I was able to speak with filmmaker Sam Freedman about his film Cameron which is available rent or buy through Apple on November 24, 2026. We spoke about where he came up with the idea for the movie, mise-en-scene, how short films are finding more and more ways to be seen as well as the special makeup effects that are prominently featured in the story. Here is that conversation:
Declan and Aisha O’Brien have just received the worst news imaginable. Their son Cameron has been killed in action.
Aisha can scarcely look at her husband. Were it not for the lifelong encouragement of his father, a 30-year veteran himself, Cameron never would’ve enlisted — and she can’t help but blame him for the loss of her child. As their marriage curdles, consumed by grief and unspoken resentment…
There’s a knock at the door. It’s Cameron.
Except — different. Once a free-spirited young man, openly gay and brimming with joie de vivre, he’s now reticent. Inscrutable. Hulking in stature. And strangest of all: seemingly impervious to pain.
He tells his parents to keep his presence there a secret.
Desperate to figure out what exactly happened to their sweet baby boy — and what, if anything, they can do about it — Declan and Aisha are hit with the sinking realization that their time is running out. And as they race against the clock, long-simmering tensions return, culminating in a scorching, bloody coda where old scars become new.
I had the opportunity to speak with
actors Thomas Hobson and Rich Ceraulo Ko about their new movie Love Loaded
which is written and directed by Jan Miller Corran. Love Loaded is set
to release across all TVOD/Digital platforms throughout North America
beginning on November 13th, 2026. Here is our conversation:
Love Loaded had its west coast premiere at Cinema Diverse Palm
Springs and will be screened on November 14th at the St. Louis
International Film Festival. LOVE LOADED has won multiple awards
including best feature film, best film noir, best actor/actress, best
original song, best ensemble cast.
Jan Miller's Corran's latest
film unfolds in the sultry atmosphere of Club Fiagaro a late-night haven
for musicians, dreamers and drifters. At the center of the story is
torch singer Didi Scanlon (Monica Young) whose velvet voice and magnetic
presence draw admirers and enemies alike. When a shocking crime
shatter's the club's carefully crafted illusion of elegance, a tangled
web of suspects emerges - lovers, rivals, detectives and desperate souls
whose loyalties shift as quickly as the music changes.
I had the opportunity to speak with actors Adam Huss and Monica Young about their new movie Love Loaded which is written and directed by Jan Miller Corran. Love Loaded is set to release across all TVOD/Digital platforms throughout North America beginning on November 13th, 2026. Here is our conversation:
Love Loaded had its west coast premiere at Cinema Diverse Palm Springs and will be screened on November 14th at the St. Louis International Film Festival. LOVE LOADED has won multiple awards including best feature film, best film noir, best actor/actress, best original song, best ensemble cast.
Jan Miller's Corran's latest film unfolds in the sultry atmosphere of Club Fiagaro a late-night haven for musicians, dreamers and drifters. At the center of the story is torch singer Didi Scanlon (Monica Young) whose velvet voice and magnetic presence draw admirers and enemies alike. When a shocking crime shatter's the club's carefully crafted illusion of elegance, a tangled web of suspects emerges - lovers, rivals, detectives and desperate souls whose loyalties shift as quickly as the music changes.
I was able to have a conversation with actors Kaylee McGregor, Joey Bader and Oliver Woolf about their new film LITTERMATES. We spoke about what they connected with when they read Scott Tinkham's screenplay. How they each prepared to portray their characters. This being a film partially about a post-apocalyptic world - showcasing the perils and dangerous of such a setting - one of the actors disappeared from zoom....hopefully they make it back.
Award-winning absurdist horror film LITTERMATES (Drafthouse Exclusives) will release theatrically NEXT WEEK in Alamo theaters in major cities on November 6, 2026. This award-winning film was a recent selection of Fantastic Fest 2026.
