James Dean Castiglione

Sanctuary Hills is a 24-minute animated machinima drama created using Fallout 4 and Blender. Set during the final hours of the Sino-American War, the film follows the Washingtons, the only Black family in a gated community, who are denied access to the nuclear vault they paid for due to government-enforced racial discrimination. As the bombs fall, they are left to die—only to survive through a horrific mutation caused by radiation. Transformed and enraged, the Washingtons return to claim vengeance on the community that betrayed them.

In a world previously untouched by the supernatural, all dead bodies suddenly disappear and 46 deceased individuals mysteriously return to life. Among the resurrected is Heather, the sister of police officer David Thompson. David, along with his journalist wife Fiona, are drawn into the heart of this global enigma. They enlist the help of scientists Bryan Carter and Samantha Willis, who specialize in cellular regeneration and necrology, to unravel the mystery. The team discovers unsettling patterns and hidden truths about the resurrected individuals, who are exhibiting strange behaviors and slowly transforming into something otherworldly. Fiona's investigation leads her to a Satanist organization that may be behind the mass disappearance and resurrection. The stakes escalate as they realize the resurrections are not miraculous, but sinister, and a race against time begins to prevent a catastrophic event that threatens to unleash a nightmarish force upon the world.

In 2004, Bella Goth disappears without a trace. Nearly a decade later, her teenage children, Cassandra and Alexander, uncover a secret: their mother’s disappearance was not natural — and may still be preventable. Using experimental time-travel technology, the siblings go back to 1984 to find their young mother and warn her about what’s to come. But time is fragile. Their well-meaning interference causes unforeseen changes to the present. When Cassandra and Alexander return to 2013, they find everything... perfect. Bella never vanished. Their childhood was happy. Their family is intact. But something feels wrong. Reality is unraveling beneath their feet. The price of rewriting history is catching up.

Seven years after the devastating vampire attack on Sunset Valley, Samantha Barnett (Alvin Soprano) remains the sole survivor of her family and Sunset Valley. Haunted by her past and determined to end the vampire threat, she travels to Midnight Hollow — a town cursed to eternal darkness except for two rare days a year when sunlight briefly breaks through.

Simterview with the Vampire is a 36-minute machinima mockumentary created using The Sims 3. Acclaimed journalist Jonathan Parker (Dean Roman Castiglione) accepts a mysterious invitation from Anastasia Vassiliev (Aylin Baykal), an ancient vampire intent on revealing her true nature to the world. Jonathan arrives at Anastasia’s mansion in the Hollywood Hills, where he is welcomed by her loyal familiar, Penny (Alvin Soprano). Throughout the interview, Anastasia shares her personal history and her philosophy on vampirism, while introducing Jonathan to her adopted vampire daughter Natalia Svetlitskiy (Evie Campbell), who remains forever fourteen. As night turns to dawn, the interview takes a darker, increasingly unsettling turn—culminating in a revelation that changes everything.

After dying in a motorcycle crash while fleeing the abusive president of an LA biker gang, a young road bunny named Tammy mysteriously returns the next day and hides her undead condition while plotting revenge against the man responsible for her death.

After a trivial decision becomes the first link in a seemingly impossible chain of deaths, a guilt-ridden man and a psychology researcher uncover someone manipulating ordinary human behavior to turn strangers into unwitting participants in murder.

When an eight-year-old gaming addict mysteriously disappears into the fantasy computer game he has been obsessively playing, his horrified teenage babysitter has three days to learn the game she hates, keep him alive from the outside, and somehow bring him home before his mother returns.

A mild-mannered dentist who secretly treats vampires finds himself caught between the undead community and a homicide detective when someone begins murdering his patients and harvesting their fangs.

After dying in a motorcycle crash while fleeing the abusive president of an LA biker gang, a young road bunny named Tammy mysteriously returns the next day and hides her undead condition while plotting revenge against the man responsible for her death.