Dead Enders
Directors: Fidel Ruiz-Healy, Tyler Walker
Producers: Raven Jensen, Amanda Crown, Gregory Barnes, Conor Murphy, Nico Alvo, Jordan Michael Blake, Eduardo Ruiz-Healy
USA, 2023, 12 min.
Disaffected, young gas-station clerk Maya doesn't care about much besides messing with her manager and getting her beer discount at the end of the midnight shift—but a sinister race of mind controlling parasites are set loose by irresponsible oil drillers.
DEAD ENDERS was nominated for the Grand Jury Award for the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, where it also won the Audience Award in the Midnight Shorts Competition.
Fidel Ruiz-Healy is an award-winning Mexican-American filmmaker from San Antonio, Texas and an alumni from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA where he complains about the perfect weather.
Tyler Walker is an award-winning filmmaker from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. A graduate from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, he currently lives in Los Angeles, CA where he’s just trying to find a good hoagie and a decent dive bar.
Writers: Fidel Ruiz-Healy, Tyler Walker, Jordan Michael Blake, Conor Murphy
Cast: Skarlett Redd, Jeff Murdoch, Joseph Renee, Lilliana Winkworth