Alamo theaters/ cities theatrically releasing the film for a full one week run include: New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Omaha, Raleigh, San Antonio, San Francisco, Twin Cities and more.
Set against the backdrop of a mysterious war, LITTERMATES follows two disoriented survivors who take refuge at an isolated cottage in the English countryside. After Liam (Joey Bader) and Mel (Kaylee McGregor) arrive bloodied, speechless, and unable to fully understand what has happened to them, they are taken in by Chester (Oliver Woolf), an enigmatic caretaker who bathes, feeds, and teaches them how to speak again.
As sirens, smoke, and distant threats press closer, Liam and Mel go about their days relearning the simplest tasks inside Chester’s carefully controlled world, while earning “nifties” for good behavior that can be traded for small comforts like karaoke, hot tub time, dance parties, and favorite meals. However, unlike Liam, Mel is far less willing to accept the boundaries of the cottage, growing increasingly drawn to the woods, the locked gate, and the larger world Chester insists is too dangerous to enter.
When Mel's curiosity pushes past Chester’s rules, the fragile order of the cottage is tested; exposing the fear, loyalty, and unanswered questions holding their makeshift family together.
In the documentary Paikar, Dutch-Afghan filmmaker Dawood Hilmandi returns to confront his estranged father, a former mujahideen fighter turned imam, writer, and poet, in a poetic and deeply human search for love, forgiveness, and understanding. Paikar moves between Afghanistan, Iran, and the Netherlands, exploring the invisible inheritance of war and silence that shapes generations. Through this intimate father-son encounter, Hilmandi invites us to look beyond politics and history, and to rediscover the tenderness that endures within even the most hardened souls. I was able to have a great conversation with Dawood about his documentary. Here is the conversation:
I was able to have a conversation with Michael Woloson who Co-Directed and was the cinematographer on the film Littermates which opens November 6th. The movie was a selection at Fantastic Fest 2026. Here is that interview:
Set
against the backdrop of a mysterious war, Littermates follows two
disoriented survivors who take refuge at an isolated cottage in the
English countryside. After Liam (Joey Bader) and Mel (Kaylee McGregor)
arrive bloodied, speechless, and unable to fully understand what has
happened to them, they are taken in by Chester (Oliver Woolf), an
enigmatic caretaker who bathes, feeds, and teaches them how to speak
again.
As
sirens, smoke, and distant threats press closer, Liam and Mel go about
their days relearning the simplest tasks inside Chester’s carefully
controlled world, while earning “nifties” for good behavior that can be
traded for small comforts like karaoke, hot tub time, dance parties, and
favorite meals. However, unlike Liam, Mel is far less willing to accept
the boundaries of the cottage, growing increasingly drawn to the woods,
the locked gate, and the larger world Chester insists is too dangerous
to enter.
When
Mel's curiosity pushes past Chester’s rules, the fragile order of the
cottage is tested; exposing the fear, loyalty, and unanswered questions
holding their makeshift family together.
Michael Woloson
is a writer, director, cinematographer, and producer from Las Vegas,
based in Los Angeles. His work combines precise visual storytelling with
intimate, character-driven narratives, often exploring the complexity
of memory and time. A SXSW alum, he served as cinematographer and
producer on Scott Tinkham’s "24 Hours After Reading Tuesdays with
Morrie," which premiered at SXSW in 2025. His latest directorial work,
"Broken Branches," was produced under Haley Nicole Johnson’s Under The
Shell banner, and is set to begin its festival run in 2027. He will
serve as a producer on Tinkham’s upcoming feature "Good Life," also
under Under The Shell.
