Smodcastle Film Festival 2025 - Block 14
Area 51 Love Raid - Riley, his best friend Cosmo, and his sister Lulu (whom Riley has a huge crush on) must convince their Uncle J to drive them to the Area 51 Raid. Which was started by a viral facebook page that nobody knows Riley created.
Pow! - A Native American kid scrambles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow.
SilverSizzle - Two recent widowers enlist the aid of a cemetery caretaker to find new love among widows visiting their departed spouses.
Widower Buddy has some experience being alone when he meets Jamie while visiting the graveside of his recently departed wife. Engulfed in loneliness, Jamie gets pulled into life in all its messiness when Buddy tells him about getting old, "the options are not kind. Loneliness, irrelevance, invisibility." SilverSizzle embarks on an absurd exploration of older people living life right up until the end.
D*CKS - Meet Miles and Daniel, two bumbling private detectives who can barely solve a crossword, let alone a murder. Their latest case? It starts with infidelity and spirals into a murder mystery mess involving ex-wives, muscle-bound thugs, animated zombies and way too many fries. Miles calls himself a professional, but his detective skills are as bad as his photography, while Daniel’s more focused on sex bets than solving crimes.
RUN TIME: 120 min