TCIF3 2011 Film Schedule & Events
Friday October 14th
Horror Films
Richland Community Center
2:00 - 10:00pm
Saturday October 15th
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films
Richland Community Center
2:00 - 10:00pm
Saturday October 22nd
Animation Films
Richland Community Center 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Saturday October 22nd
Anime Films
Richland Public Library
5:30pm - 10:00pm
Today's TCIF3 Events:
3:00pm - Zombie Walk at Howard Amon Park in Richland
During TCIF3 Make-up Panels
7:00pm - TCIF3 Adult & Kids Costume Contest
Today's TCIF3 Event:
3:00 - 6:00pm - Stop Motion Animation Workshop
sponsored by the Three-Rivers Children Museum
Contact Three-Rivers to register.
Today's TCIF3 Event:
5:30 - 8:00pm - Artists Alley, Meet & Greet local NW Artists in the Library Foyer.
Saturday October 8th
Fan Films
Richland Public Library
4:00 - 10:00pm
Today's TCIF3 Event:
4:00pm Opening Ceremonies
4:00 - 7:00pm - Meet & Greet Local Fan Groups and Organizations in the Library Foyer
Anime Screenings of
Bleach, Ramma 1/2, Vampire Princess Miyu, Otaku No Video, AD Police, Aria,Maria Watches Over Us, and El-Hazard
TCIF3 2012 Film Submissions
Tin Can Heart – Sci-Fi Animation - Australia
Director: Rod March
Running Time: 7:00m
On a deserted hot planetoid, a lonely robotic puppy tries to befriend an android visitor. His attempts at friendship are rebuffed until he is put a life and death choice. When the pup gives up his very own battery, his last hope comes from a within mysterious spherical chamber.
The Night of All Fears – Sci-Fi Animation
Director: Cyril Corallo
Running Time: 1:00m
The Night of All Fears is essentially a trailer for a hypothetical 1950′s style classic B-Movie.
Doll Parts – Horror - Canada
Director: Karen Lam
Running Time: 10:00m
A serial killing driver's bad day becomes much worse when he picks up the wrong girl.
The Watchmaker’s Son – Fantasy - USA
Director: Brandon McCormick
Running Time: 8:14m
Somewhere between a tock and a tick, when a boy became a man in a day.
The Watchmaker learned that his father was sick, Years after inheriting his trade.
Absentia – Horror Feature - USA
Director: Mike Flanagan
Running Time: 91:00m
Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia'. As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house that might also be connected to other neighborhood disappearances. Soon it becomes clear that the ancient force at work in the tunnel might have set its sights on Callie and Tricia ... and that Daniel might be suffering a fate far worse than death in its grasp.
Enter the Dark – Horror - USA
Director: Todd Miro
Running Time: 18:00m
Charles has a problem. There’s something in his house scaring his family and it just won’t leave them alone. They’ve all heard voices, seen dark shapes moving in the shadows, felt that uneasy sensation of being watched. Charles enlists the help of his long-time buddy, Rob, to delve into the mystery of this unwanted guest and hopefully send it on its way. If they can somehow figure out what the entity is and what it wants, maybe they can all finally have some peace.
Dungeon Master – Fantasy - USA
Director: Rider Strong & Shiloh Strong
Running Time: 13:00m
Shane and his friends thought it would be fun to recapture their ‘geeky’ youth with a game of Dungeons and Dragons. But then someone showed up in a cape.
Off Road – Horror - Netherlands
Director: Martijn Smits & Erwin van den Eshof
Running Time: 10:17m
While driving, a paranoid man gets into an argument with his navigation device about his chosen destination. It seems to try to stop the man from doing something stupid.
Negative Image – Horror - UK
Director: Karl Holt
Running Time: 11:00m
Story of a paranormal journalist who is determined to capture an entity on film in order to regain the front page of his magazine.
