Films
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 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?
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.
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 watcher’s game
(FEATURE - Principle production in the future now)
Written + Directed by Maria Allred
A reporter’s investigation into the mysterious assassination of a notorious secret cult leader reveals a universe of psychedelic nanotechnology and otherworldly experiences that points the finger to a vast conspiracy.
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.
The Texture of falling
(FEATURE - 2018)
Written + Directed by Maria Allred