"We are not Left or Right,
just filmmakers."
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-t. smugala
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THE SPRING
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Screenwriter: Thomas Smugala
Producer: John Steven Schnieder/Thomas Smugala/AJ Koehler
Director: Thomas Smugala
Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Two kindred souls, one, an ex-slave working in an 1870 post-war brothel, and the other a young woman from the wrong side of the tracks in modern-day Missouri, unite through supernatural circumstances to uncover a 150-year-old reign of serial murders.
THE ATTIC
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Screenwriter: Thomas Smugala
Genre: Psycho Thriller
A young woman, Alley Johana, researching her new book, follows leads back to her great-grandmother's horrific experience in Nazi Germany. Surprisingly, the trail leads back to the United States to a mad-man who was also tortured by the Gestapo with her great-grandmother. But Alley gets more than she was expecting when the man she discovered takes her freedom.
Ye CAN'T ESCAPE
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Screenwriter: Thomas Smugala
Genre: Comedy​/Horror
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While trying to save his grandfather's comic shop from foreclosure, Lance Tittle and his girlfriend... decide to enter a medieval live-action role-playing (LARP) contest with a $20,000 prize for the best Larper. But there is one thing standing in his way - Jon Neoplas, the banker's son, and a son-of-a-larping mad murderer - both attending the event as well. Halfway through the contest, it becomes clear to all attending that there is no way to escape from the LARPers castle and the blood-thirsty crazy bastard dressed in medieval garb - alive anyway.
A NEW LIFE IN AMERICA
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Producer: AJ Koehler
Director: Thomas Smugala
Genre: Documentary
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Many new immigrants to the US lived through hell in Venezuela. Some escaped Maduro's dictatorship and now live in Farmington, a small town in Southern Missouri. In this film, you'll meet an ex-soldier of the Venezuelan military grappling with guilt and regret, two Venezuelan doctors struggling to keep their family together, and a teenage Venezuelan boy on a study abroad program as he decides whether to stay in the US or go back to Venezuela to fight for freedom with his friends – a powerful decision to have to make at age 17.