Eddie Loves You – Horror - UK
Director: Karl Holt
Running Time: 25:00m
Sorting out his old toys, our nameless hero finds that one of them, Eddie, has ripped and is losing stuffing. So he is consigned to the bin. But somebody brings the toy back in the middle of the night. Eddie is a toy that our hero cannot dispose of, however hard he tries. And Eddie is not only annoyed at this treatment, he is also jealous of the comparative care bestowed on all the other toys. He will have his revenge. And all the while, his voicebox keeps squealing: “Eddie loves yooo! Cuddle Eddie!”
Vessel – SciFi - USA
Director: Carlo Treviso
Running Time: 6:30m
VESSEL, or Vital Electronic Systematic Soul Extension Life-Unit, is the latest in robotic human technology. It is capable of harnessing a human soul upon death. The film centers around a young man and his wife who experience the mysterious process of a VESSEL soul transfer procedure.
FreeBorn – SciFi - USA
Director: Carlo Treviso
Running Time: 6:00m
Fifty years after the first rover landings, mankind spreads upon Mars in waves. Peace and unity between the two planets is short lived as civil unrest leads to the beginnings of an interplanetary revolution.
T is for Termite – Horror/Action - USA
Director: Steve Daniels
Running Time: 4:35m
T is for Termite is about a crust punk exterminator who has to go into abandoned houses to clear them of unspeakable termite monstrosities...
Hike – Horror - Canada
Director: Jennifer Campbell
Running Time: 7:23m
Hike is about what can happen when you go into the woods.
In the Fall of Gravity – Animation - USA
Director: RS Cole
Running Time: 11:08m
A wizard and his traveling companion discuss the nature of life, consciousness and the workings of the universe.
The Legacy – Fantasy - USA
Director: Mike Doto
Running Time: 12:00m
What would you do if you believed your father was a superhero? The Legacy brings to life a story about fathers and sons, imagination and magic, and believing in something larger than ourselves.
Nursery Crimes – Animation - UK
Director: L Whyte
Running Time: 4:00m
Little Bo Peep has slaughtered her sheep, and doesn't know where to hide them.
S: A Superman Fan Film – Fan Film - USA
Director: Johnny Wu
Running Time: 18:05m
With the intent of finally destroying Superman, Brainiac finds his way to earth. However, he doesn't go about this task alone, as Lex Luthor finds his way into the mix. Now two of Superman's greatest villains are working together to take down the Man of Steel. Guest Starring Lois Lane.
Paths of Hate – Animation - Poland
Director: Damian Nenow
Running Time: 10:00m
The struggle. Its scale is irrelevant or the ideology that stands behind it, no matter whether it is two people or a million. Are followed by only a scar - the bloody traces the path of hate ... "Paths Of Hate" is a short tale of beasts, which lie dormant deep in the human soul and push them into the abyss of blind hatred, rage and anger. Chasm that leads to the inevitable destruction and annihilation.
The Stopover – Animation - UK
Director: Neil Stubbings
Running Time: 3:00m
An unplanned pit stop for a solitary spaceman turns into a close encounter of the third kind.
The Pack – Horror - UK
Director: Owen Tooth
Running Time: 6:00m
Five strangers slumber naked and bloodied in an abandoned warehouse, but as the memories of the night before creep back into their consciousness, they awake in horror to realise the full extent of their actions.
Beyond Black Mesa – Fan Film - USA
Director: Brian Curtin
Running Time: 11:51m
Inspired by the Half-Life Video Game series, this is an action packed short film centering around Adrian Shephard and a band of resistance fighters struggling to get out a warning about the impending invasion.
Juan Con Miedo (Fearful John) – Horror - Spain
Director: Daniel Romero
Running Time: 11:00m
During the holidays at his grandparent’s village, John meets Mary, a mysterious girl who tells the terrifying legend surrounding the peasant’s old house. John, unlike the character in the tale, is fearful. Mary is not.
The Astronaut on the Roof – Fantasy - Germany
Director: Sergi Portabella
Running Time: 13:00m
A comical road movie about two scriptwriters who write a film about two scriptwriters who write a film about a teenage couple who become bank robbers.
