On 17-year-old Kate's last weekend in town, she and her friends plan to spend it together at SpaceCON– the local science fiction convention they attend every year. At the convention Kate meets Paul, a recently turned teen-vampire (who is also dressed as one). But when Kate tries to make a move on him, he accidentally bites her in the neck. Kate and her friends soon discover Paul is not the only vampire at the convention, and it is up to them to stop the vampires and find a way to turn Kate back before it is too late. I will be perfectly honest with you, Emily Hagins really fracking amazes me. By the time she was 11-years old, Hagins had produced several shorts and penned the script for her feature-length debut, Pathogen. At age 16, Hagins wrote and produced her second feature, The Retelling. Hagins was 17-years old when Justin Johnson,...
- 3/19/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
The important thing to remember about Emily Hagins, the budding filmmaker at the center of the documentary Zombie Girl: The Movie (which has its New York City premiere tonight at 92YTribeca), is that she’s a 12-year-old. A real 12-year-old, not a miniature adult of the type we’ve been conditioned to expect from the cinema, and that no doubt would have taken center stage if this were a calculated reality-tv program.
In that type of show, Zombie Girl’s opening scene, in which Hagins appears confused by an interviewer’s query about how many shots she plans to do that day, might seem intended to mock her inexperience. But this much more empathetic portrait makes a different point: Emily is not so concerned with all the technical specifics that grown-up moviemakers busy themselves with; all she knows is that she wants to go out there and make her own zombie feature,...
In that type of show, Zombie Girl’s opening scene, in which Hagins appears confused by an interviewer’s query about how many shots she plans to do that day, might seem intended to mock her inexperience. But this much more empathetic portrait makes a different point: Emily is not so concerned with all the technical specifics that grown-up moviemakers busy themselves with; all she knows is that she wants to go out there and make her own zombie feature,...
- 10/2/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Meet the youngest zombie filmmaker on the block, 12 year-old Emily Hagins. Her film "Zombie Girl: The Movie" will be screened at Comic-Con. The film was directed and produced by Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall, Erik Mauck. The film features Emily Hagins, Megan Hagins, Jerry Hagins, Rebecca Elliot, Harry Knowles and Tim League. The film chronicles the passion, creative drive, and supportive family of an extraordinary pre-teen girl following her filmmaking dreams: Emily Hagins is making a zombie movie. It.s feature-length, it.s bloody, and the zombies don.t run. But there.s one big difference between her film and every other zombie movie you.ve ever seen: Emily is twelve years old. Most twelve-year-olds are busy with friends, homework, and online chatting.
- 7/21/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Festival programmers Shade Rupe and Chris Bavota announce their first collaboration: the Deep Red International Festival of Fantastic Film, or Drifff, debuting in Portland, Oregon at the Clinton Street Theater, April 24-25, and in Seattle at the historic Grand Illusion Cinema, May 8-9. Intent on rescuing genre films from premiering on video store shelves, Shade and Chris set out to unearth classic and contemporary 'cult movies' that deserved to be showcased on the big screen, and thus, Drifff was born. Presented by Rude Shape Productions and Oddity Cinema, Drifff 2009 features northwest premieres, special guest Q and As, award-winning shorts, door prizes and more gore than you can stab a stake through. The fest will present the northwest premieres of several feature films including David Gregory’s nightmarish Plague Town (USA), Martin Weisz's Grimm Love (Germany) based on the homosexual cannibal killer Armin Miewes, Jonathan Lewis’ Black Devil Doll (USA...
- 4/7/2009
- ESplatter.com
Festival programmers Shade Rupe and Chris Bavota announce their first collaboration: the Deep Red International Festival of Fantastic Film, or Drifff, debuting in Portland, Oregon at the Clinton Street Theater, April 24-25, and in Seattle at the historic Grand Illusion Cinema, May 8-9. Intent on rescuing genre films from premiering on video store shelves, Shade and Chris set out to unearth classic and contemporary 'cult movies' that deserved to be showcased on the big screen, and thus, Drifff was born. Presented by Rude Shape Productions and Oddity Cinema, Drifff 2009 features northwest premieres, special guest Q & As, award-winning shorts, door prizes and more gore than you can stab a stake through.
We are proud to present the northwest premieres of several feature films including David Gregory’s nightmarish Plague Town (USA), Martin Weisz's Grimm Love (Germany) based on the homosexual cannibal killer Armin Miewes, Jonathan Lewis’ Black Devil Doll (USA...
We are proud to present the northwest premieres of several feature films including David Gregory’s nightmarish Plague Town (USA), Martin Weisz's Grimm Love (Germany) based on the homosexual cannibal killer Armin Miewes, Jonathan Lewis’ Black Devil Doll (USA...
- 4/2/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The 2009 Hot Docs lineup has officially been announced and I'm extremely excited. For one, this will be a good opportunity to catch up on many of the films I missed at Sundance. Also, I'm currently not working, so I will have all of free time to dedicate to the festival. Nice. Luckily, there's a shit ton of movies that I'm interested in, so it won't be hard to fill out my schedule (It never really is). I've posted some crucial picks below, but you can also check out the full schedule for yourself over at the Hot Docs website [1]. What are you looking forward to this year? Objectified [2] Directed by Gary Hustwit [3] From telephones to toothpicks, nearly everything that fills our world is designed. Objects look and work the way they do because someone made them that way. Director Gary Hustwit examines industrial design's sweeping cultural impact with the same...
- 3/25/2009
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
As you probably know, Sundance isn't the only thing cookin' in Utah right now. There's also the Slamdance Film Festival, which has featured the new documentary, Zombie Girl: The Movie. Emily Hagins is 16. And she has already directed two feature films.
