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Friday, November 13
 

11:50am MST

Horror Shorts A
Horror Shorts A

Run Time: 80 minutes

Screening Times:
Friday, November 13 at 11:50 AM
Friday, November 20 at 2:40 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 2:40 PM

MAKE ME A SANDWICH
Directed by: Denman Hatch
Synopsis: Marcy and her husband live together in a constant state of disarray. Her husband continually demands Marcy make him sandwiches, ad nauseam - but how long can she withstand his abuse before she finally cracks?

HISTORY OF MONSTERS
Directed by: Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz
Synopsis: Evelyn lives isolated in a cabin in the woods haunted every night by monsters of unknown origin. One day she finds a dying man in the forest and decides to help him. Unable to trust him to stay or exile him into a certain death, she ties the stranger up inside the house and becomes entranced by him, struggling between her safety and her sexual desires.
 
THE LISTENING
Directed by: Doug O. Perkins
Synopsis: A group of friends are on their way to the proverbial cabin in the woods when they come across a strange man with important information.
 
CHICKENS
Directed by: Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr
Synopsis: Two racist cops try to cover up killing an unarmed black teen. Things don’t go as planned…
 
NIGHT CRAWL
Directed by: Gregory Shultz
Synopsis: Two inmates tunnel through the walls of a hellish prison, only to find something more terrifying than death row
 
ASKING FOR A FRIEND
Directed by: Kelsey Bollig
Synopsis: Blake and Q are childhood best friends, roommates, and well - soulmates. After a long day trying to maintain her #girlboss status at work, Blake's one-track mind is solely set on the nachos Q has promised to make for dinner. In addition to the nachos, however, Q has also unexpectedly managed to kill someone in their apartment. Through a series of heavily graphic and hilarious situations, the girls tap into their inner serial killers and decide to handle the body themselves. Their naivete and inexperience leads to a weekend full of accidental drugs, Saran Wrap, and body that, for whatever reason, will not stop bleeding. So hypothetically speaking - how do you get rid of a body? Asking for a friend.
 
SEPARATION
Directed by: Rebekah W. McKendry
Synopsis: On the final night of a heated divorce, a husband and wife acquite a strange new disease.
 

Friday November 13, 2020 11:50am - 1:10pm MST
Theatre 11 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054
 
Saturday, November 14
 

11:50am MST

Sci-Fi Shorts A
Sci-Fi Shorts A
 
Run Time: 80 minutes

Screening Times:
Saturday, November 14 at 11:50 AM
Friday, November 20 at 2:30 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 2:30 PM

KRIM
Directed by: Manuel Hüttner
Synopsis: In a dystopian vision of the future, a mysterious secret agent is lost on a mission. When her commanding division picks her up again, they perform a series of tests in a harsh government facility. They find something’s missing from her memories, a new objective that she is determined to keep to herself. A manipulative game of questions and answers evolves. KRIM is a transhumanist sci-fi thriller that asks how far we are willing to go. It questions the human tendency to authoritarian structures, explores technological advances impacting the nature of conflicts and what freedom means to the individual identity.

Brolga
Directed by: Adrian Powers
Synopsis: In a ravaged future-Australia, a solitary hermit guarding a priceless treasure is forced to offer sanctuary to a young girl who is fleeing murderous scavengers. With danger around every corner, can they learn to survive together?
 
Geneticide
Directed by: Sammy Ofori-Attah
Synopsis: A couple, desperate to conceive a child, battle the state controls and "Screen Law" which prevents couples from having children that are not "perfect.”
 
The Last Well
Directed by: Filip Filković
Synopsis: The Year is 2037, Europe is in shambles. Owner of the last well with natural clean water lives in Croatia. After one of his sales of clean drinking water ends in bloodbath, he becomes a substitute father and a husband. But when the well dries out, he makes one last "trade"...
 
