I am utterly thrilled and astounded and full of glee to announce that Stella Buio will be making its European debut at the 33rd Fantafestival in Rome, Italy! My little Italian horror homage is heading home!! Once I figure out when it is, I’ll post more details… :D
My homie who speaks Italian says it’s in June. HOLY CRAP! THAT’S NEXT MONTH!
Previously unreleased reworking of How to destroy angels’ “The Space in Between” by Sonoio (Alessandro Cortini).
This is the version we play live.
Awesome version of this song.
Spent some time with my brother, my dad, and my stepmom yesterday and we went to Myakka Park. April 2013.
Women’s dialogue and plotlines rarely focus on other women or even themselves. If women talk to each other, it’s usually revolving around men. This is why the Bechdel Test – while not perfect or automatically indicating feminism – matters. The Bechdel Test: film must 1) feature two named female characters, 2) who talk to each other, 3) about something other than a man.
Now the Bechdel Test doesn’t measure whether or not a film is good or even if it’s feminist or female-centric. And it’s not just about judging films on an individual basis. The Bechdel Test matters because the overwhelming majority of movies fail, indicating the institutional sexism and rampant gender disparity prevalent in Hollywood.
Yesterday, someone on Facebook reported this screencap from the short film I made with Shannon Lark (link goes to our trailer, on Facebook) as a violation of Facebook’s Community Guidelines and Facebook removed it without allowing us a rebuttal.
There is nothing wrong with this image. As a friend said to me, it’s no worse than what a figure skater wears. I’ve seen much more provocative photos of people on Facebook. She is not naked. The only flesh you see is her head and her arms. If I may say so, the only thing “bad” about this image is that this dress is gorgeous and Shannon is breathtaking in it. And by bad, I mean ”badass.”
After this image was pulled, we replaced the cover image with something else and re-posted the original version of the above image from our Facebook archive (it lacks the colour correction and final font) and included an article about how petty reports take away from actual important things that Facebook’s moderators do on both the new cover and the repost.
Very soon thereafter, a different image (which does go against Facebook policy, I readily accept that) was reported and my account was blocked. I can send messages and look at my feed, but I can’t interact. Moreover, I can’t issue an appeal because my account would have to be deactivated before that could happen.
Both of these images are promoting a short psychological horror film…so obviously we’re doing something right to have offended someone so much! ;D
Lark’s Moxie: first day of pickups for I AM MONSTER-with Sandra Buckshot and Jim Kunz.
Shannon and crew getting some pick ups for our short film I am Monster!! Yay!
This Sunday be sure to check out the 3rd episode of the official Women in Horror Month podcast. Thank you to our guest Lianne Spiderbaby for the exclusive reading from her upcoming book- Grindhouse Girls: Cinema’s Hardest Working Women.
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Lianne Spiderbaby (Lianne MacDougall) is a writer for Fangoria, Cineplex, Famous Monsters, FearNet, Film Journal International and Video Watchdog magazine. Her new book, Grindhouse Girls: Cinema’s Hardest Working Women, is being published by St. Martin’s Press. Lianne is also the host of Fright Bytes, and her journalistic force has started to “bleed” out of the horror genre and into the mainstream. Lianne Spiderbaby holds an honors degree in Film Studies, University of Toronto.
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This was me when I was shooting I am Monster and my co-director was directing a scene and I thought she yelled cut and I started to follow the actor out of the hallway we were in (and I was out of the shot for) only to realize, “OH SHIT! STILL FILMING!”
Here it is! The trailer for the short film I directed in February with the best partner-in-crime I could’ve asked for, Shannon Lark: I am Monster!
