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After the death of their baby, a doctor and his wife return to her native Ecuador and battle the blurred lines of sanity and the supernatural.
SYNOPSIS
Gabriel, a doctor who works with “Doctors without Borders”, is thrust into a dark and sinister scheme when he and his wife, Christina, travel to Quito, Ecuador following the sudden death of their infant son.
Upon arriving he is met with scornful distain from his wife’s family. A further distance is put between Gabriel and his wife when he bares witness to her family’s strange and ominous religious practices.
This is when Gabriel first hears the legend of Guagua Acua, the demon thief of unblessed children. Guagua Acua steals the souls of the unbaptized children who have passed away, condemning them to an eternity of pain through unspeakable tortures in hell.
Gabe realizes quickly that he’s a stranger in his wife’s land as she becomes coldly distant to him. She blames him for the death of their son, Christopher, and more so, for their child not being baptized. Christina’s family becomes increasingly suspicious, and Gabriel’s paranoia grows along with the dangers that surround him.
He begins to see unexplained visions, disturbing hallucinations that all connect to saving his son’s soul.
With the help of a disgraced doctor, the visions become clues that lead Gabriel on a strange and terrifying journey where dreams and reality blend deeply.
Unblessed is an original story that will take the viewer on a dark journey that will terrify on a primal level. Unblessed will connect with the same audience that loves films like Rosemary’s Baby, Suspiria, The Exorcist, The Omen, Get Out, Hereditary and The Wickerman. Unblessed is a horror/thriller that turns mysterious and supernatural corners and is sure to deliver to it’s audience.
The Unblessed Creators
Charles VanWinkle
Emmy Winning Director
Charles hails from the Great Lake State, Michigan. His love affair with motion pictures began in the aisles of an 80s video rental store, where he would wander for hours with wild eyed curiosity at all the stories available to experience. Stories, characters and worlds to explore.
Muse in the frames of Michael Mann’s Thief, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
Thus began his passion , the origins of an education, a purpose.
Charles graduated with honors in arts from Father Gabriel Richard HS before earning a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Northern Michigan University with a concentration on Film/Video.
Pursuing his passion for film, Charles
left the cold and snow behind for Hollywood and the sunny beaches of Southern California where he continued his studies in cinematography and directing at the Los Angeles Film School.
Charles has been the Cinematographer on several independent features and short form films, before trying his hand at Directing.
In 2013 Charles won a Best Director-Short Form Emmy for the PSA trilogy AM/FM Fest: A Love Story – Which he also co-wrote and produced.
Charles lives in Southern California with his wife and daughter, writing and producing shorts and features, and exposing his daughter to quality cinema!
Rich Henrich
Emmy & Telly Award-winning produce
Rich Henrich is an Emmy & Telly Award-winning producer with a focus on screenwriting and development. He attended UCLA and earned his MFA in Screenwriting under former HBO Films Development Executive, Bettina Moss and Janet Jefferies, Development Executive at Lawrence Bender Productions. He is the Co-Founder of Rook Digital, a marketing agency serving various clients including Hulu, Searchlight Pictures, Broken Lizard, IMAX, and several film offices and festivals as well as YouTubers and corporate clients. He has produced documentary and feature films starring Jamie Foxx, Mickey Rourke, Giancarlo Esposito, Michael Madsen, and other great talents while producing film festival awards to honor actors Dennis Hopper, Viggo Mortensen, Edward James Olmos, and legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler.
He has served as Contributing Faculty at The George Washington University, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and is a frequent guest lecturer at San Diego State University. Henrich has also taught in Norway and Ecuador and launched, programmed, advised, or consulted on numerous film festivals around the world. He is also the founder of the streaming start-up, FilmIndie.TV.
In addition to his work, he proudly advises serval film organizations and is an Ambassador for Christopher Foundation for the Arts. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Communication.
Bryan C. Goff
Bryan C. Goff is a writer/ producer and award winning filmmaker.
Bryan C. Goff is a writer/ producer whose focus is story structure and visual story telling. His purpose is storytelling. Bryan is heavily influenced by the stories told by Neil Gaiman, Poppy Z. Brite, Clive Barker, Richard Brautigan Rudyard Kipling and the teachings of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Lajos Ergi, Dov Simens, Jessica Brody, Blake Snyder, Christopher Vogler and Michael Hauge.
He is the founder of the production company Left Lane Labs, which has produced the films Bloody Border, Northern, The Tent, Judy, Never Hike Alone, and more. The films and filmmakers that have helped form Bryan’s cinematic palate include Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, John Carpenter’s The Thing and The Prince of Darkness, Antonia Bird’s Ravenous, Chris Carter’s Millennium and The X-files.
In addition to filmmaking and writing, Bryan is a film ambassador to Northern Arizona. Bryan lives with his family in the mountain town of Flagstaff, AZ. He has two border collies, and may one day get a cat for his daughter.
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