Chapman University Dodge College of Film and Media Arts

When Halloween enthusiasts JESS and ZACH BRYER move into their new home, they focus their attention on transforming it into a spectacular haunted house as per their family tradition. As they continue to move in, Jess begins to notice odd disturbances regarding a family photo that came with the house. This culminates in the revelation that a pair of ghosts, ROBERT and MARGE occupy the residence. Though the ghosts clearly dislike the new occupants, Jess and Zach take this as a good omen. Jess and Zach beg the ghosts to help haunt their haunted house to which Robert and Marge take even more offense, and refuse the offer. Through trial and error, the humans attempt to scare the ghosts into helping them, though nothing works. At her breaking point, Jess destroys the ghost's picture frame, leading them into a fit of rage in which they resort to their supernatural powers. Impressed by their abilities, the humans flatter the ghosts into working with them, and the haunted house is a success.

Cuban drummer Elvis García reflects on his journey from Havana to Miami, struggling to make his way in the American city as a professional musician.

A drama about Gavin, a recovering alcoholic, who ends up in a strangely familiar bar.

Two musical stars from the golden age of Hollywood get a second chance at rekindling their love in the modern world.

After being tricked by her grandmother, a promising college musician turns to medical cannibalism to overcome her chronic lung condition.

A young woman moves in with her girlfriend but is haunted by the memories of a past relationship;

A chance encounter proves fateful for 2 robots mining on a desolate planet.

Three inmates awaken confused and shackled inside the dystopian super-prison Cybolica.

A heartfelt tale about a man and his best friend, a rock.

Of You, as in I Am of You chronicles the complex love story of a mother and daughter shifting back and forth over the course of 25 years, and explores their spiritual connection and detachment. This film is an intimate, nuanced look at how a relationship ages and evolves; how it bends but does not break.

A pair of hit men receive an unexpected surprise when they're hired to kill a young boy in a rural town.

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Shylo Song must decide whether she, her younger sister, and their grandmother should leave their childhood home in the midst of a disastrous drought.

A short film about a woman with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) who prepares for a date. Initially screened for the System Speak Community, a private community of people with DID and other Dissociative conditions. It has been acclaimed for its realistic and positive portrayal of someone living with DID.

A solitary dish washing robot living out his life in the back room of a restaurant is enlightened to the world that exists beyond his four walls, with the help of a small friend he breaks free of confinement to pursue his dream of exploration.

Hop, a wanna-be-alpha bunny, and his timid son, Juniper, struggle to see eye to eye on their first hunting trip together, as Hop expects his son to take on a role that so clearly goes against his nature.

When struggling voice actress, Gloria, discovers her agent failed to tell her that her claim-to-fame cartoon is being remade, she sets her sights on reprising her role as the famous BioBoy.

Johannesburg, 1985. A young black nurse living in apartheid South Africa must face her worst fears when her activist younger brother doesn't return after school. Inspired by a true story.

A rookie filmmaker on a TV production set tries to survive a constraining environment where people don't respect her boundaries. During the wrap party, she begins to process what she experienced.

Germany, 1945. The War is over, and it has left a slew of devastated families in its wake. Among them are Maria and her mother, two refugees who find themselves working on a farm in the German countryside after they are forced out of their home by violence and political upheaval. It is there that little Maria makes an unlikely friend: an American soldier — an enemy soldier — who, through one act of unnecessary kindness, teaches Maria and her family a powerful lesson in compassion and humanity during the most inhumane of times.

For generations, Laos was known as the Land of a Million Elephants but, in 2015, there are only 600 elephants left in the wild.