Fantastic Film School tutors also revealed.
The Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan)’s industry program, the Network of Fantastic Films (Naff) has announced its selection for this year’s Project Spotlight: the Philippines.
“The Philippines have had a strong presence in genre cinema for some time, but for some reason, it never had outside exposure until maybe very recently. So we thought it would be worthwhile to show not just their films, but also the potential of the projects through this year’s Spotlight so they can hopefully find co-producers and/or funding at Naff,” says Thomas Nam, Naff managing director.
The seven projects in the Spotlight will compete for a total of $50,000 in cash awards and three post-production support awards.
Mondomanila director Khavn De La Cruz [pictured] will be turning his 62nd Berlinale-selected short film, Ruined Heart? Another Love Story About A Criminal And A Whore, into a feature film while director Peter Eduria III, who has worked...
The Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan)’s industry program, the Network of Fantastic Films (Naff) has announced its selection for this year’s Project Spotlight: the Philippines.
“The Philippines have had a strong presence in genre cinema for some time, but for some reason, it never had outside exposure until maybe very recently. So we thought it would be worthwhile to show not just their films, but also the potential of the projects through this year’s Spotlight so they can hopefully find co-producers and/or funding at Naff,” says Thomas Nam, Naff managing director.
The seven projects in the Spotlight will compete for a total of $50,000 in cash awards and three post-production support awards.
Mondomanila director Khavn De La Cruz [pictured] will be turning his 62nd Berlinale-selected short film, Ruined Heart? Another Love Story About A Criminal And A Whore, into a feature film while director Peter Eduria III, who has worked...
- 6/14/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
The mighty Boston Underground Film Festival celebrates their impressive 15th edition this year on March 27-31 at the Brattle Theatre. Here’s some highlights to be on the lookout for:
Opening night film: I Declare War, a childhood parable about war and brutality, directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson.
Closing night film: Big Ass Spider!, a raucous giant arachnid vs. the military flick, directed by Mike Mendez.
Other Feature Films: Both Drew Tobia’s first feature, See You Next Tuesday; and the punk documentary A Band Called Death by Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett recently won awards at the 20th Chicago Underground Film Festival and will now kill it at Buff. Sion Sono, a Buff regular, will be screening the last of his “Trilogy of Hate,” Guilty of Romance; while Calvin Lee Reeder has the gross-out feature-length version of his gross-out short The Rambler. And Zach Clark, a Bad Lit favorite,...
Opening night film: I Declare War, a childhood parable about war and brutality, directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson.
Closing night film: Big Ass Spider!, a raucous giant arachnid vs. the military flick, directed by Mike Mendez.
Other Feature Films: Both Drew Tobia’s first feature, See You Next Tuesday; and the punk documentary A Band Called Death by Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett recently won awards at the 20th Chicago Underground Film Festival and will now kill it at Buff. Sion Sono, a Buff regular, will be screening the last of his “Trilogy of Hate,” Guilty of Romance; while Calvin Lee Reeder has the gross-out feature-length version of his gross-out short The Rambler. And Zach Clark, a Bad Lit favorite,...
- 3/27/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Even more cinematic insanity has been announced for this year's Boston Underground Film Festival, scheduled this year for March 27 through 31. Among the new titles announced are Big Ass Spider and Guilty of Romance. Read on for all the details!
From the Press Release
The 15th Annual Boston Underground Film Festival continues their barrage of insanity at the Brattle Theatre, from March 27th through the 31st, delivering a second wave of wild programming guaranteed to shake the pillars of Heaven. This year's fest wraps up with a closing night film unlike any other – Mike Mendez's knowingly tongue-in-cheek sci-fi/horror romp, Big Ass Spider!–fresh from its World Premiere at SXSW 2013! With the celebrated director (best-known for 2006’s The Gravedancers) in Cambridge and producer and magical conjurer Travis Stevens, who's Cheap Thrills also plays Buff 2013!
Joining our oversized arachnid pal in Boston Underground's second wave of killer programming is Sion Sono...
From the Press Release
The 15th Annual Boston Underground Film Festival continues their barrage of insanity at the Brattle Theatre, from March 27th through the 31st, delivering a second wave of wild programming guaranteed to shake the pillars of Heaven. This year's fest wraps up with a closing night film unlike any other – Mike Mendez's knowingly tongue-in-cheek sci-fi/horror romp, Big Ass Spider!–fresh from its World Premiere at SXSW 2013! With the celebrated director (best-known for 2006’s The Gravedancers) in Cambridge and producer and magical conjurer Travis Stevens, who's Cheap Thrills also plays Buff 2013!
Joining our oversized arachnid pal in Boston Underground's second wave of killer programming is Sion Sono...
- 3/6/2013
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Among the movies joining those already slated (see item here) for the fest, which runs Wednesday-Sunday, March 27-31 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Ma, is the tongue-in-cheek big-bug epic Big Ass Spider (pictured above), fresh from its world premiere at this month’s SXSW. Accompanying this closing-night screening will be director Mike Mendez (of The Convent and The Gravedancers, who discussed Spider here), and producer Travis Stevens, also repped at Buff by E.L. Katz’s Cheap Thrills.
Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...
Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...
