Brock Media, the TV and Film production company backed by BBC Studios, is making its first venture into the audio space. The podcast, Never Told, is an anthology series featuring eight stories written and performed by acclaimed writers, artists and filmmakers including Harry Trevaldwyn, Joanne Lau, Emma Jane Unsworth, Deborah Haywood, Thaddea Graham, Esther Smith, Zing Tsjeng and Caleb Azumah Nelson.
- 5/15/2023
- by PodcastingToday
- Podcastingtoday
Arrow Films announced that they are set to release British Dark Comedy Horror A Serial Killer’S Guide To Life on iTunes and Digital HD in the Us and Canada on January 13th. Described as “Sightseers meets Thelma and Louise”, FrightFest hit A Serial Killer’S Guide To Life follows Lou Farnt (Katie …
The post Arrow Films set to Release A Serial Killers Guide To Life in the Us & Canada Jan 13th appeared first on Hnn | Horrornews.net.
The post Arrow Films set to Release A Serial Killers Guide To Life in the Us & Canada Jan 13th appeared first on Hnn | Horrornews.net.
- 12/30/2019
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
A life coach with a deadly side and a self-help addict looking for an escape go on a bloody road trip to remember (or dismember) in A Serial Killer's Guide to Life, and following its well-received festival run, it's been announced that the horror comedy is coming to iTunes and Digital HD on January 13th, 2020 in the Us and Canada via Arrow Films:
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Arrow Films is thrilled to announce that it will be releasing the critically acclaimed jet-black British comedy feature film A Serial Killer’S Guide To Life in the Us and Canada on iTunes and Digital HD on January 13th, 2020.
Described as “Sightseers meets Thelma and Louise”, A Serial Killer’S Guide To Life is the debut feature film from Writer-Director Staten Cousins Roe, produced by Forward Motion Pictures – a multi award-winning production company run by husband-wife duo Staten Cousins Roe and Poppy Roe,...
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Arrow Films is thrilled to announce that it will be releasing the critically acclaimed jet-black British comedy feature film A Serial Killer’S Guide To Life in the Us and Canada on iTunes and Digital HD on January 13th, 2020.
Described as “Sightseers meets Thelma and Louise”, A Serial Killer’S Guide To Life is the debut feature film from Writer-Director Staten Cousins Roe, produced by Forward Motion Pictures – a multi award-winning production company run by husband-wife duo Staten Cousins Roe and Poppy Roe,...
- 12/11/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Arrow Films will be releasing the critically acclaimed jet-black comedy feature A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life in the UK, Us and Canada on digital platforms from January 13, 2020, we’ve learned today. Along with that exclusive news, we’ve also been provided with the film’s official trailer, which you can check out below! Described as “Sightseers meets Thelma and Louise” (Deborah Haywood, […]...
- 10/16/2019
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
This evening the 2019 Critics Circle Award were held at the May Fair Hotel in London. Each year the ceremony brings together the finest in modern film and 2019 continues to focus a wider spotlight than the glitzier events.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ cruelty-saoked period drama The Favourite is rightly, well – the favourite for many of the awards. Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War joins Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma and Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince with five nominations apiece.
As well as the winners (indicated in Bold) below we were on the red carpet to speak with the nominees and guests at the event.
We spoke to Richard E. Grant (Star Wars Episode IX), Anya Taylor-Joy, Fionn Whitehead (Back Mirror Bandersnatch, Dunkirk & many more this evening the 2019 Critics Circle Award, which were held at the May Fair Hotel in London. Each year the ceremony brings together...
Yorgos Lanthimos’ cruelty-saoked period drama The Favourite is rightly, well – the favourite for many of the awards. Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War joins Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma and Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince with five nominations apiece.
As well as the winners (indicated in Bold) below we were on the red carpet to speak with the nominees and guests at the event.
We spoke to Richard E. Grant (Star Wars Episode IX), Anya Taylor-Joy, Fionn Whitehead (Back Mirror Bandersnatch, Dunkirk & many more this evening the 2019 Critics Circle Award, which were held at the May Fair Hotel in London. Each year the ceremony brings together...
- 1/20/2019
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A total of 10 recent European films were showcased in the initiative.
German director Anne Zohra Berrached’s late-term abortion drama 24 Weeks has scooped the top €30,000 audience award of the third edition of the online Artekino Festival, running Dec 1-31, 2018.
A joint-venture between Franco-German broadcaster Arte and Paris-based film industry platform Festival Scope, the online festival was available in 45 territories across Europe and in several languages including, for the first time, Ukrainian, Romanian, Hungarian and Portuguese.
A total of 10 recent European films were showcased in the initiative, including UK director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion and Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska’s Mug.
German director Anne Zohra Berrached’s late-term abortion drama 24 Weeks has scooped the top €30,000 audience award of the third edition of the online Artekino Festival, running Dec 1-31, 2018.
A joint-venture between Franco-German broadcaster Arte and Paris-based film industry platform Festival Scope, the online festival was available in 45 territories across Europe and in several languages including, for the first time, Ukrainian, Romanian, Hungarian and Portuguese.
A total of 10 recent European films were showcased in the initiative, including UK director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion and Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska’s Mug.
- 1/9/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Pin Cushion The online ArteKino Festival, showcasing European films, has begun its third edition. Among the films screening between now and December 31, is the UK's Pin Cushion, directed by Deborah Haywood.
There are 10 films in the line-up, with 5,000 virtual seats per film, available for free in 45 European countries. The films will also be shown in cinemas across the continent to preserve the big screen experience.
