Happy New Year from the SPI team! As we kick off 2025 and reflect on 2024, there’s much to be proud of: Breakfast To Go concluded its final festival stops, Ronald won Best Texas Actor at ARFF and took numerous acting, hosting, producing and podcast-featured-guest gigs, collaborating with so many of our favorite creatives. We enjoyed a We Luv Video screening of Good Feels on Wheels, we produced a new comedy webseries, we expanded our mission-based freelance work with nonprofits, and most prolifically of all, our horror short film Body went all over the world!
While Body’s festival run began in 2023 and may still have a 2025 screening or two unfold, 2024 was largely the year of Body for SPI. Here’s a quick look at its journey around the US and globe!
Way back in October of 2023, Body got a fabulous world premiere at the new Dark Red Film Fest in Albuquerque which Ronald attended on a blast of a bros trip and then SPI got international when Ami and Ronald headed to the great north at Hex After Dark in Calgary, Alberta, CA.
By November, Body was at a favorite Texas stop, the Lone Star Film Fest in Fort Worth and not far behind in December, the team was off to San Francisco’s Another Hole in the Head festival in the gorgeous bay area. The holiday season was predictably quiet, but the spring kicked off with a bang!
In February, Body had its home base screening at the always fan favorite Austin Revolution Film Festival. March marked a break for SXSW and other projects, but this was a rare quiet moment!
In April, Body first made a stop at Crimson Screen in South Carolina, a state Ami and Ronald had never been to before and were excited to explore before jetting over to the Indy Film Fest, in place all so familiar to the team and our hometown crew!
In May, Ronald couldn’t help but take a long weekend with our dear friends in the Windy City and Body had an audience with Chicago Horror Film Festival next!
By June, Body made a stop at another of our fave Texas fests, Hill Country Film Festival, where Ami had to fly solo for the first time at a fest as Ronald was out of state on a set.
June was a big month for Body as next up, Ami and Ronald jetted off to Chattanooga Film Festival where they had a total BLAST with friends, old and new. The spirit, fun, and culture of this fest blew us away! Lead actor and Executive Producer Aaron Hale, joined us there, too.
July brought one of our most exciting screenings as Body made it to its furthest flung audience, when we played at Tokyo Horror Film Festival in Japan! Frankly, we were devastated not to be able to attend this one and are SO HONORED that we won the best horror comedy award from our international friends!
August brought Cabin in the Woods in Seattle and SPI’s first ever PNW or Washington-based audiences.
In October, as a horror film, Body got EXTRA busy, in the best way! Ronald headed off to Laugh After Dark in Las Vegas where Body got to have an audience with such a cool crew in Sin city!
Then Body flew off to Port Huron, MI for the Desmond District Demons Festival shortly before it had its fourth screening in its home state, where Ronald headed down I35 to San Marcos for the Lost River Film Festival.
Body’s last screening (as far as we know for now) arrived for our 5th Texas stop with a trip to the ever-fun Reel East Film Festival in Kilgore, Texas!
No project has ever gone further and done more for SPI than Body! We are so grateful to everyone who put in their time, talent, hearts, and care into this special project, and all the programmers, audiences, and friends who shared with us in embracing this 6 minute gory, giggly, gross, glorious flick!