Fábrica de Muñecas (Dolls Factory) – Fantasy - Spain
Director: Ainhoa Menéndez Goyoaga
Running Time: 11:00m
Anna works in a doll factory. Her whole life she revolves around performing mechanical motions to put the dolls eyes. But a small change at her work changed her life forever.
La Tragedia del Hombre Hueco (The Hollow Man's Tragedy) – Fantasy - Spain
Director Jorege de Guillae
Running Time: 16:00m
Gonzalo is a man with a clear and intense look, his wide chin and his dimples present us a kind and pacific man, with a great heart... Here is the contradiction, Gonzalo has no heart.
Blackstone – Horror - USA
Director George Tunis
Running Time: 15:00m
BLACKSTONE is a gripping psychological horror thriller that follows one man's relentless investigation into a world of deceit, murder, and the occult.
A Penny Earned – Horror - USA
Director TJ Mino
Running Time: 14:28m
Megan and Joe are on their honeymoon and Megan's on a deadline for her book on haunted destinations. Without a fresh story, her publisher will drop the book. When Megan hears a compelling ghost story that no one else has ever written about, the couple's travel plans change and they end up at Mrs. Baird's antique bed and breakfast. Mrs. Baird tries to convince them not to stay in the room haunted by Michael, a child's ghost with cruel intentions. Megan and Joe only see a good story to keep the book alive but find out the hard way why Michael's story has never been published before.
The Clown – Horror - Canada
Director Garret Henry
Running Time: 6:41m
A teenage girl alone in a house....turns out shes not alone. Where the Clown goes, blood follows.
Employé du mois (Employee of the Month) – Horror/Comedy – Switzerland
Director: Olivier Beguin
Running Time: 14:00m
Stéphanie assists and leads the unemployed towards finding a new job. But when these unemployed are such mythical personages as vampires, witches or fairies, showing them the way promises to be treacherous.
Cabine of the Dead – Horror - France
Director: Vincent Templement
Running Time: 10:00m
Patrick, an ordinary man about thirty years old, gets stuck in a phone booth, the night when the dead return to life… While struggling with zombies, he decides to call his close relations to ask them for help.
Zombiefication – Horror - Austria
Director: Stefan Lukacs
Running Time: 7:00m
"Zombiefication" is the ultimate manual when it comes to the proper handling of the living dead. Recommended behavioral patterns in case of imminent Zombie epidemics are explained in comprehensible steps and vividly executed. Bloodthirsty horror fun for the entire family!
Dirty Silverware – Fantasy - USA
Director: Steve Daniels
Running Time: 17:00m
A man travels deep into the forest to stop an ancient creature from creating cursed silverware that brings unhappiness to the world.
The Living Want Me Dead – Horror – USA
Director: Bill Palmer
Running Time: 24:00m
It's not uncommon for people to seem a little 'on-edge' come the holiday season, but for mild-mannered Howard Phillips, it just so happens that everyone else is suddenly running right over that edge with bloodshot eyes, foaming mouths, and unstoppable urges to kill...and they're running towards him. It could have something to do with the lack of shopping days left on the calendar, but Howard is betting that his recent visit to a medical testing facility is more likely to blame. Before he can find out what he took and how to stop it, he'll need to go toe-to-toe, or fist-to-teeth, with every bloodlusting living thing between him and quiet spot to put a plan together.
The Absence – Horror – USA
Director: Alex Demille
Running Time: 29:00m
Benjamin Moss (MATTHEW RAUCH), assistant manager in the Records Department of Black House Securities, is sent on a mission to a mysterious and barren rural landscape. There he crosses paths with eleven-year-old Jonathan Gardner (JAN UCZKOWSKI), a boy who is beginning to wake up to the dark forces devastating his town. Ben confronts the truth behind his company's work and must choose whether to continue to obey his messianic boss (LARRY SWANSEN).
Pinball – Fantasy – Brazil
Director: Ruy Veridiano
Running Time: 18:00m
A teenager dabbles in witchcraft, which doesn't work out, he escapes to the cemetery and meets Death in a dark and little frequented arcade. Amidst metaphysical dialogs and pinball records, he tries to cheat Death and get another chance in the game.
