Dream Creep

A couple awakens in the night to sounds emanating from an unlikely orifice.

Credits:

Written & Directed by Carlos A.F. Lopez
Cast: Ian Edlund, Sidney Jayne Hunt
Producers: Megan Leonard, Bobby McHugh, Jonathan Caso, Zeus Kontoyannis
Executive Producers: Carlos A.F. Lopez, Cathy Lopez
DoP: Jacob Rosen
Editor: Duncan Dickerson
Sound Design & Score: Aaron C. Schroeder
SP/FX: Lael Rogers
Hair & Make-up Artist: Lauren Deschain – Young
Hair & Make-up Artist: Lisa van Dam-Bates
SP/FX Make-up Artist: Samantha Gavin
Production Designer: Frankie Postiglione
Set Dresser: Jas Keimig
Prop Fabricator: Finch Izatt
1st AC: Casey Grosso
2nd AC: Nick Tien
Gaffer: Aaron Jacob
Key Grip: Papa Diop
Production Sound: Nathan Whitcomb
Script Supervisor + Blood Boy: Peter Edlund
Set Photography + Coordinator: Anastasia Babenko
Lead Visual Effects Artist: Jacob Shroades
Visual Effects Artist: Jacob White
Visual Effects Artist: Emma Frost
Title Design & Graphics: Lila Burns
Color Grading: Martin Gaumond at Outpost MTL

A Proper Etiquette Pictures film, made in partnership with Lenny Pictures and Coast House Materials, in association with Zeus Pictures

World Sales:

Ouat Media – Inga Diev
www.ouatmedia.com
[email protected]

Awards:

2024 Sundance Film Festival (Vimeo Award for Best Directing)
2024 Overlook Film Festival (Scariest Short Award)
2024 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (Special Jury Award for US Live-Action)
2024 Palm Spring ShortFest (Special Jury Award for Worst Nightmare, Midnight Competition)
2024 Hollyshorts Film Festival (Best Midnight Madness)
2024 Rennes International Fantastic Short Film Festival, Court Métrage (Prix L’Hurlequin)
2024 Bend Film Festival (Best Northwest Short)
2024 Philadelphia Film Festival (Honorable Mention for Best Horror Short)
2024 TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest (Special Jury Mention)

Upcoming Screenings:

Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour – check here for latest cities & dates

Leeds International Film Festival
November 1 – 17, 2024
Leeds, UK
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Bainbridge Island Film Festival
November 7 – 10, 2024
Bainbridge Island, WA
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FANCINE – Fantastic Film Festival of Málaga
November 13 – 21, 2024
Málaga, Spain

Pittsburgh Shorts
November 21 – 24
Pittsburgh, PA
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Keep It Weird! 2024
November 29 – 30, 2024
Montreal, QC

Bogotá Short Film Festival – BOGOSHORTS
December 3 – 10, 2024
Bogota, Colombia

Past Screenings:

2024 Sundance Film Festival (Park City, UT – WORLD PREMIERE)
2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival (Austin, TX)
2024 Boston Underground Film Festival (Boston, MA)
2024 Sonoma International Film Festival (Sonoma, CA)
2024 Indie Short Film Festival (Charlottesville, VA)
2024 Overlook Film Festival (New Orleans, CA)
2024 Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI)
2024 Fantaspoa (Porto Alegre, Brazil – INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE)
2024 Florida Film Festival (Orlando, FL)
2024 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium – EUROPEAN PREMIERE)
2024 Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival (Jim Thorpe, PA)
2024 Dallas International Film Festival (Dallas, TX)
2024 Cinema Columbus Film Festival (Columbus, OH)
2024 Seattle International Film Festival (Seattle, WA)
2024 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)
2024 deadCenter Film Festival (Oklahoma City, OK)
2024 Sydney Film Festival (Sydney, Australia – AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE)
2024 Palm Spring ShortFest (Palm Springs, CA)
2024 Chattanooga Film Festival (Chattanooga, TN)
2024 Fantastic Zagreb Film Festival (Zagreb, Croatia)
2024 BIFAN – Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bucheon, South Korea – ASIAN PREMIERE)
2024 Snake Alley Festival of Films (Burlington, IA)
2024 Rooftop Film Festival (New York, NY)
2024 Fantasia International Film Festival (Montreal, Canada)
2024 Octopus Film Festival (Gdańsk, Poland)
2024 Hollyshorts Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)
2024 Ravenheart International Film Festival (Oslo, Norway)
2024 Makassar Cinema Weekend (Makassar, Indonesia)
2024 Fantasy Filmfest (Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Germany)
2024 L’Étrange Festival (Paris, France)
2024 MotelX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024 Calgary International Film Festival (Calgary, Canada)
2024 SLASH Filmfestival (Vienna, Austria)
2024 El Paso Film Festival (El Paso, TX)
2024 Charlotte Film Festival (Charlotte, NC)
2024 Gig Harbor Film Festival (Gig Harbor, WA)
2024 Festival of Serbian Fantastic Film (Belgrade, Serbia)
2024 Rennes International Fantastic Short Film Festival, Court Métrage (Rennes, France)
2024 New/Next Film Festival (Baltimore, MD)
2024 Hawai’i International Film Festival (Honolulu, HI)
2024 Bend Film Festival (Bend, OR)
2024 BFI London Film Festival (London, UK)
2024 Telluride Horror Show (Telluride, CO)
2024 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
2024 Mayhem Film Festival (Nottingham, UK)
2024 shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival (San José, Costa Rica; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Hong Kong, China)
2024 Philadelphia Film Festival (Philadelphia, PN)
2024 TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest (Turin, Italy)
2024 SPASM (Montreal, QC)
2024 Jakarta Film Week (Jakarta, Indonesia)
2024 Celluloid Screams Horror Film Festival (Sheffield, UK)
2024 Festival du Cinéma International en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Rouyn-Noranda, QC)
2024 Lund Fantastic Film Festival (Lund, Sweden)
2024 Denver Film Festival (Denver, CO)