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Jenna Payne
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writer | director | producer : HYSTERIA - medical revenge. Disaster Capital Productions - social justice horror flicks by emerging filmmakers. Chronically ill & disabled rabble rouser. http://disastercapitalproductions.com/ABOUT.html
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Our UK premiere is 5 days away with FFStival! Don't forget to #BYOB - Bring Your Own Billionaire. #EatTheRich
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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While the US has yet to embrace "Eat the Rich" (and it shows!), Latin America is on their fifth serving of our delectable horror film. Our Brazilian premiere will be at @CineFantasy in Sao Paulo, and a few more accolades. Tell your friends they need to put us on the menu!
A Korean woman with short hair and fancy black dress sits at a beautifully dressed dinner table piled high with meat and candles. EAT THE RICH Brazilian Premiere 16th Cinefantasy Seleção Oficial Lit candles and a horn chalice dripping blood. EAT THE RICH Etheria Film Festival 2025 Finalist. Rulers of rot, your end has come, The woman stands at her front door with a man in cowboy hat looking in the door frame. EAT THE RICH Quarterfinalist Roadmap Writers Shorts Competition. EAT THE RICH 16th Cinefantasy Seleção Oficial with tentacled laurels. The Asian woman stands behind a white man as the sun is eclipsed in the clouds above her.
July 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Thailand, Portugal, and more ate up EAT THE RICH and served us an award and more international delicacies! 😈💀
A tall man with a cowboy hat faces off against a short Asian woman in front of a pond with trees. EAT THE RICH Award Winner Bangkok Movie Awards 2025 with laurels A horn dripping blood and two candles light a dark scene. EAT THE RICH Best Magic & Witchcraft Nominee, Official Selection Fortean Film Festival 2025 with laurels. "Rules of rot, your end has come," The Asian woman sits at a wooden table with papers scattered and candles lit. The room is dark. EAT THE RICH Official Selection Portugal International Film Festival 2025 with laurels.
June 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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One year ago today, we shot the esoteric imagery of the sun going dark in the middle of the day for my latest short film - EAT THE RICH. We've played on 3 continents and counting....
A silhouette of a person at the bottom center of the screen with cloud coverage and an eerily dim sun. The person is an Asian woman in a red dress with black leather jacket. She looks skyward at the diffuse light of an eclipsed sun behind a cloud. The rest is black. The Asian woman in a red dress with black leather jacket stands behind a white man with a goatee. Above her, the diffuse light of an eclipsed sun behind a cloud. A camera person in a mask with a furry mic is in the shot. The full eclipse. The Asian woman in a red dress with black leather jacket stands behind a white man with a goatee. She looks skyward at a barely lit halo of the sun.
April 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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My dark comedy/medical revenge was selected as the Pitch It Till You Make It winner out of 12 fantastic, films!
HYSTERIA - Tired of being dismissed, a chronically ill & undiagnosed patient takes matters into her own hands, murders most of her doctors, & blows up an insurance co.
A bright poster with a green faced ghoul with sharp teeth and hollow eyes in a sweater with a tie. Wench Film Festival Pitch It Till You Make It WINNER Hysteria by Jenna Payne. WENCH Film Festival Pitch It Till You Make It Winner, India's First Horror Sci Fi Fantasy Festival! Features a green man and woman in traditional Indian garb. The man has pointy ears.
March 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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5 days and counting until our European Premiere with @finalgirlsberlin.bsky.social.... Can't wait to bring our brand of haute cuisine to Germany. Guten Appetit!
We also played Colombia last night with Ciclos Shorts Fest. Que divertido!
An Asian woman with short hair sits at a meaty, sumptuous table staring ahead. Eat the Rich European Premiere: Berlin, DE, March 5, 2025 @ 22h. City Kino Wedding & Vimeo Online. Official Selection Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2025 with film festival laurels. Vor Neid Platzen. A woman with short hair stands in front of an open front door with a man looming on the other side. Eat the Rich European Premiere: Official Selection Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2025 with film festival laurels. An Asian woman with short hair sits at a cluttered coffee table in a dark room, staring ahead. Ciclos Shorts Fest film festival laurels.
