November 6, 2016
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FDTC Radio reviews TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE and selects favorites
FROM THE ARTICLE:
“This week FROM DUSK TILL CON contributor Jay Kay shares a few of his favorite episodes and thoughts on Tales From Beyond The Pale.
… With a wide variety of radio drama programming options in a digital age, for me, GLASS EYE PIX masterminds Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid are the measuring stick for modern radio performance theater. Pulling from influences that are vast and deep, that draw influence from storytellers from Orson Wells as well as Alfred Hitchcock, TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE moves into their fourth season continuing the magic of stories brought to life that draw you in, isolate you and chill you to the bone…”
November 4, 2016
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AFM: Screen Media Picks Up ‘Stray Bullets’ (Exclusive)
From The Hollywood Reporter
8:26 AM PDT 11/4/2016 by
The indie distributor will do a multi-platform release for the crime drama in the U.S. as well as handling international sales.
Screen Media has picked up worldwide rights for Stray Bullets, a low-budget crime drama from 16-year-old Jack Fessenden, son of indie film vet Larry Fessenden.
The younger Fessenden stars alongside Asa Spurlock in Stray Bullets as a pair of teenage boys tasked with cleaning out their father’s old mobile home on an abandoned property, only to find that three cons on the run (James Le Gros, John Speredakos, Larry Fessenden) are using the trailer for a hideout.
The movie, produced through the Fessenden’s New York shingle Glass Eye Pix, premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany earlier this year.
Screen Media is planning a multi-platform release for Stray Bullets in the U.S. in February next year. The company has also taken on international rights and will be selling the title to foreign buyers at AFM.
“We have a great track record working with Screen Media, and we’re delighted they’ve shown such enthusiasm for Jack’s movie,” said Larry Fessenden. “We look forward to building on that to make an impact with this humble but resonant film.”
The deal for Stray Bullets was negotiated by Needle for Screen Media with Larry Fessenden and Jenn Wexler at Glass Eye Pix on behalf of the filmmakers.
Screen Media’s recent releases include Michel Gondry’s Microbe & Gasoline and South American horror thriller Colonia starring Emma Watson and Daniel Bruhl.
November 4, 2016
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THE EGG AND THE HATCHET is “a young, fun, sexy and smart gem of a short film.”
Oldenburg 2016. Review of “The Egg and the Hatchet” by Chris Skotchdopole
“The Egg and the Hatchet”. This is the perplexing and yet somewhat comforting title of Chris Skotchdopole’s first film that had its first festival bow in the Sunday Shorts program at this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival.
“The Egg and the Hatchet” is the story of a dance between a boy and a girl; a dance around a decision that will forever change their lives. In fact, the girl has a secret and the surprise for her boyfriend turns into a night of uncertainty as neither dares to say what the other is thinking.
What makes Skotchdopole’s world of magic and spontaneity is his liberated vision of it and its sense of reality, nimbly achieved by nonprofessional actors (Taylor Zaudtke and Jeremy Gardner) and their natural and exceptional performances, improvised lines and a story we can all relate to. “The Egg and the Hatchet is breezy, light, wonderful and very easy on the eye, for the camera is a character here, an inherent part of this magical pas de deux to which it lends its enchantment. Skotchdopole deftly eschews clichés of the romantic genre and succeeds in finding the balance between spontaneity – and therefore reality – and his constructed, imagined vision for his short. In doing so, he also manages to masterfully capture and convey the energy between his protagonists and that is precisely how he puts a spell on his audience.
With a fairytale-like title and a wondrous plot, “The Egg and the Hatchet” is, for all intents and purposes, a modern fairytale, a young, fun, sexy and smart gem of a short film. And, if you ever have to something to tell your significant other, just do it the “Egg and the Hatchet Way”!
Production: Glass Eye Pix (USA 2016)
Producers: Larry Fessenden, Tessa Lee Price, Chris Skotchdopole
Associate producer: Walter Montiel
Director: Chris Skotchdopole
Screenplay: Chris Skotchdopole
Cinematography: James Siewart
Music: Morgan z Whirledge
Production Design: Colin O’Brien
Editing: Chris Skotchdopole
Cast: Taylor Zaudtke and Jeremy Gardner
Color – 21 min.
Premiere: 18/09/2016 (Oldenburg International Film Festival)
November 4, 2016
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A short talk with Chris Skotchdopole
At this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival, Yellow Bread sat down with U.S. director Chris Skotchdopole to talk about his (first) short film, “The Egg and the Hatchet” as well as the short films in general and the shorts scene in America.
November 3, 2016
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FRANKENSTEIN readings November 06, 2016 7:00—9:00 pm KGB bar NYC
November 06, 2016
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
KGB BAR
85 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003
85 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003
Restless Books and KGB celebrate with readings from and inspired by
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—out from Restless in a new, illustrated
edition with an introduction by Francine Prose.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—out from Restless in a new, illustrated
edition with an introduction by Francine Prose.
November 3, 2016
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Snapshot from XMOVERS Bar
On the eve of GEP’s 31st anniversary, we hook up with Fessenden, Darroch Greer from Experienced Movers and Hollow Venus, hosted here by Lucy who tended bar during the grueling shoot 30 years ago. Visit Lucy at Avenue A and 8th Street, still one of the most welcoming bars in the East Village.
November 2, 2016
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Glass Eye Pix turns 31 today. Posts “Looking Back on HABIT” in celebration
GEP launches Minidox page on 31st Anniversary with new entry…”Looking Back on HABIT” featuring interviews with original cast members…
We are marking the day with a new page celebrating just a few of our many collaborators in the MiniDox we’ve been putting together this last year. World premiering in honor of the occasion is a brand new Minidoc by GEP chronicler Adam Barnick, a look back at Fessenden’s 1997 slow burn vampire flick, HABIT. Check it!
November 1, 2016
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Birth. Movies. Death: THE PAST INSIDE THE PRESENT is “mesmerizing”
Birth. Movies. Death. Selects shorts from Fantastic Fest for your viewing pleasure:
… James Siewert’s mesmerizing monochrome mixed-media allegory The Past Inside the Present. Stunningly realized in part through hand-drawn charcoal rotoscoped animation, the short is being officially distributed by the filmmaker collective Indie Street, and they’re offering both the film and a bevy of special features for free through the newly christened platform Bit Torrent Now.
Check out the full article HERE
