DORFMAN BROTHERS FILMS

THE CREW

MAXWELL

An amazing kid, Maxwell creates incredible performances bringing both drama and humor to the silver screen. He enjoys filmmaking, live music and is a master of practical visual-effects.

EMMETT

MAXWELL

A pioneer in the dramatic arts, Emmett is a creative powerhouse in the arena of cinematic expression. He's a skilled writer and creator bringing his own unique style to every film project.

MICHAEL

MAXWELL

MICHAEL

A skilled video technician with over 20+ years of experience working on film productions in Hollywood. Michael enjoys old-school stop-motion animation, green screen compositing, and creating awesome short films with Maxwell and Emmett.

SHORT FILMS

NO TRESPASSING IN TRANSYLVANIA

A group of mummies stumble onto a vampire's property.

BEYOND THE BLEED LIMIT

A group of monsters engage in a terrifying street race.

DORFMAN RIDES AT DAWN

A lone gunfighter looks for trouble in the Wild West.

GOOD MORNING MOONBASE

Outer space's first morning news program, broadcasting across the galaxy!

FANGS OF THE FORGOTTEN

Two vampires spend an afternoon drinking at their local saloon.

BIG TOP DROP

A circus clown runs into trouble under the big top!

DRIFTERS DIAMONDS AND DYNAMITE

A dangerous train robbery on the iron rails.

DEEP TROUBLE

A submarine crew must battle the ultimate evil.

DORFENSTEIN'S MONSTER

A mad scientist brings to life his most terrifying creation.

VAN IN SPACE

Space pirates explore the outer reaches of the galaxy.

WHAT IS QUANTUM?

Explaining the meaning of the word "Quantum".

TIME OUT

Two construction workers discuss saving the planet.

THE DEMON'S DOORSTEP

Two backpackers try to protect the Northern California park system from a dangerous monster.

ELBOWS OF THE APOCALYPSE

Two dangerous prisoners compete in an intergalactic arm-wrestling competition.

CINCINNATI JONES AND THE TOILET OF TERROR

Cincinnati Jones and his crew embark on an epic quest to find the "Toilet of Terror".

CIRCUS OF THE STRANGE

Step right up and see sights never before seen!

NIGHTMARE IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD

Two friends try to find an epic Halloween party.

TOILET PAPER NINJA #4: FLUSH OF THE FORGOTTEN

The Toilet Paper Ninja and his crew embark on a dangerous and deadly mission.

TOP DORF

Fighter pilots try to protect a city from destruction.

WINTER OLYMPIC REVIEW 2022

Highlights from the winter games.

THE DIVE

Professional divers compete in a strange diving competition.

PLEASE WEAR A MASK

A public service announcement for wearing masks.

THE WASTED YEARS

A dangerous jailbreak from a maximum security prison.

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Beyond the Bleed Limit

Finalist in the short film category for the Strange Days Horror Fest 2023.
Won 2nd place at the 2024 Nosferatu Festival Vampire Film Contest (Austin, Texas).
Official selection for the 2024 Panama Horror Film Festival (Panama City, Panama).
Official selection for the 2024 summer edition of the Shit In The Dirt Film Festival and winner of the "Best Editing" award (Portland, Maine).
Official selection for the 2024 Screaming Room Film Festival at Midsummer Scream presented by Horrorbuzz (Long Beach, CA).
Official selection for the 2024 Tampa Bay Screams Film Festival (Pinellas Park, Florida).
Official selection for the 2024 Perth Horror Film Festival (Perth, Australia).
Official selection for the Severed Limbs Film Festival 2024 - Online (Sandwich, Massachusetts).
Official selection for the 2024 Kinda Spoopy Film Festival (Adams, Tennessee).
Official selection for the 2024 Brazil New Visions International Film Festival (Camaragibe, Brazil).
Official selection for the International Street Movies Festival 2024 (Belgrade, Serbia).
Official selection for the 2024 Demonic Brilliance Film Festival (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada).
Official selection for the 2024 "Gritos En El Planetario" International Horror Film Festival (La Plata, Argentina).
Official selection for the 2025 Red Tower Spooktacular Film Festival (New York, NY).

Deep Trouble

Official selection for the 2023 Octopus Shorts International Short Film Competition (Gdansk, Poland).
Official selection for the 2023 Freak Scene Film Festival (Los Angeles).
Official selection for the 2023 Ravenwood Film Festival (Ontario, Canada).
Official selection for the 2023 Sussex International Film Festival (Sussex, England).
Official selection for the 2024 Oska Bright Film Festival (Brighton, United Kingdom).
Official selection for the 2024 Ely Film Festival (Ely, Minnesota).
Official selection for the 2024 Madame Zuzu's International Film Festival (Highland Park, Illinois).
Official selection for the 2024 Third Culture Film Festival (Tauranga, New Zealand).
Official selection for the 2024 Jersey Devil Fable Film Festival (Asbury Park, New Jersey).
Official selection for the 2024 Marin County Fair International Festival of Short Film and Video (San Rafael, California).
Official selection for the Brooklyn Sci Fi Film Festival 2024. Selected as part of the Brooklyn Sci Fi Film Fest: Kaiju Explosion Short Film Showcase. (Brooklyn, NY).