Blood Money is a short narrative video exposing the money and greed that fuels “the largest mass deportation in U.S. history”. Congress has appropriated hundreds of billions of dollars to sustain a private prison network indefinitely. The companies receiving billions are rewarded for filling beds with as many immigrants ICE can grab, while spending as little as possible to run the facilities. These companies are also building new revenue streams in surveillance, monitoring, and incarceration — infrastructure that will outlast this moment and could be turned on Americans for decades to come. Here is the film:
I recently was able to have a conversation with activist, filmmaker and writer Ellen Gavin about her latest movie Blood Money, her friendship with Dolores Huerta as well as a far-ranging conversation about the state of the United States of America, ICE, detention centers, the upcoming midterm elections and paths forward for justice, immigration, labor reform, pressuring the people we elect to have the political will to indeed do the right thing moving forward. Here is that conversation:
Prior to the film Sheepwell premiere at the Austin Film Festival I was able to sit down over zoom and have a conversation with Producer Co-Writer Danielle DeMatteo Producer and Actor Lauren Elizabeth Harris Actor Mark Ryan Anderson.
We spoke about the complexity of the characters who inhabit the story of Sheepwell as well as how the film came to made. Sheepwell marks the first feature film form SheNYC and produced with Pathway Pictures.
Our conversation also talked about the challenges that faced production such as the two tornadoes that happened during filming in Alabama and the exquisite cinematography and costume design that enhanced the story.
Prior to The Darkest Light premiering at DOC NYC on November 15, 2026 I was able to sit down over zoom and have a conversation with Director Simon Mendes about his first feature documentary that chronicles Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach's legacy. His music that transformed and celebrated Jewish faith and the allegations of sexual abuse that surfaced after Lilith magazine in the Spring issue in 1998 published allegations of sexual assault. Resounding silence followed. With the rise of the #metoo movement so too did the allegations resurface about Shlomo Carlebach. Here is our conversation:
In two decades of conducting interviews with filmmakers last week I did something I had never done before. I partnered with U.S. History teacher Dr, Sarah Mitchell and we had her Junior classes pose questions to filmmaker John B. Beritz and historian Andrew Carroll about their documentary. As we had a conversation about the film I asked the questions students had written. I also conducted the interview from the classroom. Behind The Lines follows Carroll who has spent over three decades collecting war correspondence.
Sick is the debut feature film from writer and director Agata Trzebuchowska. It was a much talked about movie after it's world premiere last month at Fantastic Fest. The movie is rooted in some dark themes seldom talked about in cinema. The film is anchored by the strong performances of it's two young lead actors, Konrad Kakol and Katarzyna Lubik. I was able to speak with Agata about the film, their writing process as well as the performances and the cinematography of the film as well as what the current film scene is like in Poland.
The dust, blood, guts from Fantastic Fest 2026 has settled. I spent the week watching movies, exchanging emails with publicists, conducting zoom interviews with filmmakers. When it was all said and done I conducted over two hours of conversations with filmmakers over seven interviews. I spoke with people in Slovenia, Italy, France, Canada and the United States. That is one of the greatest things about a film festival, it gathers cinema from all over the world. Here are the Fantastic Fest 2026 conversations:
Gimme Truth a documentary about conspiracy theories and the people that go down rabbit holes in search of them just premiered at Fantastic Fest 2026. I was able to have a conversation with directors Brad Abrahams & Simon Ennis about the genesis of the documentary, the people they documented as well how to bring people out of these theories. Here is that conversation:
Terms & Conditions is one of the short films playing Fantastic Fest 2026. The incident was directed and adapted from the short story The Devil's Code by Frank M. Taylor. I was able to talk with Kev about the making of the film prior to it's world premiere.Here is that interview:
Girl In The Night just won best picture at Fantastic Fest 2026. I was able to sit down once again and have a conversation with director Luka Marčetić actor Lara Wolf and joining us this time fellow actor Urban Kuntarič. Here is that conversation:
Her Will Be Done opens in black screen. The sound of heavy breathing. The seconds pass. A full minute. You become disoriented. The first image is a flame coming to life and then a fire. The fire consumes. Faces are on the other side of the flames. One of those faces is a young girl.
"My Mother knelt before Satan. The evil was in her." The camera zooms closer to the girl. "It is inside me too."
