Altered Reality

2015 Festival

Wed, May 6 @ 6:00 pm - GPLT

This mind-bending package contains 5 films in which reality is shaped by perception, invention, or unknown forces. There are two foreign-language films (French and German) with English subtitles. This package includes the world premiere of COME TRUE and will be followed by a Q&A with Director Keith Lawrence, actress Juelle Lawrence, and composer Chris McIntyre.

Films in this package

If It Turns Bad, Run

Some things in life are just unacceptable. If one could run fast enough and break through a time barrier, could fate be averted and a different reality created?

One-Minute Time Machine

James is all too eager to put his one-minute time machine to use in winning the heart of Regina until he discovers the unexpected consequences of his actions. Won Best Short Film at the 2014 DC Shorts Film Festival.

Simon Says

A self-doubting entrepreneur cannot stop listening to the disconcerting voice inside his head. He must find a way to change what he hears inside his head or resign himself to failure.

Nocebo

When a desperate young man with paranoid schizophrenia tells police that his girlfriend is suffering from the deadly side effects of a new drug that’s being tested, no one believes him. Not even his sister believes that this girl really exists although she reluctantly agrees to help him. In this perception thriller, where is the…

Come True

While asleep, a bored housewife falls in love with a man who appears in her dreams, leaving her torn between them and reality.