Samuel C. Spitale

Breaking News Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy A disgraced former journalist must turn a partisan cable network into a legitimate news outlet, and in the process rewrite his own spotty legacy. It's NETWORK meets ANCHORMAN in a meta satire about the power of propaganda, the importance of journalism, and our inability to distinguish between the two.

Rest in Peace Budget: $0 - $100K | Animation After a long Halloween night, a Ghoul's rest is disturbed when Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Werewolf wear out their welcome in this animated children's short.

GASP Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror ⋄ Thriller / Suspense When a grieving family relocates to a haunted farmhouse, a teenage skeptic finds herself haunted by the ghosts of her past, but can she discover the science behind the supernatural before the house claims its next victim?