This begins the story of Nawojka (Maria Wróbel.) Nawojka as the only woman in the family she cooks for her father and two brothers. She tends to the livestock and other duties on the family farm. She longs to go to school to become a veterinarian and begin her own life on her terms.
Across the street a new woman has moved in. Her name is Sandra (Roxane Mesquida) Nawojka's nights are filled with torment. Images of the people around her menace her. She is fighting something with every fiber of her being.
In the morning the family gathers around a sick, dying cow. The land is sprouting thick bulbous mucus. Another night. More torment.
Maria Wróbel's portrayal of Nawojka is the central force to the story of Her Will Be Done. Maria infuses Nawojka with wide-eyed wonder of being in the presence of Sandra. You can feel her longing for someone and something beyond the confines of the tiny village the family farms sits in. Maria brings great intensity to the nightly torments. Both her physical and spiritual struggles against forces beyond her control. Nawojka's face is often stoic. It in her eyes we feel the pathos of her inner turmoil. As the torment crosses from the metaphysical to real world actions Maria's physicality is compelling and disturbing.
The nights brings agony. The days go on. The farm and the family must be tended to. Nawojka''s brother's wedding brings brief respite. The force that is Sandra crashes the reception. She is chased off. Nawojka follows. Sandra warns her to go back, "I'm going to make a mess." The appeal, the magnetism, the force that is Sandra is far too compelling to walk away from.
Julia Kowalski's direction is assured and nuanced. Cinematographer Simon Beaufils crafts imagery of a muted sun over pastoral farm lands. The darkness of night is a meaning dark confluence surrounding and enveloping Nawojka's ever-increasing distress. Daniel Kowalski's score accompanies the narrative. The notes gives way to pulsing tones as the narrative intensifies. An electric guitar wails casting strength, determination and purpose.
Fire is destruction. Fire is cleansing. Fire is rebirth. The flames call to Nawojka. The town goes after Sandra. Where do you go when belief becomes mob mentality. Can you be safe when grief ferments into communal violence.
It is in the denouement of Her Will Be Done that elevates an already compelling folk horror story to something that subverts our expectations.
Her Will Be Done opens at The Roxy in New York City on September, 23, 2026. You can buy tickets here.
The People's Choice Midnight Madness Award goes to.....Ladies And Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney directed by Matthew Rankin
The last Sunday of the Toronto International Film Festival always sees the announcing of the awards. It has become synonymous with the kickoff of the fall awards season. It has been well documented the number of time that the tiff People's Choice Award has gone onto to Academy Award nominations.
The Platform Prize goes to the film Angh directed by Theja Rio
The International People's Choice Award goes to Elsinore directed by Simon Stone
The People's Choice Documentary Award goes to Darlene Love: I Know Where I Have Been directed by Barry Avrich
And the People's Chice Award of the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival goes to.....
La Bola Negra directed by Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi
Prior to the Fantastic Fest World Premiere of Girl In The Night I was able to have a conversation with writer & director Luka Marčetić and actor Lara Wolf about all aspects of making their superhero movie in Slovenia. Here is our conversation:
Luka Marčetić “I am deeply interested in people who are mostly quiet,
shy, and to a point enjoy solitary existence. These people often go
unnoticed in everyday life, yet they possess a unique strength in their
quietness. I always wanted to put them in roles of vulnerable heroes and
antiheroes. This is a story about boredom and the search for friendship
in very strange circumstances.”
Film Synopsis: The aimless life of a lonely kleptomaniac takes an
unexpected turn for the worse when he steals a bicycle from a mysterious
girl who spends her nights fighting crime. To cut through the mundanity
of his night shifts, Rok keeps himself busy by stealing chocolate bars
at the gas station where he works. One night, he meets a mysterious girl
with severe bruises on her face. She only appears at night, is all
about fighting crime, and claims to possess superpowers. If he wants to
meet her again, Rok will have to come up with a cunning plan – so he
decides to steal her bike.
