Margaret Caragan

Special Makeup Fx Artist for Film, TV, and Print

An intimate coming of age story of a pregnant single mother who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family.

Earth Mama

The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

Fruitvale Station

I specialize in prosthetic application, medical, horror and character makeup effects. I work solo and with assistants, custom or vendor sourced creations, and up to 18 person teams. 

Pandora FX

Retired assassin, Jack Lee, walked away from his violent past to raise his dead brother's daughter, Jaime, as his own. When crime lord Banducci kidnaps Jaime for a payback, Jack brings his gifted skills of extermination out of retirement and the streets of San Francisco become a battleground for a one man killing machine and ruthless, united mob bosses.

Fist 2 Fist 2: Weapon of Choice

Jason is an ex-child star who, in a desperate attempt to be back in the spotlight, decides to film a documentary of himself on a 30-day journey with heroin. He soon finds out how far he is willing to go to regain the fame he yearns for.

The Long Way Out

By Morning

When Ana's love for animals leads her to turn her home into a shelter for lost pets, her neighbors report her to the authorities.

Seeker & Fetch

One of God's ordained finds him self in a spiritual warfare.

Sinking to Rise

A lack of excitement in their lives prompts Kazuo, a Hawaiian born Japanese, to buy an airstream for him and his Japanese-American wife named Mitsuko. The airstream becomes a new found adventure and togetherness for the retired couple, until a manic stranger named Kilo invades them and takes them hostage for a day.

No. Four

Felix receives his pair of VR sunglasses from a crowdfunding campaign, and immerses himself in a game full of mystery.

Escape

Under the spell of a demon warlord, a meth-addicted, software engineer kills the demon's rival, and then runs for his life as the demon tries to cover-up the crime.

Red Ice

Hark is about a man who is confronted with a moral dilemma to save his own life or risk the life of another. The characters in Hark are ordinary people making choices to survive. The story draws attention to the harsh reality of human trafficking and shines light where there is darkness.

Hark

While pumping gas, a near destitute young woman encounters a homeless man looking to make some money. Having only a few cents on her, the young woman declines his requests for a couple dollars. But, the homeless man just won't take "no" for an answer and decides to "earn" some money from her by popping out a dent in her car.

Mr. Jackson

'The Process' is a very very dark comedy about Nathan Baxter, who, after being laid off by his heartless boss from a green energy company, becomes captivated by a self help motivational speaker's 'Process of Empowerment'. The speaker promises Nathan a fantastic life in three days if he can assert himself with those who have harmed him.

The Process

Two friends find consolation and hope after losing each other.

Heart and Soul

A cute young girl desperately tries to escape the senseless brutality of a faceless torturer, but things are not what they seem on one hellish day in the Land Down Under.

Down Under

A chest of memory, an all seeing eye and a group of kids facing a crisis they cannot identify. The skin of love is dying and it falls to the innocent to deliver the world from apathy and oblivion.

Death of Venus

In a world teetering on the brink of extinction, two desperate scavengers scour the desolate landscapes, their resources dwindling rapidly. As their situation grows increasingly dire, they stumble upon a glimmer of hope-a potential escape from their doomed reality.

Vultures

A Murder is discovered and Rookie police officer Wilson wants to go by the book. Sarge thinks it is a suicide and won't get involved. The Rookie goes it alone and makes a critical decision. Does the surprise ending justify her decision.

Rookie Blues

Marc and Abby go on a camping trip to rekindle their relationship and to remember who they truly are.

I Miss Us

DOUGLAS SIKES, a convicted war criminal from the American Zombie War, runs a black-market trading ring from the bowels of a walled-in quarantine zone turned for-profit prison.

ZTV: Sympathy for the Devil

This Spike & Mike documentary is a journey told through the stories of those they impacted - people like Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Nick Park and many others.

Animation Outlaws

Belichka Bar Campaign Story

When a crisis suddenly engulfs an elementary school campus, a determined art teacher tries everything she can to save her class.

1, 2, 3, All Eyes on Me

The Unexpected

A mixed martial arts fighter evokes an ominous spirit when struggling to cut twelve pounds the night before his weigh-in.

Spirit

A dullard Texas entrepreneur reinvents himself as a cowboy in China's tech wild west, but finds himself at the mercy of corrupt American expats looking to reinvent him once more.

Ghostbox Cowboy

I Heart Zombie

Friends are put to the ultimate test when a Demon invades their internet startup.

Sweet Kitty

For 100 years, stories have been told about a cult near Hackett Ranch where people have been kidnapped and never found. The owners of the ranch say they know nothing about it.

Lasso

A recovering suicidal college student teams up with a ghost to stop a killer in a small town.

Wallflower

The Girl In The Woods is a short film which explores crime, honor and violence in a post truth, hyper real world. It follows two social outcasts, Beatrix and Charlie, who find solace in one another while facing quirky characters they meet on the way from brothel girls to art dealers.

The Girl in the Woods

A short film about a boy who makes an unspoken deal with the monsters he sees in the dark, to find the courage to stand up for himself in the light of day.

Boy in the Dark

On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared.

