GEP’s Jenn Wexler joins the conversation at the Fusion Film Festival at NYU in the panel WOMEN IN HORROR tomorrow (2/27/15) at from 7-8:30pm. She’ll be talking with Mary Harron (director of American Psycho), Kat Shea (Poison Ivy) and Katie Carman-Lehach (producer, Eat Me!, Off Season) in a panel moderated by critically-acclaimed director Mary Lambert (Pet Semetary).

For more information on the Fusion Film Festival, check out the events page. And you can even read up on the bios for all the panelists.

Join us in the Cutting Room with a new post on Hollywood composers… check it!

10 Stellar Culture Documentaries the Oscars Snubbed

by Melissa Stern

…. As a dedicated doc-watcher, as well as a documentary screener/curator for an international film festival for the past five years, I’ve found a few documentaries related to art and culture that have really stuck with me over the years.

Here is my roundup, not only of films from the last year but of the past decade. These are films you may have missed in theaters, never saw because they got a one-week showing in NYC and LA and nowhere else, or that were simply too far below the radar ….

….  Birth of the Living Deaddocuments the genesis and making of this seminal film, weaving it seamlessly into its late-sixties origins. There’s the added bonus of an extensive interview with a most delightful George Romero (the director of the 1968 film) as well as hilarious details of how this film was made on a shoestring in suburban Pittsburgh, with many from the local community volunteering to portray the first flesh-eating zombies of the modern era ….

Read the whole article at Hyperallergic

Laura Dern is in talks to join the cast of Glass Eye Pix pal Kelly Reichardt’s newest project, which already lined up Jared Harris, James Le Gros, and Michelle Williams. Fessenden Executive Produces the project along with Todd Haynes.

As Hollywood Reporter Explains:

“Reichardt, who helmed 2013’s Night Moves and 2008’s Wendy and Lucy (which also starred Williams), is writing and directing the untitled indie based on short stories by Maile Meloy. Casting seems to be moving along quickly as the film is scheduled to shoot in Spring in Montana.”

And don’t forget to pledge to the RIVER OF GRASS Kickstarter campaign!

Greetings cinephiles. For some time now we have been posting cine-links from around the web to a page we call the Cutting Room. We hope you’ll visit and scroll through some of the previous offerings. We’ll be making the postings more visible now, one every Tuesday. Here we celebrate the language and craft of cinema, and the power and pleasure of art and process.

Glass Eye Pix pals team up with Joe Begos for his sophomore effort “The Minds Eye”

Bloody-Disgusting reports:

After making a name for himself with the creature feature Almost Human, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, filmmaker Joe Begos is now filming his second feature that will blow your mind (literally).

The Mind’s Eye is a violent telekinetic revenge thriller set in snowy 1990 New England, says Deadline. It follows a drifter with telekinetic abilities who targets a doctor who is creating a synthetic telekinetic power serum.

The film went into production this week in Rhode Island and is financed by Channel 83 Films and Site B Productions. The Mind’s Eye stars Graham Skipper (from Begos’ feature directorial debut Almost Human), Lauren Ashley Carter (Pod), John Speredakos, Noah Segan (LooperContracted I+II) Larry Fessenden, and Jeremy Gardner. Begos, Josh Ethier, Graham Skipper, and Zak Zeman (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S, V/H/S/2, Late Phases) produce.

WE ARE STILL HERE  Directed by Ted Geoghegan, Produced by Travis Stevens for Snowfort Pictures and MPI Dark Sky Films.

Starring: Barbara Crampton, Andrew Sensenig, Lisa Marie, Larry Fessenden, Monte Markham, Kelsea Dakota, Michael Patrick, Susan Gibney, Guy Gane III, Elissa Dowling, Zorah Burress

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Fessenden is pleased to announce he will be represented at SXSW this year in two turns as actor and as executive producer on ENTERTAINMENT, unspooling in the Festival Favorites section after its Sundance premiere.

Check out the Midnight World Premiere Showings of WE ARE STILL HERE and THE POD to see how long Fessenden survives each picture. Place your bets now.

We Are Still Here
Director/Screenwriter: Ted Geoghegan
In the cold, winter fields of New England, there sits a house that wakes up every 30 years and demands a sacrifice. Cast: Barbara Crampton, Andrew Sensenig, Larry Fesseden, Lisa Marie, Monte Markham. (World Premiere)

Pod
Director/Screenwriter: Mickey Keating
A family intervention goes horrifically awry within the snowy confines of an isolated lake house. Cast: Lauren Ashley Carter, Dean Cates, Brian Morvant, Larry Fessenden, John Weselcouch. (World Premiere)

Entertainment
Director: Rick Alverson, Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, Gregg Turkington
En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempt to revive his dwindling career, a broken, aging comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert. Cast: Gregg Turkington, John C. Reilly, Tye Sheridan

The new Sony PS4 Horror game UNTIL DAWN, written by GEP alumn Graham Reznick and Fessenden is now available for pre-order at GameStop.