Watch the Short Film Love You Mama: "After the sudden death of her father, a young woman becomes haunted by the uncertainty of the world around her."
Starring:
Madeleine Arthur
Samantha Sloyan
Matt Biedel
Written and Directed by:
Alexandra Magistro
Produced by:
Christopher Langston
Connor Tkachuk
Cole Hewlett
Edited by:
Mike Flanagan
Director of Photography:
Tyler Walzak
Production Designer:
Jessica Baese
Music by:
The Newton Brothers
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Watch the Short Film Witchy: "A broken-hearted teenager learns an important lesson about fidelity and family from an immersive Halloween experience that may or may not be organized by an actual witch.
Written, Directed, Cast and Produced by Liz Manashil
Produced by: Robby DeVillez, Elena Weinberg
Executive Producers: Emily Hagins, Brett and Drew Pierce
Executive Producers: John Brazel, Jacob Manalan, Aaron Nemoyten
Director of Photography: Elizabeth Yarwood
Production Designer: Marcie Maute
Editor: Sam Hook
Music by: Amy Summers
Visual Effects: Lily Gareth Cunningham...
Starring:
Madeleine Arthur
Samantha Sloyan
Matt Biedel
Written and Directed by:
Alexandra Magistro
Produced by:
Christopher Langston
Connor Tkachuk
Cole Hewlett
Edited by:
Mike Flanagan
Director of Photography:
Tyler Walzak
Production Designer:
Jessica Baese
Music by:
The Newton Brothers
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Watch the Short Film Witchy: "A broken-hearted teenager learns an important lesson about fidelity and family from an immersive Halloween experience that may or may not be organized by an actual witch.
Written, Directed, Cast and Produced by Liz Manashil
Produced by: Robby DeVillez, Elena Weinberg
Executive Producers: Emily Hagins, Brett and Drew Pierce
Executive Producers: John Brazel, Jacob Manalan, Aaron Nemoyten
Director of Photography: Elizabeth Yarwood
Production Designer: Marcie Maute
Editor: Sam Hook
Music by: Amy Summers
Visual Effects: Lily Gareth Cunningham...
- 10/18/2023
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Mammoth Pictures has inked a deal out of Cannes with the Bulgarian production company Bazuka to exclusively develop and produce a narrative feature take on the cultural tradition spotlighted in Kukeri, their documentary short produced for The New Yorker which was just unveiled at the beginning of the month. (View it above.)
Set to direct the as-yet-untitled new film, described as a folkloric horror thriller, is Mammoth’s Kourosh Ahari (Parallel).
Helmed by Killian Lassablière, the Bazuka doc spotlights an enigmatic Bulgarian tradition known as “Surva” that has united small villages across the country once a year for centuries — a festival that has residents known as “Kukeri” dress up in otherworldly costumes in the hopes of driving away evil spirits. The animalistic costumes, covering most of the body, are often made from the fur and skins of goats or sheep, and can also include toothed wooden masks — sometimes, peppered with horns,...
Set to direct the as-yet-untitled new film, described as a folkloric horror thriller, is Mammoth’s Kourosh Ahari (Parallel).
Helmed by Killian Lassablière, the Bazuka doc spotlights an enigmatic Bulgarian tradition known as “Surva” that has united small villages across the country once a year for centuries — a festival that has residents known as “Kukeri” dress up in otherworldly costumes in the hopes of driving away evil spirits. The animalistic costumes, covering most of the body, are often made from the fur and skins of goats or sheep, and can also include toothed wooden masks — sometimes, peppered with horns,...
- 5/31/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In an early bid, Vertical has secured worldwide rights to Parallel, a new sci-fi thriller starring Danielle Deadwyler (Till), Aldis Hodge (One Night in Miami…) and Edwin Hodge (The Tomorrow War). The film directed by Kourosh Ahari (The Night), from a screenplay by Jonathan Keasey (Down Wind) and the Hodge brothers, is slated for release in theaters later this year.
Currently in post-production, Parallel is a remake of Lei Zheng’s award-winning Chinese film Parallel Forest that marks the first under the Hodges’ new banner, Hodge Brothers Productions. Pic tells the story of Vanessa (Deadwyler), who takes refuge at her family’s lake house to grieve after suffering the loss of her child. Accompanied by her husband, Alex (Aldis Hodge), and his brother, Martel (Edwin Hodge), Vanessa attempts to regain her sense of normalcy after the tragedy. But soon after their arrival, she experiences an aberration when she is...
