The reason we wanted to start this festival was because we wanted to support and find the new breed of gifted film story tellers.

Although there are other festivals around we always felt that independent filmmakers, like my film making heroes Roger Corman, George Romero, John Waters, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Dario Argento, and Lucio Fulci along with recent admirable filmmakers like Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Jon Favreau, Robert Rodriguez, Wes Anderson, and any of those film makers that had a hard time finding encouragement and support would have benefited from a festival like ours. So it occurred to us that if that platform isn't there, then we may not discover the new representation of these great film story tellers.

In the future as we grow we would like to bring attention to the past low budget and independent filmmakers that have inspired us and maybe meet the next generation of gifted people who have passion for film making today. Having worked for several years behind the scenes as an entertainment industry support staffer, as well as a playhouse theater manager. Over the past 14 years I've been inspired to continue on our journey to showcase and encourage the new talented people in filmmaking and screenwriting today.

I hope to take the lessons we've learned and inspiration from the new independent film making community to produce my own films. Which led us to begin working on our first feature film project. I would also like to help other filmmakers to bring their stories to the theater screen and to audiences around the world.