After making its North American Premiere in the Fantasia Film Festival’s Camera Lucida sidebar, Seth A. Smith’s dystopian sci-fi thriller “Tin Can” was picked up by Canada’s levelFILM for domestic distribution.
In the film, a new fungal disease called Coral is spreading rapidly across the planet. Parasitologist Fret is working on a possible treatment when she is attacked outside her workplace, waking up an unspecific amount of time later in a claustrophobic life prolonging cryochamber. Not knowing where she is, how she got there or why, Fret fights to escape the confines of her cell, learning that there are others from her past similarly confined in nearby chambers of their own.
Nova Scotia-based Cut/Off/Tail Pictures, producers of Smith’s previous award-winning feature “The Crescent,” also backed “Tin Can,” a Panorama Audience Award finalist at Sitges 2020. Smith teamed once again with long-time colleague Darcy Spidle on the screenplay...
In the film, a new fungal disease called Coral is spreading rapidly across the planet. Parasitologist Fret is working on a possible treatment when she is attacked outside her workplace, waking up an unspecific amount of time later in a claustrophobic life prolonging cryochamber. Not knowing where she is, how she got there or why, Fret fights to escape the confines of her cell, learning that there are others from her past similarly confined in nearby chambers of their own.
Nova Scotia-based Cut/Off/Tail Pictures, producers of Smith’s previous award-winning feature “The Crescent,” also backed “Tin Can,” a Panorama Audience Award finalist at Sitges 2020. Smith teamed once again with long-time colleague Darcy Spidle on the screenplay...
- 8/19/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Despite being neither a household name nor one I could immediately place, seeing writer-director Seth A. Smith attached to a film while sifting through the schedule at the Fantasia International Film Festival forced me to pause. A quick search later revealed him to be the filmmaker behind 2017’s The Crescent—an under-rated gem that enthralled me via narrative and image alike. It didn’t therefore matter what his latest, Tin Can, was about; I felt confident it would prove memorable whether I ended up enjoying it or not. That this claustrophobic sci-fi thriller quickly won me over with its early David Cronenberg inspirations only allowed my excitement to increase with each passing minute as I found myself unable to detach from its captivatingly dark, timely pandemic mystery.
The disease he and co-writer Darcy Spidle have unleashed upon their world is known as Coral, a fungal infection that affixes itself to...
The disease he and co-writer Darcy Spidle have unleashed upon their world is known as Coral, a fungal infection that affixes itself to...
- 8/8/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
It starts by enveloping us in marbleizing paint — overlapping colors raked to warp dots into abstract patterns — and the loud aural pulses of a musical soundscape as heavy and permanent as those oils are fluidly malleable. We assume it’s merely a sensory aesthetic Seth A. Smith constructs to provide the tone for the subtle horrors still on the horizon, but don’t be surprised if you begin to interpret each new artwork as a self-portrait of characters we’ve yet to meet. Treat them as mood rings simultaneously displaying the strength of will and love to keep each hue from merging into muddy brown and the vulnerability of time folding in on itself like each layer of curved lines. They’re products of Beth’s (Danika Vandersteen) turmoil, a fight intentionally misconstrued.
Smith presents this overload of vision and sound as a contrast to the somberly quiet drama that...
Smith presents this overload of vision and sound as a contrast to the somberly quiet drama that...
- 9/16/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Seth Smith’s psychedelic horror filmed at a remote beach house on Nova Scotia’s South Shore.
Raven Banner holds Canadian distribution rights to The Crescent, which centres on a woman and her young son following an unexpected death in the family.
While the mother and toddler struggle to find spiritual healing, a mysterious force from the sea threatens to tear their souls apart.
Danika Vandersteen stars with Woodrow Graves, the son of Smith and producer Nancy Urich.
Darcy Spidle wrote the screenplay and Urich serves as producer. Executive producer Rob Cotterill previously produced Hobo With A Shotgun.
Smith’s first feature Lowlife about a living drug premiered at Fantasia in 2012 and went on to win the audience award for best feature at the Atlantic Film Festival.
Producers retain international rights.
Raven Banner holds Canadian distribution rights to The Crescent, which centres on a woman and her young son following an unexpected death in the family.
While the mother and toddler struggle to find spiritual healing, a mysterious force from the sea threatens to tear their souls apart.
Danika Vandersteen stars with Woodrow Graves, the son of Smith and producer Nancy Urich.
Darcy Spidle wrote the screenplay and Urich serves as producer. Executive producer Rob Cotterill previously produced Hobo With A Shotgun.
Smith’s first feature Lowlife about a living drug premiered at Fantasia in 2012 and went on to win the audience award for best feature at the Atlantic Film Festival.
Producers retain international rights.
- 12/21/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
BrinkVision is releasing the critically acclaimed Lowlife, directed by Seth Smith, on VOD and limited edition DVD later this summer; and we have all the details you need right here, including the flick's artwork and trailer.
After its sold-out premiere at Fantasia Film Festival, Lowlife went on to win awards and screen at theatres and festivals across North America. It's directed by Canadian Seth Smith and co-written by Smith and Darcy Spidle. Chik White, Kate Hartigan, Mitchell Wiebe, and John Urich star.
The film is crafted to take you deep inside a cruel, intoxicating poem with no means of escape. Lowlife is the latest in a line of independent horror films that offer a fresh take on the genre and push the boundaries of cinema.
Look for it on August 26, 2014.
Synopsis:
A lonely musician's descent into the shadowy world of a living drug leads to a mysterious island where a...
After its sold-out premiere at Fantasia Film Festival, Lowlife went on to win awards and screen at theatres and festivals across North America. It's directed by Canadian Seth Smith and co-written by Smith and Darcy Spidle. Chik White, Kate Hartigan, Mitchell Wiebe, and John Urich star.
The film is crafted to take you deep inside a cruel, intoxicating poem with no means of escape. Lowlife is the latest in a line of independent horror films that offer a fresh take on the genre and push the boundaries of cinema.
Look for it on August 26, 2014.
Synopsis:
A lonely musician's descent into the shadowy world of a living drug leads to a mysterious island where a...
- 7/3/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
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