A Book to Short Film Festival

By Ken Stark

Something is preying on Arcadia Falls...

When people in Arcadia Falls start disappearing and no one remembers, a group of unlikely high school misfits unite to fight an ancient evil lurking in their town, and discover the power of friendship along the way.

by Robin Gorrilla

Rayanna Sentinel, Noble girl with magic powers in a kingdom where it is banned. To cover it up, she must marry the prince, but falls in love with a prisoner during her conscription at the prison for mages. Meanwhile, an invasion is brewing.

By Chrissy Kingsley

Freshly single and determined to become a mom, Hazel skips dating apps and posts a Craigslist ad for a baby daddy. But when the wrong man turns out to be exactly what she never knew she wanted, her perfectly simple plan gets complicated.

By Salem Styles

When a young girl discovers her Salem Witch ancestry and tries to go to Salem for answers, she finds herself in a different Witch City where she is labelled as a Witch Hunter by a powerful coven and is forced to be on the run.

by Matthew Cheng

Michael wants his girlfriend to pay attention to him while he is telling a story, but she is remarkably not invested. The bartender routinely intercepts his conversation, perpetuating Michael's insecurity until he loses his composure.

By Cristina McAllister

When a child’s bottle of big feelings begins to fill with frustration, sadness, and worry, they must learn to share their emotions with someone they trust before the bottle overflows and becomes too much to handle.

By Nicole MacCarron

Hazel Connors is a 17 year-old with a secret: she can see ghosts. When she finds herself trapped in a haunted house during the zombie apocalypse, Hazel discovers that her ability will either save her, or destroy everyone she loves.

By Tiffany Daune

A lethal werewolf hunter must team up with her ex who shattered her heart to break her mother’s dark spell, but reopening old wounds might wake the beast sleeping inside her, and ignite a centuries-old cursed love worth burning for.

By S. B. Logue

Marked by magic and claimed by the priest who destroyed her village, Wren has spent seven years as a Royal Confessor's secret weapon. Only Prince Kaelen sees past the mask, until their forbidden bond becomes the one thing that could break Father Thaddeus's carefully forged plan, and free her.

By Linda Mah

When Grumpy the Bird starts school, he hopes to make friends and fit in with his classmates. But when his natural parrot behaviours create unexpected chaos in the classroom, Grumpy must discover how to use his unique strengths before his differences make it impossible for him to belong.

By David Roberts

Brown is a former special forces soldier, now a private detective hired to find a missing archaeologist. He finds the archaeologist murdered. The investigation leads him on a road to the underworld and back.

By Jake Linas

An aloof young woman searching for her missing sister becomes acquainted with--and suspicious of--the high-ranking employee of a social media platform that allows users to relive other people's memories as if they were their own.

By Rachael Bell-Irving

Under threat of blackmail, a young narrator takes their vindictive classmate into the forbidden coastal cave, knowing full well the danger that awaits them but questioning if they even want to stop what's about to happen.

By Whitley Cox

At her own divorce party, Tori meets Mark, a handsome divorced dad who discovers she’s an intervention therapist for children on the autism spectrum. Desperate to hire her for his non-verbal autistic son without seeming like he’s hitting on her, Mark invents a fictional friend—and risks losing her when the truth comes out.

By R. Cuthbertson

Option 1: When a zombie outbreak and a tsunami strike simultaneously in Tofino, a young woman seeks refuge somewhere that may not be the sanctuary she hoped, forcing her to choose between the better of two evils.

Option 2: When the tsunami alarm goes off in Tofino, a terminally ill man chooses to live out his final moments surfing the big one, until he’s met with a monster as deadly as the wave. 

By Raj Patel

Sci-fi/horror interpretation of a Taylor Swift song where a characters ex is back but…different

By Lauryn Low

In a world where emotions trigger violence, a cautious pre-med student and a cynical survivor must learn to rely on each other to survive, discovering that love may be humanity's last hope.

By Kenneth Seto Tynan

In an attempt to emigrate, a young man discovers that maybe he has more in common with those he pushes down than he realizes.

By Kae Peach

In the dust-choked wasteland of New Providence, twenty-three-year-old Maple Treow enlists in the military to save her sister’s life, sacrificing her freedom for the resources her family desperately needs.

By Annahis Basmadjian

Two short stories from the world of Albireo, a live musical production about the existence of Sirens walking amongst mankind, and the repercussion of existing as a monster, or at least part of one. 

By: Lisa Brideau

A woman who wakes to discover her memory has been wiped must decide how far she is willing to go to get answers in a world where climate refugees appear to erase memories for a chance to start over someplace safer.