Horror Highlights: Stranger With My Face International Film Festival, Phoenix Forgotten, Inner Demon
In today's Horror Highlights, we have details on the fifth Stranger With My Face International Film Festival, a new clip and link to a featurette for Phoenix Forgotten, and two clips from Inner Demon.
Stranger With My Face International Film Festival: Press Release: "The 5th edition of Stranger With My Face International Film Festival will take place in Hobart from 4-7 May, with a line-up of feature films, a shorts program, a symposium, industry events and an art exhibition. Stranger With My Face focuses on women's perspectives in genre filmmaking with an emphasis on horror and related genres.
The 2017 program includes a retrospective of the celebrated New Zealand filmmaker Gaylene Preston; the Tasmanian premiere of the all-female horror anthology Xx with one of the filmmakers, Roxanne Benjamin, in person; and a screening of Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs with its cinematographer, Sandi Sissel Asc.
“Stranger With My Face...
Stranger With My Face International Film Festival: Press Release: "The 5th edition of Stranger With My Face International Film Festival will take place in Hobart from 4-7 May, with a line-up of feature films, a shorts program, a symposium, industry events and an art exhibition. Stranger With My Face focuses on women's perspectives in genre filmmaking with an emphasis on horror and related genres.
The 2017 program includes a retrospective of the celebrated New Zealand filmmaker Gaylene Preston; the Tasmanian premiere of the all-female horror anthology Xx with one of the filmmakers, Roxanne Benjamin, in person; and a screening of Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs with its cinematographer, Sandi Sissel Asc.
“Stranger With My Face...
- 4/13/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
After making her directing debut on micro-budgeted, B&W suspense film Johnny Ghost, Donna McRae is writing and plans to direct one segment of a horror anthology set in Tasmania.
Also, McRae and her husband Michael Vale have written the script for Le Chien qui Fume - A Smokey Life, a bizarre tale about a dog that lived in Europe in the early 20th Century, wore men.s clothing and smoked cigarettes. McRae is balancing her role as a filmmaker with lecturing in film and television at Deakin University. The untitled horror film is being produced by Unicorn Films. Lizzette Atkins and will enlist five writers-directors, all female: McRae, Ursula Dabrowsky, Isabel Peppard, Briony Kidd and Rebecca Thomson.
.The stories are all set around a small haunted Tasmanian town and are intertwined with each other,. she tells If. The tagline says: .Apocalyptic visions, bloodthirsty curses, creatures gone mad, a voodoo granny,...
Also, McRae and her husband Michael Vale have written the script for Le Chien qui Fume - A Smokey Life, a bizarre tale about a dog that lived in Europe in the early 20th Century, wore men.s clothing and smoked cigarettes. McRae is balancing her role as a filmmaker with lecturing in film and television at Deakin University. The untitled horror film is being produced by Unicorn Films. Lizzette Atkins and will enlist five writers-directors, all female: McRae, Ursula Dabrowsky, Isabel Peppard, Briony Kidd and Rebecca Thomson.
.The stories are all set around a small haunted Tasmanian town and are intertwined with each other,. she tells If. The tagline says: .Apocalyptic visions, bloodthirsty curses, creatures gone mad, a voodoo granny,...
- 3/2/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Lynette Curran, Susie Porter, Gillian Jones and Lisa Hensley are attached to star in a 30-minute drama which tackles sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
A Priest in the Family is based on a short story by Irish writer Colm Tóibín about an elderly woman whose son, a parish priest, is accused of molesting his former students.
The producers aim to raise $40,000 via crowd-funding site Indiegogo (http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-priest-in-the-family/x/2213312) by August 5, with plans to start shooting in the hamlet of Portland, near Lithgow, on September 28. Peter Humble wrote the screenplay and will share the directing duties with the producer Anni Finsterer.
.We are making a film that tells the emotional tale of how clergy sexual abuse affects not just individuals but also families and communities,. Anni said. .We want to make people more informed and thereby give them a voice.
.It is a simply told tale...
A Priest in the Family is based on a short story by Irish writer Colm Tóibín about an elderly woman whose son, a parish priest, is accused of molesting his former students.
