The Collected Film Work of Nightowl Pictures
Feature and short film work produced by or in conjunction with Nightowl Pictures and her staff or frequent collaborators.
Feature-length Films (Above 45 minutes in length)
Directed by: Peter Engert
Written by: Christian McDonald
Starring: Edward Furlong, Monica Keena, Andre Royo, C.J. Thomason
Edited by: Nathan Bezner
Produced by: Zachary Reeves, Steven J. Brown, Tom Conigliaro
Synopsis: Searching for a happy ending to a tale of unimaginable disaster and horror, nine strangers find themselves holed up together in a farmhouse cellar in a post-nuclear-apocalypse Texas.
Written and Directed By: James Ryan Gary
Starring: Michael Sharpe, Patrick G. Keenan, Tim Holt
Produced by: Paul Streiner, Paul Reichelt, Manly Clark
Synopsis: Nuclear war has ravaged the world. The remnants of humanity fight to survive, taking refuge in bleak settlements. The undead wander the earth, slaves to their blood-lust, or perhaps some higher power?
Production Studio: Stone Bridge Films
Directed By: Peter Engert
Written By: Peter Engert, Wes Halula, Giovanni Igneri
Synopsis: This is the story if Julie Thompson, a young conservative Christian woman who is tested by God by giving birth to a child conceived in rape. This decision leads to a journey that forces her to explore and redefine her relationships with God, her family, friends, and even her rapist Mike Connor, as she struggles to forgive the man who violated her.
Short films (Below 45 minutes in length)
Directed By: Nathan Bezner
Written By: Alex Smith, Andrew Jenner, Nathan Bezner
Synopsis: After a horrible car accident, Alan Knight finds himself face to face with the afterlife. He is not, however, deceased. He begins a conversation with death himself that leads to a most horrifying conclusion: he cannot die. Caught between life and death, Alan and the Reaper come up with a deal that will solve both their problems: Alan will be able to pass on to the afterlife, and the Reaper will be able to quit his job.
Directed By: Cricket Ellis
Written By: Cricket Ellis, Samantha Gellar
Produced By: Samantha Gellar, Michael Ruff
Synopsis: Alex, a waitress working her new job at a lesbian bar, is at her wits’ end with the constant come-ons and gropings. Just when she’s had enough, she finds kinship with fellow employee Madison. Together, they devise a way to keep the girls off her back, and discover something within themselves they did not expect.
Written and Directed By: Hsien Lee
Produced By: Nathan Bezner, Omar Jenkins, Hsien Lee
Synopsis: A woman at her wit’s end makes a simple request of her boyfriend to clean up his ‘man-cave’, resulting in a startling outcome neither of them could have predicted.
Directed By: Nathan Bezner and Paul Streiner
Written By: Andrew Jenner, Donald Wells, Nathan Bezner, Paul Streiner
Produced By: Paul Streiner
Synopsis: Christian lives in an un-assuming neighborhood at the end of an un-assuming cul-de-sac. His neighbors, however, are anything but un-assuming. A who’s who of celebrity look-a-likes, these people don’t just act the part, they think they ARE the part. Watch, as Christian’s world is torn asunder by these horrifying remnants of society’s love affair with celebrity.
Directed By: Nathan Bezner
Written By: Andrew Jenner
Produced By: Madison Geer, Hsien Lee, Michael Barranti
Synopsis: Every single day is the same for Casper Stipend. He wakes up, he goes to work, he cleans a lonely women’s room at the end of a deserted hallway in an indistinct building of sorts. Every day he cleans, and every day he finds the same filth and bizarre objects clogging his one duty; from dolls to bibles, there is nothing this commode won’t chuck at him.
Directed By: Nathan Bezner
Written By: Andrew Jenner, Donald Wells
Produced By: Madison Geer, Amos Bransford
Synopsis: A horrific plague lays waste to humanity, turning its victims into flesh-eating zombies. One woman -a junkie- wakes to find herself caged, detoxing, infected; and quite possibly humanity’s only hope for a cure.
From the Archives (pre-2008)
Directed by: Nathan Bezner
Written by: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Starring: Matt Cosper, Dazy Lunny
Synopsis: “Ferox” is a highly stylized, experimental nostalgia piece designed to look and feel like bootleg Japanese films on VHS from the 80s.