One of Many
Directed by: Mikel Scott Dever-O’Neil
Synopsis: In an overpopulated world, a man must make a decision to help a woman who has had a child illegally, or give up his marriage.
 
Secret Space
Directed by: Cameron Mitchell Elmore
Synopsis: A twenty-something man who doesn’t feel that he fits into this world meets a mysterious young woman at a party, only for her to lead him on an unimaginable journey through strange new realities. Along the way, he learns who he really is and finds his way home.

Saturday November 14, 2020 11:50am - 1:20pm MST
Theatre 11 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054
 
Sunday, November 15
 

11:50am MST

Horror Shorts B
Horror Shorts B

Run Time: 85 minutes

Screening Times:
Sunday, November 15 at 11:50 AM
Saturday, November 21 at 2:30 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 11:35 AM

PARKA
Directed by: Marcella Cortland
Synopsis: A beautiful woman makes a controversial fashion choice during an enchanted night out. Will the assurances from her BFF protect her from the harsh repercussions of her lavish attire?
 
FRANK & MARY
Directed by: Paul Williams
Synopsis: An elderly DIY enthusiast reanimates his recently deceased wife in the garden shed. A suburban twist on the classic Frankenstein tale.
 
EXTERMINATOR
Directed by: Duncan Birmingham
Synopsis: An unemployed husband with a mouse problem feels increasingly emasculated by his female exterminator.
 
BERNARD-HENRI ESCAPE FROM TERRE
Directed by: Alfred Mathieu
Synopsis: Bernard-Henri escape from terre is the 4th episode of a comic-gore series featuring the character of Bernard-Henri, a young high school student confronted with an invasion of the undead. In this fourth episode, Bernard-Henri, who became a student of Fine Arts, fully integrated this cumbersome presence into his daily life. A newcomer will upset this precarious balance.
 
SHHHH
Directed by: Mordechay Jonathan
Synopsis: It was supposed to be just another ordinary evening for the couple who had a cute baby not long ago. The father is just coming from work, the mother will get up to heat the food but most importantly - do not wake up the baby who just falls asleep because things can go wrong beyond imagination.
 
THE HITCHHIKER
Directed by: Adele Vuko
Synopsis: Jade is on a wild, prosecco-fuelled road trip to a Byron Bay music festival with her two besties. On the surface, it’s all good times. But Jade is hiding something big.Lost off the Pacific Highway, her friends circling slowly around her secret, Jade is forced to take distractive action. Amid howls of protest, she swerves to pick up an enigmatic Hitchhiker, which is so fine, ‘cause she’s a chick.She’s dishevelled, super-sketchy and unknown to the road-tripping friends, she just dumped a body by the side of the road.Vibes in the car start to get super weird and Jade decides to ditch their new pal in a quiet country pub. But when the local lad’s hospitality takes a sick twist, the Hitchhiker steps in with the best offer Jade’s had for survival.

Sunday November 15, 2020 11:50am - 1:15pm MST
Theatre 11 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054
 
Tuesday, November 17
 

2:30pm MST

Sci-Fi Shorts B
Sci-Fi Shorts B
 
Run Time: 65 minutes

Screening Times:
Tuesday, November 17 at 2:30 PM
Saturday, November 21 at 2:40 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 11:30 AM

The Other Side
Directed by: Hugo Duvergey
Synopsis: The struggles and journey of an individual in a disturbing yet somehow very familiar society.
 
iParent
Directed by: Patrick Avella
Synopsis: A blue-collar couple’s life is turned upside down when they try to have a baby in a dystopian future where the government controls birthing rights.
 
Progeny
Directed by: Justin Daering
Synopsis: When a blue-collar man is forcibly implanted with his alien boss’s parasitic offspring, he asks his wife to help him remove the parasite.
 
Bodyhackers
Directed by: Dale Metz
Synopsis: A daddy/daughter camping trip takes a turn for the worse.

