It may be best known for its pristine beaches, delectable dishes, and mesmerizing music, but for one weekend in August, Miami Beach was a thriving home to horror cinema thanks to the eighth edition of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival. Following its opening weekend of exciting premieres at the Savor Cinema in Fort Lauderdale and a week of vital virtual programming as part of its hybrid festival option for attendees at home, Popcorn Frights set its sights on the O Cinema South Beach from August 19th–21st, teaming up with the amazing team at the short film platform Alter to provide free screenings of spooky short films and frightening features all weekend long, making Miami Beach a paradise for horror fans looking to enjoy new cinematic experiences from around the world.
I was honored to once again be invited to be on the jury for this year’s Popcorn Frights...
I was honored to once again be invited to be on the jury for this year’s Popcorn Frights...
- 9/1/2022
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
This past month, a wave of captivating horror cinema washed over Fort Lauderdale and Miami Beach with the eighth annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival. I was honored to once again serve on the jury for this year's Popcorn Frights, and we're thrilled to reveal both the juried and audience award winners for this year's festival, including Sylvia Caminer's Follow Her (Jury Prize for Best Film), Carter Smith's Swallowed (Jury Prize for Scariest Feature Film), Shane Brady's Breathing Happy (Best New Nightmare), and Kyra Gardner's Living with Chucky (Audience Award for Best Feature Film).
We have the official press release with full details on all of the winners below, and to learn more about Popcorn Frights, visit their official website:
https://www.popcornfrights.com/
Press Release: August 29, 2022 // -- As its eighth edition comes to a close after eleven nights of in-person and virtual programming, Popcorn Frights Film Festival is...
We have the official press release with full details on all of the winners below, and to learn more about Popcorn Frights, visit their official website:
https://www.popcornfrights.com/
Press Release: August 29, 2022 // -- As its eighth edition comes to a close after eleven nights of in-person and virtual programming, Popcorn Frights Film Festival is...
- 8/29/2022
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Popcorn Frights Film Festival announced today its juried and audience awards that were selected from its lineup of 113 films (36 features and 77 short films from 20 countries) in 10 categories.
This year’s jury consisted of members of national media and local filmmakers, who chose to honor Florida filmmaker Sylvia Caminer’s Follow Her with the Jury Prize for Best Feature Film.
In announcing the Feature Film Prize for the film, the jury said the following: “A socially relevant horror movie for modern times, Sylvia Caminer’s Follow Her features a completely unpredictable screenplay by star Dani Barker with a twist at the end that rivals The Sixth Sense. Caminer’s directing style is near perfection, and we can’t wait to ‘follow her’ into her next film.”
Accepting her award, Sylvia Caminer said, “Winning the Jury Prize for Best Film is such an incredible honor as the level of programming at Popcorn...
This year’s jury consisted of members of national media and local filmmakers, who chose to honor Florida filmmaker Sylvia Caminer’s Follow Her with the Jury Prize for Best Feature Film.
In announcing the Feature Film Prize for the film, the jury said the following: “A socially relevant horror movie for modern times, Sylvia Caminer’s Follow Her features a completely unpredictable screenplay by star Dani Barker with a twist at the end that rivals The Sixth Sense. Caminer’s directing style is near perfection, and we can’t wait to ‘follow her’ into her next film.”
Accepting her award, Sylvia Caminer said, “Winning the Jury Prize for Best Film is such an incredible honor as the level of programming at Popcorn...
- 8/29/2022
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Compton-based filmmaker Victor Gabriel is among a select group of filmmakers to punch their ticket for the Oscar race, after scoring wins at the HollyShorts Film Festival.
Gabriel’s 13-minute film Hallelujah won the Grand Prix for Best Short at the festival’s awards ceremony on Saturday afternoon. HollyShorts is an Oscar-qualifying festival, so the win for Hallelujah makes it immediately eligible for Oscar consideration. Producer Duran Jones won the festival’s Best Producer prize.
Two other winners qualified for Oscar consideration: Mulaqat/Sandstrom, directed by Seemab Gul, won Best Live Action short, and Scale, directed by Joseph Pierce, won the award for Best Animation (scroll for full list of winners).
Hallelujah touches on the loss of someone to gun violence, a tragedy with ripple effects on several members of a family.
