Epilogue
Glen and Jasmin did the impossible. They survived a serial killer. Now they are attempting to put their lives back together. It turns out living is a lot harder than dying.
TIME & LOCATION
Jul 18, 2026, 5:00 PM
5:00pm | Screen 4 | Filmmaker Q&A, Circle Cinema
ABOUT
Short Film • Psychological Thriller/Horror • 19m • Broken Arrow, Oklahoma • English • Screen 4
$5 members, $8 non-members. Includes filmmaker Q&A | Additional Showtimes
Directed by: Laura Katherine Winter
Glen and Jasmine did the impossible: they survived a serial killer. Now they're trying to put their lives back together, and it turns out living is a lot harder than dying.
Epilogue picks up after the danger has passed, in the disorienting stretch where the world expects gratitude, closure, and a victim who neatly becomes a survivor. But the mind isn't that simple. Recovery isn't linear or certain. As Jasmin stands at the edge of suicidality and Glen pitches toward becoming the very thing that nearly destroyed them, the film asks what happens when survival itself becomes the burden.
A psychological thriller from emerging Oklahoma filmmaker Laura Katherine Winter.
About the Director
Laura Katherine Winter is an emerging indie filmmaker with deep Oklahoma roots and a lifelong passion for storytelling. After working at nearly every level of production, she made her directorial debut with Dammit, Lambotte at the Oklahoma City 48 Hour Film Festival, winning both Best Use of Dialogue and the Audience Choice Award. She followed it with her first student short, A Breath Away. Epilogue is her most ambitious project yet.
Laura is making her way through film school one class at a time while holding down a full-time career in the sciences. Decades of work in medicine have given her thousands of stories she can't tell directly, so she shares them through composite characters built from the most fascinating pieces of many lives. Her films pair the authenticity of lived experience with twists that keep audiences leaning forward until the credits roll.
Director's Statement
I love this project because it explores what happens after the "story" is over. Life isn't made of isolated stories. This is the story of a couple kidnapped and assaulted by a notorious serial killer. If it were a newspaper article, their bodies would have been found a few weeks later. If it were a comic book, the husband would have defeated the killer and emerged a superhero. If it were a true crime series, the family would tell us how much their loss changed everyone. Instead, this is a psychological thriller. Epilogue lives in the disorienting stretch after the physical danger has passed, where the world expects gratitude and closure and for a victim to become a survivor. The mind isn't that simple. Recovery isn't linear or certain. The trauma casts a long shadow, and some people never step back into the sunlight. Jasmin stands on the edge of active suicidality while Glen pitches headlong toward taking their attacker's place in the pantheon of serial killers. At its core, the film asks a difficult question: what happens when survival itself becomes the burden? When the worst thing imaginable is over, but it has changed you in ways you can't undo?
CAST & CREW
Laura Katherine Winter - Director & Writer
Nathaniel Davis - Writer
Bob Dodd - Writer
Yelena Krivosheyeva - Producer
KEY CAST
Brittnee Belden - "Jasmin"
James Allen Pershing - "Glen"
Wil Wilson - "James Ford"
Devin Montgomery - "Alec"
Amanda Steen - "Mandy"