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