The producers aim to raise $40,000 via crowd-funding site Indiegogo (http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-priest-in-the-family/x/2213312) by August 5, with plans to start shooting in the hamlet of Portland, near Lithgow, on September 28. Peter Humble wrote the screenplay and will share the directing duties with the producer Anni Finsterer.
.We are making a film that tells the emotional tale of how clergy sexual abuse affects not just individuals but also families and communities,. Anni said. .We want to make people more informed and thereby give them a voice.
.It is a simply told tale...
- 7/10/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The 13th annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival, held back on Aug. 24 to Sept. 1, shined an especially bright spotlight on New Irish Low Budget Cinema, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the fest gave its top awards to a film from the land of Éire.
Terry McMahon’s crime thriller Charlie Casanova won for Best Film and Best Director, and star Emmet Scanlon tied for Best Actor with Shiver‘s John Jarrat.
Despite all the love given to Ireland, this year’s Muff didn’t ignore its home countrymen, either. Local filmmaker Chris Sun’s latest, Daddy’s Little Girl, also took home multiple awards, including Best SFX, Best Actress for Allira Jacques and tied for the Special Jury Prize with Donna McRae’s Johnny Ghost.
Also, as usual, Muff gave out a wide variety of awards to multiple films. Some of the other winners include Daryl Stoneage...
Terry McMahon’s crime thriller Charlie Casanova won for Best Film and Best Director, and star Emmet Scanlon tied for Best Actor with Shiver‘s John Jarrat.
Despite all the love given to Ireland, this year’s Muff didn’t ignore its home countrymen, either. Local filmmaker Chris Sun’s latest, Daddy’s Little Girl, also took home multiple awards, including Best SFX, Best Actress for Allira Jacques and tied for the Special Jury Prize with Donna McRae’s Johnny Ghost.
Also, as usual, Muff gave out a wide variety of awards to multiple films. Some of the other winners include Daryl Stoneage...
- 9/27/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
To celebrate their 13th anniversary this year, the Melbourne Underground Film Festival is going green!
No, they’re not out to save the kookaburra or anything. Instead, they’re hosting a special tribute to the New Irish Low Budget Cinema, featuring two films by acclaimed filmmaker Ivan Kavanagh, plus work by Colin Downey, Gary Kenneally and Gerard Lough.
Muff will host a repeat screening of Kavanagh’s celebrated thriller Tin Can Man — it previously screened at Muff in 2008 — as well as his latest film, The Fading Light. The three other Irish films screening all fall into the horror/thriller genres, from Downey’s The Looking Glass to Kenneally’s Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman and Lough’s trilogy-ending The Shaken 3. And, in addition, the entire fest kicks off with the opening night Irish thriller Charlie Casanova by Terry McMahon.
But don’t think Muff is all Irish all the time this year,...
No, they’re not out to save the kookaburra or anything. Instead, they’re hosting a special tribute to the New Irish Low Budget Cinema, featuring two films by acclaimed filmmaker Ivan Kavanagh, plus work by Colin Downey, Gary Kenneally and Gerard Lough.
Muff will host a repeat screening of Kavanagh’s celebrated thriller Tin Can Man — it previously screened at Muff in 2008 — as well as his latest film, The Fading Light. The three other Irish films screening all fall into the horror/thriller genres, from Downey’s The Looking Glass to Kenneally’s Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman and Lough’s trilogy-ending The Shaken 3. And, in addition, the entire fest kicks off with the opening night Irish thriller Charlie Casanova by Terry McMahon.
But don’t think Muff is all Irish all the time this year,...
- 8/17/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Electric Sheep has an excellent profile of experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, who is having a major retrospective of her work at the Tate Modern this month.For artforum, Ed Halter writes a touching obituary of George Kuchar, and reminds us of how neglected he and his brother were from the critical space early in their careers.In a strange twist of events, underground filmmaker Jon Moritsugu is up for a Grammy Award next week with his wife Amy Davis, who perform in the band Low on High together. Except, their Grammy is for directing a music video for the band TV on the Radio.The Caulfield Glen Eira Leader profiles local filmmaker Donna McRae, who won the Best Editing Award at the 2011 Minneapolis Underground Film Festival for her debut horror feature film Johnny Ghost. It’s always nice to get a little local love.Cineflyer profiles its own local filmmaker Scott Fitzpatrick,...