ArteKino Festival "strives to promote the circulation of European films and to give a large audience access to feature films that might otherwise have difficulty finding distribution despite critical success and inclusion in festivals".
Viewers will also have the chance to vote for the ArteKino Audience Award and they will, in turn, be eligible to win a trip to the Locarno Festival, flight, hotel and accreditation included.
Artekino - an initiative devised by Arte France Cinema, Arte Geie, and...
There are 10 films in the line-up, with 5,000 virtual seats per film, available for free in 45 European countries. The films will also be shown in cinemas across the continent to preserve the big screen experience.
ArteKino Festival "strives to promote the circulation of European films and to give a large audience access to feature films that might otherwise have difficulty finding distribution despite critical success and inclusion in festivals".
Viewers will also have the chance to vote for the ArteKino Audience Award and they will, in turn, be eligible to win a trip to the Locarno Festival, flight, hotel and accreditation included.
Artekino - an initiative devised by Arte France Cinema, Arte Geie, and...
- 12/2/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Festival will showcase 10 European films online in 45 territories over the month of December.
UK director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion and Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska’s Mug will be among ten European films competing in an expanded third edition of the ArteKino Festival, running Dec 1-31 this year.
The online festival - which is a joint venture between Franco-German broadcaster Arte and Paris-based film professionals platform Festival Scope - lasted 10-days in its first two editions.
“We really wanted to up the festival’s game this year and make it as accessible and attractive to as large a public audience as possible,...
UK director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion and Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska’s Mug will be among ten European films competing in an expanded third edition of the ArteKino Festival, running Dec 1-31 this year.
The online festival - which is a joint venture between Franco-German broadcaster Arte and Paris-based film professionals platform Festival Scope - lasted 10-days in its first two editions.
“We really wanted to up the festival’s game this year and make it as accessible and attractive to as large a public audience as possible,...
- 11/27/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Guests at the event include Clare Binns of Picturehouse Cinemas.
UK exhibitors’ conference This Way Up has announced speakers for its fifth edition, which will take place in Liverpool on December 5-6 2018.
Speakers will include Clare Binns, joint managaing director of Picturehouse Cinemas, who will take part in an ‘in conversation with’ event analysing her career and insights on leadership.
A segment examining the story of ‘From distributor to screen’ will involve a discussion between Mia Bays, producer and director-at-large of Birds’ Eye View, director Deborah Haywood and actor Joanna Scanlan. It will be hosted by Annabel Grundy, major programmes...
UK exhibitors’ conference This Way Up has announced speakers for its fifth edition, which will take place in Liverpool on December 5-6 2018.
Speakers will include Clare Binns, joint managaing director of Picturehouse Cinemas, who will take part in an ‘in conversation with’ event analysing her career and insights on leadership.
A segment examining the story of ‘From distributor to screen’ will involve a discussion between Mia Bays, producer and director-at-large of Birds’ Eye View, director Deborah Haywood and actor Joanna Scanlan. It will be hosted by Annabel Grundy, major programmes...
- 11/2/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
¨Surprise¨ and ¨regret¨ over 50% cut to film sales support.
European sales agents are expressing ¨surprise¨ and ¨regret¨ at Creative Europe Media’s decision to cut support for European Film Promotion’s (Efp) Film Sales Support (Fss) fund by 50% for 2018/19.
Until now, Fss had covered 50% of classical marketing measures up to a maximum of €5,000 for a sales company’s promotional campaign, including at Sundance, Tribeca, Hot Docs, Toronto, Hong Kong’s Filmart, the Asian Film Market in Busan or the American Film Market (Afm) in La.
Sales companies who wish to apply for Fss support must become contractual co-beneficiaries, and have...
European sales agents are expressing ¨surprise¨ and ¨regret¨ at Creative Europe Media’s decision to cut support for European Film Promotion’s (Efp) Film Sales Support (Fss) fund by 50% for 2018/19.
Until now, Fss had covered 50% of classical marketing measures up to a maximum of €5,000 for a sales company’s promotional campaign, including at Sundance, Tribeca, Hot Docs, Toronto, Hong Kong’s Filmart, the Asian Film Market in Busan or the American Film Market (Afm) in La.
Sales companies who wish to apply for Fss support must become contractual co-beneficiaries, and have...
- 8/1/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Deborah Haywood’s feature debut heralds a tough, distinctive new voice in British film
I have rarely been as troubled by a film as I was, on two separate viewings, by Pin Cushion. A study of the systematic dismantling of the cosy lives of two women, a misfit mother and her teenage daughter, by the bullies that target them, the film was always going to be tough viewing. But there’s a steely savagery in the final act that is genuinely unsettling; a scalding anger in the writing that is as unnerving as it is unfeigned. The film is like a cross between a crocheted bunny and a nail bomb.
And yet, as uncomfortable as I found it, there’s no question that director Deborah Haywood (this is her debut feature) is a British film-maker with a distinctive voice and considerable talent. There is something of early Yorgos Lanthimos in the slightly mannered performances,...
I have rarely been as troubled by a film as I was, on two separate viewings, by Pin Cushion. A study of the systematic dismantling of the cosy lives of two women, a misfit mother and her teenage daughter, by the bullies that target them, the film was always going to be tough viewing. But there’s a steely savagery in the final act that is genuinely unsettling; a scalding anger in the writing that is as unnerving as it is unfeigned. The film is like a cross between a crocheted bunny and a nail bomb.
And yet, as uncomfortable as I found it, there’s no question that director Deborah Haywood (this is her debut feature) is a British film-maker with a distinctive voice and considerable talent. There is something of early Yorgos Lanthimos in the slightly mannered performances,...
