Still Ohio w/ "Nice Guy"

Still Ohio

Kaylin Allshouse (Dir), USA, New York State Premiere

Director Kaylin Allshouse and Producer Devon Tayman in attendance.

Desperate to salvage her relationship, a college student embarks on a cross-country carpool only to find herself trapped in a haunting time loop where each stop at a lonely Ohio gas station grows more terrifying than the last.

This indie horror follows Ana (Fernanda Lopez), a college student transferring to Tulane to be with her boyfriend, Doug. Doug arranges for Ana to carpool down to Louisiana with three of his friends– Henry (Michael Zapesotsky – Off The Grid; Unspoken), Julia (Sofia Angelopoulos), and Johnny (Jake Melamed). En route, Ana discovers that Doug does not know his “friends” nearly as well as he led her to believe. As they make their way through the backroads of Ohio, the four find themselves returning to the same gas station over and over again, despite all efforts to escape. When their journey takes a deadly turn, Ana must finally reckon with what has led her to these circumstances and stand up for herself before she gets trapped in the time loop forever.

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"Nice Guy"

Joseph Deschamps (Dir), 13 minutes, USA, New York State Premiere

Director Joseph Deschamps and Producer Conor Keenan in attendance.

"Nice Guy" follows Kyle, a psychology student consumed by a toxic "nice guy" mentality. After his classmate Caroline rejects his invitation to a date, Kyle becomes convinced that her past experiences with men have made her incapable of recognizing someone like him. Inspired by a lecture on trauma bonding, he devises a plan to stage an attack on Caroline so he can rescue her and manipulate her into falling in love with him.