This weekend!
Fessenden to receive the Winter Film Awards “Patron of the Cinema” Award, presented to an individual whose career transcends their work in the cinema by branching out into other artistic mediums, and who shares a passion for the cinema by mentoring up-and-coming filmmakers.
As part of the 2014 Winter Film Awards Independent Film Festival awards presentation ceremony taking place March 1st 2014 at The EMPIRE ROOM, NY @230 FIFTH, the Winter Film Awards Board of Directors will present Fessenden with the award.
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Congrats to Glass Eye alum Ti West and producing pals Peter Phok and Jacob Jaffke on THE SACRAMENT.

Check out the new trailer on IGN.

The film screens at Lincoln Center tonight with a Q&A with Ti West.
Details here.

Fessenden and Lisa Marie as Jacob and May.

Glass Eye pal JT Petty’s HELLBENDERS is now on 3D Blu-ray and more. The horror-comedy about blasphemous priests stars Clancy Brown and Clifton Collins Jr. and features Fessenden alongside Andre Royo, Robyn Rikoon, Dan Fogler, Macon Blair, and Stephen Gevedon.

From Fangoria:

“Lionsgate Home Entertainment releases HELLBENDERS in a 3D Blu-ray/2D Blu-ray/digital HD combo pack, and also on DVD with digital UltraViolet. Written and directed by Petty… the movie stars Clancy Brown and Clifton Collins Jr. as the leaders of a group of rogue priests who indulge in sin, the better to have the advantage when fighting demons that have infiltrated New York City. They face their greatest challenge when a creature from Norse mythology called Black Surtr invades our present and threatens to literally unleash hell on Earth; the cast also includes Andre Royo, Robyn Rikoon, Dan Fogler, Macon Blair, Stephen Gevedon and Larry Fessenden. The discs’ 16×9-enhanced 2.40:1 transfers, accompanied by DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio on the Blu-rays and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound on the DVD, are accompanied by:

• Audio commentary by Petty

• “God’s Dirty Work: The Making of HELLBENDERS” featurette

• “Fly on the Wall” behind-the-scenes featurette”

Get your copy of HELLBENDERS here.

Production has started on GEP pal Ted Geoghegan’s haunted house film, WE ARE STILL HERE.

From Deadline.com:

“Production is underway in Western NY on ’70s-set ghost story We Are Still Here from MPI/Dark Sky Films and Snowfort Pictures. The pic marks the directorial debut of Don’t Wake The Dead screenwriter Ted Geoghegan, with Travis Stevens producing and Greg Newman serving as executive producer. We Are Still Here follows Paul (Andrew Sensenig) and Anne (Barbara Crampton) who move to the quiet New England countryside to try to start a new life after their teenage son is killed in a car crash. But the grieving couple becomes the prey of a family of vengeful spirits that reside in their new home, and before long they discover that the seemingly peaceful town they’ve moved into is hiding a dark, terrifying dark secret. Lisa Marie (Sleepy Hollow, Planet Of The Apes) and Larry Fessenden (Wendigo, Stake Land) also star. MPI will be talking it up to potential buyers at EFM. Dark Sky Films’ other original productions include the upcoming Late Phases, Frankenstein’s Army, Here Comes The Devil, The Innkeepers, Stake Land and Hatchet II & III. Snowfort Pictures has produced such films as horror pic Cheap Thrills, Directors’ Fortnight documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, and the upcoming Starry Eyes and American Muscle.”

Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s LATE PHASES, from MPI’s Dark Sky Films and Zak Zeman’s Site B Productions, with Fessenden and Brent Kunkle producing for Glass Eye Pix, has been selected for the Midnighters section of SXSW 2014! Get all the details on the film’s World Premiere at SXSW.com.

Synopsis:

Crescent Bay is not the ideal place to spend one’s golden years, especially since the once-idyllic retirement community has been beset by a series of deadly animal attacks from the ominous forest surrounding it. When grizzled war veteran Ambrose McKinley (Nick Damici) is forced into moving there by his yuppie son Will (Ethan Embry), the residents immediately take offense to Ambrose’s abrasive personality. But that take-no-prisoners attitude may be just what Ambrose needs to survive as it becomes clear that the attacks are being caused by creatures that are neither animal nor man, and that the tight-knit community of Crescent Bay is hiding something truly sinister in its midst…

Fessenden to receive the Winter Film Awards “Patron of the Cinema” Award!

Check out the press release below.

From the Press Release

As part of the 2014 Winter Film Awards Independent Film Festival awards presentation Ceremony taking place March 1st 2014 at The EMPIRE ROOM @230 FIFTH, the Winter Film Awards Board of Directors is pleased to honor New York cinema icon Larry Fessenden with the first annual PATRON OF THE CINEMA Award. The award is presented to an individual whose career transcends their work in the cinema by branching out into other artistic mediums, and who shares a passion for the cinema by mentoring up-and-coming filmmakers.

“And it doesn’t hurt if they’re a New Yorker,” smiled Board of Directors member Joseph Mauceri. “The bottom line is that this art form is a business and there are just too few people working in this industry who give back and transcend it by cultivating and inspiring young talent. In creating the Patron of the Cinema Award, I can think of no other person to be the first recipient  of this award then the man, the myth, the legend, and native New Yorker Larry Fessenden.”

See the full article at PRLog.

Get all the details on the 2014 Winter Film Awards Independent Film Festival see their website here.

“My job is to show folks there’s a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.”

The new GEP short by James Siewert, “The Past Inside The Present,” made its goal on Kickstarter! Take a look inside the post-production process.

“The Past Inside the Present” is an allegorical tale of a couple who attempt to renew their dying relationship by plugging directly into recordings of their memories. Learn more about the project here.

The BENEATH Blu-ray and DVD hit shelves March 25th!

Get details on the release and special features at Dread Central.