SHORT FILMS

Short Films Owned By Hector's Spite Productions

Title: Rudimentary Square (3-min. silent)

Logline: In the urban jungle of Santa Monica, a young boy witnesses a murder.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $50

Release Year: 1987

Title: West Side Freeze-Out (5-min. silent)

Logline: A gang-banger from East L.A. joins a heavy-metal band.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $50

Release Year: 1987

Title: Cavalcade (5-min. silent)

Logline: Experimental short using found footage and images to depict the modern immigrant experience in the U.S.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $50

Release Year: 1987

Title: Masturb— (3-min. post-sync)

Logline: Preparing for a date, a 20-something decides to get himself off with the aid of a blow-up doll...and gets stuck in it.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $50

Release Year: 1988

Title: Sweet Child (10-min. post-sync)

Logline: An oppressed man escapes the tyranny of his overbearing mother.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $50

Release Year: 1988

Title: The Super Chief (10-min.)

Logline: An elderly hobo has a wild adventure hitchhiking along the railroad from Los Angeles to San Diego.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $250

Release Year: 1990

Title: Venice Opera Company (20-min.)

Logline: "Mockumentary" about a downscale opera company preparing for the first show of the season.  Later ripped off by Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $800

Release Year: 1990

Title: Mixdown (20-min.)

Logline: An audio engineer realizes that he is slowly going deaf.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $2000

Release Year: 1991

Title: Red Knight

Logline: An embittered former chess champion gets his jollies playing against random opponents in the park.  One day, he gets locked in a battle of wills against a young player who might actually beat him.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $5000

Release Year: 1992

Title: Teardrops (5-min.), winner of 1992 Florence International Short Festival

Logline: A woman, angry about being stood up by her fiancé yet again, soon learns he has died.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $1000

Release Year: 1992

Title: Masaccio (5-min.)

Logline: A poor painter yearns to surpass her idol's skill.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $2000

Release Year: 1993

Title: Fiscal Responsibility (45-min.)

Logline: A successful financial analyst loses everything and grows increasingly desperate in his efforts to reclaim his old life.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $5000

Release Year: 1995

Title: Home (20-min.)

Logline: An astronaut returns to Earth and is horrified to discover an atomic war has destroyed nearly all of mankind.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $2000

Release Year: 1995

Title: Beauty (5-min.), winner of the 1996 Akrona Cinema Showcase Grand Prize for Shorts

Logline: An experimental short that features a single, five-minute take of a close-up of a beautiful woman's face.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $2000

Release Year: 1995

Title: Brutality (10-min.)

Logline: A murder suspect is questioned by police as a nuclear war rages outside.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $1500

Release Year: 1996

Title: Annunciation! (10-min.)

Logline: A middle-aged drunk is visited by an angel, who tells her God will impregnate her if she and her husband give up their life of sin.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $1500

Release Year: 1996

Title: Greenthumb (20-min.)

Logline: An amateur gardener is also a sociopathic murderer who uses his victims as fertilizer.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $1500

Release Year: 1996

Title: T.R.H. (3-min.)

Logline: Little more than a music video dramatizing the lyrics in Abysmal Crucifix's "Transexual Relationship Highway."

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $1500

Release Year: 1996

Title: Rescued (4-min.)

Logline: A woman calls a suicide hotline and falls in love with the operator.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $1500

Release Year: 1996

Title: Utopia (50-min.)

Logline: A landing party discovers the population of a Martian colony/base massacred, but was it Martians or the colony's own citizens?

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $11,000

Release Year: 1997

Title: Girl in Faux-Leopard Fur Jacket (20-min.)

Logline: An insecure girl is picked up at a bar by a confident but nerdy guy.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $5000

Release Year: 1997

Title: The Cockroach (20-min.), winner of the 1999 short prize at the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival

Logline: A first-ever (for Sloane) short-sequel, this picks up after the "girl in faux-leopard fur jacket" has slept with the confident but nerdy guy, showing his perspective on things.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $5000

Release Year: 1997

Title: Gripped (20-min.)

Logline: A tragic tale of loss and betrayal as a pro cyclist learns his wife is having an affair.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $5000

Release Year: 1997

Title: Irish Wake (45-min.)

Logline: A large, Irish-Catholic family reunites when the matriarch passes away.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $2000

Release Year: 1998

Title: Dreamstate (10-min.)

Logline: In a wild, experimental-narrative story, a young boy awakens to the sound of thieves.  They kidnap the child and take him to a strange shop on the outskirts of town.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $1000

Release Year: 1998

Title: Hector's Secret (15-min.), appears as an extra on Hector's Secret DVD

Logline: A short version of the feature film of the same name, designed to acquire financing on the feature.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $15,000

Release Year: 1998

Title: Loose Woman (30-min.), appears as an extra on Hector's Secret DVD

Logline: A horrific and ultimately tragic tale of a promiscuous woman who spends the night with the wrong man.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $25,000

Release Year: 2000

Title: There Was a Time... (45-min.)

Logline: A nostalgiac look at growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Writer: Vance Sloane

Director: Vance Sloane

Producer: Vance Sloane

Budget: $50,000

Release Year: 2003

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