Time Out

Won 3rd place in the 2040 Now Short Film Competition: Stories of Climate Change 2023. The festival is programmed through NYU's Office of Sustainability (New York, NY).
Official selection for Good Natured: A Conservation Optimism Film Festival 2023 (Oxford, England).
Official selection for the University of Houston - Clear Lake 2023 Sustainable Stories Film Fest (Houston, Texas).
Official selection for the 2024 Sustainability Shorts Film Festival at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana (Champaign, Illinois).
Official selection for the Real International Micro Video Competition 2024 (Brighton, United Kingdom).
Official selection for the 2024 Frome International Climate Film Festival (Frome, United Kingdom).
Official selection for the A&E Accessibility and Environment Film Festival 2024 (Bristol, England).

Van in Space

Official selection for the Festival Filmae - Brazilian Smartphone Film Festival 2023 (Brazil).
Official selection for the New Film Underground Vol.6 - 2023 (Los Angeles).
Official selection for the Toronto Smartphone Film Festival 2023 (Canada).
Official selection for the summer 2023 Shit in the Dirt Film Festival. Winner of the "Insert Sponsorship Here" award (Portland, Maine).
Official selection for the 2023 KinoDrome International Motion Picture and Screenplay Festival (Cleveland, Ohio).
Official selection for the 8th annual Happenstance Horror Fest 2023 (Taunton, Massachusetts).
Official selection for the 2024 Abbot Kinney Fantastic Film Festival (Venice, CA).
Official selection for the 2024 Jersey Shore Film Festival (Asbury Park, New Jersey).
Official selection for the Big Teeth Small Shorts Film Festival - Summer 2024 (Chicago, Illinois).
Official selection for the 2024 "Too Drunk to Watch" Punk Film Fest (Berlin, Germany).
Official selection for the 2024 Black Rock City Film Festival (Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada).

Nightmare in North Hollywood

Official selection for the 2023 Screaming Room Film Festival at Midsummer Scream presented by Horrorbuzz (Long Beach, CA).
Official selection for the 2023 2nd Annual Lambertville Halloween Film Festival (Lambertville, NJ).
Official selection for the 2023 Flint Short Film Freakout 2 presented by the Flint Monster Society (Flint, MI).
Official selection for the Super Shorts Hackney Halloween Special 2023 (London, UK).
Official selection for the 2023 8th Annual Spooky Film Festival (Pleasant Hill, CA).
Official selection for the 2023 Lithgow Halloween Smartphone Film Festival (Lithgow, Australia).

Terror On Twin Mountain

Finalist in the short film category for the Strange Days Horror Fest 2023.
Official selection for the Shock Stock Horror and Underground Film Festival 2023 (Canada).
Official selection for the Bay of Blood Film Festival 2023 (Canada).
Official selection for the 2023 Perth Horror Film Festival (Perth, Australia).
Official selection for the 2023 Filmsquatch Bigfoot Short Film Challenge at the Lake Charles Film Festival (Lake Charles, Louisiana).
Official selection for the 2023 DJANHO! Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (Curitiba, Brazil).
Official selection for Click Fest 2023 (Fulton, Missouri).
Official selection for the 2023 Bloody Horror International Film Festival (Gatineau, Canada).

Dorfenstein's Monster

Won 2nd place in the Nova 7 Film Festival 2023 (Florida USA).
Official selection at the Big Teeth Small Shorts Film Festival 2023 (Chicago, IL).
Official selection for the It's Alive! Horror Film Festival 2023 (Sofia, Bulgaria).
Official selection for the 2-Minute Movie Contest at the 2024 Fargo Film Festival (Fargo, North Dakota).
Official selection for the 2024 Spook Screen Film Festival (Cork, Ireland).
Official selection for the Arizona's Night of Horror Film Festival 2024 (Tolleson, Arizona).

Dorfman Rides At Dawn

Official selection for the Brighton Fringe Short Film Program / Fringe Flicks 2024 (Brighton, United Kingdom).
Official selection for the 2024 Tucumcari Film Festival (Tucumcari, New Mexico).
Official selection for the 307 International Film Festival 2024 (Laramie, Wyoming).
Official selection for the America's Epic Film Festival 2024 (Warwick, New York).

Circus of the Strange

Official selection for the 60seconds Circus Film Competition presented by the Odense International Film Festival (OFF) and the Dynamo Circus Festival 2023 (Denmark).
Official selection for the 60 Second International Film Festival 2023 (Pakistan).
Official selection for the 2023 Nosebleeds Film Festival (Sioux Falls, South Dakota).

The String Above the Stars

Official selection for the New Film Underground Vol.8 - 2023 (Los Angeles, CA).
Official selection for the 49th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival & Marathon 2024 (Somerville, MA).
Official selection for the 2024 Bizarrya Short Film Festival (Porto, Portugal).

