After putting her daughter to bed, Aura discovers an intruder in her house: an elderly lady who acts strangely familiar, and is hell-bent on performing a bloody ritual before midnight.
This film had its world premiere at SXSW 2025, and won the Midnight Shorts Special Jury Award!
The film is not yet public, but if you’d like to see it for festival consideration, or for portfolio reasons, please email hoku@hokuuchiyama.com
Starring: ROSEMARY HOCHSCHILD, ALICIA BLASINGAME, and NORA HARRIET
With: CAROL MERRILL-MIRSKY, JOY MAMEY, GEFFEN AVIVA, and KINDRED GOTTLIEB
Written, directed, and co-produced by HOKU UCHIYAMA
Produced by KELLY KING
Associate producers: ADAM BOLT, MATTHEW BOYD, RAY FOLEY, SCOTT JONES, SEIBI LEE, MATT MILLER, JOEL SCHOOLNIK, JESSE SUNG, KIM UCHIYAMA, MĀHEALANI UCHIYAMA
Consulting producer: CARLOS GONZALEZ
Director of photography: KENNETH F. WALES
Production designer: ADAM HENDERSON
Original music: ANTON PATZNER
Costume designer: CAROLINE ALLANDER
Production sound mixer: DAN MCCOY
Key makeup and hair: STACEY HUMMELL
Unit production manager: COURTENAY SHERWOOD
1st assistant director: KATE LORD SCHNEPF
1st assistant camera: PABLO JARA
2nd assistant camera: GRAYCEN GODBEE
DIT: VICTOR PARRA
Gaffer: JAMES E. DAVIS
Best boy electricians: BRANDON ALPERIN, and MARK RAMSEY
Electrician: TEODORE DAVIS
Lighting console programmer: JOEY FEFFER
Key grip: EDUARDO IOERA
Best boy grips: CRAIG LERNER, and BRANDON FLOHR
Costumer: AZUCENA DOMINGUEZ
Set decorator: RODNEY HENDERSON
Art department assistant: ANTHONY HERNANDEZ
Script supervisors: ADAM BOLT, VICTOR PARRA, and SCOTT JONES
Casting associate: JILLIAN SEITHER
Intimacy coordinator: JAZLYN LEWIS
Animal wrangler: BOB DUNN’S ANIMAL SERVICES with REBECCA MURRAY
Puppeteer / fabricator: EMMA SIATE
Studio teacher: BETH McMANIGILL
Location representatives: TIBOR TAKACS, and SHERRAL CLAYTON
Post Production Sound Mixer: VICKI LEMAR
Color Grader: MARCO MAUTI
Editing and VFX: HOKU UCHIYAMA
Coven house VFX: CHRISTOPHER CLEMENTS
Digital deliverables: MARK SPENCER