mercy of Satan’s army, only one man can stop them. A man with a sword, no name and a very bad attitude. The demons are rising. Somebody’s gotta’ take ’em down.
Ingenue
Synopsis: A married couple finds a human analog in their basement. The Analog appears to be a woman of the age of 20 but in reality she is a clone with the intelligence of a toddler. After being blackmailed by big business, the couple takes on the task to raise this analog and teach her what it means to be human.
Paternity Leave
Synopsis: Matt Riddlehoover’s PATERNITY LEAVE is a romantic comedy about Greg (Jacob York), Ken (Charlie David), and a moment of passion on the eve of their four year anniversary that changes the course of their lives forever.
Greg begins feeling nauseated, fatigued, moody and – most unfortunately – fat. At his wit’s end and Ken’s insistence, he sees a doctor who’s stumped and refers the couple to a specialist. To everyone’s amazement, Greg is pregnant. Shock, stress, and fear settle in, and Greg’s relationship gets put to the ultimate test.
Co-starring Chris Salvatore, PATERNITY LEAVE poses a modern answer to the age old question: “Are we ready to be parents?”
Magnetic
Synopsis: On December 31st, the Earth will be destroyed. Everything you know will become nothing. Maybe it already has.
The Rangers
Synopsis: The Rangers is about a special force of soldiers, known as Rangers, who were founded long ago by King Aenarion to guard and watch the borders of the Kingdom of Olaran. Each episodic season follows the adventures of the unit of Rangers led by Brander Noke, also known as Wolf, and their new rookie Soren Fell. Together, they must help their world overcome its greatest challenge, as they face their own personal demons.
Razor Days
Synopsis: Razor Days is a grim story of survival and revenge set in the very real world. Starring Amy Lynn Best (A Feast of Flesh), Debbie Rochon (The Colour from the Dark) and Bette Cassatt (ThinkGeek), Razor Days tells the story of three women, each a survivor of horrific violence, who bond together first for support and then to exact revenge on those responsible for their horrific pasts, including a group of cannibalistic “weekend warriors.”
Short Films
Depleted: Day 419
Synopsis: In the pilot episode of the Depleted: Day 419 web serial, we are introduced to Jenna Whitmore, the journalistic survivor of the most brutal civil uprising in global history. Through her memories, we begin to discover a world that can look normal in one place, but is hanging by threads in many others.
Fast Zombies Suck
Synopsis: Based on the Brian Keene short story…
Forward Until Found
Synopsis: “Forward Until Found” follows the journey of a mysterious letter as it is passed around a community, forever changing the lives of the people it reaches.
The Hydric Zone: Rise of the Mutant Wetlands
Synopsis: From Planet Swampy, Fat Guy Films, and Catnippery Productions comes this Animated Sci-Fi Fantasy short film set at the end of the Second World War. Starring: Silvio Wolf Busch, Steve Guynn, Ford Windstar, Violet Mortenson, and Jack B. Harrison. Directed by Joshua Felty and Claude Miles.
Leah Not Leia
Synopsis: A dark comedy about a baby girl born during the STAR WARS boom in 1977 who shares a similar name to a certain Jedi Princess that wasn’t allowed to wear underwear.
My Friend Lawrence
Synopsis: A bizarre tale of a man his meat. To say it’s uncomfortable would be the understatement of the century.
THE MYSTERIES OF SCIENCE
‘Lasers’, ‘Archaeology’, ‘Optics’, and ‘Addiction’ – Sci-Fi Comedy Faux Science shorts. Episodes Written by H.David Blalock. Starring: Megan Hunt, Roni Jonah, Eb McKinney, Kat Granlund, Steve Guynn, Stacey Gillespie, Elizabeth Gunning, Sonny Burnette, Shannon Van Meter, Munson Henderson, Kirsten Van Hooser, Russ Croley, John J. Robinson, Verda Davis, and Claude Miles. Directed by Claude Miles.
The Redemption of Benjamin Black
Synopsis: Two men’s personal odysseys as they try to reach their next-to-impossible goals in the vast wilderness of Indian Territory.