February 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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EAT THE RICH is honored to be honorably mentioned by ATX Short Film Showcase. Can't wait to bring our Babylonian solar eclipse spell casting to Austin sometime this year! Don't forget to invite your landlord.... 😈
An East Asian woman in red and black stands next to a pond and trees, facing off with a tall cowboy in an American flag shirt. Over the photo is film festival laurels: ATX Short Film Showcase logo with film camera and bats, Honorably Mention March 2025.
February 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Spent my Valentine's with Mary Harran & Guinevere Turner watching & talking about AMERICAN PSYCHO at the Texas Theater. More relevant than ever, and as Mary says, "It's an American Psycho world these days."
A red headed man with beard on the left and a White woman with dark, frizzy curls wearing a face respirator on the right of the AMERICAN PSYCHO poster. A man holds a shiny knife with his reflection on the blade. A white man and two white women sit in directors chairs on stage with a Texas Theater Oak Cliff logo on the screen behind them. They hold microphones.
February 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The wait is almost over, Europe… Are you ready to join Cate as she takes justice into her own hands? 🩸 #EatTheRichFilm premieres at @finalgirlsfilmfest in the "Eat The Rich/Capitalist Horror" block. Couldn't have said it better ourselves! www.finalgirlsberlin.com/2025-shorts2
A woman laughs with a wide open mouth dripping blood. Eat the Rich European Premiere: Official Selection Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2025 with film festival laurels. A large fushcia rose stands out among greenery around a white house. Eat the Rich: Official Selection Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2025 with film festival laurels. A dark, muddied image with a woman's red lips, jewels, and a face. Official Selection Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2025 with film festival laurels. A woman with short hair stands in front of an open front door with a man looming on the other side. Eat the Rich European Premiere: Official Selection Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2025 with film festival laurels.
February 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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"Eat the Rich" is finally having its US Premiere. Come enjoy some light cannibalism with your Valentine! We're playing at Mann's Chinese Theater on Feb. 14th @ 12pm with Golden State Film Festival! Bon appetit, my loves!
A pair of hands hold a silver dish with a raw heart in it. A "Be My Valentine" graphic sticker is in the left corner. Eat the Rich US Premiere @ Golden State Film Festival, February 14th at Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood 12pm Block I A white farm house with screened in porch has a woman seated on a yoga mat in the yard, looking over her shoulder. Eat the Rich Official Selection Golden State Film Festival 2025 with laurels.
February 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Ecstatic to announce that my medical revenge HYSTERIA was selected for Wench Film Festival's Pitch It Till You Make It pitch competition. Now to sweat out a video pitch....
A Black woman with a short afro walks toward camera with a slight smile. Around her, flames are burning. HYSTERIA A film by Jenna Payne | What if murder was the cure?
January 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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In contrast to my former city of Los Angeles, I'm enjoying several inches of snow in north Texas where we don't often get snow. I might make myself an Abuelita. All the best to LA, though.
A white man with red beard and orange ski cap and a white woman in a white Columbia ski jacket and pink retro glasses smile in front of a snow covered white farmhouse with a porch goose dressed like a snow man. A winterscape with an empty neighborhood road, covered in snow, and lined with snow covered homes and trees. A snow covered back yard with old oak tree, branches carrying snow.
January 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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2025 starting with a bang! Ecstatic to announce our short film "Eat the Rich" picked up multiple awards at the Independent Horror Movie Awards. 🎉🎬🔥
A serious woman staring directly at camera at a dinner table with film festivals laurels transposed over the image: Winner Best Actress Independent Horror Movie Awards 2024. A serious woman staring directly at camera at a coffee table with a box and lit candles with film festivals laurels transposed over the image: Nominee Best Badass Independent Horror Movie Awards 2024. A layered image with the serious woman small in the center over a bearded man. Behind, strange, ancient symbols with her mouth transposed on the left side of frame, and her eyes looking up on the right. Film Festival laurels with Nominee Best Editing Independent Horror Movie Awards 2024. An animal horn chalice with blood dripping down, candles lit, and a blurry background. Film Festival laurels Nominee Best Gore Independent Horror Movie Awards 2024. Subtitle at bottom: Rulers of rot, your end has come,
January 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Happy new year and wishing all of us who aren't tyrannical billionaires a most excellent 2025!