“After an inexplicable event, two brothers have to take on the guardianship of their nephew and niece,” Gabriel...
Gabriel’s 13-minute film Hallelujah won the Grand Prix for Best Short at the festival’s awards ceremony on Saturday afternoon. HollyShorts is an Oscar-qualifying festival, so the win for Hallelujah makes it immediately eligible for Oscar consideration. Producer Duran Jones won the festival’s Best Producer prize.
Two other winners qualified for Oscar consideration: Mulaqat/Sandstrom, directed by Seemab Gul, won Best Live Action short, and Scale, directed by Joseph Pierce, won the award for Best Animation (scroll for full list of winners).
Hallelujah touches on the loss of someone to gun violence, a tragedy with ripple effects on several members of a family.
“After an inexplicable event, two brothers have to take on the guardianship of their nephew and niece,” Gabriel...
- 8/21/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Victor Gabriel’s “Hallelujah,” Seemab Gul’s “Mulaqat/Sandstorm” and Joseph Pierce’s “Scale” have won the top awards at the 2022 HollyShorts Film Festival, which presented its prizes on Saturday afternoon in Hollywood — thus qualifying for this year’s Academy Awards.
“Hallelujah” won the Grand Prix for the festival’s best short, “Mulaqat/Sandstorm” took the honors as the best live-action short and “Scale” won for animation. HollyShorts is an Oscar-qualifying festival for the short-film categories, and the winners of those three awards are automatically entered in the Oscar race.
The award to “Hallelujah” was presented via video by this year’s Oscar winners for Best Live Action Short, “The Long Goodbye” filmmakers Riz Ahmed and Aniel Karia. The Oscar winners for the 2018 live-action short “Skin,” Jamie Ray Newman and Guy Nattiv, presented the awards to “Mulaqat/Sandstorm” and best-director winner Carlos Segundo (“Sideral”), respectively.
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“Hallelujah” won the Grand Prix for the festival’s best short, “Mulaqat/Sandstorm” took the honors as the best live-action short and “Scale” won for animation. HollyShorts is an Oscar-qualifying festival for the short-film categories, and the winners of those three awards are automatically entered in the Oscar race.
The award to “Hallelujah” was presented via video by this year’s Oscar winners for Best Live Action Short, “The Long Goodbye” filmmakers Riz Ahmed and Aniel Karia. The Oscar winners for the 2018 live-action short “Skin,” Jamie Ray Newman and Guy Nattiv, presented the awards to “Mulaqat/Sandstorm” and best-director winner Carlos Segundo (“Sideral”), respectively.
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- 8/21/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Lionsgate has acquired Breeders, an upcoming horror project, that will star “Bates Motel” and The Quiet Ones‘ Olivia Cooke, Bloody Disgusting learned. Kelsey Bollig will make her feature directorial debut. She’s said to be one of the most highly promising talents in horror, her short films “Asking for a Friend” and “The Fourth Wall have […]
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- 6/23/2022
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Olivia Cooke, the star of “Ready Player One” and the upcoming “Game of Thrones” prequel series “House of the Dragon,” will star in a horror feature film called “Breeders” from producer Adam McKay at Lionsgate.
The project is based on an original idea from McKay and Brian Steele, and Lionsgate has locked Kelsey Bollig to direct in what will be her feature directorial debut. Bollig is known as the director of the short films “Asking for a Friend” and “The Fourth Wall” and most recently “Kickstart My Heart,” which made its debut at the Dances With Films festival.
Plot details are being kept under wraps. Steele wrote the screenplay.
Adam McKay and Todd Schulman will produce “Breeders.”
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“We’re hugely excited about Kelsey. Her films come straight out of a horror sensibility she’s been honing her entire life,...
The project is based on an original idea from McKay and Brian Steele, and Lionsgate has locked Kelsey Bollig to direct in what will be her feature directorial debut. Bollig is known as the director of the short films “Asking for a Friend” and “The Fourth Wall” and most recently “Kickstart My Heart,” which made its debut at the Dances With Films festival.
Plot details are being kept under wraps. Steele wrote the screenplay.
Adam McKay and Todd Schulman will produce “Breeders.”
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‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel ‘House of the Dragon’ Heats Up With Official Poster
“We’re hugely excited about Kelsey. Her films come straight out of a horror sensibility she’s been honing her entire life,...