Bokeh

As Carl Black gets the opportunity to move his family out of Chicago in hope of a better life, their arrival in Beverly Hills is timed with that city's annual purge, where all crime is legal for twelve hours.

Meet the Blacks

"Creature Features" see a has-been rock star Vincent Van Dahl hosts horror films in his haunted mansion with the help of his stalwart butler Mr. Livingston and quixotic housemate Tangella.

Creature Features

Sam Wolf, a teenager who discovers that he has the extraordinary ability to transport to another dimension/forest planet, must overcome in the midst of a terrible tragedy.

The Adventures of Sam Wolf

Adaline's terrifying visions bleed through from the past and become Daniela's present-day nightmares.

Adaline

Three Tutus and a Gun

When LIZ (Mackenzie Firgens) returns home on a college break with a broken heart, all she wants to do is hibernate and heal. But her best friend ASHLEY (Heather Tocquigny) coaxes her out of the house for an innocent, diverting rendezvous with high school ex-boyfriend DANNY (Jake White.) What they don't know is that truly terrifying things are about to happen.

Preston Castle

A stranger offers Steve a little help with his pee shyness, only to cause much worse problems later on.

Steve's Problem

Sammy Hagar & Friends: Personal Jesus

Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy has to fight his way through gunfire, explosions and killer street mimes in order to win her back.

Love Hurts

Stalked by a tipsy bridesmaid, an uptight ad agent retreats to an all night Gas n'Sip. There he meets a quirky cashier who lures him into something wild.

With You Around

Special effects make up artists compete in challenges.

Face Off

In a meditative sci-fi journey, eastern spirituality, ethereal music, sublime art mingle mystically with neuroscience and quantum physics; entwining three lives, deepening a timeless mystery.

The Wisdom Tree

In an attempt to promote inter-life equality, the Human Zombie Alliance organizes a marathon between the living and the dead.

Red Run

15 year old Mark is sent off to the pool to teach his younger, adopted brother, Samy, how to swim, but then he starts daydreaming of a beautiful lifeguard.

The Swim Trunks

One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the Northern California woods, a small group of hardened young bikers and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the girls becomes savagely possessed and a gang of "Rockabillies" seemingly from the 1950's descends upon them to collect what is growing inside her.

The Violent Kind

Impulsive choices are often born of deeper motives. A dark, brief tale of the path ill-taken.

Pretty

"TROUBLES ON MY MIND", reflecting America's current social and political issues that surrounds us, every day, set in a high school environment.

Troubles on My Mind

A mixed martial arts teacher is haunted by his failure to prevent the murder of young couple years earlier.

Fist 2 Fist

Two hilarious guys put on different sketch comedy performances for the masses to enjoy.

Smosh

Roman Rhodes scours the streets of Sacramento desperately searching for his lost love, Dacia. If he doesn't find her soon, all will be lost forever.

Three Words for Dacia

Bo Durant, a volatile, working-class gearhead, sees himself trapped in a world with few possibilities but when he falls off his stepdaughter's bike, suffers a concussion, stops eating, and smashes up the backyard with a sledgehammer, he begins to feel free for the first time in his life.

One Way to Valhalla

Oliver, a retired single parent, comes home from the store to find his autistic daughter, Ana, brutally abused. Taking matters into his own hands, the father sets off on a hunt to reap his revenge.

Mute

I Was Bitten

People recount harrowing encounters with dangerous animals, finding strength in loved ones and desire to live. Interviews and reenactments depict split-second survival decisions over 10 episodes.

I'm Alive

In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the details of a mission to save his neighbors from their troubles.

Harrison Montgomery

It starts out just another day at the office for cemetery plot salesman Walter till a disheveled Dickson enters his presentation room. He will require two deep graves.

Quiet Deep

Violent Jake

Once Beautiful Past tells the story of Henry Hall, a reclusive librarian in 1980 Berkeley California who discovers that he has the onset of Alzheimer's disease on the eve of his second marriage.

Once Beautiful Past

A dark comedy/drama about a daughter struggling with her mothers rapid descent into Alzheimers.

Not Fade Away

Three tech-savvy 8th-grade girls try to help their friend who's been cyber bullied. When popular girl, Skye receives threatening emails, text messages and voice-mails, her best friend Melody asks classmate Adina for help. When Adina says yes, her best friend Clara is confused. Skye is stuck up and has never been nice to them in the past.

Adina's Deck

The Shroud

One shocker after another as an ex-convict seeks revenge on those who ratted him out, and as he tries to fit back into society after he has been barbarianized by the criminal justice system.

Just Us

A '60s Grande Dame Guignol parody in which a mother and daughter botch what should be a simple act of kindness, wreaking havoc on an elderly priest.

The Marthas

Once Upon a Time...

This program discusses a specific moment in time where a person has changed history somehow with a new invention or technology.

Man, Moment, Machine

Documentary following sharks and shark attacks.

Shark Week

In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.

Sorry to Bother You

On the night of their wedding anniversary, a bohemian theatre actress and a beatnik inspired writer confront the truth of their relationship, dreams, and the city they once loved.

This Is Your Song

A horror anthology that explores various aspects of the human condition as each character traverses through tragedies caused by a supernatural entity.