- 7/15/2018
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Last weekend was a historically low three-day period.
After a very quiet period at the UK box office - last week’s three-day weekend was the second lowest since 2011 - cinemagoers are expected back into the theatres from today (July 13).
Walt Disney is opening Brad Bird’s Pixar title Incredibles 2. The first film, also directed by Bird, grossed $62m at the UK box office back in 2004 to make it the fourth-highest grossing film of that year.
Action thriller Skyscraper, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, hits theatres around the world this weekend, including 542 sites in the UK via Universal.
Sergio...
After a very quiet period at the UK box office - last week’s three-day weekend was the second lowest since 2011 - cinemagoers are expected back into the theatres from today (July 13).
Walt Disney is opening Brad Bird’s Pixar title Incredibles 2. The first film, also directed by Bird, grossed $62m at the UK box office back in 2004 to make it the fourth-highest grossing film of that year.
Action thriller Skyscraper, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, hits theatres around the world this weekend, including 542 sites in the UK via Universal.
Sergio...
- 7/13/2018
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
In Deborah Haywood’s debut feature Pin Cushion, Joanna Scanlan and Lily Newmark (Solo: A Star Wars Story) star as a close-knit mother and daughter who move to a new town for a fresh start, only to encounter bullying at the hands of those who refuse to see beyond their apparent oddities and twee lifestyle. Loosely based on Haywood’s own childhood, the film relies heavily on its inspired magical realist and whimsical aesthetics to tell a beautifully well observed and sometimes harrowing story of alienation and painful childhood memories.
Lynn (Scanlan) and daughter Iona (Newmark) have always had a strong mother/daughter bond. Spending every waking hours together and referring to each other as “Dafty 1 and 2”, the pair had until now lived a beautifully sheltered and trouble-free life, but all this changes when they move to a new neighbourhood. Soon Lynn’s visible physical disability and Iona’s odd...
Lynn (Scanlan) and daughter Iona (Newmark) have always had a strong mother/daughter bond. Spending every waking hours together and referring to each other as “Dafty 1 and 2”, the pair had until now lived a beautifully sheltered and trouble-free life, but all this changes when they move to a new neighbourhood. Soon Lynn’s visible physical disability and Iona’s odd...
- 7/13/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
wide
Incredibles 2
Holly Hunter and Sarah Vowell costar (in voice performances) as part of a family of superheroes. Also costarring Catherine Keener, Sophia Bush, and Isabella Rossellini. (male writer-director)
find cinemas
The Secret of Marrowbone
Anya Taylor-Joy and Mia Goth costar in this thriller about a family of siblings who cover up the death of their mother. (male writer-director)
find cinemas
limited
Pin Cushion
Deborah Haywood writes and directs this drama about a mother and daughter (Joanna Scanlan and Lily Newmark) making a new life in a new town.
find cinemas
Summer 1993 [pictured]
Carla Simón writes (with Valentina Viso) and directs this drama about a young girl (Laia Artigas) coping with the sudden death of her mother.
find cinemas
Racer and the Jailbird
Adèle Exarchopoulos costars as a race driver who gets romantically involved with a (male) gangster in this crime drama. (male writers and director)
find cinemas
Please let me...
Incredibles 2
Holly Hunter and Sarah Vowell costar (in voice performances) as part of a family of superheroes. Also costarring Catherine Keener, Sophia Bush, and Isabella Rossellini. (male writer-director)
find cinemas
The Secret of Marrowbone
Anya Taylor-Joy and Mia Goth costar in this thriller about a family of siblings who cover up the death of their mother. (male writer-director)
find cinemas
limited
Pin Cushion
Deborah Haywood writes and directs this drama about a mother and daughter (Joanna Scanlan and Lily Newmark) making a new life in a new town.
find cinemas
Summer 1993 [pictured]
Carla Simón writes (with Valentina Viso) and directs this drama about a young girl (Laia Artigas) coping with the sudden death of her mother.
find cinemas
Racer and the Jailbird
Adèle Exarchopoulos costars as a race driver who gets romantically involved with a (male) gangster in this crime drama. (male writers and director)
find cinemas
Please let me...
- 7/13/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
You would think that portraying a role similar to yourself, and embodying the sensibilities of a figure that resonates with you, would make for a rather straightforward performance for an actor. Yet to emotionally connect with a likeminded character, and subsequently present that on screen, was one of the biggest challenges that gifted newcomer Lily Newmark faced when taking on her first leading role in Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion.
“Iona as a character is very much like myself, I actually found it slightly unnerving how similar we are,” she told us during a brief moment on the set of the film, which we visited on a brisk Derbyshire afternoon. “It doesn’t take a lot of preparation to be that character but it’s a challenge in a sense that it’s difficult to show such a true side to yourself. Everything that Iona expresses in this film I have expressed myself,...
“Iona as a character is very much like myself, I actually found it slightly unnerving how similar we are,” she told us during a brief moment on the set of the film, which we visited on a brisk Derbyshire afternoon. “It doesn’t take a lot of preparation to be that character but it’s a challenge in a sense that it’s difficult to show such a true side to yourself. Everything that Iona expresses in this film I have expressed myself,...
- 7/12/2018
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In his latest interview/podcast, host Stuart Wright talks with Deborah Haywood about her debut feature films Pin Cushion, which will be released in select cinemas across the UK from Friday 13th July.
Super close Mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren’t going great for either of them. Iona struggles with the girls, who act more like frenemies than friends, and Belinda won’t give Lyn her stepladders back. Both Mother and Daughter retreat into fantasy and lies.