- 6/22/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Lionsgate has acquired Breeders, an upcoming horror project that has Olivia Cooke (Slow Horses) attached to star, Deadline can confirm.
The studio is keeping the film’s logline under wraps. But veteran horror helmer Kelsey Bollig will direct in her feature debut, with Adam McKay and Todd Schulman producing for Hyperobject Industries. Brian Steele wrote the script, which was based on his and McKay’s original idea. Scott O’Brien bright the project to Lionsgate and will oversee it for the studio with Brady Fujikawa.
Cooke can currently be seen on Apple TV+’s spy series Slow Horses with Gary Oldman and will next be seen on HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.
Shorts previously directed by Bollig which have garnered awards and critical acclaim on the festival circuit include Asking for a Friend, The Fourth Wall and Kickstart My Heart.
Cooke is represented by CAA,...
The studio is keeping the film’s logline under wraps. But veteran horror helmer Kelsey Bollig will direct in her feature debut, with Adam McKay and Todd Schulman producing for Hyperobject Industries. Brian Steele wrote the script, which was based on his and McKay’s original idea. Scott O’Brien bright the project to Lionsgate and will oversee it for the studio with Brady Fujikawa.
Cooke can currently be seen on Apple TV+’s spy series Slow Horses with Gary Oldman and will next be seen on HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.
Shorts previously directed by Bollig which have garnered awards and critical acclaim on the festival circuit include Asking for a Friend, The Fourth Wall and Kickstart My Heart.
Cooke is represented by CAA,...
- 6/22/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Olivia Cooke, one of the stars of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, will star in Breeders, a horror project just acquired by Lionsgate that will mark the feature directorial debut of rising fright filmmaker Kelsey Bollig.
Adam McKay, the filmmaker behind Netflix hit Don’t Look Up and an executive producer on HBO’s Winning Time, is one of the originators of the idea and is producing via his Hyperobject Industries banner along with the company’s Todd Schulman.
The logline is being kept locked in the Lionsgate vault, but one source has described the project as a social horror-thriller that is tonally in the vein of Fresh, a dating-gone-wrong thriller starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan that debuted on Hulu in March.
McKay came up with the idea with Brian Steele, who then wrote the screenplay.
Bollig has...
Olivia Cooke, one of the stars of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, will star in Breeders, a horror project just acquired by Lionsgate that will mark the feature directorial debut of rising fright filmmaker Kelsey Bollig.
Adam McKay, the filmmaker behind Netflix hit Don’t Look Up and an executive producer on HBO’s Winning Time, is one of the originators of the idea and is producing via his Hyperobject Industries banner along with the company’s Todd Schulman.
The logline is being kept locked in the Lionsgate vault, but one source has described the project as a social horror-thriller that is tonally in the vein of Fresh, a dating-gone-wrong thriller starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan that debuted on Hulu in March.
McKay came up with the idea with Brian Steele, who then wrote the screenplay.
Bollig has...
- 6/22/2022
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Happy Summer, horror freaks! Festival season is ramping up and one of the most fun showcases that you can check out is the Etheria Film Festival. From the comfort of your own couch, you can check out a slate of amazing horror and sci-fi shorts from emerging women directors.
This fest always features a great collection of stories from exciting voices, and this year is no different. From the serious to the ridiculous and everything in between. The 2021 Etheria program offers a little something for everyone. I was able to check out all of the offerings and was really blown away by the talent on display here.
The Fourth Wall: Kelsey Bollig’s examination of life on the edge of the spotlight is one rife with frustration and rage. And it’s fabulous. Chloe is backstage preparing for her performance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She’s ready to make...
This fest always features a great collection of stories from exciting voices, and this year is no different. From the serious to the ridiculous and everything in between. The 2021 Etheria program offers a little something for everyone. I was able to check out all of the offerings and was really blown away by the talent on display here.
The Fourth Wall: Kelsey Bollig’s examination of life on the edge of the spotlight is one rife with frustration and rage. And it’s fabulous. Chloe is backstage preparing for her performance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She’s ready to make...
- 7/7/2021
- by Emily von Seele
- DailyDead
Syfy Celebrates Pride Month With Pride Of Chucky ‘Child's Play’ Movie Marathon On June 9: "Universal City, Calif. – June 8, 2021 – In celebration of Pride Month, Syfy will be airing a murderer’s row of “Child’s Play” movies all day on Wednesday, June 9, starting at 8 a.m. Et. The marathon will call attention to the well-loved horror series’ LGBTQ+ elements and serve up some summer scares at the same time.
