Made In Reading Films

The Stakeout

Director: Federico Castelluccio
Runtime: 6:24 minutes

Two detectives, one Cuban and one Italian, on a late night stakeout argue about the best mob movie of all time.

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Righteous Sunday

Director: David Speace
Runtime: 7:14 minutes

Righteous Sunday is a poem written by Greg Gaul. The poem reveals the true inhumanity of racism as it tells the shocking story of the brutal murder of Mary Turner in 1918. While this is an actual reading of the poem, the film creates through a window of time a powerful, historical recreation of the event. The audience will be disturbed as it experiences what racism was really like in the Jim Crow south.

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Fire on the Mountain

Director: Patrick Corcoran
Runtime: 8:31 minutes

A young woman must stop a centuries old demon from unleashing hell on a small town after she fails to complete an ancient sacrifice designed to prevent it.

Filmed in one of America’s oldest deep coal mines featuring practical FX from Emmy award-winning makeup artist Santino Ferrese (Star Trek Discovery, Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

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Reading Cares for Puerto Rico

Director: Mateo Toro
Runtime: 45:13 minutes

Follow Me and I Will Be Behind You

Director: Kyle Allison & Taryn Habel
Runtime: 41 minutes

The true story behind the transformative culture of one hotel, the impact of leadership, trusting in the forgotten, and the revitalization of a community.

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Screening Info

Date: Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 2pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Made In Reading Block

Moonlight Massacre

Moonlight Massacre: Building the Haunt

Director: Jason Hugg
Runtime: 75 minutes

For years Halloween enthusiast Branden Moyer has constructed a haunted house in his backyard, gathering thousands of visitors. With no more room to expand his home haunt, Moyer takes his hobby to a new level by building a massive 4,000 square foot haunted attraction in the middle of a busy shopping plaza.

The documentary, Moonlight Massacre: Building the Haunt, follows Moyer over a 5 month period, from June to October, as he and his crew attempt to build a professional haunted house.

Make Love Your Religion

Make Love Your Religion

Director: David Nazario & Robert Buzzard
Runtime: 2 minutes

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Wandering Mind

Wandering Mind

Director: Tommy Duncan 3rd
Runtime: 13:25 minutes

Two weary homeless men, Lynwood and Keckly, get lost on deserted tracks following a train whistle that Keckly swears he heard just around the bend. Lynwood is tired and wants to stop, but Keckly wants to continue in hopes of finding this train. Along the way, the two homeless men happen upon a coin that drives a jealous wedge between them, causing a fight in which they discover this mysterious train. Inside the train is where greater mysteries await, as if forces the men to look into the mirror at themselves to see what they’re really made of. It’s a tale of self discovery, compassion, and some good ol’ fashion tough love that help these two out for the tough times ahead, and tests the strength of their friendship

Screening Info

Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 3pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Horror/Thriller Block

Shifter

Shifter

Director: Matthew Marder
Runtime: 12 minutes

When an agent infiltrates a Russian Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia and steals mysterious files, the Russians kidnap a woman they believe to be the culprit. But it may be a case of mistaken identity…

The Hour After Westerly

The Hour After Westerly

Director: Nate Bell & Andrew Morehouse
Runtime: 24:44 minutes

Davis Harwell (Peter Jacobson) is a meticulous man whose life has grown comfortably dull. But when he nods off at the wheel and wakes up a full hour later with no memory of what happened to him, he is presented with a tantalizing mystery. Why does he have visions of a lighthouse, a row of cottages, and a beautiful woman (Shannyn Sossamon) he’s never met before? Davis sets out to find the answer, but what he discovers is far more disturbing than he bargains for.

Until the Wheels Fall Off

Until the Wheels Fall Off

Director: David Hall
Runtime: 8:33 minutes

A tranquil park within the Zombie Apocalypse, finds a withering zombie who can’t catch a meal, until an undead angel comes to his rescue.

PRINCESS

Director: Raylee Magill
Runtime: 9:35 minutes

A girl has a chance meeting of a lifetime….or two.

Pupil

Director: Meysam MUYINI
Runtime: 14:38 minutes

A reverse chronology in five segments about a man who starts his day with a headache like everybody else, but he suffers from some vague flash memories that he does not know where they come from, memories which tell about an abduction.

Women’s Weekend Film Challenge presents… EMPTY

Director: Cameron Morgan
Runtime: 5:33 minutes

Chantal and her partner, Maria, arrive at their daughter’s school for their everyday pick-up and are alarmed when the school is empty. EMPTY follows a mother’s harrowing journey as she tries to find her missing daughter in a Kafka-esque world. 

Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 10pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Made In Reading

Thank You For Supporting 80 Years of Mingus Magic

Thank You For Supporting: 80 Years of Mingus Magic

Director: Ryan Adamowicz
Runtime: 45 minutes

The enchanting story behind a magic shop in Reading, Pennsylvania that has been in operation for eight decades. Learn about the history, the culture and the community that has kept the magic alive in Reading for so many years. It’s far more than just a place to buy magic. This is the Mingus Magic Shop.

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Midnight Carnival

Midnight Carnival

Director: Chung-Wei Huang
Runtime: 19 minutes

Midnight Carnival tells the story of Andrea Lin, a confused Taiwanese girl in her late teens struggling to find her place in the world. In search of the adventure that is missing from her life, she takes a summer job in America working for a traveling carnival, where she is confronted with the harsh realities of life as a migrant worker. After struggling to connect with her “carney” co-workers, including Julio, a young, free-spirited Mexican man, she must come to terms with her feelings of wanting to belong, yet never feeling at home.

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On The Right Track

On the Right Track

Director: David Speace
Runtime: 10 minutes

This is a behind the scenes film of the making of a tv pilot call Franklin Street Station. The producers, director, director of photography and actors are interviewed.

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Traffic Opera

Traffic Opera

Director: Andrew Pochan
Runtime: 18 minutes

It’s an opera. In traffic.

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Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 12:30pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10