Death Has No Master has just received it's North American premiere at this years edition of Fantastic Fest.
On August 1, 1498 Christopher Columbus would land at the Paria Peninsula in what is now known as Venezuela. He would claim this land - at first he believed it was an island - for Spain. History has noted that Columbus saw the the Kalinago and Arawakan wearing pearl ornaments. This would begin subsequent decades of further Spanish encroachment on this region. For pearls and the continuing of a system Columbus called repartimiento, otherwise known as slavery. Indigenous people were forced to work on the mines, farms of their lands and some people were kidnapped to Spain as slaves.
In 1922 oil was discovered in Venezuela.
On January 3, 2026 the Trump administration authorized a predawn raid in Caracas the U.S. military arrested Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Now many months later through dubious deal-making U.S. oil giant Chevron is expanding oil operations in Venezuela. "Chevron's history in Venezuela spans more than a century, and our expanded position reflects our confidence in the country's deep resource potential." CEO Mike Wirth said in a prepared statement days ago.
In Jorge Thielen Armand's timely new film Death Has No Master, Caro (Asia Argento) father has recently passed away. Caro travels from Italy to Venezuela with the intention of sell her childhood home. Once she arrives at the plantation mansion she discovers a bunch of people living on the property, lead by Sonia (Dogreika Tovar) who has been subletting rooms to others.
At first Caro and Sonia come to an understanding that they will co-exist in the mansion. As time passes and it becomes known that Caro is intending to sell the property and thereby displace Sonia her son Maiko who Caro vehemently calls Michael and everyone relying on this space for habitation the tensions begin to flare and serial into violence.
A direction that struck me as a viewer is at first I was concerned with Caro's well-being. As the film progresses and her true colors and intentions emerge that dynamic shifts for Sonia, Maiko and everyone else. The character of Yoni (Arturo Rodriguez) who worked for Caro's father is there alongside her until he is not.
I was first struck with the look of the film and could not quite place when the movie was set. As the story progresses we learn that the film is rooted in the present day. I found the look of the film crafted by cinematographer Luis Armando Arteaga and Jorge was incredible. Not having the film visually look immediately and readily be placed in the present day underlines the centuries of colonial invasion and genocide.
Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton first used the term "psychic numbing" in 1967 to describe how rescue workers and survivors after the Hiroshima bombing shut off their emotions to cope with overwhelming horror. When large scale tragedies occur such as genocide as we are seeing in Gaza many people cannot comprehend that many people being killed, injured, maimed or displaced. Death Has No Master succeeds in taking these large scale concepts of colonialism and genocide and placing them in the level of individual actions and repercussions.
On September 30 in Canada is now known as National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. A day to reflect upon Canada's systemic violence towards the indigenous people within Canada such as the residential school system which was prevalent well into the 1990s. Canada has a long history of in particular gold mining in Venezuela. At the time of this writing the United States while having Indigenous People's Day is observed in 17 states and D.C. is not a Federal recognized Day. A first step to reconciliation is to formally recognize the past violence towards first peoples. I live in Texas where the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has voted to further white wash Texas history in classrooms.
Perhaps these wealthy nations need to do more to address their global impact and not just within boarders that were drawn by colonizers and labelled, 'home". A film such as Death Has No Master which further draws attention to these issues is very welcomed in our quest for actual reconciliation and not a day of platitudes.
Here is my interview with director Jorge Thielen Armand:
The Ones Who Grieve, the new film by director Quarxx has received it's world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2026.
The Ones Who Grieve begins with a man working in a wood shop carving masks. He slowly and methodically chips away at the wood. The material begins to lift up and curl and eventually is pulled away. Given enough force, will and persistence the wood yields to the desire of the carver. This process is repeated until the eyes, the mouth form.
