Stanley's Girlfriend, a segment from Darclight Films' Trapped Ashes horror anthology, has been selected to play in official selection at Cannes in the short film programe.

Directed by Monte Hellman, Stanley's Girlfriend is one of five stories in Trapped Ashes alongside offerings from Joe Dante, Ken Russell, Sean Cunningham and JohnGaeta.

Darclight Films will be in Cannes selling rights to Stanley's Girlfriend, which centres on a pair of friends whose bond is broken by a betrayal with unforeseen consequences.

Darclight Films, the genre division of Arclight Films, handleshandled such titles as Wolf Creek, Perfect Creature, SPL and Hood Of Horror.