Super close Mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren’t going great for either of them. Iona struggles with the girls, who act more like frenemies than friends, and Belinda won’t give Lyn her stepladders back. Both Mother and Daughter retreat into fantasy and lies.
- 7/6/2018
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
"Don't worry, we'll take care of you." Cleopatra Entertainment has debuted the official Us trailer for quirky British coming-of-age drama Pin Cushion, a film about a mother and daughter drifting apart. This is the feature debut of an award-winning shorts filmmaker named Deborah Haywood, and it first premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year. Lily Newmark stars as a young girl raised by her strict, very close, kooky but loving mother. She reaches a point where she feels the need to go out and make new friends, but in the process everything starts to fall apart. Joanna Scanlan stars as her mother, and the cast includes Loris Scarpa and Sacha Cordy-Nice. I saw this film in Venice last year and it's very weird yet oddly endearing, but a bit too dark and melodramatic for my taste. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Deborah Haywood's Pin Cushion, direct ...
- 5/29/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Lead singer Simon Neil writes screenplay with director Jamie Adams; band to record new album for film.
Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro are teaming with Welsh writer-director Jamie Adams on Balance, Not Symmetry which is set to shoot in Glasgow in July.
The band have written and recorded a 12-track album of original material, also called Balance, Not Symmetry, which will be released towards the end of 2018. The band will also tour the album at the same time of the release of the film, which is set for Q1, 2019.
Balance, Not Symmetry is about a Us student studying at Glasgow School of Art...
Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro are teaming with Welsh writer-director Jamie Adams on Balance, Not Symmetry which is set to shoot in Glasgow in July.
The band have written and recorded a 12-track album of original material, also called Balance, Not Symmetry, which will be released towards the end of 2018. The band will also tour the album at the same time of the release of the film, which is set for Q1, 2019.
Balance, Not Symmetry is about a Us student studying at Glasgow School of Art...
- 5/11/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to What Haunts Us, Paige Goldberg Tomach’s feature documentary debut that follows her own investigation into a sexual predator — a beloved teacher and coach who preyed upon boys from her own 1979 high school class at the prestigious Porter Gaud School in Charleston, Sc. She began her probe after six boys from her graduating class later committed suicide, leading to her uncovering the dark secret. The pic, executive produced by Frank Marshall (Sully), Matt Tolmach (Amazing Spider-Man 1&2) and Regina K. Scully (Money Monster), will now get a theatrical release May 11 in Los Angeles and New York ahead of its May 14 broadcast premiere on Starz. A digital release is slated for later in the summer.
Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to Pin Cushion, the drama written and directed by Deborah Haywood that opened last year’s International Film Critics’ Week section at Venice.
Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to Pin Cushion, the drama written and directed by Deborah Haywood that opened last year’s International Film Critics’ Week section at Venice.
- 4/27/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
In his latest interview/podcast, host Stuart Wright talks with Deborah Haywood about her debut feature films Pin Cushion, which received its London Premiere on Sunday 22 April as part of the East End Film Festival and was followed by an extended panel discussion about Female Filmmakers in partnership with Underwire Festival.
Lyn (Joanna Scanlan) and her daughter Iona (rising star Lily Newmark) arrive in town looking for a fresh start, but as Iona longs for a life beyond the confines of their home, the eccentric fantasy world they’ve built for themselves starts to crumble. Casting a keen eye on the complex relationships between women, this deliciously dark and utterly distinctive British debut infuses its dreamlike, fairytale quality with shards of something much sharper and more troubling.
Lyn (Joanna Scanlan) and her daughter Iona (rising star Lily Newmark) arrive in town looking for a fresh start, but as Iona longs for a life beyond the confines of their home, the eccentric fantasy world they’ve built for themselves starts to crumble. Casting a keen eye on the complex relationships between women, this deliciously dark and utterly distinctive British debut infuses its dreamlike, fairytale quality with shards of something much sharper and more troubling.
- 4/24/2018
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Deborah Haywood’s “Pin Cushion” is a decidedly hateful movie. And it’s indiscriminating in its hatred; it loathes everyone. “Pin Cushion” is full of viciously mean-spirited characters and ambivalent pedestrians; whenever you think a character is about to do the right thing, they go ahead and do something far worse than you could have imagined. Everyone aside from the two lead characters is evil; people go about their daily lives looking to inflict as much pain and damage unto others as is humanly possible.
- 3/30/2018
- by Eli Fine
- The Playlist
We go to film festivals to find the stories that follow a different rhythm, one not so easily classified by trends or genre, deemed too difficult to market. These are often the films that affect us most deeply. While far from a traditional genre film, Pin Cushion stands out as a devastating example of this. Deborah Haywood arrives at the 20th annual Boston Underground Film Festival with her feature film debut, a weird, often uncomfortable, and ultimately heartbreaking story about two people seeking connection.
Mother-daughter pair Lyn (Joanna Scanlan) and Iona (Lily Newmark) lead a solitary but happy life that Iona is determined to break from when she transfers schools. With a cute boy to woo and three popular girls to befriend, things seem to be going well, but Lyn’s old-fashioned, paranoid view of the world holds her back. As Iona lies her way into the popular clique at school,...
Mother-daughter pair Lyn (Joanna Scanlan) and Iona (Lily Newmark) lead a solitary but happy life that Iona is determined to break from when she transfers schools. With a cute boy to woo and three popular girls to befriend, things seem to be going well, but Lyn’s old-fashioned, paranoid view of the world holds her back. As Iona lies her way into the popular clique at school,...
- 3/27/2018
- by Ben Larned
- DailyDead
Festival hires new programming team for 17th edition.