- 3/5/2013
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Among the movies joining those already slated (see item here) for the fest, which runs Wednesday-Sunday, March 27-31 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Ma, is the tongue-in-cheek big-bug epic Big Ass Spider (pictured above), fresh from its world premiere at this month’s SXSW. Accompanying this closing-night screening will be director Mike Mendez (of The Convent and The Gravedancers, who discussed Spider here), and producer Travis Stevens, also repped at Buff by E.L. Katz’s Cheap Thrills.
Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...
Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...
- 3/5/2013
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Among the movies joining those already slated (see item here) for the fest, which runs Wednesday-Sunday, March 27-31 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Ma, is the tongue-in-cheek big-bug epic Big Ass Spider (pictured above), fresh from its world premiere at this month’s SXSW. Accompanying this closing-night screening will be director Mike Mendez (of The Convent and The Gravedancers, who discussed Spider here), and producer Travis Stevens, also repped at Buff by E.L. Katz’s Cheap Thrills.
Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...
Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...
- 3/5/2013
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Among the movies joining those already slated (see item here) for the fest, which runs Wednesday-Sunday, March 27-31 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Ma, is the tongue-in-cheek big-bug epic Big Ass Spider (pictured above), fresh from its world premiere at this month’s SXSW. Accompanying this closing-night screening will be director Mike Mendez (of The Convent and The Gravedancers, who discussed Spider here), and producer Travis Stevens, also repped at Buff by E.L. Katz’s Cheap Thrills.
Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...
Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...
- 3/5/2013
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
The 11th annual Lausanne Underground Film Festival is packed to the gills with outrageous cinema from all over the world, featuring several filmmaker retrospectives and movies screening in competition at several locations on Oct. 17-21.
The big guest of honor this year is the legendary John Waters, who will be attending the fest with several of his own classics, such as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living, as well as showing some of his favorite B-movie inspirations, such as William Girdler’s blaxploitation demonic possession flick Abby, Armando Bo’s Argentinian sexploitation Fuego, Robinson Devor’s controversial bestiality doc Zoo and more. Plus, Waters will perform his acclaimed “This Filthy World” one-man show.
Other Luff special guests include Christoph Schlingensief, the confrontational German filmmaker of 100 Years of Adolf Hitler, The German Chainsaw Massacre, The 120 Days of Bottrop and more; Richard Stanley, the South African genre filmmaker of the cult...
The big guest of honor this year is the legendary John Waters, who will be attending the fest with several of his own classics, such as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living, as well as showing some of his favorite B-movie inspirations, such as William Girdler’s blaxploitation demonic possession flick Abby, Armando Bo’s Argentinian sexploitation Fuego, Robinson Devor’s controversial bestiality doc Zoo and more. Plus, Waters will perform his acclaimed “This Filthy World” one-man show.
Other Luff special guests include Christoph Schlingensief, the confrontational German filmmaker of 100 Years of Adolf Hitler, The German Chainsaw Massacre, The 120 Days of Bottrop and more; Richard Stanley, the South African genre filmmaker of the cult...
- 10/18/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Fantasia International Film Festival is over for now, but don't be too sad; the 2013 dates have already been announced! Fantasia will be back from the 18th of July to the 6th of August 2013. In the meantime read on for the last news from the 2012 edition.
From the Press Release:
The festive atmosphere of Fantasia’s 16th edition will live on for several directors whose acquisition deals were announced during the festival: Boris Rodriguez, the Montreal director of Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal, is celebrating his new contract for a theatrical release in the United States with Music Box Films. As well, Kern Saxton’s Sushi Girl was recently picked up by Phase 4 and Magnolia, while Quentin Dupieux’s Wrong will be distributed by Drafthouse Films.
The last juries have finished deliberating on this year’s competitions and are pleased to announce the following winners:
Aqcc Jury – Asian Section
President: Daniel Racine,...
From the Press Release:
The festive atmosphere of Fantasia’s 16th edition will live on for several directors whose acquisition deals were announced during the festival: Boris Rodriguez, the Montreal director of Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal, is celebrating his new contract for a theatrical release in the United States with Music Box Films. As well, Kern Saxton’s Sushi Girl was recently picked up by Phase 4 and Magnolia, while Quentin Dupieux’s Wrong will be distributed by Drafthouse Films.
The last juries have finished deliberating on this year’s competitions and are pleased to announce the following winners:
Aqcc Jury – Asian Section
President: Daniel Racine,...
- 8/11/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
An aerial view of Manila, dull and dreary with its sea of tin roofs and tangled electric lines, opens Khavn dela Cruz and Michael Noer's Son of God. This is not Mondomanila, a garbage-filled metropolis populated with overjoyed nobodies living in the most depressed of situations as can only be composed by Khavn. This is Manila, the same city where the stories of fatedly sorrowful migrants of Lino Brocka's films are set, the same city where the stories of the corrupted and corruptible men of Brillante Mendoza's cinema verite are situated.
However, Khavn and Noer, a Danish filmmaker, instead of similarly dwelling in the hopelessness of the severely impoverished, focuses on their crazed hopefulness. From the high heavens, they bring down their vision to an annual event, the Feast of the Black Nazarene, where the most faithful, who are also arguably the poorest, in Manila converge in...
However, Khavn and Noer, a Danish filmmaker, instead of similarly dwelling in the hopelessness of the severely impoverished, focuses on their crazed hopefulness. From the high heavens, they bring down their vision to an annual event, the Feast of the Black Nazarene, where the most faithful, who are also arguably the poorest, in Manila converge in...
- 1/1/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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