Currently in post-production, Parallel is a remake of Lei Zheng’s award-winning Chinese film Parallel Forest that marks the first under the Hodges’ new banner, Hodge Brothers Productions. Pic tells the story of Vanessa (Deadwyler), who takes refuge at her family’s lake house to grieve after suffering the loss of her child. Accompanied by her husband, Alex (Aldis Hodge), and his brother, Martel (Edwin Hodge), Vanessa attempts to regain her sense of normalcy after the tragedy. But soon after their arrival, she experiences an aberration when she is...
- 4/20/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Mammoth Pictures has announced that it’s bringing back its Mammoth Pictures Screenplay Competition, for the first time since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic.
Mammoth looks with its competition to discover and support emerging writers, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds. The competition is unique in that the Grand Prize-winning screenwriter will have their screenplay developed, financed and produced as a feature-length film by Mammoth Pictures, with the screenwriter receiving a standard pay scale. Mammoth Pictures has partnered with Coverfly for the first time this season to accept submissions for the competition on their platform, which can be entered now.
Mammoth’s new Head of Development Alexis Brontë is heading up this year’s competition, which is geared toward genre feature screenplays — particularly those under the speculative fiction umbrella in the categories of horror thriller, psychological thriller, mystery thriller, crime thriller, science fiction, dystopian and fantasy — though it remains...
Mammoth looks with its competition to discover and support emerging writers, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds. The competition is unique in that the Grand Prize-winning screenwriter will have their screenplay developed, financed and produced as a feature-length film by Mammoth Pictures, with the screenwriter receiving a standard pay scale. Mammoth Pictures has partnered with Coverfly for the first time this season to accept submissions for the competition on their platform, which can be entered now.
Mammoth’s new Head of Development Alexis Brontë is heading up this year’s competition, which is geared toward genre feature screenplays — particularly those under the speculative fiction umbrella in the categories of horror thriller, psychological thriller, mystery thriller, crime thriller, science fiction, dystopian and fantasy — though it remains...
- 9/1/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Mammoth Pictures has acquired film and TV rights to the bestselling novella Diary of a Murderer from award-winning Korean author Young-ha Kim. The company’s Creative Director Kourosh Ahari is set to direct an English-language feature adaptation, marking the first production under the deal, from a script by Henry Chaisson.
Diary of a Murderer tells the story of a former serial killer stricken with Alzheimer’s disease and suffering from escalating memory loss. When his now peaceful life with his daughter is threatened by new killings mimicking his murders of decades past, he sets his sights on one final kill before he loses his memory completely: the new serial killer he suspects is stalking his daughter – all told in a series of notes the narrator writes to himself throughout his psychological descent into dementia.
Kim’s novella was previously...
Diary of a Murderer tells the story of a former serial killer stricken with Alzheimer’s disease and suffering from escalating memory loss. When his now peaceful life with his daughter is threatened by new killings mimicking his murders of decades past, he sets his sights on one final kill before he loses his memory completely: the new serial killer he suspects is stalking his daughter – all told in a series of notes the narrator writes to himself throughout his psychological descent into dementia.
Kim’s novella was previously...
- 8/17/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Danielle Deadwyler (Till) has signed on to star alongside Aldis Hodge and his brother Edwin Hodge in the sci-fi thriller Parallel, from director Kourosh Ahari (IFC Films’ The Night), which has entered production in Vancouver.
The film formerly titled Parallel Forest is a remake of Lei Zheng’s award-winning Chinese feature of the same name. It follows the journey of Vanessa (Deadwyler), a grief-stricken woman who mysteriously finds herself navigating between parallel spaces. While on a retreat with her husband and brother-in-law, and after suffering the loss of a child, she is faced with the threat of self destruction in order to regain the life she knew before her loss. These parallel gates may hold the key to releasing her grief or trapping her forever.
Edwin and Aldis Hodge wrote the script for Parallel with Jonathan Keasey (K-Sun) and will produce via their company Hodge Brothers Productions, alongside...
The film formerly titled Parallel Forest is a remake of Lei Zheng’s award-winning Chinese feature of the same name. It follows the journey of Vanessa (Deadwyler), a grief-stricken woman who mysteriously finds herself navigating between parallel spaces. While on a retreat with her husband and brother-in-law, and after suffering the loss of a child, she is faced with the threat of self destruction in order to regain the life she knew before her loss. These parallel gates may hold the key to releasing her grief or trapping her forever.
