January 2024 – Movie Trailers Festival

A showcase of the best new movies and their respective trailers from around the world today.

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:

MOVIE TRAILER of the MONTH: Don’t Die in Dubai
EDITED TRAILER: Limited Slip
MOCK TRAILER: The End of Days
SCI-FI TRAILER: Staycation
HORROR TRAILER: Appointment with the Plague Doctor, Lester Haywood
COMEDY TRAILER: Naughty in Az
CRIME/MYSTERY TRAILER: 27
LGBTQ+ TRAILER: Martinez, Margaritas and Murder!
KIDS TRAILER: Robbie & Mollie
ENVIRONMENTAL TRAILER: Water Star Medicine
MYSTERY TRAILER: Wait
DOCUMENTARY TRAILER: Anatolia Ancient Nature

See the Full Lineup of Films:

ANATOLIA ANCIENT NATURE, 2min. Turkey
Directed by Burak Dogansoysal
The Anatolian Ancient Nature documentary is a project that aims to create a visual inventory of the Anatolian geography, which contains species that are extremely important for the natural history heritage of our world. Our primary goal is to document little-known, iconic, endemic and endangered species in high quality and pass them on to future generations.

WAIT Trailer, 1min.,
Directed by Jared Jacobsen, Lorena Diaz
A man and a woman suddenly find themselves alone in a vacant lot and neither can remember how they got there.

THE AMERICAN RIVIERA DETECTIVE AGENCY, 2min.,
Directed by Sidney Bailey
Mike Durant, a private investigator working in Santa Barbara, specializes in high end divorce cases among the rich denizens of California’s American Riviera. Stepping outside his usual purview, Durant agrees to help a grieving widow, who suspects her husband’s death in a motorcycle accident is directly connected to the contents of a camera she discovered after his death which contains surveillance pictures and video clips of numerous people, associated with his place of work – Bristol Scott Engineering (BSE) – a developer of drone software for the US military. Durant’s investigation leads him into a minefield of corruption, betrayal and murder that very nearly ends with his own death at the hands of

SUNDOWN, 1min.
Directed by Bob Brill
Trailer for the short film “Sundown”

WATER STAR MEDICINE, 2min.,
Directed by Ilysa Spencer
a PSA about water

ROBBIE & MOLLIE, 1min.,
Directed by KIDS ‘N TRICKS
Robbie the seal and Mollie the seagull are living the good life by the sea. But dangers have been lurking on the beach and in the water for some time now. It’s not natural enemies that they now have to fear, it’s mainly plastic rubbish from humans that collects in the sea and threatens their habitat.

UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE, 3min.,
Directed by Kandis Heckler
When a group of diverse and eclectic social workers with more dysfunction than the Homeless they serve, line up for services at a faith based agency they unwillingly work through their own prejudice, privilege and guilt.

MARTINEZ, MARGARITAS AND MURDER!
Directed by James Helsing, Kirk Demorest
As Freddy Martinez’s friends are murdered one by one, he is recruited by a private investigator to help set a trap for the killer responsible: The Bedroom Butcher.

27 trailer, 1min.,
Directed by Nino Pace
Film trailer for the heist drama 27. The stresses of everyday life are causing too much anxiety for Max, he wants an easy way out. for his family. Would you do wrong to makes things right?

NAUGHTY IN AZ, 3min.
Written by Christopher Harmon
A shy divorcee reluctantly enters the world of nude dancing in mid 90’s Phoenix, as a fish out of water – but after numerous raucous and over the top … often dangerous, adventures — she achieves inner peace and transforms into a star.

LIMITED SLIP, 1min.,
Directed by Clint Calvert, Caleb Johnson
Trailer for the short film Limited Slip

ECHO RHYME, 3min.
Directed by Caleb Johnson, Jeff Johnson
Trailer: for the feature film Echo Rhyme

APPOINTMENT WITH THE PLAGUE DOCTOR, LESTER HAYWOOD, 8min,.
Directed by L.S. Strange

DELUSIONAL STATE, 3min.,
Directed by Trelanda Lowe

DOUBLE OR NUTIN’, 2min.
Directed by Stewart Brodian
A local actor tries to start a comedy variety show on public access TV using celebrity impersonators.

HUMAN GAME 2 – The Culling Of A King trailer, 1min.
Directed by Nathan Waire
Trailer for the sequel.

STAYCATION, 1min.,
Directed by Russell Emanuel
Lead virologist Edward Bellows plays tête-a-tête with hard-hitting journalist Grace Baxter as the world collapses under the weight of a global pandemic. She holds nothing back as she fires question after question, seeking answers from the beleaguered professor. Meanwhile, Britt and Marnie, college roommates being forced to live together, must deal with their newfound realities of this global pandemic. And, a couple Matt and Cathy, stuck in lockdown and separated between continents, spend some belated quality time via webcam toasting to foreign brandy and reminiscing on the past.

THE END OF DAYS, 1min.
Directed by Jonathan Christopher Martin-Ives
In this mock trailer, a British teenager, gifted with clairvoyancy seeks to warn anyone who will listen to her about an imbedding alien attack. She falls on deaf ears.

MY SISTERS’ CUP, 3min.
Directed by Cortez Mack
An inspirational story about four sisters learning the value of sisterhood through the teachings and wisdom of their mother

DON’T DIE IN DUBAI, 4min.,
Written by Christopher Harmon
A bad boy living, cannabis loving, Rap star is terrified about turning 50 and dying like his peers, so he travels to Dubai to find ‘magic bud’ that stops aging … while there to judge a Belly-Dancing contest — but underworld villains threaten his life and ruin his high. He struggles to survive long enough to appreciate his life, his friends and to blaze for another day.

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