Glass Eye Pix

TALES 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY BASH VIDEO

Spend a little time (an hour to be precise) with Glenn McQuaid and Larry Fessenden as they celebrate 10 years and 50 Tales with past collaborators John Speredakos, James Le Gros, Clay McLeod Chapman, April Snellings, Graham Reznick and Sam Zimmerman.

Featuring first time digital releases of the TALES Read Along poems “Simon is Hiding” and “The Town That’s Not There” and plenty of clips from the archives. Come pull up a pumpkin and join the fun.

Also available as audio podcast #42 at Tales From Beyond The Pale The Podcast

TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE The Podcast — Episode #42 “10 Year Anniversary Bash”

Episode #42 10 Year Anniversary Bash

A one hour Special
Celebrating 10 years of Tales of cherished collaborations

with your hosts Glenn McQuaid and Larry Fessenden
Featuring: Clay McLeod Chapman, John Speredakos, James Le Gros
April Snellings, Graham Reznick, Sam Zimmerman

digital poem premieres:
Simon Is Hiding • The Town That’s Not There

Zoom Call of October 27 2020 • Poster by Brian Level

for more TALES physical media, info and Swag, visit
www.talesfrombeyondtheplae.com

COMING SOON FROM GEP: Rigo Garay’s SIZE UP

Glass Eye Pix is proud to wrap up our 35th Anniversary
with some announcements about upcoming projects.

SIZE UP a short film by Rigo Garay. Now entering film festivals.

Produced by GEP alumn James Felix McKenney (producer THE OFF SEASON, THE ROOST, FOXHOLE, director AUTOMATONS, SATAN HATES YOU), Produced and Edited by Chris Skotchdopole (cinematographer DEPRAVED, director THE EGG & THE HATCHET, MISS MILLIE), Cinematography by James Siewert (DEPRAVED, LIKE ME, THE RANGER, director THE PAST INSIDE THE PRESENT)

SIZE UP is written, directed and stars Rigo Garay,
Jesse Schratz, Jose Useche, Sean Mana, Matt Liquori
and Tatiana Montes.

After the senseless murder of this older brother, an 11-year-old boy
will discover what kind of a person he will grow to be.

A Glass Eye Pix production

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New album from The Unwanted Houseguest drops in time for Halloween!

GEP Pal The Unwanted Houseguest (who’s identity remains a secret) releases CAUGHT ON TAPE!
A brand new 12-track album in time for your spooky social-distant festivities.
With guest appearances from Larry Fessenden on sax,
Jack Fessenden on guitar, Rigo Garay as “Rigormortis”
and many more!

Now streaming on Apple Music and Spotify.

Be sure to visit The Unwanted Houseguest’s Youtube channel,
for daily uploads as he counts down to Halloween.

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GEP Minidox presents: INTERVIEW with JEFF GRACE

Glass Eye Pix 35th Anniversary Mini-Doc: Jeff Grace, composer for THE ROOST, THE LAST WINTER, TRIGGER MAN, I SELL THE DEAD, I CAN SEE YOU, LIBERTY KID, SKIN AND BONES, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, THE INNKEEPERS, STAKE LAND and more, talks about his process and his history with Glass Eye Pix. Interview and Edit by Larry Fessenden.

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Adam Wingard’s YOU’RE NEXT featured on PASTE

From PASTE: You’re Next, though made on a modest budget of $1 million, was a big step up for Wingard, who had risen from the mumblecore/mumblegore movement alongside contemporaries and frequent collaborators Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Simon Barrett and A.J. Bowen. Every one of them step onto the screen in You’re Next, which combines elements of the improvisational dialog found in those low-budget dramas with the tighter pacing and bloody kills of a vintage slasher film. The result is a fusion of dysfunctional family drama and bone-crunching horror actioner, with more genre icons (Larry Fessenden, Barbara Crampton!) than you can shake a stick at.

See Full Review HERE

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Glenn McQuaid interview with Galen Howard on Instagram

GEP CineZone presents: THE EGG AND THE HATCHET by Chris Skotchdopole

Glass Eye Pix presents THE EGG AND THE HATCHET,
a short film by GEP collaborator Chris Skotchdopole.
Starring Taylor Zaudtke and Jeremy Gardner

NOTES:

Jeremy Gardner first came into the Glass Eye fold when he invited Fessenden to do a voice over for his seminal film THE BATTERY. Fessenden recommended Jeremy for the role in Chris Skotchdopole’s movie.

Taylor Zaudtke was a Glass Eye Pix intern when Chris cast her in the role. This was her first performance. She has since made other films, often starring opposite Jeremy (SADISTIC INTENTIONS, AFTER MIDNIGHT) and now they are engaged to be married!

Chris had produced two music videos for Glass Eye Pix with James Siewert directing. This was the first time James was a DOP for a Glass Eye movie. Siewert would go on to shoot GEP flix LIKE ME and THE RANGER and Skotchdopole and Siewert would both serve as DOPs on Fessenden’s DEPRAVED.

The crew was made up of Glass Eye interns: Ben Duff was Gaffer, his first film gaffing. This was intern Rigo Garay’s first movie on set as Production Manager. And intern Walter Montiel was an Associate Producer.

The production rolled into the feature shoot for STRAY BULLETS, sharing crew and equipment, the first successful implementation of the idea of the Piggyback film, an old GEP idea from 1989 where a short film could be made with the equipment and manpower already employed for a feature.

THE EGG AND THE HATCHET made the festival round in 2016-17. Since that time, Chris made a big trim to the movie, a tradition at Glass Eye Pix set by Fessenden who often re-cuts his films after they premier (NO TELLING, WENDIGO, HABIT and THE LAST WINTER all got a facelift after their first public screenings. So did THE SHINING by Mr. Kubrick.)

GEP CineZone presents: the world premier of the new edit of THE EGG AND THE HATCHET.

behind the scenes during the shoot

A YEAR AGO: Fessenden interview from Oct 2019

TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE The Podcast — Episode #41 “Dead Man’s Shoes”

Episode #41 DEAD MAN’S SHOES

A struggling novelist takes on translation work
for an elderly aristocrat who wants ‘to put his affairs in order’

writer Ashley Thorpe • director Glenn McQuaid
Featuring: Larry Fessenden, Michael Cerveris
Brenda Cooney, John Speredakos, Tobias Campbell
Music by Dave Eggar, Julian Maile