Edwin and Aldis Hodge wrote the script for Parallel with Jonathan Keasey (K-Sun) and will produce via their company Hodge Brothers Productions, alongside...
- 6/21/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Psychological horror-thriller launched in US via IFC Midnight in January.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has closed key international deals on psychological horror-thriller The Night, the US production about an Iranian couple starring Cannes 2016 best actor winner Shahab Hosseini and Niousha Noor.
Peg has licensed rights in Germany and Italy (Koch Media), France (Fip), Poland (M2), Cis (Voxell), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), and Latin America (Star).
Deals also closed in South Korea (Entermode), Taiwan (Vie Vision), Malaysia (Suraya), Vietnam (Green Media), Thailand (Movie Copyright), Indonesia (Falcon), and the Middle East (E4).
As previously announced North American rights holder IFC Midnight...
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has closed key international deals on psychological horror-thriller The Night, the US production about an Iranian couple starring Cannes 2016 best actor winner Shahab Hosseini and Niousha Noor.
Peg has licensed rights in Germany and Italy (Koch Media), France (Fip), Poland (M2), Cis (Voxell), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), and Latin America (Star).
Deals also closed in South Korea (Entermode), Taiwan (Vie Vision), Malaysia (Suraya), Vietnam (Green Media), Thailand (Movie Copyright), Indonesia (Falcon), and the Middle East (E4).
As previously announced North American rights holder IFC Midnight...
- 4/9/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paradigm and Rain Management Group have signed Kourosh Ahari, the Iranian-American director of IFC Midnight’s The Night.
Ahari also co-wrote and produced the psychological-thriller through his LA-based production banner Mammoth Pictures, along with his producing partner, Alex Bretow.
Ahari’s feature directorial debut The Night, which is currently on release in the U.S., stars Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman) and Niousha Jafarian (Here And Now).
The Persian-language film follows an exhausted married couple, Babak (Hosseini), Neda (Jafarian) and their baby who take shelter in the grand, but eerie Hotel Normandie after a night out with friends. Throughout a seemingly endless night, mysterious disturbances ruin their night’s rest as the couple soon realize they’re locked-in with a malevolent force that hungers for the dark secrets they’ve kept from one another.
According to the film’s producers, the film recently became the first U.S.-produced film...
Ahari also co-wrote and produced the psychological-thriller through his LA-based production banner Mammoth Pictures, along with his producing partner, Alex Bretow.
Ahari’s feature directorial debut The Night, which is currently on release in the U.S., stars Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman) and Niousha Jafarian (Here And Now).
The Persian-language film follows an exhausted married couple, Babak (Hosseini), Neda (Jafarian) and their baby who take shelter in the grand, but eerie Hotel Normandie after a night out with friends. Throughout a seemingly endless night, mysterious disturbances ruin their night’s rest as the couple soon realize they’re locked-in with a malevolent force that hungers for the dark secrets they’ve kept from one another.
According to the film’s producers, the film recently became the first U.S.-produced film...
- 3/10/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: After its stateside theatrical release of the IFC Midnight’s The Night in January, the Kourosh Ahari-directed thriller is set to have its theatrical premiere in Iran on February 24. Mammoth Pictures and Ayat Film Company’s release of the pic marks a historic moment as it is the first U.S.-produced film to have a wide theatrical release in Iran since the country’s revolution 40 years ago.
The Night is the feature directorial debut of Kourosh Ahari and stars Iranian actor Shahab Hosseini (Cannes 2016 Best Actor Winner Oscar-winning The Salesman), Niousha Jafarian (Here and Now) and George Maguire (The Pursuit of Happyness). The film also marks Hosseini’s debut performance in a US-based production.
The psychological thriller is cut from the same cloth of The Shining and follows an exhausted married couple, Babak (Hosseini), Neda (Jafarian) and their baby who take shelter in the grand, but eerie...
The Night is the feature directorial debut of Kourosh Ahari and stars Iranian actor Shahab Hosseini (Cannes 2016 Best Actor Winner Oscar-winning The Salesman), Niousha Jafarian (Here and Now) and George Maguire (The Pursuit of Happyness). The film also marks Hosseini’s debut performance in a US-based production.
The psychological thriller is cut from the same cloth of The Shining and follows an exhausted married couple, Babak (Hosseini), Neda (Jafarian) and their baby who take shelter in the grand, but eerie...