Kaydara – Fan Film – France
Director: Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard
Running Time: 55:00m
The story of "Kaydara" takes place within the universe of Lana and Andy Wachowski's film "The Matrix". Kaydara, a bounty hunter who is living separately from the Human Resistance Group, does not believe in the prophecy of "the One". He sees this so-called saviour instead as a threat to the awakening of Man's self-awareness and considers him an enemy. If their paths cross, Kaydara will not hesitate to confront him.
Fallout: Nuka Break – Fan Film/web series – USA
Director: Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard
Running Time: 30:00m
Join Twig (Zack Finfrock), a former Vault Dweller, Ben (Aaron Giles), a radiation-ravaged ghoul, and Scarlett (Tybee Diskin), a sexy former slave as they attempt to survive the harsh wasteland that is Fallout.
Mongrel’s Creed – Sci-fi– Australia
Director: Thomas Noakes
Running Time: 11:00m
Set in a future, dystopian reality, Mongrel’s Creed is a short dark comedy about Jim Gravel, a jaded and miserable lifetime employee of the omnipresent “Company,” condemned with the soul destroying task of reprogramming rebellious citizens into more controllable, obedient workers.
He finds his limits of moral tolerance tested when ordered by his unscrupulous supervisor to reprogram an enthusiastic, life affirming man-child named Robbie simply for dancing in public. Threatened with expulsion if he refuses, he attempts to carry out the task but Robbie’s persistent joviality and positive spirit increasingly hinders his ability to proceed, much to his supervisor’s
mounting frustration.
As the threats of punishment become ever more real and disastrous, Gravel must make his decision between obeying an amoral, unjust directive which in effect would save himself, or finding the courage to listen to his conscience and fight to save an innocent man.
Star Wars: The Solo Adventures – Fan Film – USA
Director: Students at the DAVE School of digital Arts and Visual Effects
Running Time: 5:27m
"The Solo Adventures" tells the tale of how Han Solo dropped his cargo at the first sign of an Imperial Cruiser. But of course there is a lot more to the story!
Dead Happy – Horror Film – USA
Director: Nicky Lianos
Running Time: 11:44m
Dead Happy is a short comedy about the Grim Reaper bored with her job trying to cope with her unrequited love for another.
Captain Future – Fan Film – New Caledonia South Pacific Island
Director: David Guivant
Running Time: 5:27m
"Based on the sci-fi pulp hero of the 1940s and 50s and subsequent Japanese anime of the 1970’s, Captain Future will follow “Curtis Newton, a brilliant scientist and adventurer who roams the solar system solving problems, righting wrongs, and vanquishing futuristic supervillains.” Guivant’s version is set five years after the course of events in the novels and animes.
Betania – Horror Film – Italy
Director: Andrea Giomaro
Running Time: 23:00m
Serena is a doctor in a city hospital. Her life is quite and systemic until the day she has a call from Betania The priest of this small village where Serena was born, tells her that his grandpa has passed away. Serena moves to Betania in a symbolic journey that makes her emotive side came out. Serena realizes that in this village some died people come back to 'life' apparently will-less. Also Serena has this 'gift' of a second chance with her grandpa but she can’t manage this until the final emotive breakdown.
The Timeslip – Sci-Fi Film – UK
Director: John Chance
Running Time: 15:00m
A business man crosses a busy city street ... and awakes trapped in another time. London is gone along with the buildings, cars and people; it has been replaced by a never-ending forest. The man wanders the wilderness alone, without food or shelter. Days pass and the man discovers he is not alone and that the forest holds dangers far worse than wolves...
The Hobo Menace – Sci-Fi Film – USA
Director: Robert M. Neilson
Running Time: 5:00m
THE HOBO MENACE is a warning shot fired across America's bow. With the economy in shambles, an ominous shadow looms on our horizon: THE HOBO. So before it's too late, join Little Billy and his older brother Timmy! Using a new and secret weapon, they will teach you how to defend your town from the coming swarm of itinerant rail riders. Take heed! The life you save could be your own.
