Filmquest 2025
Written By: Joe Mitchell
Synopsis: When two estranged sisters reunite in the desert to scatter their father’s ashes, they discover the land is cursed — the dead rise, memory rots, and their father is still walking, waiting for something far worse to crawl out of the dirt.
Genre(s): Horror, Comedy
Category: Short Pilot
Screenwriter’s Bio: Joe Mitchell is a comedy writer and director specializing genre blending. Specifically horror/comedy.
Wrote a pilot that got into FilmQuest. Not easy to do.
I’ll get it funded.
I will direct and edit it.
It will become cultural phenomenon.
That is what I must do. The spirits say so.
A reliable comedy.
https://www.indieshortsmag.com/reviews/2022/03/bottom-of-the-night-a-comedy-of-failed-and-successful-revenge-missions/
They have been extremely nice to me.
Needed this one.
I almost quit filmmaking in the middle of making this. It was exhausting both physically and mentally. But fuck it, it’s all I want to do. It also helps that it’s crushing film festivals.
Took me 4 years to win “The Battle of the Sketches”. But in the end, all I needed was a little help from my friends.
Working on a new short. I think I got something good. Something weird. Something Joe Mitchell. Still more work to do but it’s got to be finished other wise it does not exist.
“Joe Mitchell’s Livin After Midnight has only one problem—its minuscule time-length. Barely six minutes long, the film, a thorough tomfoolery-meets-idiocy is a strange combination of comedy and horror-thriller that lets you laugh all the way up until its climax.”
Read More“You really are crazy”
I worked hard on this film and I think it is one of my best. It’s starting to finally gain some steam in the film festival circuit and I couldn’t be happier. Now if I only could get paid to do this.
Experimental they say.
A great festival that has always been good to me. I will always submit to it.
Still sucking this one dry.
This video cost me nothing but it has been shown all over the world.