- 2/23/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman) is set to star as Iranian-American physicist and inventor Ali Javan in an upcoming biopic to be written and directed by Kourosh Ahari (The Night).
Javan first proposed the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. A successful prototype, constructed by him in collaboration with W. R. Bennett, Jr. and D. R. Herriott, was demonstrated in 1960. Javan also contributed to the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy. His original 1960 helium neon-laser device is currently on display at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History.
Ahari, Hosseini and producer Alex Bretow’...
Javan first proposed the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. A successful prototype, constructed by him in collaboration with W. R. Bennett, Jr. and D. R. Herriott, was demonstrated in 1960. Javan also contributed to the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy. His original 1960 helium neon-laser device is currently on display at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History.
Ahari, Hosseini and producer Alex Bretow’...
Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman) is set to star as Iranian-American physicist and inventor Ali Javan in an upcoming biopic to be written and directed by Kourosh Ahari (The Night).
Javan first proposed the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. A successful prototype, constructed by him in collaboration with W. R. Bennett, Jr. and D. R. Herriott, was demonstrated in 1960. Javan also contributed to the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy. His original 1960 helium neon-laser device is currently on display at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History.
Ahari, Hosseini and producer Alex Bretow’...
Javan first proposed the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. A successful prototype, constructed by him in collaboration with W. R. Bennett, Jr. and D. R. Herriott, was demonstrated in 1960. Javan also contributed to the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy. His original 1960 helium neon-laser device is currently on display at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History.
Ahari, Hosseini and producer Alex Bretow’...
IFC Midnight to release in North America in January 2021.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has boarded international sales on The Night ahead of the psychological horror film’s international premiere at Sitges.
North American rights holder IFC Midnight plans a January 2021 launch for the film starring Cannes best actor winner Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman), said to be the first US-produced film to receive a license for theatrical release in Iran since 1979.
Kourosh Ahari directed the story about an Iranian couple and their one-year-old daughter on the way home from a social event who spend the night in a hotel where they...
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has boarded international sales on The Night ahead of the psychological horror film’s international premiere at Sitges.
North American rights holder IFC Midnight plans a January 2021 launch for the film starring Cannes best actor winner Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman), said to be the first US-produced film to receive a license for theatrical release in Iran since 1979.
Kourosh Ahari directed the story about an Iranian couple and their one-year-old daughter on the way home from a social event who spend the night in a hotel where they...
- 10/7/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Premiere Entertainment handles international sales.
IFC Midnight has picked up North American rights to Iranian psychological horror The Night starring Shahab Hosseini, winner of the Cannes best actor prize for The Salesman.
The distributor said The Night is the first US-produced film to receive a license for theatrical release in Iran since 1979, and also marks Hosseini’s debut performance in a US-based production.
Further details about the Iranian release were unavailable at time of writing.
Mammoth Pictures produced in association with 7Skies Entertainment, Indie Entertainment, Orama Filmworks, Leveller Media and Supernova8 Films.
IFC Midnight plans a January 2021 for the story...
IFC Midnight has picked up North American rights to Iranian psychological horror The Night starring Shahab Hosseini, winner of the Cannes best actor prize for The Salesman.
The distributor said The Night is the first US-produced film to receive a license for theatrical release in Iran since 1979, and also marks Hosseini’s debut performance in a US-based production.
Further details about the Iranian release were unavailable at time of writing.
Mammoth Pictures produced in association with 7Skies Entertainment, Indie Entertainment, Orama Filmworks, Leveller Media and Supernova8 Films.
IFC Midnight plans a January 2021 for the story...
- 9/16/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Kourosh Ahari’s The Night made history as the first U.S.-produced film to receive a license receive a theatrical release in Iran. Now, IFC Midnight has acquired the North American rights to the psychological thriller which will be released January 2021.
The Night marks Ahari’s feature directorial debut and stars Shahab Hosseini and Niousha Jafarian as an Iranian couple who find themselves locked inside an old hotel with their one-year-old daughter. While attempting to make the best of this creepy hotel, an outside force pushes them to share the secrets they’ve hidden from each other. How, and if, they check out depends on how carefully they question everything and anyone that comes across their path. The film also features George Maguire.
“We feel elated that we have found...
