DESERT BLOOM

2nd Annual Film Festival Past Events
Film Festival · Year One
Desert Bloom Film Festival 2025 poster Festival Poster
Nightmare Scenario
2025

Nightmare Scenario

How do you react when everything goes wrong? The inaugural Desert Bloom Film Festival invited audiences into the dark art of chaos — nightmares lurking beneath the surface and the fragile threads that hold our carefully constructed worlds together.

10 Films screened
100 Attendees
3 Awards given
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Cinemas Redlands, CA
Honors

The winners

Fluff film poster Fluff
Best Film

Fluff

Directed by Andrew Hakim

Deadlands film poster Deadlands
Audience Favorite

Deadlands

Directed by Maximilian Perry

Party Time film poster Party Time
Most Creative Concept

Party Time

Directed by Aaron David Gomez

Programme

Official selections

  1. Intruder poster Intruder
    Intruder Daniel Sailors
  2. Fragile Storm poster Fragile Storm
    Fragile Storm Dawn Fields
  3. Harpy poster Harpy
    Harpy Brendon J. Woods
  4. antisocial poster antisocial
    antisocial Tobias Rothacker
  5. Pumpkin poster Pumpkin
    Pumpkin Naro Guardado
  6. Escapee poster Escapee
    Escapee Jase D Stafford
In Exhibition
Down to the Last Bite poster Down to the Last Bite
Down to the Last Bite Dominic Paramo
Moments

From the festival

A History

Skelefuzz

Twelve years. Twenty-five players. A through-line that runs from a Halloween house party in 2013 to the inaugural film festival in 2025.

  1. Skelefuzz XII, 2024
    2024

    XII

  2. Skelefuzz XI, 2023
    2023

    XI

  3. Skelefuzz X, 2022
    2022

    X

  4. Skelefuzz IX, 2021
    2021

    IX

  5. Skelefuzz VIII, 2020
    2020

    VIII

  6. Skelefuzz VII, 2019
    2019

    VII

  7. Skelefuzz VI, 2018
    2018

    VI

  8. Skelefuzz V, 2017
    2017

    V

  9. Skelefuzz IV, 2016
    2016

    IV

  10. Skelefuzz III, 2015
    2015

    III

  11. Skelefuzz II, 2014
    2014

    II

  12. Skelefuzz I, 2013
    2013

    I

    The Night That Started It All