Passionately following your instincts, and allowing your intuition to guide your choices, even when the people around you are urging you not to allow your emotions dictate your decisions, is a powerful resolution that often allows people to truly pursue what they want in life. That visceral resolution is a motivating factor for the main characters and actors in co-writer-director Sam Hancock’s upcoming independent mystery film, ‘August Falls,’ which is based on the novel, ‘Looking for August,’ by Matt McKay. Actress Fairuza Balk and actor Charles Baker are prime examples of following their instincts, in an effort to infuse their respective characters with an emotional relatability. Not only did they [ Read More ]
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- 9/14/2014
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
The daunting mystery of the suddenly tragic death of a young man is being revealed as the independent movie, ‘August Falls,’ which has just started filming its principal photography. The mystery film, which is being directed by Sam Hancock, is being shot entirely on location in Berkeley and Oakland, California. ‘August Falls,’ which was co-written by Hancock, marks the second movie helmed by the director. He made his feature film directorial debut with the drama ‘Being Us,’ which launched on national VOD this week. “It’s really exciting to be able to start production on a new film the same day our first feature receives an international release. Seeing one project [ Read More ]
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- 7/12/2014
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Principal photography has begun on the mystery starring Fairuza Balk, Charles Baker and Alanna Ubach.
Sam Hancock directs his second feature, in which Balk (pictured) plays a woman determined to get to the cause of her estranged son’s death.
Matthew Donaldson, Amelia Belle, Ubach and Joshua B Porter produce and the film is scheduled to shoot entirely on location in Berkeley and Oakland, California.
Tamara Taylor, Ashley Clements, Rolf Saxon, Gregory Marcel and Justin Fix round out the cast.
Principal photography has wrapped on Wango Films’ Skyscraper (working title), a thriller shot on location in Niagara Falls, Canada.
The project marks the latest film investment by Breakthrough Entertainment, which will also handle world sales.
The film centres on group of young paranormal investigators who investigate an abandoned Skyscraper.
John White, Evan Williams and Lauren Collins star alongside Wango Films co-founder April Mullen, who also directs from a screenplay by Jeremy Doiron and Mike Doiron.
Tim Doiron, Mullen...
Sam Hancock directs his second feature, in which Balk (pictured) plays a woman determined to get to the cause of her estranged son’s death.
Matthew Donaldson, Amelia Belle, Ubach and Joshua B Porter produce and the film is scheduled to shoot entirely on location in Berkeley and Oakland, California.
Tamara Taylor, Ashley Clements, Rolf Saxon, Gregory Marcel and Justin Fix round out the cast.
Principal photography has wrapped on Wango Films’ Skyscraper (working title), a thriller shot on location in Niagara Falls, Canada.
The project marks the latest film investment by Breakthrough Entertainment, which will also handle world sales.
The film centres on group of young paranormal investigators who investigate an abandoned Skyscraper.
John White, Evan Williams and Lauren Collins star alongside Wango Films co-founder April Mullen, who also directs from a screenplay by Jeremy Doiron and Mike Doiron.
Tim Doiron, Mullen...
- 7/9/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Title: Us Director: Sam Hancock Starring: Alanna Ubach, Michael Navarra, Patrick Russell, Rolf Saxon, Barbara Niven A recent world premiere at the 16th annual Dances With Films, the Los Angeles-set “Us” offers up an unusual yet sympathetically pitched examination of mental illness through the rubric of a weird love triangle. Anchored by a superlative lead turn from Alanna Ubach, this micro-budgeted, worthwhile indie feature could, given a wide enough audience, serve as an important pivot-point for the actress, leading her into more dramatic terrain. At first glance, Margaret (Ubach) seems like just a garden variety alcoholic — another thirtysomething wounded bird who drowns her unhappiness in booze and unfulfilling sexual [ Read More ]
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- 6/13/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
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