Tuesday November 17, 2020 2:30pm - 3:35pm MST
Theatre 11 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054
 
Friday, November 20
 

2:30pm MST

Sci-Fi Shorts A
Sci-Fi Shorts A
 
Run Time: 80 minutes

Screening Times:
Saturday, November 14 at 11:50 AM
Friday, November 20 at 2:30 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 2:30 PM

KRIM
Directed by: Manuel Hüttner
Synopsis: In a dystopian vision of the future, a mysterious secret agent is lost on a mission. When her commanding division picks her up again, they perform a series of tests in a harsh government facility. They find something’s missing from her memories, a new objective that she is determined to keep to herself. A manipulative game of questions and answers evolves. KRIM is a transhumanist sci-fi thriller that asks how far we are willing to go. It questions the human tendency to authoritarian structures, explores technological advances impacting the nature of conflicts and what freedom means to the individual identity.

Brolga
Directed by: Adrian Powers
Synopsis: In a ravaged future-Australia, a solitary hermit guarding a priceless treasure is forced to offer sanctuary to a young girl who is fleeing murderous scavengers. With danger around every corner, can they learn to survive together?
 
Geneticide
Directed by: Sammy Ofori-Attah
Synopsis: A couple, desperate to conceive a child, battle the state controls and "Screen Law" which prevents couples from having children that are not "perfect.”
 
The Last Well
Directed by: Filip Filković
Synopsis: The Year is 2037, Europe is in shambles. Owner of the last well with natural clean water lives in Croatia. After one of his sales of clean drinking water ends in bloodbath, he becomes a substitute father and a husband. But when the well dries out, he makes one last "trade"...
 
One of Many
Directed by: Mikel Scott Dever-O’Neil
Synopsis: In an overpopulated world, a man must make a decision to help a woman who has had a child illegally, or give up his marriage.
 
Secret Space
Directed by: Cameron Mitchell Elmore
Synopsis: A twenty-something man who doesn’t feel that he fits into this world meets a mysterious young woman at a party, only for her to lead him on an unimaginable journey through strange new realities. Along the way, he learns who he really is and finds his way home.

Friday November 20, 2020 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST
Theatre 11 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054

2:40pm MST

Horror Shorts A
Horror Shorts A

Run Time: 80 minutes

Screening Times:
Friday, November 13 at 1:10 PM
Friday, November 20 at 2:40 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 2:40 PM

MAKE ME A SANDWICH
Directed by: Denman Hatch
Synopsis: Marcy and her husband live together in a constant state of disarray. Her husband continually demands Marcy make him sandwiches, ad nauseam - but how long can she withstand his abuse before she finally cracks?

HISTORY OF MONSTERS
Directed by: Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz
Synopsis: Evelyn lives isolated in a cabin in the woods haunted every night by monsters of unknown origin. One day she finds a dying man in the forest and decides to help him. Unable to trust him to stay or exile him into a certain death, she ties the stranger up inside the house and becomes entranced by him, struggling between her safety and her sexual desires.
 
THE LISTENING
Directed by: Doug O. Perkins
Synopsis: A group of friends are on their way to the proverbial cabin in the woods when they come across a strange man with important information.
 
CHICKENS
Directed by: Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr
Synopsis: Two racist cops try to cover up killing an unarmed black teen. Things don’t go as planned…
 
NIGHT CRAWL
Directed by: Gregory Shultz
Synopsis: Two inmates tunnel through the walls of a hellish prison, only to find something more terrifying than death row
 
ASKING FOR A FRIEND
Directed by: Kelsey Bollig
Synopsis: Blake and Q are childhood best friends, roommates, and well - soulmates. After a long day trying to maintain her #girlboss status at work, Blake's one-track mind is solely set on the nachos Q has promised to make for dinner. In addition to the nachos, however, Q has also unexpectedly managed to kill someone in their apartment. Through a series of heavily graphic and hilarious situations, the girls tap into their inner serial killers and decide to handle the body themselves. Their naivete and inexperience leads to a weekend full of accidental drugs, Saran Wrap, and body that, for whatever reason, will not stop bleeding. So hypothetically speaking - how do you get rid of a body? Asking for a friend.
 