The East End Film Festival (Eeff) has announced the programme for its 17th edition, which runs from April 11-29, moving back to its traditional spring slot.
Opening the London-based Festival is the UK premiere of Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a documentary about the pre-fame years of the enigmatic artist in New York. The gala opening will take place at Dalston’s Rio Cinema, with a Q&A with director Sara Driver and Studio 54 after party to follow.
Amongst the titles in competition for the best...
The East End Film Festival (Eeff) has announced the programme for its 17th edition, which runs from April 11-29, moving back to its traditional spring slot.
Opening the London-based Festival is the UK premiere of Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a documentary about the pre-fame years of the enigmatic artist in New York. The gala opening will take place at Dalston’s Rio Cinema, with a Q&A with director Sara Driver and Studio 54 after party to follow.
Amongst the titles in competition for the best...
- 3/15/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A celebration of genre films both old and new, the Boston Underground Film Festival returns for its 20th year later this month at Harvard Square, and the lineup is packed with new anticipated titles such as Jenn Wexler's The Ranger and Coralie Fargeat's Revenge, as well as a 35th anniversary screening of Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky:
Press Release: Cambridge, Ma – New England’s spring festival season is nigh, with the 20th annual Boston Underground Film Festival returning to Harvard Square, bringing with it a five day fever dream of vanguard and description-defying filmmaking, including soul- thrillers/killers/chillers, to the Brattle Theatre and Harvard Film Archive from March 21st through the 25th. This year’s program includes some of the festival’s most eclectic and challenging selections to date, highlighting the harrowing, the horrifying, and the heady.
Kicking off the big 2-0 is the East Coast...
Press Release: Cambridge, Ma – New England’s spring festival season is nigh, with the 20th annual Boston Underground Film Festival returning to Harvard Square, bringing with it a five day fever dream of vanguard and description-defying filmmaking, including soul- thrillers/killers/chillers, to the Brattle Theatre and Harvard Film Archive from March 21st through the 25th. This year’s program includes some of the festival’s most eclectic and challenging selections to date, highlighting the harrowing, the horrifying, and the heady.
Kicking off the big 2-0 is the East Coast...
- 3/13/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The festival was seeing record attendance before ’the Beast from the East’ intervened.
Xavier Legrand’s French-language drama Custody picked up the audience award at the 14th annual Glasgow Film Festival, which battled the elements to still deliver a well-attended programme of films.
“It is a great honour to win this award and my thanks go to the festival and its wonderful audiences for it. The festival has a great spirit and sense of community especially in the face of this week’s weather events and myself and the film’s star Denis Menochet hope to revisit again in the coming years,...
Xavier Legrand’s French-language drama Custody picked up the audience award at the 14th annual Glasgow Film Festival, which battled the elements to still deliver a well-attended programme of films.
“It is a great honour to win this award and my thanks go to the festival and its wonderful audiences for it. The festival has a great spirit and sense of community especially in the face of this week’s weather events and myself and the film’s star Denis Menochet hope to revisit again in the coming years,...
- 3/5/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
A shining beacon of the weird, the wonderful, the nasty, the niche, and the eclectic, Boston Underground Film Festival returns for its 20th edition next month, and has announced its first wave of feature titles. I had the great pleasure to attend last year, and was blown away not only by the variety and quality of programming, but also the amazing staff, volunteers, and venue. Already they're knocking it out of the park, with films such as Revenge, Coralie Fargeat's new take on the revenge thriller; Deborah Haywood's heartbreaking Pin Cushion; and Let the Corpses Tan, the latest trippy mystery from Belgian duo Hélèn Cattet and Bruno Forzani. There's some exciting queer content with underground film Liquid Sky, and what looks to be a fascinating...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
- 2/28/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Bero Beyer speech kicks off 47th edition.
Source: Iffr
Iffr director Bero Beyer
The International Film Festival Rotterdam kicked off its 47th edition last night (Jan 24) with an impassioned speech from festival director Bero Beyer.
Beyer addressed what he described as the “pattern of widespread abuse and often quite criminal sexual misconduct, committed almost exclusively by white middle-aged heterosexual men of power or status in the film industry.”
“It’s hard to say what’s more disturbing: The fact that anyone ever considered this behaviour to be acceptable, that so many were willing to look the other way and pretend it wasn’t going on,” Bero commented of the recent spate of industry scandals.
“It matters who tells the story and it matters who we see on our many screens. Too often history is written by the so-called winners, but mostly by bullies and mostly by men. So, if Iffr is part of the film industry: Who should...
Source: Iffr
Iffr director Bero Beyer
The International Film Festival Rotterdam kicked off its 47th edition last night (Jan 24) with an impassioned speech from festival director Bero Beyer.
Beyer addressed what he described as the “pattern of widespread abuse and often quite criminal sexual misconduct, committed almost exclusively by white middle-aged heterosexual men of power or status in the film industry.”
“It’s hard to say what’s more disturbing: The fact that anyone ever considered this behaviour to be acceptable, that so many were willing to look the other way and pretend it wasn’t going on,” Bero commented of the recent spate of industry scandals.
“It matters who tells the story and it matters who we see on our many screens. Too often history is written by the so-called winners, but mostly by bullies and mostly by men. So, if Iffr is part of the film industry: Who should...
- 1/25/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The 2018 edition of the Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 21 – March 4) revealed its full line-up this evening, including Scottish premieres of You Were Never Really Here, Submergence and In The Fade.
Doctor Who star Karen Gillan will world premiere her debut feature as a director, The Party’s Just Beginning, in Glasgow. Gillan was also recently announced as the patron of the festival’s expanding youth strand.
