About Elly

Friends grow apart after a tragic accident claims one of their number. Years later, the dead girl appears to them to ask for their help in crossing over to the afterlife.

When a trans Latinx mermaid defies her mother’s warnings, she is forced to confront the violent legacies of colonialism, environmental destruction and the danger of being desired in the human world. The BlackStar Philadelphia Filmmaker Lab is presented with support from Independence Public Media Foundation, William Penn Foundation, and Wyncote Foundation. This project has been supported by The Philadelphia Independent Media Fund administered by Scribe Video Center with funds provided by the Independence Public Media Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation.

Eco-terrorists attack a ship carrying toxic waste.

A sadistic police detective, falsely accused of murdering an underworld kingpin, embarks on a hunt for the real killer, the men who put him away, and a singer who may have squealed on him. As he fights for his own brand of justice, he discovers the frightening truth.

A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.

A man's sanity is a point of contention as he confesses to murdering an elderly man, driven by the victim's pale blue 'vulture eye', culminating in guilt-induced auditory hallucinations of the victim's beating heart.

A man wakes up next to a corpse with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As he’s forced to relive the same ten minutes over and over, a mysterious voice on the phone guides him deeper into the truth. But what he finds isn’t escape.

While preparing to leave for college on his 18th birthday, Kyle stumbles across an old family video tape that changes his life forever.

One fatal crash snuffs out a young light, fading Abdullah’s life to gray and trapping him in a suffocating maze of mirrors, where his own buried demons are the ones haunting him… A gripping story drawn from reality.

When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.

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When events in Rosie's life trigger a crisis, she embarks on a quest to find the mysterious man who saved her life as a child. But now that man is dying. Can she reach him before it is too late?

Two boys head into the forest to photograph a mysterious creature rumored to have haunted the area for years. Along the way one of them falls into a hole and breaks his leg. Finding themselves in a precarious situation, each realizes that the pain, fear, and gathering darkness are not the worst of it, because the mysterious monster is no myth. And it's closer than it seems.

Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed.

Seti loves music and singing, and she yearns for her voice to be heard. But in Iran, women are forbidden by law from performing in public, so the young girl decides to stage her own personal protest. The street becomes her stage, and random passersby become her enthusiastic audience. Her star rises, and Seti becomes an idol for her generation—young people who refuse to live under ruthless political oppression any longer.

The story of a young boy so obsessed with placing pennies on the railroad tracks that it's in fact tearing his family apart. Soon he meets a hobo which changes his life forever.

A group of young adults, Navigate love, identity, self-destruction while trying to survive their twenties in a world that constanlty makes them feel no enough.

In Newport Bay, a small California coastal town, Summerween transforms summer into Halloween with parties, music, fairs, and horror movies. But when a mysterious night leaves behind more questions than answers, a group of teenagers finds itself at the center of the mystery, turning what should have been the best summer of their lives into a nightmare of secrets, fear and horror.

Roger (8) and Jonatan (12) spend a sunny afternoon flying kites, immersed in the innocence of childhood. Their simple joy is suddenly disrupted by the outbreak of violence in their community, confronting them with a harsh and unsettling reality.

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