Texas Premiere of Marginalia with Director Mark Beal in Person at The Queen Theatre
Date: 10/30/2025
Time: 6:45 pm & 8:30 pm
Location: The Queen Theatre
The Queen’s Film Society will host the Texas premiere of Marginalia (2025) at The Queen Theatre in downtown Bryan on October 30, 2025, with screenings at 6:45 pm and 8:30 pm. Local filmmaker, writer-director Mark Beal, will introduce the film and join the audience post-screening for a discussion about bringing his strange and striking vision to life – entirely within the Brazos Valley.
Shot during spring break 2022 and completed over the next two years, Marginalia is a handcrafted black-and-white feature set in the eerie world of a medieval abbey. Summoned to Karnstein Abbey to serve as a mourner at the funeral of their recently
deceased abbess, innocent Sister Trista discovers a web of evil involving demons, witchcraft and killer rabbits. But Sister Trista has a secret of her own.
Made for only $5,000, the production drew almost entirely on local talent and locations. “Aside from a handful of people from Houston, it’s really a home-grown film,” Beal said. Main cast members include Jessica Bell (Sister Trista), Jessica Lemmons (the Prioress), Seraluna Sanchez (Mother Karna), Joel Jeremy Herrera (Pazuzu), and Savannah Davi Barrera (Sister Agna)—all with roots in the Bryan–College Station area. Nearly all the smaller roles were also from the local community.
All interior scenes were filmed at The Matthews Group studio in Bryan, generously donated by Drew Matthews, while the exterior sequences were shot in Wellborn on the property of sculptor Larry Scheuckler, with additional inserts carefully filmed in Beal’s College Station backyard to maintain the illusion of the medieval European setting.
After a world premiere at the Horror-on-Sea Film Festival in Southend-on-Sea, UK, and a U.S. premiere at GenreBlast 2025—where it won Best FX Feature—Marginalia now comes
home for its Texas debut.
The evening will include the 64-minute screening, an introduction prior to the film and onstage Q&A with Beal following it. This is a chance for local film students, artists, and
cinephiles to connect with the creative local community that made this motion picture possible.