A Curse In the Cosmos

Official selection for the Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival 2023 (Brooklyn, NY).
Official selection for the 21st Fargo Fantastic Film Festival 2023 (Fargo, ND).
Official selection for the 19th Der Phantastische Trashfilm International Film Festival 2024 (Kassel, Germany).

What Is Quantum?

Finalist in the 2022 Quantum Shorts Film Festival. In the top 9 featured short films out of 252 submissions from 58 different countries (Singapore).

MORE AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Big Top Drop

Official selection for the 2024 60seconds Circus Film Competition presented by the Odense International Film Festival (OFF) and the Dynamo Circus Festival (Denmark).
Official selection for the 2024 Minute Madness Toronto Film Festival (Toronto, Canada).
Winner of the Best Director category for the 2025 90second Mayhem International Short Film Festival (Somerset, England).
Official selection for the 2-Minute Movie Contest at the 2025 Fargo Film Festival (Fargo, North Dakota).
Official selection for the 2025 Jersey Shore Film Festival (Asbury Park, New Jersey).

No Trespassing In Transylvania

Official selection in the Lovely Bones Cinema Fest 2025 (Rome, Italy).
Won 1st place at the 2025 Nosferatu Festival Vampire Film Contest (Austin, Texas).
Official selection for the Severed Limbs Film Festival 2025 - Online (Sandwich, Massachusetts).
Official selection for the 2025 Cortisonici International Film Festival, screened during the midnight section, Inferno Cortisonici (Varese, Italy).

The Demon's Doorstep

Official selection for 24th annual Tromadance 2024 Film Festival (Brooklyn, New York).
Winner of the the 2024 Filmsquatch Bigfoot Short Film Challenge at the Lake Charles Film Festival (Lake Charles, Louisiana).

Good Morning Moonbase

Official selection for the Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival 2024 (Brooklyn, NY).
Official selection for the 2025 Ely Film Festival (Ely, Minnesota).

Toilet Paper Ninja 4: Flush of the Forgotten

Official selection for the winter 2023 Shit In the Dirt Film Festival and winner of the "Best Editing" award (Portland, Maine).
Official selection for Click Fest 2024 (Fulton, Missouri).

The Lunch Break

Official selection for the 2023 Spooky Empire Horror Film Festival. Best visual effects nominee (Orlando, Florida).
Official selection for the 2024 Bad Film Fest (aka Drive-In Movie Fest). (New York City, New York).

Vortex of the Vampire

Official selection for the 2024 Nox International Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (Salto, Uruguay).
Official nominee for the 15-Second Story category of the Couch Film Festival Winter 2024 Edition (Toronto, Canada).

Fangs of the Forgotten

Official selection for the New Film Underground Vol. 12 - 2024. (Los Angeles, California).

The Iron Horse

Official selection for the New Film Underground Vol. 7 - 2023 (Los Angeles, California.)
Official selection for the 2023 Planet 9 Film Fest (Los Angeles, California)

Twenty Second Loop

Finalist in the Loop Lord category for the 2023 ZTV: Video Festival A GO-GO (Cincinnati, Ohio).

DORFMAN BROTHERS FILMS

WELCOME

THE CREW

MAXWELL

MAXWELL

MAXWELL

EMMETT

MAXWELL

MAXWELL

MICHAEL

MAXWELL

MICHAEL

SHORT FILMS

NO TRESPASSING IN TRANSYLVANIA

BEYOND THE BLEED LIMIT

DORFMAN RIDES AT DAWN

GOOD MORNING MOONBASE

FANGS OF THE FORGOTTEN

BIG TOP DROP

DRIFTERS DIAMONDS AND DYNAMITE

DEEP TROUBLE

DORFENSTEIN'S MONSTER

VAN IN SPACE

WHAT IS QUANTUM?

TIME OUT

THE DEMON'S DOORSTEP

ELBOWS OF THE APOCALYPSE

CINCINNATI JONES AND THE TOILET OF TERROR

CIRCUS OF THE STRANGE

NIGHTMARE IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD

TOILET PAPER NINJA #4: FLUSH OF THE FORGOTTEN

TOP DORF

WINTER OLYMPIC REVIEW 2022

THE DIVE

PLEASE WEAR A MASK

THE WASTED YEARS

GO VOTE

POSTERS

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Beyond the Bleed Limit

Deep Trouble

Time Out

Van in Space

Nightmare in North Hollywood

Terror On Twin Mountain

Dorfenstein's Monster

Dorfman Rides At Dawn

Circus of the Strange

The String Above the Stars

A Curse In the Cosmos

What Is Quantum?

MORE AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Big Top Drop

No Trespassing In Transylvania

The Demon's Doorstep

Good Morning Moonbase

Toilet Paper Ninja 4: Flush of the Forgotten

The Lunch Break

Vortex of the Vampire

Fangs of the Forgotten

The Iron Horse

Twenty Second Loop

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