NARRATIVE DIRECTING
UPCOMING...
Writer & Director of this coming-of-age psychological thriller set in my hometown of Elkin, North Carolina.
Part of the 2025 Frontierés Buyers Market at Cannes.
Currently in Post-Production.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Produced by Ford Films · Written by John Carlos Higgins · Original concept by Thomas Mendolia
When his son vanishes near a remote Appalachian town where all wireless signals are banned, a reclusive father is drawn into a community shrouded in silence — and forced to confront the strange phenomena lurking at the edges of communication, memory, and grief.
PAST WORK
MR. THISFORTHAT
2020
A girl from a broken home is visited in her closet by a mysterious creature who promises her anything she wants...at a price.
"Mendolia’s short works really well as just a creepy story about a girl, her family, and a nasty supernatural entity. Though it’s just as much a smart story of a family living in an industrial area where they’re burdened by all sorts of working class woes, and, much worse, preyed upon by a higher, darker power with an ability to transform their lives for the better but only concerned with tearing them apart."
-Father Son Holy Gore-
WHEN TREES FALL
2018
An estranged father tries to reignite his relationship with his daughter by taking her hunting, only to end in a life altering accident.
COMMERCIAL DIRECTING
WRITING
THE HOLLERS - FEATURE FILM
Appalachian Folk Horror
In a secluded Appalachian village where the dead don’t always stay buried, a rebellious girl hopes to inherit her family’s power of resurrection — but as the townsfolk tighten their hold and her brother begins to pull away, she’s forced to confront the cost of becoming what they revere.