As previously reported, the festival will open with a screening of Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation Isle Of Dogs.
In total, the festival will host 13 world and European premieres, 77 UK premieres and 52 Scottish premieres.
Further world premieres include Felipe Bustos Sierra’s Nae Pasaran, a Scottish made documentary that will close their year’s festival, Douglas King’s feature debut Super November, and Donal O’Ceilleachair’s documentary The Camino Voyage.
European premieres include David Tennant-starring rom-com You, Me And Him, and...
Doctor Who star Karen Gillan will world premiere her debut feature as a director, The Party’s Just Beginning, in Glasgow. Gillan was also recently announced as the patron of the festival’s expanding youth strand.
As previously reported, the festival will open with a screening of Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation Isle Of Dogs.
In total, the festival will host 13 world and European premieres, 77 UK premieres and 52 Scottish premieres.
Further world premieres include Felipe Bustos Sierra’s Nae Pasaran, a Scottish made documentary that will close their year’s festival, Douglas King’s feature debut Super November, and Donal O’Ceilleachair’s documentary The Camino Voyage.
European premieres include David Tennant-starring rom-com You, Me And Him, and...
- 1/24/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Director Deborah Haywood has won a lot of love for her quirky outsider drama Pin Cushion, including in these very pages. And with its festival tour continuing with a stop at the International Film Festival Rotterdam just around the corner, Screen Anarchy is very pleased to present the first look at the film's official trailer. Super close Mother Lyn and daughter Iona (Dafty One and Dafty Two) are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
- 1/18/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Selections include Venice titles Pin Cushion and Nico,1988.
The 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 24 - Feb 4) has picked six titles for its innovative Iffr Live programme.
Source: Iffr
Pin Cushion
The selected titles will be simulcast to cinemas in more than 40 countries at the same time as their festival screenings in Rotterdam, with special guests in attendance for live Q&As.
For the first time this year, Iffr Live will reach the continent of Africa, with a screening planned at a venue in Zimbabwe capital Harare.
The screenings will take place across three evenings, from Friday 26 January to Sunday 28 January.
All six of the participating films this year are directed by women.
The selection includes UK director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion, which opened Venice Film Festival’s Critic’s Week strand last year; Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Nico, 1988, starring Danish actor Trine Dyrholm as the titular German singer, which opened Venice Horizons section last year; and [link=nm...
The 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 24 - Feb 4) has picked six titles for its innovative Iffr Live programme.
Source: Iffr
Pin Cushion
The selected titles will be simulcast to cinemas in more than 40 countries at the same time as their festival screenings in Rotterdam, with special guests in attendance for live Q&As.
For the first time this year, Iffr Live will reach the continent of Africa, with a screening planned at a venue in Zimbabwe capital Harare.
The screenings will take place across three evenings, from Friday 26 January to Sunday 28 January.
All six of the participating films this year are directed by women.
The selection includes UK director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion, which opened Venice Film Festival’s Critic’s Week strand last year; Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Nico, 1988, starring Danish actor Trine Dyrholm as the titular German singer, which opened Venice Horizons section last year; and [link=nm...
- 1/16/2018
- by Jasper Hart
- ScreenDaily
This year, Fantastic Fest turned 13, a number that felt apt if you’ve been following the news. Most conversations started like this:
“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
Read More:Fantastic Fest Under Fire: Why America’s Preeminent Genre Festival Needs Its Fans...
“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
Read More:Fantastic Fest Under Fire: Why America’s Preeminent Genre Festival Needs Its Fans...
- 9/29/2017
- by Amy Nicholson
- Indiewire
Editor’s note: The last few weeks have seen a series of scandals overtake the film community, starting with the allegations of sexual assault against the Cinefamily in L.A. and followed by a resurgence of problems involving sexual assault at the Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest. Former Cinefamily staffer Suki-Rose Simakis attended Fantastic Fest this year and participated in one of its marquee events, so we asked her to share these thoughts on her experiences.
As a former employee of The Cinefamily (2008-2012), the past month has been emotionally draining, scary, and painful. When the information surfaced about the Drafthouse, I felt like I’d been kicked in the teeth, and attending Fantastic Fest took on the possibility of being incredibly scary. I remain hurt by what occurred, especially within the context of what we are dealing with at home in L.A.
It took days of personal deliberation...
As a former employee of The Cinefamily (2008-2012), the past month has been emotionally draining, scary, and painful. When the information surfaced about the Drafthouse, I felt like I’d been kicked in the teeth, and attending Fantastic Fest took on the possibility of being incredibly scary. I remain hurt by what occurred, especially within the context of what we are dealing with at home in L.A.
It took days of personal deliberation...
- 9/26/2017
- by Suki-Rose Simakis
- Indiewire
Some people like to say that bullies really just hate themselves. That might be true of many, but not of all; some people are just mean, and enjoying being mean to others to give themselves power, or because they get some perverse pleasure from it. And sadly, there are some people who never seem to escape the taunts of bullies, no matter their age. In Pin Cushion, writer/director Deborah Haywood tells a beautiful and thoroughly heartbreaking story of two people who cannot seem to escape these bullies, and the terrible strain it puts on them and their relationship. Iona (Lily Newmark) and her mother Lyn (Joana Scanlan) have moved to a new town to start fresh. But it seems they can't escape bullying and ridicule;...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
- 9/26/2017
- Screen Anarchy
ZamaThe programme for the 2017 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Darren Aronofsky, Lucrecia Martel, Frederick Wiseman, Alexander Payne, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Abdellatif Kechiche, Takeshi Kitano and many more.COMPETITIONmother! (Darren Aronofsky)First Reformed (Paul Schrader)Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton)The Leisure Seeker (Paolo Virzi)Una Famiglia (Sebastiano Riso)Ex Libris - The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu)The Whale (Andrea Pallaoro)Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz)Ammore e malavita (Manetti Brothers)Jusqu'a la garde (Xavier Legrand)The Third Murder (Hirokazu Kore-eda)Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (Abdellatif Kechiche)Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh)L'insulte (Ziad Doueiri)La Villa (Robert Guediguian)The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)Suburbicon (George Clooney)Human Flow (Ai Weiwei)Downsizing (Alexander Payne)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesOur Souls at Night (Ritesh Batra)Il Signor Rotpeter (Antonietta de Lillo)Victoria...
