Austyn Rubalcava
FILMMAKER
Screenwriting, where all films and television begin. I hope you enjoy this smattering of artistic expression based in the written word that explores horror, love, fear, humor, and other things related to emotions and such.
When a young and inexperienced screenwriter lands a meeting over his latest script, he's stuck in the horrific situation of having a producer mistake his script for someone else's.
As you can see, this is a semi-finalist script for the good folks at SoCreate. They game me laurels. I didn't even have to pay for them.
A college couple in a now-empty apartment begins to reenact the night they first moved in, recapturing the magic of being young and in love.
Boxes is also the winner of the Academy of Art University's NXTUP FEST 2018 "Best 234 Scene." I was not given any laurels and thus had to find my own.
When his girlfriend dies in a tragic accident, a young man asks for help from his ex, both dealing with the break-up and the zombie in the closet.
Zombies, love, and blood. This is the kind of thing you want to read, right?
While on the set of his big college thesis film, Parker is facing the stress of filmmaking from all sides, especially the personal and private as he struggles to make his day.
This is for the filmmakers out there. It's hard, fun, and it'll break you down. It'll all be okay.
Think of this as a companion to Living in Oblivion, and if you haven't watched Living in Oblivion then go watch it. You're missing out.
Facing the financial struggle of college, a group of friends slowly create a drug empire in between classes as greed and the fear of getting caught reach a fever pitch.
The rise and fall story archetype is fascinating to me, seeing as you connect to it so deeply due to the fact that we all rise and fall, but when it happens on screen there's a sense of catharsis.
In the summer before college and the uncertain future, young Lane finds him and his friends coming face to face with a tentacled creature that inhabits hosts and kills them from the inside out.
Feature film time. This is my Alien and The Thing knock-off that I think is pretty good. Is it an alien? An earthly monster?
No clue. Let us find out together.
While getting away for an impromptu engagement party, a group of friends ends up in the horror of a home invasion from a group of impulsive drifters.
Home invasions are one of the scariest things in the world to me. It's your home, yours. And someone can just come in and do whatever they want.
Isn't that f***ed up?
When a group of college friends heads to the local spooky corn maze in the days before Halloween, they are treated to a brutal fight for survival as a local legend proves itself to be real, and looking for revenge.
I love slasher films. Deeply. And, hopefully, this is a bit refreshing for those who are fans. I wanted to write a slasher film that had elements we all love from those films, but was also a rollercoaster.
Maybe I got close?
This was also selected for the Horror Haus Film Festival as an unproduced screenplay. Kick. Ass.
This is a ONE ACT PLAY that I wrote seeking to enter it into a competition.
No one responded to it, and the one person who read it liked it. So, that's cool.
NOTE: This work is OFFENSIVE. Cause I'm a provocateur, which I think is just a pretentious way of saying jack**s.
Wrote this short film in a frenzy for the Open Screenplay Climate Change contest.
I wanted to do a western, so I found a way to write one.
This was actually a SEMI-FINALIST piece, which I dig.
This came upon me having a slightly longer lunch break and deciding to toss ten pages together.
Tells the story of a one-night stand, a snowstorm, and some magical powers.
Makes you wonder.
My Quarter-Finalist selection into the Killer Shorts contest for 2022. What a fun 80s inspired horror piece.
A modern retelling of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It's bloody and oh so good. It made me feel a HEAD of the curve.....
Sorry.