After putting her daughter to bed, Aura discovers an intruder in her house: an elderly lady who acts strangely familiar, and is hell-bent on performing a bloody ritual before midnight.
This film had its world premiere at SXSW 2025, and won the Midnight Shorts Special Jury Award!
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Starring: ROSEMARY HOCHSCHILD, ALICIA BLASINGAME, and NORA HARRIET
With: CAROL MERRILL-MIRSKY, JOY MAMEY, GEFFEN AVIVA, and KINDRED GOTTLIEB
Written, directed, and co-produced by HOKU UCHIYAMA
Produced by KELLY KING
Associate producers: ADAM BOLT, MATTHEW BOYD, RAY FOLEY, SCOTT JONES, SEIBI LEE, MATT MILLER, JOEL SCHOOLNIK, JESSE SUNG, KIM UCHIYAMA, MĀHEALANI UCHIYAMA
Consulting producer: CARLOS GONZALEZ
Director of photography: KENNETH F. WALES
Production designer: ADAM HENDERSON
Original music: ANTON PATZNER
Costume designer: CAROLINE ALLANDER
Production sound mixer: DAN MCCOY
Key makeup and hair: STACEY HUMMELL
Unit production manager: COURTENAY SHERWOOD
1st assistant director: KATE LORD SCHNEPF
1st assistant camera: PABLO JARA
2nd assistant camera: GRAYCEN GODBEE
DIT: VICTOR PARRA
Gaffer: JAMES E. DAVIS
Best boy electricians: BRANDON ALPERIN, and MARK RAMSEY
Electrician: TEODORE DAVIS
Lighting console programmer: JOEY FEFFER
Key grip: EDUARDO LOERA
Best boy grips: CRAIG LERNER, and BRANDON FLOHR
Costumer: AZUCENA DOMINGUEZ
Set decorator: RODNEY HENDERSON
Art department assistant: ANTHONY HERNANDEZ
Script supervisors: ADAM BOLT, VICTOR PARRA, and SCOTT JONES
Casting associate: JILLIAN SEITHER
Intimacy coordinator: JAZLYN LEWIS
Animal wrangler: BOB DUNN’S ANIMAL SERVICES with REBECCA MURRAY
Puppeteer / fabricator: EMMA SIATE
Studio teacher: BETH McMANIGILL
Location representatives: TIBOR TAKACS, and SHERRAL CLAYTON
Post production sound mixer: VICKI LEMAR
Color grader: MARCO MAUTI
Editing and VFX: HOKU UCHIYAMA
Coven house VFX: CHRISTOPHER CLEMENTS
Digital deliverables: MARK SPENCER