Zero – Animation Film – Australia
Director: Christopher Kezelos
Running Time: 12:00m
In a world that judges people by their number, Zero faces constant prejudice and persecution. He walks a lonely path until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.
Hairy Hands – Horror Film – UK
Director: Ashley Thorpe
Running Time: 12:00m
Dartmoor: the dead of night...953 square kilometres of desolate moorland...1000 ghosts...and a fugitive racing a haunted road to meet one. 'The Hairy Hands' is the fourth in the series of 'Penny Dreadful' animations inspired by neglected aspects of English folklore. A haunted house movie set in a moving car and based upon a genuine Dartmoor legend it draws upon such influences as Alfred Hitchcock, EC Comics and 'The Hammer House of Horror'.
Hinnon Valley – Horror Film – USA
Director: Rick Greenwood
Running Time: 29:00m
A woman teams with a young girl to survive the cities flesh eating inhabitants and the malicious military presence that lurks around every corner.
Night of the Living Spuds – Animation Horror Film – USA
Director: Tim Richardson
Running Time: 10:00m
After a large astrospud falls from the sky and crashes into the cemetery on the outskirts of Chive City, Dr. Ram Russett, astronomer, and Nurse Candy Yam must quickly create an antidote in order to return the town’s zombie-fied citizens to their normal, high potassium state..
Pig – Sci-Fi Feature Film – USA
Director: Henry Barrial
Running Time: 90:00m
A man (Rudolf Martin, “Swordfish”) wakes up alone in the middle of the desert with a black hood on his head and his hands plastic-tied behind his back. Discovered near death and nursed back to health by Isabel, who is living off the grid with her 3-year-old son, the man has no idea who he is or how he arrived in the desert – the only lead is a piece of paper with the name “Manny Elder” written on it. After researching online, Isabel discovers a person by that name in Los Angeles, and the man travels to the city with the hopes of recovering his identity and his past. Following the trail of clues, he eventually discovers a truth far bigger and more unusual than he could have ever imagined.
All That Glitters – Fantasy Film – UK
Director: Owen Tooth
Running Time: 5:00m
A dark take on the Narnia tale, All That Glitters follows young Sophie as her mother pushes her to discover more than she bargained for behind the wardrobe.
Rantdog’s Top Ten Zombies Ever! – Animation Horror Film – Canada
Director: Norm Fassbender
Running Time: 8:00m
A heavily armed Rantdog rants about why Zombies are cool and why Twitch should just shut-up and listen. Twitch is gaged and tied to a post. Next to Twitch, a pile of rotting zombies, and a freshly dug grave. Its marked by a headstone carved 'RIP Twitch'. Twitch struggles to untie his bonds as Zombies attack. Rantdog defending his buddy from the brain-cravers, as he blasts the undead as he professes his love for the undead.
Millhaven – Animation Horror Film – Poland
Director: Bartek Kulas
Running Time: 7:00m
The story of fifteen-year-old Loretta, who knows we all have to die. Hear her tale, told to the rhythm of her song.
Wilt – Horror Film – Germany
Director: Daniel Vogelmann
Running Time: 21:15m
They live in a house near the woods. Year after year. He roams the forest, collecting plants. She stays home, smoking pot. Day after day. But they are not alone: something is living in the woods. Something that suddenly enters their lives, appealing and appalling at the same time, dangerous and beautiful. Everything changes.
Little Quentin – Animation Film – Netherlands
Director: Paco Vink, Albert 't Hooft
Running Time: 9:10m
Oswald Bunny is helped by his friends to cover up a terrible crime. But they will not escape punishment.
Worm – Horror Film – Canada
Director: Zach Green
Running Time: 20:00m
A day in the mind of Geoffrey Oswald Dodd, a seemingly kind, gentle and sane high school teacher. As we follow Geoffrey through the course of a typical school day we gain an eerie insight into the darkest corners of his soul and beyond. Beneath the carefully constructed veneer of Geoffrey Dodd lies something wretched, insidious and foul rotting him from the inside out.
