Jacob Davidson & Connor Tracy - Cinemadness

Cinemadness is a feature-length Horror/Comedy.

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"A group of cinephiles reopen an old movie house to turn it into a repertory theater, accidentally unleashing the ghost of an evil projectionist who traps audience members in the films they play to steal their souls!"

About Jacob Davidson and Connor Tracy

Jacob Davison hails from Brookline, Massachusetts where he went on to attend and graduate from Emerson College in 2012 with a BA in screenwriting. Since moving to L.A. in 2013 he has attended many film screenings across the repertory theater scene and currently works for the non-profit American Cinematheque organization. In 2019 he won the Emerson Pitch Competition and in 2022 his horror short film 'The October Martyr' won Best Local Short at the Another Hole In The Head Film Festival and was later selected to play at Salem Horror Fest 2023. He has been a member of the genre film collective Just Scare Me since 2021 and continues to produce short films with them along with Connor Tracy.

Connor Tracy graduated from in Emerson College in 2013 with a BA in screenwriting and relentless optimism. In the intervening years he's placed in several pitch and script competitions, most notably a quarterfinals alongside co-writer Jacob Davison in Screencraft's 2022 competition. Connor has recently taken the advice "make your own success" to heart and joined a film collective focused on genre shorts; his directorial debut was in October 2023 with a self-written script.

Finding Jacob and Connor Online

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