Flickers' Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Film Festival

The Shadow | Isaac Switzer, Director | 3 min. | USA, 2017. 
A Darkness looms.

Sol | Carlos G. Gananian, Director | 14 min. | Brazil, 2017.
The devil speaks, Sol listens.

Red Ruby | Jose Holder, Director | 21 min. | Canada, 2016. Ruby Grimm awakes to the dark reality that nightmares walk among us. Armed with her   brother's research and weaponry, she sets out to systematically destroy them before her mind spirals into madness.

Alfred J. Hemlock | Edward Lyons, Director | 14 min. | Australia, 2017. When Emily’s boyfriend abandons her in the night, her only way home is through an alleyway where she is terrorised by the mysterious entity Alfred J Hemlock. After reaching the depths of her despair she finds the strength that she never suspected she had.

The Sound of Fear | Colin Campbell, Director | 8 min. | USA, 2016. A young Deaf woman, IVY, inadvertently witnesses a group of meth addicts kill a sheriff in a remote resort town. On the run, Ivy races through the empty streets looking for help. She finds a vacationing family and tries to get them to call the police, but they can’t understand her. The addicts burst in and kill the mom and dad. Ivy and the thirteen year-old daughter, Molly, flee.

Alone | Joe Guarneri, Director | 11 min. | USA, 2017.  
Working on a forgotten house, Jimmy Potenza can't escape the strange events that begin to occur.

Runaway | Harrison Heller, Tommy Kraft, Directors | 20 min. | USA, 2017. RUNAWAY is a sci-fi western short film set in the not-too-distant future where an android fights for her life as she races to get to the Free States.

Meeting Macguffin | Catya Plate, Director | 10 min. | USA. In a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has fallen apart, a group of scientists and an animated sign complete the construction of a new human race and meet a groundhog climatologist who prepares them for their mission to restore balance to the decimated Earth.

Born Again | Jason Tostevin, Director | 7 min. | USA, 2016. When a group of bumbling Satanists has their summoning ceremony go terribly right, they're left to face the decidedly holy shit consequences.