The wood carver is Jacob (Thierry Frémont). Jacob is a very stout, religious man. His faith is unyielding and his guiding force, He is also the patriarch of a family of three, his wife Emilie (Isabelle Anciaux) and his daughter Zélie (Zélie Rixhon). He rules his family with an iron fist. He imparts on his daugheter that of utmost importance is, "The love of God and your family." Jacob is played by Frémont with great intensity as a man who warped faith guides his pathos no matter how far his actions veer from actual scripture.
In rural 19th century France a disease has taken root among humans. It is called the Black Veil. The person suffering from malady has their eyes become black and they can no longer speak. Jacob has been appointed or self-appointed as the village "masker". He prepares the affected body for death in an effort to save the soul. This involves sewing the eyes and the mouth shut and affixing a wooden mask - the masks he carves - onto the person's head. The person is then taken out into the woods among the animals. The person is not killed because as Jacob says, "Thou shall not kill."
Zélie tries to navigate her father's world while finding her own. This is the crux of the film. A battle of wills. Force versus freedom. Time after time in history we have see religious belief used as a cudgel and not as compassion. Jacob is a great many things, his hypocrisy is front and center.
The violence that Jacob brings to the victims of the black veil, people advancing progress and his own family is visceral. As someone who written about cinema for over two decades and has seen all manners of the destruction of the body - the way Quarxx and his team treat the brutality of Jacob's determination to rule the world as he sees fit is unnerving. I believe one of the highest compliments you can pay a filmmaker is to say that images they have crafted in their film has stayed with you. This is such the case with The Ones Who Grieve.
Ultimately the film is about systems and the people who wield power within these structures and the people who are navigating these individuals and trying to persevere themselves from such wanton destruction. As Quarxx has said about his lead character, "Zélie is not a passive victim. She is a body and a mind in resistance, even when that resistance is silent, internal, almost invisible."
That being said, defeating a system of oppression and the perpetrators who operate within these constructs may not be so easy to overcome in the end.
Displaced
from their home by U.S. military action during the early days of the
Iraq War, the Khachaturian family finds refuge with relatives, gathering
their three generations together under one roof. But when another
bombing erupts nearby, they decide to return to their home across the
city. As they navigate the war-torn streets of Baghdad, the family is
trapped in a firefight between U.S. Marines and insurgents, and one
Marine’s split-second decision devastates the family. Years later,
haunted by his time in Iraq and aided by a New Yorker journalist, the
Marine seeks to reconcile with the Khachaturian matriarch and her
surviving family members. Anchored by moving, unforgettable performances
from Boyd Holbrook, Hiam Abbass, and Kenneth Branagh, Atonement is a
powerfully human story about the immeasurable costs of war, exploring
universal questions about guilt, redemption, and the nature of
forgiveness.
Death of a Yellow Bird is about to have it's world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2026. Written and directed by Cody Calahan (Undertone)
After
refusing treatment, a terminally ill man returns to his childhood home
searching for closure. While there he discovers, buried in the earth,
the family’s long lost VHS camera. Inside the camera he finds a video
tape of home movies. But as he watches, something disturbing begins
bleeding through the static. And before long, a disembodied voice. At
first, he suspects it’s his medication, but soon discovers a lurking
presence, turning his isolated childhood home into a waking nightmare.
With his days numbered and the hauntings escalating, he must solve a
dark family secret before his past consumes him.
The Ones Who Greive is about to premiere in Austin, Texas at this years edition of Fantastic Fest.
Writer & Director Quarxx had a conversation with Robert Aaron Mitchell about the filmmaking process to realize his latest film. Here is that conversation:
Prior to flying from Italy to Austin for the North American premiere of Death Has No Master Jorge Thielen Armand had a conversation about the film. The challenges in the five year journey to realize the movie, the casting and the work that he and cinematographer Luis Armando Artega did to find the visual language of the film.
Theo and her boyfriend travel to the desert for adventure and a romantic getaway. They meet a couple of friendly retirees. Then everything goes of the rails.