- 2/5/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Christmas came a little bit early for eight filmmakers this month when the 4th annual Minneapolis Underground Film Festival handed out its annual awards. The fest was held earlier this month on Dec. 2-4.
The big winner this year was Steven Strauss’ Bronze, which took home the Best Feature Award. The controversial film tackles the issue of female “consent” through the story of three teenage girls who leave the comfortable confines of their suburban New Jersey home for a wild night of wicked fun — but end up getting into way more trouble than they wanted.
Another major winner at the fest was Usama Alshaibi’s Profane, which won the Best Experimental Award. Profane was also named this month as Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s Movie of the Year for 2011. The film, which combines experimental and traditional narrative filmmaking techniques, focuses on an emotionally lost female Muslim sex...
The big winner this year was Steven Strauss’ Bronze, which took home the Best Feature Award. The controversial film tackles the issue of female “consent” through the story of three teenage girls who leave the comfortable confines of their suburban New Jersey home for a wild night of wicked fun — but end up getting into way more trouble than they wanted.
Another major winner at the fest was Usama Alshaibi’s Profane, which won the Best Experimental Award. Profane was also named this month as Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s Movie of the Year for 2011. The film, which combines experimental and traditional narrative filmmaking techniques, focuses on an emotionally lost female Muslim sex...
- 12/26/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
For their 4th annual edition, the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival is pulling out all the stops, spotlighting great local and international filmmaking talent over the course of three days, Dec. 2-4, on two screens at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (McAd).
The fest opens with an ambitious Minneapolis-based move: Tyler Jensen’s 30 Films 30 Days. Working with hundreds of local participants, Jensen and his team completed a short film a day over the course of one month and this feature compiles all of them into one package. Plus, also screening on the same night is the groovy grindhouse horror flick The Disco Exorcist by Richard Griffin.
Over the course of the next two full days and nights, two of the best highlights of this year’s Muff include Usama Alshaibi‘s masterful mix of sex and religion Profane, Stuart Simpson‘s retro-sleazetastic monster flick El Monstro Del Mar!, neither of which are to be missed!
The fest opens with an ambitious Minneapolis-based move: Tyler Jensen’s 30 Films 30 Days. Working with hundreds of local participants, Jensen and his team completed a short film a day over the course of one month and this feature compiles all of them into one package. Plus, also screening on the same night is the groovy grindhouse horror flick The Disco Exorcist by Richard Griffin.
Over the course of the next two full days and nights, two of the best highlights of this year’s Muff include Usama Alshaibi‘s masterful mix of sex and religion Profane, Stuart Simpson‘s retro-sleazetastic monster flick El Monstro Del Mar!, neither of which are to be missed!
- 11/4/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
I love finding out about horror movies like Donna McRae's just-wrapped punk rock Australian indie Johnny Ghost.
The feature-length horror flick was written, directed, and produced by McRae, is about a professional female musician named Millicent who wants to get her old commemorative tattoo removed, which she got in her crazy, punk-rock filled youthful glory days. The ghosts of her past, however, won't let her go so easily.
This flick looks like it'll have tons of great music, punk references, artistic sentiment, and some horrible hidden skeletons. I sincerely hope so. The cast includes Anni Finsterer, Clara Pagone, Natalie Carr, Ian Scott, Catherine Hill, Dino Marnika, Tamara Searle, Rohan Jones and Si Francis. There's no release date yet - we'll keep you posted. In the meantime, watch this making-of/teaser:...
The feature-length horror flick was written, directed, and produced by McRae, is about a professional female musician named Millicent who wants to get her old commemorative tattoo removed, which she got in her crazy, punk-rock filled youthful glory days. The ghosts of her past, however, won't let her go so easily.
This flick looks like it'll have tons of great music, punk references, artistic sentiment, and some horrible hidden skeletons. I sincerely hope so. The cast includes Anni Finsterer, Clara Pagone, Natalie Carr, Ian Scott, Catherine Hill, Dino Marnika, Tamara Searle, Rohan Jones and Si Francis. There's no release date yet - we'll keep you posted. In the meantime, watch this making-of/teaser:...
- 6/15/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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