- 7/27/2017
- MUBI
The National Union of Italian Film Critics has unveiled its selection of films for the upcoming Venice International Film Critics' Week, an independent and parallel section which runs alongside the Venice International Film Festival. This year's program includes a selection of seven debut films in competition and two special events out of competition, all world premiere screenings. Brit title Pin Cushion, the debut feature from writer-director Deborah Haywood, will screen…...
- 7/24/2017
- Deadline
Independent festival strand unveils 2017 line-up.
The line-up for the 2017 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent parallel strand Critics’ Week (Aug 30 – Sept 9) has been revealed.
Organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics, the selection is curated by the general delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Giona A. Nazzaro with the selection committee comprised of Luigi Abiusi, Alberto Anile, Beatrice Fiorentino and Massimo Tria.
Following last year, when UK filmmaker Alice Lowe’s directorial debut Prevenge opened Venice Critics’ Week, this year’s opener is again a feature debut from a UK female director.
Writer-director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion will screen out of competition as the strand’s opening film. Starring Lily Newmark and Joanna Scanlan, the film is produced by Gavin Humphries with Maggie Monteith of Dignity Film Finance. Executive producers are Josephine Rose, Chis Reed, and Lizzie Francke for the British Film Institute (BFI).
Pin Cushion is an all-girl gothic fairy tale set...
The line-up for the 2017 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent parallel strand Critics’ Week (Aug 30 – Sept 9) has been revealed.
Organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics, the selection is curated by the general delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Giona A. Nazzaro with the selection committee comprised of Luigi Abiusi, Alberto Anile, Beatrice Fiorentino and Massimo Tria.
Following last year, when UK filmmaker Alice Lowe’s directorial debut Prevenge opened Venice Critics’ Week, this year’s opener is again a feature debut from a UK female director.
Writer-director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion will screen out of competition as the strand’s opening film. Starring Lily Newmark and Joanna Scanlan, the film is produced by Gavin Humphries with Maggie Monteith of Dignity Film Finance. Executive producers are Josephine Rose, Chis Reed, and Lizzie Francke for the British Film Institute (BFI).
Pin Cushion is an all-girl gothic fairy tale set...
- 7/24/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The Venice International Film Critics' Week on Monday unveiled its lineup, which includes seven debut films and two out-of-competition selections.
All films in the sidebar will have their world premieres in Venice.
The films will compete for the Critics’ Week audience award, as well as prizes for most innovative film and best technical contribution. They are also eligible, as is the case with all competitive sections of the Venice Film Festival, to compete for the Lion of the Future award for best debut film, complete with a $100,000 prize.
The Critics’ Week lineup will open with Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion,...
All films in the sidebar will have their world premieres in Venice.
The films will compete for the Critics’ Week audience award, as well as prizes for most innovative film and best technical contribution. They are also eligible, as is the case with all competitive sections of the Venice Film Festival, to compete for the Lion of the Future award for best debut film, complete with a $100,000 prize.
The Critics’ Week lineup will open with Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion,...
- 7/24/2017
- by Ariston Anderson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Venice International Film Critics' Week on Monday unveiled its lineup, which includes seven debut films and two out-of-competition selections.
All films in the sidebar will have their world premieres in Venice.
The films will compete for the Critics’ Week audience award, as well as prizes for most innovative film and best technical contribution. They are also eligible, as is the case with all competitive sections of the Venice Film Festival, to compete for the Lion of the Future award for best debut film, complete with a $100,000 prize.
The Critics’ Week lineup will open with Deborah Haywood’s ...
All films in the sidebar will have their world premieres in Venice.
The films will compete for the Critics’ Week audience award, as well as prizes for most innovative film and best technical contribution. They are also eligible, as is the case with all competitive sections of the Venice Film Festival, to compete for the Lion of the Future award for best debut film, complete with a $100,000 prize.
The Critics’ Week lineup will open with Deborah Haywood’s ...
- 7/24/2017
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Venice International Film Critics' Week on Monday unveiled its lineup, which includes seven debut films and two out-of-competition selections.
All films in the sidebar will have their world premieres in Venice.
The films will compete for the Critics’ Week audience award, as well as prizes for most innovative film and best technical contribution. They are also eligible, as is the case with all competitive sections of the Venice Film Festival, to compete for the Lion of the Future award for best debut film, complete with a $100,000 prize.
The Critics’ Week lineup will open with Deborah Haywood’s ...
All films in the sidebar will have their world premieres in Venice.
The films will compete for the Critics’ Week audience award, as well as prizes for most innovative film and best technical contribution. They are also eligible, as is the case with all competitive sections of the Venice Film Festival, to compete for the Lion of the Future award for best debut film, complete with a $100,000 prize.
The Critics’ Week lineup will open with Deborah Haywood’s ...
- 7/24/2017
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Browse all the sections of the 57th London Film Festival (Oct 9-20) including the galas, competition titles and individual sections.
