BAFF 2025: 13 Day Sinema Challenge

Name: BAFF 2025: 13 Day Sinema Challenge
Genre: Horror, Shorts Program
Released: 2025-11-06
Duration: 5 h

For almost twenty years, the Buried Alive Film Festival’s Sinema Challenge has celebrated filmmakers who thrive under pressure. Each team gets just 13 days to dream up, shoot, and complete a short horror film, using a unique subject and a Card Against Humanity prompt pulled straight from a hat. What starts as a wild, sometimes absurd idea quickly takes shape as a fully realized film, a testament to each team’s creativity, collaboration, and sheer determination. The Sinema Challenge isn’t just a competition, it’s a chance to see these daring, inventive stories come alive on the big screen for the very first time. Block 1 (~90 min + 15 min Q&A) Crimson Case – 11:00 Angel 23 and the Orb of Echoes – 8:40 ALIEN JERKS! – 8:34 Glow Up – 8:00 FORGED IN FIRE – 5:56 Hitchhiker – 5:45 Hex in the City – 9:08 Q&A – 15:00 Intermission: 30 min Block 2 (~90 min + 15 min Q&A) Gooned To Death – 15:00 Discount Damage – 11:12 The Fledging – 09:17 Forces From Beyond – 12:52 The Beast – 11:22 Revenant Retreat – 11:05 I'M ALWAYS HERE – 15:00 The Offering – 12:40 Q&A – 15:00 Followed by the AwardsHorror, Shorts ProgramPT5HNot Rated2025-11-06

Anissa Matlock

Aroon Narayanan

Brentson Buckner

Caleb McCrorie

Chandler Balli

Chad Hudson

Derrick Bailey

Doug Williams

Hagen Mattingly

James Mathis

Joseph Volpe

Levi Morgan