Once a Upon a Time in 1972 – SciFi Film – USA
Director: Chris Lukeman
Running Time: 14:00m
Once Upon a Time in 1972 is a transistorpunk-science fiction-action-adventure-period piece. It follows the scientist hero, Spring Heeled Jack, through one crazy night in the possibly-alternate early seventies. This retro techno fairy tale follows Jack as he investigates a strange rift in space, battles a giant robot, and still manages to get the girl.
Millennium Bug – Horror Feature Film – USA
Director: Kenneth Cran
Running Time: 88:00m
On New Year’s Eve 1999, Byron Haskin takes his new wife and teenage daughter camping in the mountains, hoping to escape any Y2K madness. But madness finds them in the form of the inbred hillbilly Crawford clan, who abduct the Haskins to refresh their stagnant gene pool. Bloody carnage between the families ensues, but no one is expecting the monstrous horror hibernating beneath the forest floor. Unseen for 1,000 years, this Millennium Bug is hungry… and December 31st just happens to be its birthday.
STATUS – SciFi Film – Australia
Director: Richard Williamson
Running Time: 20:00m
A young man fights to protect his girlfriend from a terrifying new technology that uses our craving for love to violently reshape the world. Welcome to the evolution of social networking.
The Comet Chronicles – SciFi Film – USA
Director: Wade Chitwood
Running Time: 13:00m
‘The Comet Chronicles’ is a “tongue-in-cheek,” retro-futuristic, film. Private Detective Ashley Comet narrates the circumstances that led her to leave the Galactic Patrol. Answering a mysterious distress call from Planet Andar 5 and warned by her commanding officer to be alert - the planet holds secrets that Ashley Comet is not aware of.
Summer of Zombies – Horror/Comedy Film – USA
Director: Eddie Beasley & Ashleigh Nichols
Running Time: 11:00m
A newly turned zombie struggles to navigate the land of the undead.
Junk – Animation Film – UK
Director: Kirk Henry
Running Time: 6:30m
It tells the story of a boy with an obsession for junk food and the importance of following your gut instinct!
Time Freak – SciFi Film – USA
Director: Andrew Bowler
Running Time: 11:30m
A neurotic inventor creates a time machine and gets lost traveling around yesterday.
Black Canary – Fan Film – USA
Director: Steven LaMarte
Running Time: 8:40m
A story in the day in the life of Dinah Lance. By day, she tends bar to the police of Star City, but by night it's Dinah who really keeps the streets safe. Living up to the legacy of her policeman father in a different way, she takes on the identity of the Black Canary.
Deviling – Horror Film – USA
Director: Michael Sharpe
Running Time: 14:00m
A woman experiences her worst fear after a failed relationship with a mortician.
Green Lantern Endgame – Fan Film – USA
Director: Michael A. Thompson
Running Time: 22:00m
Rumors of The Green Lantern's (John Stewart) resignation from the Justice League ring true. Superman & Batman face one of their greatest challenges - talking him out of quitting the league.
Nailbiter – Horror Feature Film – USA
Director: Patrick Rea
Running Time: 01:22:00m
The story of a mother and three daughters who get caught in a Kansas tornado and are forced to take shelter in a storm cellar, only to become trapped and discover they are not alone.
Forrest Falls – Horror Film – USA
Director: Ryan McDuffie
Running Time: 26:00m
Four college-grads rent out a cabin in Forest Falls for a final week of fun, unaware that someone else has slightly different plans for them...
Zombie – Horror Film – USA
Director: Tomas Caruso
Running Time: 19:00m
A mild-mannered Jeffrey Dahmer-esque serial killer commits his final crime.
1945A – Sci-Fi Film – USA
Director: Ryan Nagata
Running Time: 5:15m
It's 1945, and the Allies are on the verge of winning World War II, when suddenly the Nazis unleash an arsenal of super weapons straight out of science fiction turning the tides in their favor.
