The third annual British Short Film Awards saw In Too Deep and Muna walk away with the top prizes. More below:
Short films are always a great way to spot some emerging new talent, and they’re often bloody good watches in their own right. If you’re looking for somewhere to start in the medium, you could do much worse than the upcoming list.
Founded in 2020 and with the first awards event taking place in 2021, 2023 marks the third consecutive year of the British Short Film Awards, and they’ve announced all their winners across 26 categories.
Awards chair Tommy Clarke had the following to say about the event:
“I founded The British Short Film Awards to help celebrate, nurture, and provide funding to a vital sector of the British film industry that acts as such a crucial breeding ground for emerging talent.
Supporting and celebrating the short film industry often...
Short films are always a great way to spot some emerging new talent, and they’re often bloody good watches in their own right. If you’re looking for somewhere to start in the medium, you could do much worse than the upcoming list.
Founded in 2020 and with the first awards event taking place in 2021, 2023 marks the third consecutive year of the British Short Film Awards, and they’ve announced all their winners across 26 categories.
Awards chair Tommy Clarke had the following to say about the event:
“I founded The British Short Film Awards to help celebrate, nurture, and provide funding to a vital sector of the British film industry that acts as such a crucial breeding ground for emerging talent.
Supporting and celebrating the short film industry often...
- 12/18/2023
- by James Harvey
- Film Stories
There’s more smoke than fire in “Burn,” a reasonably promising single-location thriller that never quite settles on what it wants to be — a straight-up suspense piece, twisty black comedy, oddball character study, etc. “All the above” would be a tall but not impossible order to pull off. The problem is that writer-director Mike Gan’s first feature, though competently handled in most departments, doesn’t commit enough to any approach to fulfill its potential.
The result is a passably diverting, moderately offbeat but also instantly forgettable hybrid that doesn’t even rank among the best truck-stop-in-crisis movies: “Shack Out on 101” and “Splinter” remain unchallenged atop that slim hierarchy. “Burn” opens on 10 U.S. screens Aug. 23, simultaneous with VOD and Digital launch.
Melinda (Tilda Cobham-Hervey) arrives for her night shift at a 24-hour gas station/quickie-mart type joint off an undesignated highway. The kind of nondescript worker drone whose over-friendliness...
The result is a passably diverting, moderately offbeat but also instantly forgettable hybrid that doesn’t even rank among the best truck-stop-in-crisis movies: “Shack Out on 101” and “Splinter” remain unchallenged atop that slim hierarchy. “Burn” opens on 10 U.S. screens Aug. 23, simultaneous with VOD and Digital launch.
Melinda (Tilda Cobham-Hervey) arrives for her night shift at a 24-hour gas station/quickie-mart type joint off an undesignated highway. The kind of nondescript worker drone whose over-friendliness...
- 8/23/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
The current controversy over Georgia’s restrictive new abortion laws, and resulting calls to withdraw Hollywood coin from that state, have underlined the political-shuffleboard nature of U.S. location shoots. Coincidentally arriving at the same time is “All Creatures Here Below,” the first feature to take advantage of Kansas City, Mo.’s filmmaker tax incentive, which is unusual in that it’s a strictly municipal rather than statewide ordinance.
That fiscal footnote may wind up being the most memorable thing about this sophomore feature by director Collin Schiffli, whose debut, “Animals,” was also a collaboration with scenarist-star David Dastmalchian. It’s a decently acted and crafted drama that nonetheless seems built on a foundation of phony pathos, revolving around doomed lovers whose fate seems more a matter of contrived miserabilism than authenticity. Goldwyn is opening the indie at 10 theaters across the nation on May 17, simultaneous with VOD launch.
Ruby (Karen Gillan...
That fiscal footnote may wind up being the most memorable thing about this sophomore feature by director Collin Schiffli, whose debut, “Animals,” was also a collaboration with scenarist-star David Dastmalchian. It’s a decently acted and crafted drama that nonetheless seems built on a foundation of phony pathos, revolving around doomed lovers whose fate seems more a matter of contrived miserabilism than authenticity. Goldwyn is opening the indie at 10 theaters across the nation on May 17, simultaneous with VOD launch.
Ruby (Karen Gillan...
- 5/17/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Breaking Glass Pictures has announced their acquisition of the North American rights to Matthew Montgomery's Devil's Path. The film will be released in theaters sometime in March, with a DVD and VOD release to follow. Also in today's Horror Highlights: The Luring's Panic Fest premiere details and a new trailer for Søren Juul Petersen's Danish horror film Finale.
Devil's Path North American Theatrical, DVD, and VOD Release Details: "Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the riveting Lgbtq psychological thriller Devil’S Path, the feature debut from writer/director Matthew Montgomery. Breaking Glass acquired rights to the film in December in a deal negotiated between Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff and Montgomery on behalf of Proteus Pictures. The film will arrive in North American audiences in March for a limited theatrical, followed by a DVD/VOD release.
Praised as an “intriguing and bloody psychological thriller” (Amos Lassen...
Devil's Path North American Theatrical, DVD, and VOD Release Details: "Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the riveting Lgbtq psychological thriller Devil’S Path, the feature debut from writer/director Matthew Montgomery. Breaking Glass acquired rights to the film in December in a deal negotiated between Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff and Montgomery on behalf of Proteus Pictures. The film will arrive in North American audiences in March for a limited theatrical, followed by a DVD/VOD release.
Praised as an “intriguing and bloody psychological thriller” (Amos Lassen...
- 12/26/2018
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Looking to deliver a new twist on a feared and revered legend, Patrick Magee's new movie Primal Rage is coming to Us theaters for one night only on February 27th via Fathom Events and Blue Fox Entertainment. To celebrate Bigfoot's return to the big screen, we caught up with Magee for a new Q&A feature to discuss not only directing Primal Rage, but also his time on set playing Bigfoot in a suit he created using skills acquired from his own impressive practical effects career.
Thanks for taking the time to answer questions for us, Patrick, and congratulations on Primal Rage. How and when did you and Jay Lee come up with the idea for your new movie?
Patrick Magee: It was a very long process. I have always wanted to make a Bigfoot suit. I initially started making the Bigfoot suit first, and simultaneously, I started to develop a story,...
Thanks for taking the time to answer questions for us, Patrick, and congratulations on Primal Rage. How and when did you and Jay Lee come up with the idea for your new movie?
Patrick Magee: It was a very long process. I have always wanted to make a Bigfoot suit. I initially started making the Bigfoot suit first, and simultaneously, I started to develop a story,...
- 2/26/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
I'm a huge fan of spider cinema, and I'm not talking about superhero silliness. I mean flicks like Tarantula (1955), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977), Kingdom of the Spiders (1978), Arachnophobia (1990), Spiders (2000), Eight Legged Freaks (2002), and a dozen others you've probably never even heard of. Like most people, I have a natural wariness of spiders, but like most horror fans, I love to see the creepy little buggers wreak havoc safely within the world of movies. Of course sometimes the spiders aren't so little, and that's when I know I'm dealing with a flick I'll probably enjoy.
Simply put: one of the most entertaining things about movies is that they can deliver funny stuff that you'd (hopefully) never see in real life, stuff like a giant spider wreaking havoc across Los Angeles as it skewers screaming people with its spindly legs and wraps other victims up in webbing and swallows them whole.
Simply put: one of the most entertaining things about movies is that they can deliver funny stuff that you'd (hopefully) never see in real life, stuff like a giant spider wreaking havoc across Los Angeles as it skewers screaming people with its spindly legs and wraps other victims up in webbing and swallows them whole.
- 3/12/2013
- by Scott Weinberg
- FEARnet
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