It is the season for great scares with tons of movies for those into the horror genre. A unique film in this genre with a psychological terror spin, will be premiering October 28th, 2022 in limited theatrical release domestically and digitally on Apple iTunes. What makes this story disturbing is it based on true events in the home of the Producer, Director, and Writer William Mark McCullough. The McCullough family experienced terrifying moments that would make you ask questions about what is living inside the walls of this house. “A Savannah Haunting” is produced by innovative Emmy Award Nominee Alexis…
Author: Akiko Ashley
I first saw Legion M at a Comic Convention and wasn’t quite sure about the idea of fan investment into movies, but Legion M proved that such an idea is pure genius. Legion M is a fan owned entertainment company with approximately 50,000 plus investors with an investment that averages around $500. You can invest $100 into the company and Legion M wants to make that $100 into $200 or $10,000. Investing in movies is a high-risk investment so investing what you can afford to lose is a good rule to abide by. The risk doesn’t stop the fans from…
SIGGRAPH was held in Los Angeles July 30th thru August 3rd. This year the atmosphere was filled with change as this was truly the year of the game engine as there were VR projects created in the Unreal Engine and Unity. “Adam” is a Webby Award winning computer-animated film created in the Unity game engine that offers real time rendering and editing. It was created to demonstrate the power of the real time editing tools in Unity so artists and filmmakers can make changes on the fly to individual elements in their story using Cinemachine (a unified procedural camera system)…
Memoir films – what some have called diaristic or first-person documentaries – have a long and accomplished tradition in independent cinema. Among many standouts, one thinks of Alan Berliner’s ”Nobody’s Business,” (about a recalcitrant father), or Ira Wohl’s classic duet “Best Boy” and “Best Man” (about a challenged family with a severely retarded “man-child”). Other strong examples hail from Lithuanian-born filmmaker and World War II exile Jonas Meklas, whose 70-year film career essentially documents a relentless, lifelong quest to find a place to call home. Within this diary genre is a sub-genre of what might be dubbed the cancer documentary…
The changing evolving world of the Comic Convention is not just a place for comic books anymore. Film screenings are now part of the reason to go to these shows. “San Diego Comic Con” & “New York Comic Con “are the holy grail of these conventions. It was at these comic conventions that George Lucas first promoted Star Wars to build a fan base. New Comic Convention now provided a new venue for Independent Creatives to showcase & promote their films and shows. Creative artists & designers are heading to comic conventions to book booths to introduce new creative products…
Monday night, I attended the Premiere of the “Hunger Games, Mocking Jay, Part 1” on the sidelines of the red carpet. The Premiere was held at the Nokia Theater at L.A Live in Los Angeles. The red carpet was a glamorous white and gold Capitol set with elegant flaming bowls of fire sitting on pedestals ever few feet. I brought my camera so I decided to shoot a few candid pictures of the actors that passed by me. This was a star-studded event on the red carpet opening at 5:30pm. Fans were screaming in the background in the distance as…
Almost any veteran of the European film festival circuit knows of Ron and Dorothea Holloway, and if they don’t they should. As journalists, critics, publishers and filmmakers over the past 30-odd years, they’re Berlin’s longest-running co-production, a husband and wife team devoted to discovering and encouraging the art and appreciation of international cinema. Since 1979, they have written and published their small, well-respected English-language magazine on German cinema, Kino, with a razor-thin staff and a loyal group of supporters, including some impressive advertisers. It says a lot about the esteem the German establishment holds them in – not to mention…
BERLIN, Germany — Serious filmmakers and film collectors who find themselves inundated by the oceans of media flooding the internet will be happy to wash ashore onto the website Reframe (http://www.reframecollection.org). An adventurous new program from the Tribeca Film Institute, Reframe offers a simple solution to help them locate, purchase and otherwise wade through some of the world’s finest films and videos: listen to the recommendation of the world’s best film connoisseurs, and you’ll stay high and dry. Backed by a non-exclusive partnership with Amazon as well as various major foundations, and headed by the Tribeca Film Institute’s CEO Brian…
MEDIAS, Romania – Here in this hilly, castle-strewn corner of central Europe, Romanian director Radu Gabrea is best known for his track record of over 20 features, documentaries and television movies under his sizeable belt, including his most recent feature, the docudrama The Last Days of Ceaucescu. What may be less known is that Gabrea, who recently wrapped the second edition of his Medias Central European Film Festival (MeCEFF) here, is something of a whiz in applied mathematics. How else to explain his feat of bringing in 40% more than last year – and doing it with only half the…
MEDIAS, Romania — With Europe slouching toward its own version of The Great Recession and economists divining the death of the euro, you wouldn’t think heading to Romania to check out another first-time film festival would be in sync with the global gestalt. Who has the resources to cover such small fry anymore? And why should anyone care about yet another one of these local festivals, which are spawned mainly to be municipal coffer-fillers anyway? Although they’ll probably stick around longer than the euro, these get-togethers rarely offer movies with any “legs” that can “travel” to non-regional cinemas. But you’d…