SEPARATION
Directed by: Rebekah W. McKendry
Synopsis: On the final night of a heated divorce, a husband and wife acquite a strange new disease.

Friday November 20, 2020 2:40pm - 4:00pm MST
Theatre 12 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054
 
Saturday, November 21
 

2:30pm MST

Horror Shorts B
Horror Shorts B

Run Time: 85 minutes

Screening Times:
Sunday, November 15 at 11:50 AM
Saturday, November 21 at 2:30 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 11:35 AM

PARKA
Directed by: Marcella Cortland
Synopsis: A beautiful woman makes a controversial fashion choice during an enchanted night out. Will the assurances from her BFF protect her from the harsh repercussions of her lavish attire?
 
FRANK & MARY
Directed by: Paul Williams
Synopsis: An elderly DIY enthusiast reanimates his recently deceased wife in the garden shed. A suburban twist on the classic Frankenstein tale.
 
EXTERMINATOR
Directed by: Duncan Birmingham
Synopsis: An unemployed husband with a mouse problem feels increasingly emasculated by his female exterminator.
 
BERNARD-HENRI ESCAPE FROM TERRE
Directed by: Alfred Mathieu
Synopsis: Bernard-Henri escape from terre is the 4th episode of a comic-gore series featuring the character of Bernard-Henri, a young high school student confronted with an invasion of the undead. In this fourth episode, Bernard-Henri, who became a student of Fine Arts, fully integrated this cumbersome presence into his daily life. A newcomer will upset this precarious balance.
 
SHHHH
Directed by: Mordechay Jonathan
Synopsis: It was supposed to be just another ordinary evening for the couple who had a cute baby not long ago. The father is just coming from work, the mother will get up to heat the food but most importantly - do not wake up the baby who just falls asleep because things can go wrong beyond imagination.
 
THE HITCHHIKER
Directed by: Adele Vuko
Synopsis: Jade is on a wild, prosecco-fuelled road trip to a Byron Bay music festival with her two besties. On the surface, it’s all good times. But Jade is hiding something big.Lost off the Pacific Highway, her friends circling slowly around her secret, Jade is forced to take distractive action. Amid howls of protest, she swerves to pick up an enigmatic Hitchhiker, which is so fine, ‘cause she’s a chick.She’s dishevelled, super-sketchy and unknown to the road-tripping friends, she just dumped a body by the side of the road.Vibes in the car start to get super weird and Jade decides to ditch their new pal in a quiet country pub. But when the local lad’s hospitality takes a sick twist, the Hitchhiker steps in with the best offer Jade’s had for survival.

Saturday November 21, 2020 2:30pm - 3:55pm MST
Theatre 11 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054

2:40pm MST

Sci-Fi Shorts B
Sci-Fi Shorts B
 
Run Time: 65 minutes

Screening Times:
Tuesday, November 17 at 2:30 PM
Saturday, November 21 at 2:40 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 11:30 AM

The Other Side
Directed by: Hugo Duvergey
Synopsis: The struggles and journey of an individual in a disturbing yet somehow very familiar society.
 
iParent
Directed by: Patrick Avella
Synopsis: A blue-collar couple’s life is turned upside down when they try to have a baby in a dystopian future where the government controls birthing rights.
 
Progeny
Directed by: Justin Daering
Synopsis: When a blue-collar man is forcibly implanted with his alien boss’s parasitic offspring, he asks his wife to help him remove the parasite.
 