All of this arrives ahead of Syfy and USA’s upcoming “Chucky” series, which premieres this fall with” Child’s Play” mastermind Don Mancini at the helm. For more on the upcoming original series “Chucky” visit https://www.syfy.com/chucky.
In his announcement of the marathon on Twitter, Mancini posted a Syfy-exclusive video in which he explains how the series has transformed over the years into a LGBTQ+-friendly space.
“Starting with ‘Bride of Chucky,’ I started to deliberately inject some LGBTQ elements into the franchise,...
All of this arrives ahead of Syfy and USA’s upcoming “Chucky” series, which premieres this fall with” Child’s Play” mastermind Don Mancini at the helm. For more on the upcoming original series “Chucky” visit https://www.syfy.com/chucky.
In his announcement of the marathon on Twitter, Mancini posted a Syfy-exclusive video in which he explains how the series has transformed over the years into a LGBTQ+-friendly space.
“Starting with ‘Bride of Chucky,’ I started to deliberately inject some LGBTQ elements into the franchise,...
- 6/8/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Etheria Film Night has unveiled its 2021 Official Short Films Showcase Lineup, which will stream exclusively on Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror films and thrillers.
The films will be available Friday, June 25, through July 25. The festival is a showcase of horror, science fiction, fantasy, action and thriller films directed by women. This year’s edition will feature nine short films and honor “The Walking Dead” showrunner and executive producer Angela Kang with the 2021 Etheria Inspiration Award, given annually to a person in the entertainment industry who has inspired women to pursue careers working in genre film and television. Producer Gale Anne Hurd (“Terminator”) will present the award to Kang with the ceremony included as part of the official Etheria 2021 content streaming on Shudder.
“The 2021 lineup has some of the funniest things we’ve ever programmed alongside some of the darkest and most disturbing things we’ve ever programmed,” says...
The films will be available Friday, June 25, through July 25. The festival is a showcase of horror, science fiction, fantasy, action and thriller films directed by women. This year’s edition will feature nine short films and honor “The Walking Dead” showrunner and executive producer Angela Kang with the 2021 Etheria Inspiration Award, given annually to a person in the entertainment industry who has inspired women to pursue careers working in genre film and television. Producer Gale Anne Hurd (“Terminator”) will present the award to Kang with the ceremony included as part of the official Etheria 2021 content streaming on Shudder.
“The 2021 lineup has some of the funniest things we’ve ever programmed alongside some of the darkest and most disturbing things we’ve ever programmed,” says...
- 5/24/2021
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Edelweiss Film Productions, the one-year old company launched by Victoria Lacoste, the actress-turned-producer and heiress of the well-known Lacoste brand, is producing “The Fourth Wall,” a Paris-set short film starring Lizzie Brocheré (American Horror Story) and Roby Schinasi (Gossip Girl).
Directed by Kelsey Bollig, “The Fourth Wall” shot last month at the Palais des Glaces in Paris and revolves around a washed-up actress battling her inner darkness and fights for the spotlight amongst self-serving newcomers during a performance of “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.”
Lacoste’s banner is also developing several feature film projects, including “Nothing But Love,” an English-language project that will be directed by Pascal Arnold (“American Translation”) and will unfold in a small town in Savannah where the arrival of a new doctor provokes changes and leads the unveiling of deep-buried secrets. “Nothing But Love” is being produced with Toloda, the banner headed by Jean-Marc Barr, Teddy Vermeulin and Arnold.
Directed by Kelsey Bollig, “The Fourth Wall” shot last month at the Palais des Glaces in Paris and revolves around a washed-up actress battling her inner darkness and fights for the spotlight amongst self-serving newcomers during a performance of “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.”
Lacoste’s banner is also developing several feature film projects, including “Nothing But Love,” an English-language project that will be directed by Pascal Arnold (“American Translation”) and will unfold in a small town in Savannah where the arrival of a new doctor provokes changes and leads the unveiling of deep-buried secrets. “Nothing But Love” is being produced with Toloda, the banner headed by Jean-Marc Barr, Teddy Vermeulin and Arnold.
- 12/9/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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