HorrOrigins

Meet our VIP: ETHAN ERWIN previously ran Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment. He has experience shepherding action, horror, thriller, and sci-fi films, including THE NICE GUYS, SHERLOCK HOLMES, BOOK OF ELI, and the ORPHAN horror franchise.

Last year he started Beryllium Entertainment, a film and TV production company focused on commercial genre projects with socially relevant themes. They just wrapped the action-comedy JASON STATHAM STOLE MY BIKE, starring Jason Statham and directed by David Leitch.

The mission of HorrOrigins and Legendary Fest is to present a curation of the very best independent genre films and stories, connect people with creators, and bring insight into the film industry through special guests.

Two incredible festivals - One unbeatable week. Don’t miss HorrOrigins and Legendary, Sep 23-28, at Galaxy Theatres in Tucson, Arizona.

#HorrOrigins #LegendaryFesy #filmfest #filmmaking #tucson #indiefilm @MrEthanErwin

Meet our VIP: JED SHEPHERD (@Jedshepherd) is a writer, director, and producer whose work has become a major force in contemporary horror. He wrote and executive produced HOST, the breakout Shudder hit praised for redefining screenlife horror, and later wrote and executive produced Dashcam with Blumhouse Productions.

Most recently, he wrote and directed Flashback for Netflix, continuing his run of inventive, high-concept genre filmmaking blending technological anxiety, psychological terror, and darkly contemporary themes.

The mission of HorrOrigins and @ALegendaryFest is to present a curation of the very best independent genre films and stories, connect people with creators, and bring insight into the film industry through special guests.

Two incredible festivals - One unbeatable week. Don’t miss HorrOrigins and Legendary, Sep 23-28, at Galaxy Theatres in Tucson, Arizona.

#filmfest #filmmaking #indiefilm #indiefilm #indiehorror #Tucson #wherehorrorisborn #HorrOrigins #LegendaryFest

MEREDITH BERG is an award-winning filmmaker, theatre director, and comic-book creator. Her psychological thriller screenplay, DEMENTIA, produced by BoulderLight Pictures, was the NY Times Critic's Pick upon its theatrical release.

LANA STEELE, a spy-comedy streaming series she co-created starring Lilly Singh, has garnered over 12 million views on YouTube. Meredith studied directing at NYU Tisch and AFI's Directing Workshop for Women program, and she previously directed JULIUS CAESAR Off-Broadway for the York Shakespeare Company, as well as theatre in England and Los Angeles.

Meredith and her partner, Ethan Erwin, founded Beryllium Entertainment, and are producers of the upcoming action-comedy JASON STATHAM STOLE MY BIKE, starring Statham and directed by David Leitch.

She has written for Silver Pictures, The Squid Farm, MarVista, and Dark Castle, and most recently wrote and directed the short sci-fi thriller, TETHER, which has won multiple awards in 2025, including "Best Director" and "Best Short" at film festivals in the USA (including Legendary Fest) and Australia. TETHER recently debuted on Dust's Sci-Fi YouTube Channel, hitting 65k views in the first week.

The mission of HorrOrigins and Legendary Fest is to present a curation of the very best independent genre films and stories, connect people with creators, and bring insight into the film industry through special guests.

Two incredible festivals - One unbeatable week. Don’t miss HorrOrigins and Legendary, Sep 23-28, at Galaxy Theatres in Tucson, Arizona.

#filmfest #filmmaking #indiefilm #indiefilm #indiehorror #Tucson #wherehorrorisborn #HorrOrigins #LegendaryFest @mereberg

The schedule and ticket sales portal for HorrOrigins and @ALegendaryFest are live now! horrorigins.com/index.html

Making its Southwest Premiere at
HorrOrigins is the short film NOISE by Renzo Montoya.

Two incredible festivals - One unbeatable week. Don’t
miss HorrOrigins and Legendary, Sep 23-28, at Galaxy
Theatres in Tucson, Arizona.

#filmfest #indiehorror
#wherehorrorisborn #HorrOrigins