The Squirrel the new film from writer and director Markus Lehmusruusu is set to have it's world premiere at fantastic Fest 2026. I was able to have a conversation with Markus and actor Mimosa Willamo about the journey to bring this story to cinematic life. The Squirrel is also Finland's entry to the Academy Awards for best International Picture. Bonus, my cat Batman makes an appearance.
Girl in the Night follows the aimless life of a lonely kleptomaniac (Urban Kuntarič) takes an unexpected turn for the worse when he steals a bicycle from a mysterious girl (Lara Wolf ) who spends her nights fighting crime. To cut through the mundanity of his night shifts, Rok keeps himself busy by stealing chocolate bars at the gas station where he works. One night, he meets a mysterious girl with severe bruises on her face. She only appears at night, is all about fighting crime, and claims to possess superpowers. If he wants to meet her again, Rok will have to come up with a cunning plan – so he decides to steal her bike.
Girl In The Night will have it's world premiere at Fantastic Fest September 20. Here is the trailer:
In the far future, in a sterile world without nature or animals, Pasi (Miro Lopperi), a lonely designer of synthetic pets, unexpectedly discovers the last surviving squirrel. He decides to defy the rules and keep it alive, but things don’t go quite according to plan: the squirrel gets depressed, Pasi falls in love, and his carefully controlled life begins to unravel. The Squirrel is Finland's Official Entry for the Academy Awards Best International Feature Film. Here is the trailer:
Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival is a program that means the world to me for both professional and personal reasons. The anticipation of a premiere at midnight is worth the price of a ticket alone. The buzz and excitment as the theater begins to fill up with people is palable. Programmer Peter Kuplowsky once again as searched the globe for the state of genre cinema. Here are three movies I'm anticipating.
A corner stone of the program is the feature debut by filmmakers. Opening this years slate of movies is River written and directed by Joshua Giuliano. River is a movie that is anchored in the slasher genre while taking the beats of the genre and crafting entirely new movements and subverting expectations.
Vintage Violencedirected by Eugene Kotlyarenk. (The Code, Spree) Two distinct cultural worlds collide, violence ensues. Tiff midnight movies has seen copious amounts of blood cover the movie screen.VintageViolence is set to unleash even more blood and gore upon the audience.
Kick Ondirected by Nick Kozakis. As Alex says in A Clockwork Orange, "fancy, a bit of the old ultra-violence" Kick On delivers on the violence. Peter Kuplowsky mentions the Alfred Molina "drug deal gone bad" scene in Boogie Nights, which I consider one of the best scenes in American Cinema. Sign me up!
First-look image has been released for IDDA, the sophomore narrative feature from rising Italian filmmaker Irene Dionisio (Pawn Street), following today’s announcement of the film’s world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) Platform Competition. Starring two of Italy’s top emerging actresses, Tecla Insolia (The Art of Joy) and Romana Maggiora Vergano (There’s Still Tomorrow), the film follows childhood friends Adele and Sofia, now in their thirties, whose lifelong bond is challenged during a journey hiking up the eerie volcanic landscapes of Sicily’s Mount Etna.
Irene Dionisio is an Italian filmmaker and visual artist whose work was screened at majorfestivals, including Venice Critics’ Week, Visions du Réel and Festival dei Popoli. She receivedthe Solinas Prize, France’s SCAM Prize, and Jury Prize at Tehran’s Cinema Verité for herfeature documentary SHORES (2015). Dionisio's first narrative feature PAWN STREET (2017)premiered at Venice Critics’ Week. It was nominated for the David di Donatello & Globo d’Oroawards for Best Debut, winning the Silver Ribbon for Best Screenplay. Her video installationswere exhibited internationally, from Venice'S Palazzo Grassi to OCAT Shanghai. Dionisio wasthe artistic director of Turin's historic LGBTQI film festival Lovers for three years.
