A selection of handpicked short films picked by the Dead Northern panel, made by some of the best talents from this year.

DEAD NORTHERN PRESENTS- INDEPENDENT SHORT FILM

Sunday 1st Nov
11.00 – 12.30
The Crown Hotel, Crown Place, Harrogate HG1 2RZ
£5.00 + £1.00 booking fee

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A selection of handpicked independent short films picked by the Dead Northern panel, made by some of the best talents from 2020. Thoroughly recommended for fans looking to find something new.

Dig Ophelia Dig

Director: Kyran Davies

Country: Wales

Dig Ophelia Dig is Kyran’s seventh short film in as many years. Shot on location in South Wales using a black magic 4K. This was Kyran’s first collaboration with Andrew Toovey as DOP and longtime friend Jake Healy as Composer.


Jolly Girl

Directed by: John Horabin, Art Director- Penny Layden

Country : United Kingdom

In a small English town, the winds blow cold, and the old streets are looking down at heel.
Lost in memories of long ago, Barbara watches the world from her living room window, as it keeps moving and changing. She cannot keep up with it.
New kinds of people are arriving, while old friends have passed away. Her daily companion Blossom returns from another funeral with gossip and sandwiches.
Together they are the very last of the Jolly Girls, a peer group of young women. It is strange to look at the old photographs and faces, and remember all that has gone, and all that the hopes and dreams of their youth…
But some photographs hide truths we’d prefer to forget.
A black comedy influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, using puppet stop motion animation.


Cat

Director Mark Jackson

Country : United Kingdom

A child goes on a scary adventure


Jezebell trailer

Director Joe Cash

Country : United Kingdom

Full trailer for an upcoming horror film Jezebel.
A girl who has had enough of being degraded and treated like an object by both sexes and takes her revenge out with her trusty chainsaw.
This is being filmed during the Coronavirus situation.
Written by Joe Cash.


Rachel

Director: David L Knight

Country : United Kingdom

Alex; a junkie living on the streets wakes up to find himself gaged and tied. Realising his captures motives, a battle of wills ensues and Alex’s only ally is a ghostly apparition of a girl he once knew.


Bogey

Director Iolo Edwards

Country : Wales

Bwgan is an independent short horror film. It follows a young man working as a night security guard in an unnamed facility in Gwynedd, North Wales. During his shift he is dogged by paranoia, bad dreams, and a malevolent bwgan-like figure. On top of this, he has to endure faceless colleagues playing practical jokes and frightening him at inopportune moments.


The devils dice trailer

Director: Matt Brothers

Country : United Kingdom

Six friends fall under the spell of some demonic dice during a birthday weekend away at a remote cottage. Lost for decades, this recently unearthed trailer is all that remains of the 80s cult hit that never was.


For Him

Director: Ian Killick

Country : United Kingdom

A tale of home craft, seduction and cleanliness.


DVD Nasty

Directed by: Robert Duncan

Country : United Kingdom

A man is disturbed when he finds a sinister DVD that when played seems to show a murderous entity entering his home.


Damn Good Pie

Director: Lewis Clements

Country : United Kingdom

A family gather to share a bountiful meal in a piecentric world where not everything is as it seems. As grace begins at the table, the family share peculiar conversations which spiral into a dark discovery…