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🎬 The moment you've been waiting for is here!
The inaugural Asheville Mental Health Film Fest has officially been rescheduled and is coming to Asheville on July 18! 💙

🎟️ Early Bird sale now through July 3!

Every ticket purchased helps cover venue costs and supports AHyder Productions' upcoming film, “Come Find Me.” Crew and Casting calls are coming soon!

Here's what you can look forward to:

✨ Raffle baskets featuring gift certificates from Papas & Beer, Standard Pizza Co., Asheville Head Spa, and more.

🎥 Five incredible short films competing for the Audience Choice Award—we loved the submissions so much that we expanded the lineup from four films to five!

🏆 The audience will vote to decide who takes home the $250 grand prize, so your voice matters.

🎞️ An exclusive premiere screening of Long Time, No See, followed by a Q&A panel with the team who brought the film to life.

🎬 A first look at the next major film project coming to Asheville & how you can be part of it.

💚 Information about local mental health resources while supporting a nonprofit that has continued serving the community, even after Hurricane Helene.

We can't wait to celebrate storytelling, community, and mental health with you.

Hi everyone,
I'm an independent filmmaker, and my short film Belladonna is currently competing for the Sofia Coppola Award on Decentralized Pictures.
Belladonna is a pseudo-historical short set during the Hundred Years' War. It follows two aristocratic women who deliberately put belladonna into their eyes in pursuit of beauty, gradually blinding themselves. The film uses this fictional premise to explore privilege, perception, and the things people choose not to see.
Public voting is part of the selection process, so if you'd like to support the project, I'd really appreciate it if you could:
• Create a free account
• Vote for Belladonna
• Share the link if you know someone who might be interested
It only takes a couple of minutes, and every vote genuinely helps independent filmmakers.
Thank you.
https://app.decentralized.pictures/project/69fa5a5c81905deda3068473

Hey! After loving Backrooms after seeing it in cinemas a few weeks ago and feeling really overjoyed at people discovering analog horror and liminal horror I thought I'd share my short film from 2024 called 'LET THE WICKED REST'. It was inspired by a dark period of my life where I processed a lot of heavy things through the project (I continue to process them lol) and as I continue to work on my next short I thought some people on this sub might be interested.

Logline is "An insomniac's restless nights are interrupted by a phone call that brings the past back to horrifying light. He is brought face to face with old traumas he's tried to forget and fights monsters deep inside his subconscious that he's forced to confront"

https://youtu.be/NjauR5XBJN0?si=A77PpewUDXyIPcl5