Alone in the Woods – submitting to festivals
Alone in the Woods is a horror short film about a woman who has a strange encounter during a hike. Directed by Andrea Zile Bish, Written and Produced by Lance Eliot Adams, filmed in Chicago. Official Selection- Milwaukee Horror Film Festival 2026
CAST AND CREW
Bashany Garcia – Abby
Danica Pavic – The Child
Directed by Andrea Zile Bish
Screenplay by Lance Eliot Adams
Edited by Mishu Hilmy
Unit Production Manager – Bradley Powell
Director of Photography – Estrella Vargas
1st Assistant Camera – Alyson Wong
Producer – Lance Eliot Adams
1st Assistant Director – Bradley Powell
Location Sound – Adrienne McLaughlin
Script Supervisor – Amber Ray Snyder
Make-Up Artist – Damaris Vega
Stunt Coordinator – Gaby Labotka
Guardian – Lisa Pavic
Production Assistant – Jennie McMurtry
Production Assistant – Krista Kane
Special Thanks:
Shirley Thomas
Miranda Nwakah
Kyle Leland Cullerton
Emily Lape
Curtis Matzke
DIRECTOR
Andrea Zile Bish is a director and writer for film and theater. After graduating with a BFA in Directing from the no-nonsense conservatory program at Carnegie Mellon University, she fell in love with film at the all-nonsense comedic powerhouse Second City. She marries these disparate backgrounds, pairing a solid grasp of traditional theatrical technique with an out-of-the-box improv approach to storytelling. During her time at the Second City Film School, she wrote and directed over 25 short films including her thesis comedy, ‘Last Date.’ As a writer, she created three original sitcom pilots, including ‘Needs Repair,’ a quarterfinalist in the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards. In addition to her work at Second City, Bish wrote and directed the short films ‘Tow Zone’ and ‘Conversions’ with her personal production company, Cathode Ray Pigeon Productions.
SCREENWRITER / PRODUCER
Lance Eliot Adams is a Chicago filmmaker. Starting in 2021 he focused on horror screenwriting and going into 2025, he plans on producing a short horror film anthology through, Hunger & Dread. The first production being the horror short film, A Holiday Gift. An advocate for filmmakers at all levels, he looks to connect emerging filmmakers with filmmakers who have gone through production through Chicago Film Club. He has produced over twenty short films including, web series, documentary, and improv based comedy. In 2021 he wrote two horror feature screenplays and over a dozen horror shorts. Sweet Tooth Boogeyman (the script) and Jelly Doughnut of Evil (the script) have done well on the horror festival circuit.
Unit Production Manager / 1st Assistant Director
Bradley Powell is a writer-director living in Chicago. His screenplay for “Sticks & Stones,” was initially conceived of while he was living in Los Angeles in the mid-aughts. There, he attended both the USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and the California Institute of the Arts MFA program in creative writing.
A writer-director of challenging, deeply personal, dramatic fiction, his works exist as an amalgam of language, history, and politics and concern themselves first and foremost with the fragility of and need for interpersonal bonds.
Furthermore, as an African American artist, crucial to his approach has been the attempt to bring together a mix of diverse personalities, peoples, and perspectives in his hopes that one day we might then illuminate the unseen; give value to the insignificant; and provide context for what might otherwise be misunderstood.