EVERY STORY HAS
A FIRST SCENE.
We’re CREAMPUFF LADDIE — an indie film studio from the Midwest, making original shorts that bend time, space, and storytelling.
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BLACK RIVER: PROLOGUE
NOW STREAMING | JANUARY 2026
Welcome to the Black River universe. Set in the mystical Ozark Mountains, this is our campfire-story style preview offering a glimpse at the sights and sounds of our flagship series. These are the stories of Patrick and Mary, as they navigate the miracles of the world’s next great scientific discovery, the Seed…
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THE HARD PROBLEM
SYNOPSIS: A Father, coming to the end of a long battle with a terminal illness, asks his Son to join him on one last fishing trip to their secret spot. Only to discover his Son has invented a device that could potentially save his life called the LANTER-N. This is a Father and Son’s inelegant solution to The Hard Problem of consciousness…
RELEASING 2027
TRAIN CHAIN
SYNOPSIS: A dysfunctional group of childhood friends looking to make a quick buck have entered their wild-card buddy, Chazz, into TRAIN CHAIN! Thee underground illegal no-rules (and I mean NO RULES) prize-fighting-anything-goes-romp-around tournament of champions! The prize? Glory! This is where heroes are made…
RELEASING 2028
22 NOVEMBER
SYNOPSIS: Nervous about his first hunting trip, Braxton follows his reckless friend, Jared, into an unfamiliar part of the woods in search of the perfect ambush. Alone in his deer stand, Braxton hears a cry for help call out in the night. But something tells him not to trust the voices in these woods…
RELEASING TBD
CHAD_Bot.AI
SYNOPSIS: A shy young man, Jack, in a bid to impress the cute girl next door, Hannah, with his entirely fictional gardening hobby, buys a “Farm Bot” online who he believes is teaching him to garden. Instead, Jack has unwittingly enlisted the help of a misguided Korean Pickup Artist AI designed for one thing and one thing only, charm…
RELEASING TBD
BLACK RIVER
PART 01
SYNOPSIS: After witnessing his best friend commit a brutal crime of passion, Patrick retreats from the world to the rural Ozark Mountains where he meets an enigmatic young woman named Mary and together, they unlock the first miracle of the Seed…
RELEASING TBD
WELCOME TO ALTON
SYNOPSIS: Born into a town fractured by ever-worsening poverty, Ali must secure a better future for his newborn daughter by earning a college basketball scholarship before he is consumed by his growing addiction to a new performance enhancing drug named Sperry. Welcome to Alton…
RELEASING TBD
C.U.L.
SYNOPSIS: Hal is a Farmhand, one of many former soldiers turned private contractors paid by corporate farms to guard the combines and tractors during the harvest season from a radical group of ecoterrorists calling themselves the C.U.L.…
RELEASING TBD
DETRITUS
SYNOPSIS: Ben, a journalist searching for the source of the opioid crisis sweeping Middle America, becomes captivated by rumors of a mysterious woman referred to as “Jane de las Flores”, who lives in a “casa de cristal” isolated in the remote western tall-grass prairies with her “plantas andantes”...
RELEASING TBD
BLACK RIVER
PART 02
SYNOPSIS: Six years after Black River: Part 1, Mary’s powers have drawn the sick and their families to form a refuge called Arkady. But as her resources dwindle, desperate pilgrims gather in the woods. Led by a fiery preacher named Amon, the Zealots lay siege — forcing Mary and Patrick to fight for their lives and the miracles of The Seed.
RELEASING TBD