At Frontières Market and Forum, it’s all about the exploding heads.
“Big, bloody and messy explosions of heads. Old-school style explosions à la ‘Scanners’,” enthuses director Olivier Godin, who will bring neo-noir comedy “Anna Will Talk to Us” to its official selection, about a book that literally blows people’s minds.
The much-anticipated event, back for its 15th edition, is bound to satisfy the oddest of tastes, delivering the likes of “Animal Realm” – “Full on Wuxia. Total cyberpunk. Stop-motion animation in full action,” teases director Caochong Maing – or vampire story “Drawn” in which the bloodsuckers don’t actually drink blood.
“They infuse it, fueled not by visceral needs but capitalist demands for youth and beauty. The horror portrayed in this film is in equal parts beautiful, grotesque and unflinching,” says Cosmo Salovaara about his “class exploitation buttressed by vampiric motifs.”
Many projects, however, will also reflect current reality from the perspective of women,...
“Big, bloody and messy explosions of heads. Old-school style explosions à la ‘Scanners’,” enthuses director Olivier Godin, who will bring neo-noir comedy “Anna Will Talk to Us” to its official selection, about a book that literally blows people’s minds.
The much-anticipated event, back for its 15th edition, is bound to satisfy the oddest of tastes, delivering the likes of “Animal Realm” – “Full on Wuxia. Total cyberpunk. Stop-motion animation in full action,” teases director Caochong Maing – or vampire story “Drawn” in which the bloodsuckers don’t actually drink blood.
“They infuse it, fueled not by visceral needs but capitalist demands for youth and beauty. The horror portrayed in this film is in equal parts beautiful, grotesque and unflinching,” says Cosmo Salovaara about his “class exploitation buttressed by vampiric motifs.”
Many projects, however, will also reflect current reality from the perspective of women,...
- 7/17/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
With production company Echobend Pictures on board, “The Dirty Oyster” is now officially open.
The Los Angeles-based outfit – also behind upcoming Benedict Cumberbatch starrer “Morning,” “BirdsEye” with “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” breakout Maria Bakalova and “Me, Myself & the Void” – will produce Noah Wagner’s magical realism romance, currently in advanced development.
“We believe it falls into the rarest of categories: The triple bullseye. It hits the heart, the mind and the soul,” said CEO Zubin Anklesaria. Julia Elaine Mills produces.
“The Dirty Oyster” is set to be unveiled at Fantasia Film Festival’s Frontières Forum, which runs July 26-28 in Montreal, parallel to the festival.
Written by Michael Koehler, “The Dirty Oyster” will follow a jaded investigative journalist who stumbles across a mysterious wooded restaurant. Apparently, eating its oyster bisque will reveal one’s true love.
“At first glance, it does exude rom-com energy – there is the meet-cute, the serendipity,...
The Los Angeles-based outfit – also behind upcoming Benedict Cumberbatch starrer “Morning,” “BirdsEye” with “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” breakout Maria Bakalova and “Me, Myself & the Void” – will produce Noah Wagner’s magical realism romance, currently in advanced development.
“We believe it falls into the rarest of categories: The triple bullseye. It hits the heart, the mind and the soul,” said CEO Zubin Anklesaria. Julia Elaine Mills produces.
“The Dirty Oyster” is set to be unveiled at Fantasia Film Festival’s Frontières Forum, which runs July 26-28 in Montreal, parallel to the festival.
Written by Michael Koehler, “The Dirty Oyster” will follow a jaded investigative journalist who stumbles across a mysterious wooded restaurant. Apparently, eating its oyster bisque will reveal one’s true love.
“At first glance, it does exude rom-com energy – there is the meet-cute, the serendipity,...
- 7/17/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Selections include Ryan Ward’s Canadian magic realism tale Pure Science Fiction, Maria Arida’s Brazilian psychological thriller The Eyes Of Another.
Screen can exclusively reveal the second wave of titles at the upcoming Frontieres genre international co-production market and forum scheduled for July in Montreal.
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Market selections include Ashlea Wessel’s horror Light Of The Void, Ryan Ward’s magic realism tale Pure Science Fiction, and James Watt’s horror Worm all from Canada, alongside Jan Verdijk’s Dutch psychological horror Alice, Peter Modestij’s Sweden-Denmark body horror drama Sub, and Maria Arida...
Screen can exclusively reveal the second wave of titles at the upcoming Frontieres genre international co-production market and forum scheduled for July in Montreal.
Scroll down for the full list
Market selections include Ashlea Wessel’s horror Light Of The Void, Ryan Ward’s magic realism tale Pure Science Fiction, and James Watt’s horror Worm all from Canada, alongside Jan Verdijk’s Dutch psychological horror Alice, Peter Modestij’s Sweden-Denmark body horror drama Sub, and Maria Arida...
- 6/2/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
"Are we going to do this... or what?" Don't mess with artificial intelligence! Watch Room is a sci-fi short film premiered by the sci-fi channel Dust, directed by Noah Wagner, written by Michael Koehler. The short is about an A.I. program being developed by three friends in a garage. They name the program "Kate", developing it safely within virtual reality, hoping it will help talk a suicidal person to step back from a ledge. When the A.I. fails to work they decide to shut her down, but Kate has other plans... Of course! Watch Room stars Jacob Batalon (best known as Ned from the current Spider-Man movies), Mamoudou Athie, and Alice Kremelberg, with Natalie Paul as Kate, plus Gary Teitelbaum. The filmmaking team "consulted with AI scientists to try and properly represent the nature of conversations... focusing on the relationship between human and machine, and what happens when those lines are blurred.
- 7/11/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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