Films

 

upcoming

somnium

(FEATURE - 2024)

Written + Directed by Racheal Cain Stephens

AT EXPERIMENTAL SLEEP CLINIC, SOMNIUM, YOUR DREAMS ARE MADE REALITY. NIGHTMARES INCLUDED.

ALLRED FILMS - Production Partner, Maria Allred- Producer

 

the watcher’s game

(FEATURE - 2025)

Written + Directed by Maria Allred

The Watcher’s Game is a mind-bending, visually immersive feature film about a man who vanishes after playing a reality-altering AR game. Filmed between Mexico and Chicago, the story unfolds across timelines, blending cinematic storytelling with raw, process-based filmmaking to explore identity, perception, and the dreamlike nature of waking life.

 

Towed

(FEATURE - 2025)

Screenplay written by Maria Allred

Story by Maria Allred, Joey Lieberman, Danny Graham

Directed by Maria Allred

Under the cosmic shadow of a total solar eclipse in Chicago, misfits collide at a chaotic car pound where towed cars unlock bizarre escapades. Amid the madness, fate and connection ignite paths to freedom, transformation, and redemption.

 

released

 
 

The dreaming

(SHORT - 2023)

Written + Directed by Maria Allred

The Dreaming takes a surreal and supernatural voyage through Chicago following “The Stranger” as she watches from the shadows and films interwoven moments in the characters’ lives. But who is The Stranger, and who is watching her?

 
 

LITTLE NATIONS

(SHORT - 2019)

Written + Directed by Maria Allred

Little Nations follows a momentous piece of mail as it travels through the hands and into the worlds of children from a rich array of cultures that constitute North Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood.

 

sacred fool

(SHORT - 2021)

Written + Directed by Maria Allred

A cocky entrepreneur loses everything and moves into a tent by the river in Portland, OR. There, he's confronted by a whimsical tarot reader who initiates him onto an existential quest to find his true desires and voice.

 

The Texture of falling

(FEATURE - 2018)

Written + Directed by Maria Allred

“The Texture of Falling isn't really a requiem for a romance. It's a declaration from the grown-up version of the 15-year-old who lived in the woods to solve the mystery of her own identity, who's now daring Portland directors to think bigger, grander and zanier” -Bennett campbell ferguson - willamette weeK

“I’m trying to summon an adjective or phrase that could sum up the brilliance of what The Texture of Falling really is. But I’m at a loss. This film, above all else, is unapologetically bold. But it’s so much more than that.” - Maggie Stancu - Fiction’s Mistress