The first movie, Pathogen was made when Hagins was only 12 years old, if you can believe it, and her experience on that film is the subject of this new documentary. As you would expect, Pathogen is a real home grown operation, with Emily's mother serving multiple functions on the film and neighborhood kids playing the parts of the zombies.
Here's the trailer for Zombie Girl, directed by Justin Johnson and Aaron Marshall.
Zombie Girl is through with its Slamdance run, although I'd be surprised if it didn't pop up again sooner or later.
The first movie, Pathogen was made when Hagins was only 12 years old, if you can believe it, and her experience on that film is the subject of this new documentary. As you would expect, Pathogen is a real home grown operation, with Emily's mother serving multiple functions on the film and neighborhood kids playing the parts of the zombies.
Here's the trailer for Zombie Girl, directed by Justin Johnson and Aaron Marshall.
Zombie Girl is through with its Slamdance run, although I'd be surprised if it didn't pop up again sooner or later.
- 1/21/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
The 2009 installment of the Slamdance Film Festival (of which Fangoria is a media sponsor) gets underway today in Park City, Utah (see previous item here), and one movie that's already got audiences buzzing is Zombie Girl: The Movie. "Emily Hagins is making a zombie movie. It’s feature-length, it’s bloody, and the zombies don’t run. Just like it should be. But there’s one difference between her film and every other zombie movie you’ve ever seen: Emily is twelve."
For the documentary, Directed and Produced by Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall, and Erik Mauck (first-time feature filmmakers themselves), the trio was drawn to their subject after seeing a web posting in 2005 that read "Need 12-15 year olds for zombie movie directed by twelve-year-old girl."
Fangoria has a look at the trailer for Zombie Girl: The Movie below, and if you're in Park City for the festival, you can...
For the documentary, Directed and Produced by Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall, and Erik Mauck (first-time feature filmmakers themselves), the trio was drawn to their subject after seeing a web posting in 2005 that read "Need 12-15 year olds for zombie movie directed by twelve-year-old girl."
Fangoria has a look at the trailer for Zombie Girl: The Movie below, and if you're in Park City for the festival, you can...
- 1/15/2009
- Fangoria
After speaking with Aaron Marshall and Justin Johnson, two of the directors of Zombie Girl: The Movie, before the screening, I caught up with them after seeing the film and loving it. Luckily, Eric Mauck, the third director of the film, had the time to talk to me for part ...
- 10/31/2008
- by Adam Sweeney
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Following up the world premiere of their documentary Zombie Girl: The Movie at Fantastic Fest 2008 I caught up with 66% of the directing team of the film I called a ‘candy store Heart of Darkness‘. Aaron Marshall, Justin Johnson and the absent Eric Mauck followed young filmmaker Emily Hagins as she set out to make her first feature film, a zombie film, at the tender age of 12! They did so for two years and came up with a very fun and inspiring documentary as the end result. What follows is the conversation I had with Aaron and Justin… first starting with a bit of background from each filmmaker.
- 10/4/2008
- by Mack
- Screen Anarchy
Most 12 year old kids are busy updating their MySpace pages or planning on what they'll wear to school the next day, but not Emily Hagins. She decided to direct her own feature film about zombies entitled Pathogen after watching a screening of Undead, and Zombie Girl: The Movie is documentary that chronicles her effort from concept to the first screening. Emily's a local gal, so this movie was a shoe-in for this year's Fantastic Fest. Filmmakers Aaron Marshall, Eric Mauck and Justin Johnson stumbled across Emily and her movie when they s ...
- 9/29/2008
- by Kevin Kelly
- Spout
It was a subject for a film that was too good to pass up. A young local 12-year old girl put out a casting call for her film, a feature length zombie movie. What could 12-year old Emily possibly know about making a film? How well versed is she in the zombie genre? Can she follow her dream, make her movie, and still keep up with her homework? Directors Aaron Marshall, Justin Johnson and Erik Mauck set out to follow their subject for the two years that it took Emily to make her first film. The end result is a candy store version of Heart of Darkness as we watch the young filmmaker learn the ups and downs of trying to put her vision up on the screen. ...
- 9/22/2008
- by Mack
- Screen Anarchy
We'll have lots of guests at Fantastic Fest this year, more than ever before. Here are just a few of the many interesting people who'll be joining us this year, in no particular order. We'll continually update our roster so keep an eye on this page.
Filmmakers and Actors
Norihiro Koizumi (Gachi Boy: Wrestling With A Memory)
A young, talented director who is quickly making his mark in the Japanese filmmaking scene. At the tender age of 25, he directed his first major feature-length film, “Midnight Sun.” “Midnight Sun” was not only critically-acclaimed, but became a commercial hit, grossing over 1 billion yen at the Japanese boxoffice. His latest film, “Gachi Boy Wrestling with a Memory,” won the grand prix at the Udine Far East Film Festival.
Nacho Vigalondo (Shorts Program)
Last year at Fantastic Fest noted Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo won the Next Wave competition, later securing domestic distribution for Timecrimes...
Filmmakers and Actors
Norihiro Koizumi (Gachi Boy: Wrestling With A Memory)
A young, talented director who is quickly making his mark in the Japanese filmmaking scene. At the tender age of 25, he directed his first major feature-length film, “Midnight Sun.” “Midnight Sun” was not only critically-acclaimed, but became a commercial hit, grossing over 1 billion yen at the Japanese boxoffice. His latest film, “Gachi Boy Wrestling with a Memory,” won the grand prix at the Udine Far East Film Festival.
Nacho Vigalondo (Shorts Program)
Last year at Fantastic Fest noted Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo won the Next Wave competition, later securing domestic distribution for Timecrimes...
- 9/8/2008
- by noreply@blogger.com (Lars Nilsen)
- FantasticFest.com
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