Wise-cracking lesbians are hunted by a lonely spirit haunting a rented U-Haul.

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Abigail Espinal is an award-winning Latin, queer, transgender actress, writer, and filmmaker with years of film, theatre, television, and commercial experience, from short and feature films to off-Broadway plays and festivals. Recent credits include: “Wrinkled Collar” (Short Film – Director, Writer), “Bound/Unbound” (Devised Theatre – Performer, Writer), and “Romeo and Juliet” (Play – Mercutio). She lives in New Jersey and hopes to never stop telling stories!

A father struggles to contain his daughter’s unsettling transformation on the eve of her quinceañera.

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Alycya Magaña is a Chicana Filmmaker from Texas. Her first short film, ALMA, was accepted and won awards in various film festivals, including the Chicago Latino Film Festival. Her most recent short script, EL VALS, has won various screenwriting awards including the Shore Scripts Film Fund, First Flights Film Fund and Best Short Screenplay at Sidewalk Film Festival. It is currently in post-production.

Fresh out of the hospital, Paxton seeks rest at a remote Colorado cabin owned by Callum’s late great grandmother. But their post-surgical recovery is interrupted by something far more sinister. The discovery of an ancient book awakens O Juracuco, a wind-bound demon born from Taíno and Portuguese spiritual conflict. As the wind howls and the walls close in, tensions between friends deepen. The possession doesn’t just threaten their lives—it mirrors their deepest fears about identity, legacy, and belonging.

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August J. Soto (they/he) is a Puerto Rican & Portuguese queer, trans actor and writer based in Greenville, SC. A storyteller across mediums, August has acted since 2017 and recently starred as Vern in 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche with Charleston Absent Friends. His writing explores the deeply personal with the unsettling natures of growing up, often centering queer identity, grief, and transformation through the guides of entertainment.

ICE agents detain a group of elementary school kids, but little do they know that one of the kids is cursed by La Llorona, and soon guards start dying off in mysterious ways.

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Born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Attended college and graduate school in Southern California, where I also took courses in screenwriting. An avid guitarist and songwriter, Brendan has played music all up and down the West Coast and continues to perform on a regular basis with his bands Doombia and Oleada. He has worked professionally as a grant writer, as well as a teacher.

In a rigid theocratic future, a gender non-conforming astronaut leads a fractured crew to investigate a mysterious deep-space anomaly that manifests their fears and grotesquely mutates them, forcing humanity toward a terrifying new stage of evolution.

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Cameron A. Straughan is a Canadian screenwriter, former fisheries biologist, and STEM teacher in a First Nations community in Northern Ontario. An autistic writer who taught in England for twelve years, he brings a unique scientific and personal perspective to speculative fiction. His screenplay Schisma has earned recognition from numerous horror and science fiction screenplay competitions and festivals.

When seven women are found dead in ritualistic formation, a detective arrives in a small town where grieving husbands share an uncanny unity. Beneath their respectable facades, the husbands are bound by something darker than grief. The investigation unfolds exactly as it should.

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Caprice Castano is a producer, director, and writer whose work spans family entertainment to psychological horror. Over the past decade they have directed more than 300 hours of programming across film, television, and streaming. Their debut feature screenplay Sanguis Septem has earned 8 festival wins and 23 international selections. They are currently developing a queer western series, which is already gaining recognition on the festival circuit.

When big city “girl boss” Cord Howell travels back home for Christmas, attempts to connect with her aging mother are thwarted by the matriarch’s hostile behavior and a bizarre town-wide obsession with snowmen.

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Christine Makepeace is a horror screenwriter living in the Southern California desert. She has a passion for good jump scares, good dialogue, and the rule of three. Christine’s body snatching snowman feature, “Coal Eyes Are Watching,” was featured on the 2026 Grey List. Christine is also a published fiction writer and essayist.

When forensic-science grad Alanis Gothic returns to her small hometown to settle her mother’s estate, she’s met with the same transphobia and moral rot that drove her away – until a missing cat, a string of deaths, and her own scientific precision turn her into both investigator and executioner.

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Jonathan Andre Culliton is a Boston-born, British Columbia-based trans filmmaker and comedy writer. Culliton is the creator of Bombshell, a digital series about a single trans man navigating LA’s dating world, available on Amazon. Culliton is the director and co-writer of Spookable, a horror comedy short starring Alexandra Grey, produced by Zackary Drucker. It was selected by Lillly Wachowski for MdFF, won the Audience Award at 29QFF, and is now available for streaming on OTV. His short “Willa Justice: Drag Queen Private Eye” was the recipient of the Out on Film Filmmaker Fund Grant. Both films continue to tour around the world.

Grieving the loss of his partner, Sam isolates himself in a remote outback job. But when his drone crashes into a strange forest, he’s pulled into haunting visions of his lost love. Visions that feel like delusions, until something more terrifying reveals itself.

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Russell (or “Rusty”) is a creative writer and filmmaker with a strong foundation in both commercial production and artistic storytelling. With a background spanning short films, documentaries, and cinematic campaigns, his work blends visual craft with emotional impact. Across every project from client briefs to personal film work Russell brings a clear creative vision, assembling and guiding teams to deliver content that is not only polished, but purposeful. His artistic sensibility is grounded in narrative depth, pacing, and visual nuance, giving his work a distinctive voice. Respected in both agency and independent circles, Russell champions collaborative creativity and sees filmmaking as both a craft and a means of connection.

In the twilight of the Obama years, a newly engaged gay couple and their fractured family visit a house they unexpectedly inherited in rural Wyoming, only to discover it is haunted by bigoted ghosts who have laid a trap for them.

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Spencer Ross is a four-time Tony Award winning theatre producer and screenwriter. Select Broadway Credits: Maybe Happy Ending (Tony Award for Best Musical), Into the Woods (2023, Tony Nomination for Best Musical Revival), Company (2022, Tony Award for Best Musical Revival), The Minutes (Tony Nomination for Best Play), Moulin Rouge (Tony Award for Best Musical), Jagged Little Pill, Angels in America (2018, Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play), Come From Away (Tony Nomination for Best Musical), An American in Paris (Tony Nomination for Best Musical). Spencer is the founder of SBR Productions LLC, www.sbrproductions.com. Spencer recently completed the WSET Diploma in Wine. Prior to his work as a theatre producer, Spencer practiced in Colorado as an election law attorney advising Democratic campaigns. He resides in New York City with his husband, Phil.