5:00 PM
Director: Jack Robichaud
COMEDY PROGRAM A-6
Decades after a global apocalypse, two brothers who were raised in a junkyard hit the road with their homemade car and explore a dystopian wasteland they know nothing about...
HRIFF Premiere
5:00 PM
Director: Christian Allen
COMEDY PROGRAM A-6
Five strangers, united by shame and compulsion, gather to discuss their obsessions in what should be a safe space, but two of them are unfortunately at the wrong support group.
Tonight, 'body count' takes on a whole new meaning for this group.
HRIFF Premiere
5:00 PM
Director: James Kondelik
COMEDY PROGRAM A-6
When a couple of dimwitted kidnappers snatch a southern heiress and hold her for ransom, they are instructed to pick up their money in the remote mountains.
What was supposed to be a simple payday turns into a dark comedy of errors in A Simple Payday.
California Premiere
6:00 PM
Director: James Ridgley
This crazed feature film follows five siblings as they navigate the minefields of grief and greed at Thanksgiving dinner, while their father dies of a heart attack while having sex with his "bouncy" Girlfriend.
In processing it all, a plethora of childhood-to-present-day wounds open and burst out as raw emotions and personal attacks. No one is left unscathed.
What could be more entertaining?
World Premiere
7:30 PM
Director: Paul Bickel
This feature-length film follows the story of a lonely woman caring for her bedridden husband, while being haunted by terrifying nightmares.
As she wakes up each morning in the forest, falling deeper into freshly dug graves beneath her - supernatural forces torment her as the line between dream and reality collapses, and she unearths a horrifying secret buried within the woods… and herself.
California Premiere
9:15 PM
Director: Joshua Rivera
A disturbed pop culture obsessed young man decides to find meaning in meaningless by becoming a serial killer and terrorizing the streets.
Through his Manifesto entries we get into the mind of a Killer - whose mission is to bring Americans together …by killing everyone equally.
Best Independent Feature
World Premiere