Samyul
Synopsis: In the first short film from the Appalachia Collective, Samyul (Brandon Hartman) is a young kid with a severe bipolar disorder. His friends are crummy, he is often in isolation, and his depression hits its peak whenever Titan (Dustin Collins) doesn’t show up to the concert they planned on going to. It seems like Samyul is destined to be a loner until he meets the free spirited Taryn (Laura Wilson), who also has a mental illness, but shows him a summer filled with love and happiness that Samyul never knew existed.
Santa Krampus
Synopsis: At Christmas, some believe in Santa Claus, and some in Krampus. Yet what if they are both right, and it is a spirit that can cause good and chaos? A new holiday horror film from writer director Jerry Williams(Purvos, UFO Crash in Kentucky, Monsters of the UFO). Starring Steve Guynn, Ford Windstar, Cherokee Hall, Kenny Bates, Heather Scream Price, and Todd Burrows.
The Stall
Synopsis: A pizza shop employee faces blasphemous terrors from outside time and space when he finds himself trapped in the restroom during the Lovecraftian apocalypse.
Tailypo
Synopsis: In this re-telling of the classic American folk tale, a reclusive man living in a cabin with his hungry hunting dog are stalked by a creature with sharp teeth, claws, and glowing yellow eyes after a blind shotgun blast severs the creatures tail. The hermit begins to question his own sanity as the unseen menace lurking in the shadows of the lonesome woods hauntingly taunts “tailypo, tailypo, give me back my tailypo.”
Documentaries
#allweknowislame
Synopsis: On the edge of breaking out, on October 15th the music came to a screeching halt when drummer Evan Tucker was involved in a catastrophic accident that nearly claimed his life. This is story of how their fans rallied around them and how Evan came back stronger than ever. The band roars back to life as their obsessive fans chanted #allweknowislame.
Carla’s Halloween
Synopsis: Carla’s Halloween: The story of one woman’s love of Halloween and the lives of those she touches with it.
Enter the Imaginarium
Synopsis: Enter the Imaginarium: The story of how one man’s vision brought together a community of authors, gamers, and filmmakers and pulled off a first year creative writing convention that most only dream about.
Letters to Daniel: A One Woman Show
Synopsis: The follow up to Letters to Daniel:Breakdown to Bestseller incorporates more letters, social media, and the use of music in order to share the message that there is hope, there is healing, that there is recovery.
Strong Southern Mamas
Synopsis: A look at southern women, how they’re perceived versus what they’re really like through the eyes of two different families.
The Untold Story of “Bad” Tom Smith
Synopsis: Based on the startling true tale of the vicious gun-for hire who ran rough-shod over the hills and small towns of Eastern Kentucky in the late 1800’s, Bad Tom Smith. From his rise to power during the French-Eversole Fued in Perry County until his hanging in Breathitt County in 1895. A gritty account of the life and death of one of the most notorious and merciless outlaws in Appalachian American history.
Music Video
Glass Ceiling
Synopsis: Music Video featuring the artist Kylie Jude and directed by Amy McCorkle
Lord You’re Beautiful
Christian music by artist Danny Jones, directed By: Amy McCorkle
LOU-EVIL
Synopsis: Rock Music Video by LAME directed by Amy McCorkle
Special Exhibition
Faux pas Follies
Synopsis: Weird shorts, bloopers, and craziness in the goatboyfilms universe with Roni Jonah, Jason Crowe, Claude Miles, Cherokee Hall, Leslie Rogers, and Steven Guynn. Written and directed by Jerry Williams. Music by Liquid Ogopogo.
Hicky
Synopsis: Hicky, the Hillbilly Vampire is an original comedy web series about a small town, eastern Ky. vampire named Vernon Ray Hicks. His best friend Zed is a zombie and together they take on a cast of crazy characters who are out to get them. V. Ray’s love interest, Sissy, is the local snake handling preacher’s daughter and is dating the local drug dealer, J.B.. Throw in some city slicker vampires, a witch and a were-monster and you get a very funny take on the supernatural.