Bodyhackers
Directed by: Dale Metz
Synopsis: A daddy/daughter camping trip takes a turn for the worse

Saturday November 21, 2020 2:40pm - 3:45pm MST
Theatre 12 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054
 
Sunday, November 22
 

11:30am MST

Sci-Fi Shorts B
Sci-Fi Shorts B
 
Run Time: 65 minutes

Screening Times:
Tuesday, November 17 at 2:30 PM
Saturday, November 21 at 2:40 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 11:30 AM

The Other Side
Directed by: Hugo Duvergey
Synopsis: The struggles and journey of an individual in a disturbing yet somehow very familiar society.
 
iParent
Directed by: Patrick Avella
Synopsis: A blue-collar couple’s life is turned upside down when they try to have a baby in a dystopian future where the government controls birthing rights.
 
Progeny
Directed by: Justin Daering
Synopsis: When a blue-collar man is forcibly implanted with his alien boss’s parasitic offspring, he asks his wife to help him remove the parasite.
 
Bodyhackers
Directed by: Dale Metz
Synopsis: A daddy/daughter camping trip takes a turn for the worse.

Sunday November 22, 2020 11:30am - 12:35pm MST
Theatre 10 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054

11:35am MST

Horror Shorts B
Horror Shorts B

Run Time: 85 minutes

Screening Times:
Sunday, November 15 at 11:50 AM
Saturday, November 21 at 2:30 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 11:35 AM

PARKA
Directed by: Marcella Cortland
Synopsis: A beautiful woman makes a controversial fashion choice during an enchanted night out. Will the assurances from her BFF protect her from the harsh repercussions of her lavish attire?
 
FRANK & MARY
Directed by: Paul Williams
Synopsis: An elderly DIY enthusiast reanimates his recently deceased wife in the garden shed. A suburban twist on the classic Frankenstein tale.
 
EXTERMINATOR
Directed by: Duncan Birmingham
Synopsis: An unemployed husband with a mouse problem feels increasingly emasculated by his female exterminator.
 
BERNARD-HENRI ESCAPE FROM TERRE
Directed by: Alfred Mathieu
Synopsis: Bernard-Henri escape from terre is the 4th episode of a comic-gore series featuring the character of Bernard-Henri, a young high school student confronted with an invasion of the undead. In this fourth episode, Bernard-Henri, who became a student of Fine Arts, fully integrated this cumbersome presence into his daily life. A newcomer will upset this precarious balance.
 
SHHHH
Directed by: Mordechay Jonathan
Synopsis: It was supposed to be just another ordinary evening for the couple who had a cute baby not long ago. The father is just coming from work, the mother will get up to heat the food but most importantly - do not wake up the baby who just falls asleep because things can go wrong beyond imagination.
 
THE HITCHHIKER
Directed by: Adele Vuko
Synopsis: Jade is on a wild, prosecco-fuelled road trip to a Byron Bay music festival with her two besties. On the surface, it’s all good times. But Jade is hiding something big.Lost off the Pacific Highway, her friends circling slowly around her secret, Jade is forced to take distractive action. Amid howls of protest, she swerves to pick up an enigmatic Hitchhiker, which is so fine, ‘cause she’s a chick.She’s dishevelled, super-sketchy and unknown to the road-tripping friends, she just dumped a body by the side of the road.Vibes in the car start to get super weird and Jade decides to ditch their new pal in a quiet country pub. But when the local lad’s hospitality takes a sick twist, the Hitchhiker steps in with the best offer Jade’s had for survival.

Sunday November 22, 2020 11:35am - 1:00pm MST
Theatre 8 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054

2:30pm MST

Sci-Fi Shorts A
Sci-Fi Shorts A
 
Run Time: 80 minutes

Screening Times:
Saturday, November 14 at 11:50 AM
Friday, November 20 at 2:30 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 2:30 PM

KRIM
Directed by: Manuel Hüttner
Synopsis: In a dystopian vision of the future, a mysterious secret agent is lost on a mission. When her commanding division picks her up again, they perform a series of tests in a harsh government facility. They find something’s missing from her memories, a new objective that she is determined to keep to herself. A manipulative game of questions and answers evolves. KRIM is a transhumanist sci-fi thriller that asks how far we are willing to go. It questions the human tendency to authoritarian structures, explores technological advances impacting the nature of conflicts and what freedom means to the individual identity.