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
- 9/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
The 17th annual Slamdance Film Festival is all set to run for eight days and nights Jan. 21-27. The festival is featuring a bold theme this year of “All Is Not Lost” where — due to the current devastating economic climate — Slamdance will donate 10% of ticket proceeds back to the filmmakers.
The fest is screening 14 feature films — 10 of which are in competition — and 8 feature documentaries, all of which are in competition. In addition, there will be 56 short films screening.
Plus, there are a couple of special screenings, including the Straight 8 event where anybody can register to receive a single roll of Super-8 film that they can use to direct their own in-camera edited mini-masterpiece. Also, on the 26th, there will be a special retrospective of the works of renegade ’60s filmmaker J.X. Williams.
The full film lineup is below, but for more information on the site please visit the official Slamdance website.
The fest is screening 14 feature films — 10 of which are in competition — and 8 feature documentaries, all of which are in competition. In addition, there will be 56 short films screening.
Plus, there are a couple of special screenings, including the Straight 8 event where anybody can register to receive a single roll of Super-8 film that they can use to direct their own in-camera edited mini-masterpiece. Also, on the 26th, there will be a special retrospective of the works of renegade ’60s filmmaker J.X. Williams.
The full film lineup is below, but for more information on the site please visit the official Slamdance website.
- 12/23/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
On this week's podcast we celebrate the best of brief-but-beautiful cinema at London's Rushes Soho Shorts film festival.
We talk to the writer/director Deborah Haywood, whose film, Sis, takes a courageously comic look at society's fear of paedophiles through the eyes of two young girls. Deborah talks about making the film in her native Derbyshire and how important the doomed UK Film Council was in the realisation of her project.
Carol Salter's film Unearthing The Pen took the best documentary prize at the festival. Carol talks about traveling to northern Uganda to make her short, a remarkable look at the life of Locheng, a young boy whose dream to learn to read and write is thwarted by a curse his elders put upon the written word 40 years ago.
Remi Weekes is a young London director whose film Exhale has a particularly sparse and distinct cinematic style. Exhale is...
We talk to the writer/director Deborah Haywood, whose film, Sis, takes a courageously comic look at society's fear of paedophiles through the eyes of two young girls. Deborah talks about making the film in her native Derbyshire and how important the doomed UK Film Council was in the realisation of her project.
Carol Salter's film Unearthing The Pen took the best documentary prize at the festival. Carol talks about traveling to northern Uganda to make her short, a remarkable look at the life of Locheng, a young boy whose dream to learn to read and write is thwarted by a curse his elders put upon the written word 40 years ago.
Remi Weekes is a young London director whose film Exhale has a particularly sparse and distinct cinematic style. Exhale is...
- 8/5/2010
- by Henry Barnes, Jason Phipps
- The Guardian - Film News
Luke Goss has scooped the Ultimate Badass gong at a newly-launched sci-fi and horror film festival in Las Vegas.
The former Bros boy band star won Markowitz the Amazing Thug Armadillo's Ultimate Badass Award at the first Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest, known informally as PollyGrind.
PollyGrind is dedicated to cult, horror, sci-fi, exploitation and arthouse films and took place in the city earlier this month. A rundown of all the winners was released today and is included in full below.
Luke - who's also had roles in Blade 2 and Hellboy II: The Golden Army - was recognised for his role as a vampire commando (see above and below right) in horror flick The Dead Undead.
The movie, released in the USA a year ago, centres on a fanged fighting force trying to stop the evil spread of a plague of vampire zombies. Caught in the middle of the battle is...
The former Bros boy band star won Markowitz the Amazing Thug Armadillo's Ultimate Badass Award at the first Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest, known informally as PollyGrind.
PollyGrind is dedicated to cult, horror, sci-fi, exploitation and arthouse films and took place in the city earlier this month. A rundown of all the winners was released today and is included in full below.
Luke - who's also had roles in Blade 2 and Hellboy II: The Golden Army - was recognised for his role as a vampire commando (see above and below right) in horror flick The Dead Undead.
The movie, released in the USA a year ago, centres on a fanged fighting force trying to stop the evil spread of a plague of vampire zombies. Caught in the middle of the battle is...
- 5/25/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
In Dread Central's effort to promote independent horror, have we got the goods on a great horror film festival in Las Vegas! From May 12-16th Sci-Fi Center at 2520 State Street, Las Vegas, Nv 89109, will be hosting The Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest (aka PollyGrind), which includes 30 different films with five world premieres, seven Las Vegas premieres, and one U.S. premiere. There will also be a ton of music videos and trailers and more horror-related goods for you to feast your eyes on.
Read on for the full line-up, and look for more from Dread Central on PollyGrind (click here for the official site) soon!
Wednesday, May 12
Post-apocalyptic Nightmares (Double Feature)
Hosted By Heather Wixson Of Dreadcentral.Com
5:30 p.m.
Vendor tables open
7 p.m.
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s Soldier Killer (30 seconds) (World Premiere)
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s The Texas Chainsaw Champion (1:23 minutes) (World Premiere)
Trailer...
Read on for the full line-up, and look for more from Dread Central on PollyGrind (click here for the official site) soon!
Wednesday, May 12
Post-apocalyptic Nightmares (Double Feature)
Hosted By Heather Wixson Of Dreadcentral.Com
5:30 p.m.
Vendor tables open
7 p.m.
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s Soldier Killer (30 seconds) (World Premiere)
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s The Texas Chainsaw Champion (1:23 minutes) (World Premiere)
Trailer...
- 4/20/2010
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.