The Night marks Ahari’s feature directorial debut and stars Shahab Hosseini and Niousha Jafarian as an Iranian couple who find themselves locked inside an old hotel with their one-year-old daughter. While attempting to make the best of this creepy hotel, an outside force pushes them to share the secrets they’ve hidden from each other. How, and if, they check out depends on how carefully they question everything and anyone that comes across their path. The film also features George Maguire.
“We feel elated that we have found...
- 9/16/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Kourosh Ahari-directed psychological thriller The Night has landed a license for theatrical release in Iran. This is a historic benchmark for the country’s filmmaking community as it is the first U.S.-produced film to receive a license for theatrical release in Iran since the revolution.
Iran’s strict guidelines about what can be released theatrically in the country and its impact on artistic expression has received backlash from Iranian filmmakers including Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil), Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) as well as Rakhshan Bani Etemad. The country’s guidelines also require films to obtain a permit on a script before going into production. The Night, which is a U.S. and Iran co-production, managed to receive this permit before the Trump Administration’s new Iran sanctions at the end of 2018.
Shot stateside, The Night marks Ahari’s feature directorial debut and stars Shahab Hosseini...
Iran’s strict guidelines about what can be released theatrically in the country and its impact on artistic expression has received backlash from Iranian filmmakers including Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil), Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) as well as Rakhshan Bani Etemad. The country’s guidelines also require films to obtain a permit on a script before going into production. The Night, which is a U.S. and Iran co-production, managed to receive this permit before the Trump Administration’s new Iran sanctions at the end of 2018.
Shot stateside, The Night marks Ahari’s feature directorial debut and stars Shahab Hosseini...
- 7/14/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor Shahab Hosseini, director Kourosh Ahari and producer Alex Bretow have formed the company Pol Media. With "pol" translating to "bridge" in Farsi, the distribution and production company aims to "bridge the gap" between Iranian and international art, culture and cinema with that of the U.S.
Pol Media will distribute Iranian and other international films both within the U.S. and abroad while also producing live events, including appearances from Iranian and international actors and filmmakers, as well as other artistic, cultural and cinematic programs.
The newly formed company already has produced a live masterclass ...
Pol Media will distribute Iranian and other international films both within the U.S. and abroad while also producing live events, including appearances from Iranian and international actors and filmmakers, as well as other artistic, cultural and cinematic programs.
The newly formed company already has produced a live masterclass ...
- 4/21/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actor Shahab Hosseini, director Kourosh Ahari and producer Alex Bretow have formed the company Pol Media. With "pol" translating to "bridge" in Farsi, the distribution and production company aims to "bridge the gap" between Iranian and international art, culture and cinema with that of the U.S.
Pol Media will distribute Iranian and other international films both within the U.S. and abroad while also producing live events, including appearances from Iranian and international actors and filmmakers, as well as other artistic, cultural and cinematic programs.
The newly formed company already has produced a live masterclass ...
Pol Media will distribute Iranian and other international films both within the U.S. and abroad while also producing live events, including appearances from Iranian and international actors and filmmakers, as well as other artistic, cultural and cinematic programs.
The newly formed company already has produced a live masterclass ...
- 4/21/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
By Kevin Scott, MoreHorror.com
I recently had a chance to talk with Kourosh Ahari. He’s a very promising young filmmaker that not only appreciates all the facets of good storytelling, but also embraces the technology that would allow him to tell those stories within and outside the realm of known possibilities. That approach has worked pretty well for guys like Spielberg and Cameron, so I relished the opportunity to talk to someone with that same passion at the dawn of their career.
He has already crossed genres with some pretty surreal and powerful stories involving human emotion intersecting with extraordinary circumstances, and now he’s using an innovative new three screen technology in his horror short film The Secret Of 40. Ahari talks with me in this interview about his beginnings, his very impressive body of work thus far, and what may be next for how we watch and enjoy films.
I recently had a chance to talk with Kourosh Ahari. He’s a very promising young filmmaker that not only appreciates all the facets of good storytelling, but also embraces the technology that would allow him to tell those stories within and outside the realm of known possibilities. That approach has worked pretty well for guys like Spielberg and Cameron, so I relished the opportunity to talk to someone with that same passion at the dawn of their career.
He has already crossed genres with some pretty surreal and powerful stories involving human emotion intersecting with extraordinary circumstances, and now he’s using an innovative new three screen technology in his horror short film The Secret Of 40. Ahari talks with me in this interview about his beginnings, his very impressive body of work thus far, and what may be next for how we watch and enjoy films.
- 8/8/2017
- by admin
- MoreHorror
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