LIKE ME
Like Me
writer / director Robert Mockler (2017 80 min)
ADDISON TIMLIN, IAN NELSON, LARRY FESSENDEN
A reckless loner, desperate for human connection, sets out on a crime spree that she broadcasts on social media. Her reality quickly splinters into a surreal nightmare that escalates out of control and all in time for Christmas.
PSYCHOPATHS
a new film by writer/director Mickey Keating
Over the course of one excessively blood-soaked night, multiple serial killers’ paths cross, leaving a trail of bodies and begging the question: Which psychopath will live to see morning? One of the most exciting and unclassifiable new voices in indie horror, Mickey Keating delivers his wildest ride yet with this ultra-stylish and uber-violent descent into madness.
MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND
writer/director Ana Asensio
“First-time writer-director Ana Asensio’s Most Beautiful Island is a movie you won’t easily forget. The psychological thriller follows a day in the life of an undocumented immigrant woman trying to make ends meet in New York. She decides to take an odd job to get herself out of financial straits, but when she shows up, she’s forced into a dangerous underground world in which her life hangs by a delicate thread. Shot in gritty Super-16, the film intimately captures the desperation and ignominy facing many American immigrants.” – Emily Buder
STRAY BULLETS
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father’s old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
The debut feature from Jack Fessenden, 16 years old, now in Festivals.
Darling
Mickey Keating’s latest film will premiere at Fantastic Fest
LATE PHASES
IN THEATERS November 21, 2014
Directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano
Written by Eric Stolze
With Nick Damici, Ethan Embry, Erin Cummings, Lance Guest, and Tom Noonan
MPI’s Dark Sky Films is co-producing LATE PHASES with Zak Zeman’s Site B Productions,
while Larry Fessenden and Brent Kunkle are producing for Glass Eye Pix.
How Jesus Took America Hostage — “American Jesus” the Movie
American Jesus has its world premiere at the Woodstock film festival Friday October 4 and its International Premier at Sitges later this month.
The film is produced by Fessenden and Brent Kunkle. Schaeffer goes on to say:
New Doc BIRTH OF THE LIVING DEAD Explores the Impact of the Ground-Breaking Horror Film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
From the official press release:
First Run Features and Glass Eye Pix present
a documentary by Rob Kuhns
Opens November 6 in New York at IFC Center
1968. PEACE. LOVE. AND THE UNDEAD.
“It’s taken me 45 years to stop biting my fingernails after first seeing Night of the Living Dead. Having just watched Rob Kuhns’ mesmerizing documentary about that classic horror story I finally understand why I was not only scared out of my wits, but was simultaneously watching a cinematic breakthrough and cultural phenomenon.” -Bill Moyers
In 1968 a young college drop-out and aspiring filmmaker named George A. Romero directed Night of the Living Dead, a low-budget horror film that shocked the world, became an icon of the counterculture, and invented the modern movie zombie, which has spawned legions of films, books, comics, and video games, generating billions of dollars.
Night of the Living Dead is not only internationally recognized as an art film, revered for its groundbreaking treatment of American race relations and allegorical references to the Vietnam war, the film still maintains its cult status as a classic horror masterpiece. The film made history when it simultaneously screened at MOMA and the notorious grind-house theater circuit on 42nd Street. Since its release Night of the Living Dead has been selected for preservation by the Library of Congress and the National Film Registry.
Rob Kuhns’ feature documentary BIRTH OF THE LIVING DEAD goes beyond just being a tribute to director George Romero’s work, to explore a critical moment in the American experience and the notion that horror acts as a reflection of national anxiety. The film details how Romero gathered an unlikely team of real Pittsburgh citizens — police officers, iron workers, teachers, housewives and a roller-rink owner — to shoot in a revolutionary guerrilla style that became a cinematic landmark and one of the most visceral and influential horror films ever made.
Writer/Producer/Director/Editor Rob Kuhns has co-directed and edited Enemies of War (PBS, 2001) and This is a Game, Ladies (PBS, 2003, Audience Award – AFI Silverdoc Festival). His many other editing credits include Moyers and Company (2011 – present), the TV drama Sleeper Cell (Showtime, Golden Globe nomination, 2005), and Adam Clayton Powell (Academy Award nomination, 1990). Kuhns wrote and directed the short comedy, King’s Day Out, (1993 Sundance Film Festival).
Producer Esther Cassidy has produced and directed Enemies of War and The Wrong Man: The Case of Edward Lee Elmore for Court Television. She was Coordinating Producer of Barbara Kopple’s Oscar-winning American Dream and produced Kopple’s other films With Liberty And Justice For All; Justice For All; and Civil Rights: The Struggle Continues. She was Consulting Producer on the Peabody award-winning broadcast documentary A Healthy Baby Girl (2006); and the 2007 theatrical documentary Sacco and Vanzetti.
Executive Producer Larry Fessenden is the writer, director and editor of the award-winning art-horror movies Habit (nominated for 2 Spirit Awards), Wendigo, No Telling, The Last Winter (nominated for a 2007 Gotham Award, premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival), and most recently, Beneath. He has served as producer on dozens of acclaimed films in and out of the horror genre through his company Glass Eye Pix, including Stake Land, Wendy and Lucy and The House of the Devil.
Film poster designer Gary Pullin is the Art Director for Rue Morgue, the world’s best-selling horror magazine. Gary has helped shape the ever-evolving face of horror, working as a designer with musician/filmmaker Rob Zombie, artist Mike Mignola (Hellboy), and horror icons Clive Barker and Basil Gogos. His award-winning illustrations and designs have also appeared in popular magazines such as HorrorHound, Famous Monsters of Filmland, heavy metal magazine Revolver and Royal Flush. He’s also worked in the music industry for vinyl releases and gig posters, t-shirts and album art for bands including The Misfits, Tiger Army, The Brains, Ghoultown, Electric Frankenstein and The Creepshow.