Me, a white woman with dark and gray frizzy hair, cheersing the camera with a green and gold champagne flute. I'm wearing a red sequined dress with full skirt and a black tuxedo jacket. I'm standing in front of a rose gold tinsel tree.
January 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas (or bank holiday) tomorrow! We're doing CHRISTMAS TWISTER and Millionaires.
A pink cocktail in a gold trimmed coup glass with porcelain move in red and white Santa style outfits,a green candle, and a cocktail book mimicking the cocktail with THE MILLIONAIRE in rich font across a book on the back. Me, a white woman in a Christmas sweater with gold stars and fringe, Christmas pajama pants, and a goofy grin holding a worried looking tortoise shell cat in my lap and a pink Christmas tree in the background. A picture of a TV screen showing a still of Casper Van Dien carrying a child and the title CHRISTMAS TWISTER on Prime.
December 25, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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Puno, Peru will be dining on the rich this week. EAT THE RICH will be screening with Infierno en los Andes Fest. We also received our first award - an Honorable Mention from East Village Film Festival. Bon appetit!
An extreme close up of a woman laughing with blood pouring out of her mouth. I'm large text over the photo are film festival laurels with creepy big eyed creatures pulling something out of their mouths: Selección Oficial IAF 2024 Perú Infierno en los Andes Fest An Asian woman sits in a dark living room at a table with a box and an old book in front of her and candles lit. Around her and over the photo are film festival laurels: Honorable Mention East Village New York Film Festival. The Asian woman with short hair and bright red lipstick is backlit against a gloomy, cloudy sky with sun offering a halo around her head. She leans over a middle aged white man who stares straight up. Film Festival laurels Morbido Film Fest 2024.
December 15, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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I have a confession to make: we got a rose gold tinsel Christmas tree AND I LOVE HER.
A rose gold tinsel artificial tree with colored lights, red and white striped ribbon, a fuschia top hat with trim, and ornaments.
December 5, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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What would you do if you had nothing left to lose? Meet Cate Turner in Eat the Rich. She’s not waiting for justice—she’s taking it. 🎬🩸 We premiere tonight at 7pm at #CCDmx with #morbidofest. Join us! #EatTheRichFilm #SocialJustice
November 9, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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Happy Halloween! Last one of the season! It was a perfectly balmy 90 degrees for a double creature feature: Steven Spielberg's JAWS and Alexandre Aja's CRAWL. Our cocktail is a Pineapple Rum Punch. Recipe in ALT. #HalloweenHorrorMovies
A white man with red hair and beard and a white woman with dark curls and pink cat eye glasses make screaming faces with a skeleton decoration looming over them. A table with black spider web table cloth with a JAWS dvd case with a shark jumping out of the water and a CRAWL dvd case. Two drinks sit on the table the lil yellow and frothy. A large bottle of Mount Gay rum, pitcher of pineapple like juice, martini shaker, and more. Pineapple Rum Punch: Juice: 5 parts pineapple, 1 part lime juice, 1 part simple syrup 1 part Rum 3 parts Juice Dash of Cocoa Bitters Shake on ice Garnish with lime wheel A shot from JAWS with three white men standing in front of a vandalized tourism billboard with a shark fin drawn in the water, heading towards a woman with cartoon eyes yelling, "Help!! SHARK." Amity Island Welcomes You 50th Annual Regatta July. DVD splash screen projected on a sheet against a white metal corrugated building. the menu looks like a lit up retro sign in red with a shooting star. DRIVE-IN THEATER: SHE CODS OF SHARK REEF, SWAMP WOMEN, BONUS FEATURE: POSTER GALLERY
October 31, 2023 at 4:48 PM
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Terror in space! So excited for this one. Ridley Scott's ALIEN paired with Paul W. S. Anderson's EVENT HORIZON. We were going for Xenomorph blood and made Stingers - and you can spritz it! (Recipe in ALT) #HalloweenHorrorMovies
A dark, cramped but futuristic spaceship with a captain's chair that looks like a back alley dentist chair with screens and a command board. A man sits in the chair in a uniform with badges. His hands are covered in blood. His face is bent over... and also bloody. from EVENT HORIZON A close up of Sigourney Weaver's face in ALIEN. Sigourney is a white woman with dark curls. The ALIEN and EVENT HORIZON 4K Ultra HD covers and a Roger Corman drive in movie DVD. In front, a goblet and a gold etched coupe glass with green liquid. Behind, a bottle of Creme de Menthe, Courvoisier, a metal drink shaker, and a can of Rambler Sparkling water. Recipe: 2 parts Brandy to 1 part Menthe. Stir with ice and strain or serve over ice and add sparkling water. Halloween decorations abound. A skeleton in a shroud hangs from Christmas lights. A cat and a pumpkin cover a door. A metal ghost sign says BOO. A table with spider web table cloth is covered in snacks and drinks, mostly Halloween themed.
