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Beef Creek - Animated Pilot

Withered occultist Mr. Petrulo runs a New York-style deli in middle of nowhere Wyoming with his team of misfit deli warriors -- Horace, Sandra, and Lily -- as well as useless manchild Ralphie. In the pilot, Ralphie falls into a pocket dimension inside the deli's dumpster and is seduced by a trash-dwelling succubus who lures in "white male saviors" and steals their souls. It's up to Horace to rush in and save him -- but he himself has a checkered past with the succubus, and when his wife Sandra discovers that Horace ventured into the dumpster, she recruits Lily to go with her to dole out her righteous vengeance.

  • Kurt Vinci
    Director
  • Seby X Martinez
    Director
  • Seby X Martinez
    Writer
  • Seby X Martinez
    Producer
  • Kurt Vinci
    Producer
  • Kelly Polk
    Key Cast
    "Lily"
  • Jean-Paul Zuhur
    Key Cast
    "Ralphie"
  • Seby X Martinez
    Key Cast
    "Horace, Sandra"
  • Lloyd Kaufman
    Key Cast
    "Mr. Petrulo"
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short, Television
  • Genres:
    comedy, action, horror, satire, animation
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 18 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 15, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Kurt Vinci, Seby X Martinez

Seby X Martinez and Kurt Vinci lead creative team Negative Kitty, formed in 2021 after the two worked together for years on indie animations and music videos for the likes of David Liebe Hart (Adult Swim) and Ice-T's infamous metal band Body Count. Based on the East Coast, USA, Negative Kitty creates works of visual insanity at the intersection of music, cinema and animation. Read more at negativekitty.com.

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Director Statement

Beef Creek is a project many years in the making, originally conceived in 2015. After several script revisions and pitch meetings that went nowhere in particular, we decided in 2023 to raise some funds and get to work making the pilot ourselves. This episode, a satirical glance at white-male-saviorism and questionable representation of so-called "exotic" cultures in media, was made over the course of 12 months by ourselves and our newly assembled team of animators, musicians and voice actors. It is our most ambitious project to date and we're excited to unleash it unto the world.