Brolga
Directed by: Adrian Powers
Synopsis: In a ravaged future-Australia, a solitary hermit guarding a priceless treasure is forced to offer sanctuary to a young girl who is fleeing murderous scavengers. With danger around every corner, can they learn to survive together?
 
Geneticide
Directed by: Sammy Ofori-Attah
Synopsis: A couple, desperate to conceive a child, battle the state controls and "Screen Law" which prevents couples from having children that are not "perfect.”
 
The Last Well
Directed by: Filip Filković
Synopsis: The Year is 2037, Europe is in shambles. Owner of the last well with natural clean water lives in Croatia. After one of his sales of clean drinking water ends in bloodbath, he becomes a substitute father and a husband. But when the well dries out, he makes one last "trade"...
 
One of Many
Directed by: Mikel Scott Dever-O’Neil
Synopsis: In an overpopulated world, a man must make a decision to help a woman who has had a child illegally, or give up his marriage.
 
Secret Space
Directed by: Cameron Mitchell Elmore
Synopsis: A twenty-something man who doesn’t feel that he fits into this world meets a mysterious young woman at a party, only for her to lead him on an unimaginable journey through strange new realities. Along the way, he learns who he really is and finds his way home.

Sunday November 22, 2020 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST
Theatre 11 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054

2:40pm MST

Horror Shorts A
Horror Shorts A

Run Time: 80 minutes

Screening Times:
Friday, November 13 at 1:10 PM
Friday, November 20 at 2:40 PM
Sunday, November 22 at 2:14 PM

MAKE ME A SANDWICH
Directed by: Denman Hatch
Synopsis: Marcy and her husband live together in a constant state of disarray. Her husband continually demands Marcy make him sandwiches, ad nauseam - but how long can she withstand his abuse before she finally cracks?

HISTORY OF MONSTERS
Directed by: Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz
Synopsis: Evelyn lives isolated in a cabin in the woods haunted every night by monsters of unknown origin. One day she finds a dying man in the forest and decides to help him. Unable to trust him to stay or exile him into a certain death, she ties the stranger up inside the house and becomes entranced by him, struggling between her safety and her sexual desires.
 
THE LISTENING
Directed by: Doug O. Perkins
Synopsis: A group of friends are on their way to the proverbial cabin in the woods when they come across a strange man with important information.
 
CHICKENS
Directed by: Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr
Synopsis: Two racist cops try to cover up killing an unarmed black teen. Things don’t go as planned…
 
NIGHT CRAWL
Directed by: Gregory Shultz
Synopsis: Two inmates tunnel through the walls of a hellish prison, only to find something more terrifying than death row
 
ASKING FOR A FRIEND
Directed by: Kelsey Bollig
Synopsis: Blake and Q are childhood best friends, roommates, and well - soulmates. After a long day trying to maintain her #girlboss status at work, Blake's one-track mind is solely set on the nachos Q has promised to make for dinner. In addition to the nachos, however, Q has also unexpectedly managed to kill someone in their apartment. Through a series of heavily graphic and hilarious situations, the girls tap into their inner serial killers and decide to handle the body themselves. Their naivete and inexperience leads to a weekend full of accidental drugs, Saran Wrap, and body that, for whatever reason, will not stop bleeding. So hypothetically speaking - how do you get rid of a body? Asking for a friend.
 
SEPARATION
Directed by: Rebekah W. McKendry
Synopsis: On the final night of a heated divorce, a husband and wife acquite a strange new disease.

Sunday November 22, 2020 2:40pm - 4:00pm MST
Theatre 12 - Harkins Scottsdale 101 7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054
 
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