October 25, 2023 at 10:00 PM
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And then there were humanoid monster movies! Kathryn Bigelow's NEAR DARK & Neil Marshall's THE DESCENT. Tonight's cocktail is a blood orange Mezcal sour (or bourbon if you like). Recipe in ALT.
An illustrated poster of NEAR DARK with a white man with stringy hair and gun wearing Ray Ban sunglasses and blood around his mouth. A full moon behind him with people in silhouette. A van at the bottom A Nosferatu-esque pale human-ish creature howling with pointy ears and body parts. THE DESCENT Bloody cocktails with the movie DVD cases, bottles of alcohol and Halloween decor. A pitcher of blood orange juice, drink mixers, and a spider web tablecloth. Recipe: 2 parts alcohol (Bourbon or Mezcal) 2 parts fresh squeezed blood Orange juice 1 part fresh sour mix Add seltzer or simple syrup to taste Bloody cocktails with the movie DVD cases, bottles of alcohol and Halloween decor. Close up of the drinks. One is in a skull glass.
October 17, 2023 at 6:36 PM
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Somewhat belated, but we have been screening #HalloweenHorrorMovies out on our patio. We started off with Robert Wise's THE HAUNTING and Jack Clayton's THE INNOCENTS. Our cocktail was an EldritchFlower Lemonade. (Recipe in Alt Text)
A metal outbuilding with a large sheet and graphic scroll of THE INNOCENTS with a hand mostly in shadow held up in prayer projected onto it. A table covered with spiderweb cloth, snacks, drinks, etc. Halloween decorations like a cat on a pumpkin cover a door, a skeleton in an orange and black shroud, and some metal ghosts. A ribbed glass with a purple floater and lemonade-like underbelly and a lemon wheel. An LED candle with a spooky face glass blue, a bottle of St. Germain and Empress Gin behind with a shaker and the Blu-rays of the movies. Recipe: Bottle of St. Germain 350ml of freshly squeezed lemon Simple syrup to taste Float 1 oz of Empress Gin Garnish with lemon or lavender A large sheet across a metal building with the Bluray menu of THE HAUNTING with an imposing Gothic mansion in the background and the title above a maze with a female figure in the center. Two white women on the right and below gasp in horror.
October 15, 2023 at 11:38 PM
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My husband just called me a flowersmith, but I guess this is probably the last haul for the year.
A flower arrangement with orange and yellow flowers shaped like daisies, also known as Firewherl, Gaillardia, or Indian Blanket, surrounding a green glass bowl with a variety of roses ranging from pale yellow to burgundy with a white center in the middle of the bowl. Two painted gourds - a black cat on a jack-o'-lantern and a ghost on a jack-o'-lantern - are on each side with a yellow Formica Atomic age table with stars and glitter specks underneath. A screened in porch with a spider web and rose bushes planted outside the porch with pink blooms.
October 15, 2023 at 8:32 PM
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TRAP DOOR IN THE SUN Writers/Directors Todd Jacobs &
Jenna Kanell - Out of jail & desperate for a better life for her little brother, a young indigenous woman accepts a housesitting job in a gated community, unaware that she’s the sacrificial target of a hungry paranormal force.
A McMansion suburb from above with one house glowing purple and the sky glowing purple. TRAP DOOR IN THE SUN
September 27, 2023 at 11:27 PM
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PIONEERS Writer Mary Iacono | Director Puppett -  A white couple buy a house in a gentrifying neighborhood where they feel unwelcome. When strange things happen, they blame their Latino neighbors, inciting an avenging ghost who will stop at nothing to drive them out.
PIONEERS. A low bungalow in the dark with a green sky, palm trees, birds and a dark figure at the front door.
September 27, 2023 at 11:26 PM