Here at Dread Central we recognize that indie filmmakers are the lifeblood of the horror genre, and as a result we try to cover as much of them and their projects as possible. Back in 2009 director Jeremy Kasten came to us to let us know about his latest project, The Dead Ones. Now it's time to spread the word.
Sarah Harper, Brandon Wilson, Katie Foster, Torey Garza, Clare Kramer, and Muse Watson star in the film directed by Kasten from a script by Zach Chassler.
"Filmmaking is tough, dirty, hard, and mean--as well as other words that sound like they were ripped from the covers of 1960s pulp novels," writes Kasten. "It is also, in its purest form, a thrill. Because you risk everything doing something you love. And in entertaining people you hope, in some way, to change the world."
"Although an intensely personal, totally independent film, this is...
Sarah Harper, Brandon Wilson, Katie Foster, Torey Garza, Clare Kramer, and Muse Watson star in the film directed by Kasten from a script by Zach Chassler.
"Filmmaking is tough, dirty, hard, and mean--as well as other words that sound like they were ripped from the covers of 1960s pulp novels," writes Kasten. "It is also, in its purest form, a thrill. Because you risk everything doing something you love. And in entertaining people you hope, in some way, to change the world."
"Although an intensely personal, totally independent film, this is...
- 1/22/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Editor's Note: The retro is being rebooted for runs in Philly, Toronto and New York through February. We're revisiting our reviews/write-ups/interviews on the series (from Brandon Wilson and Nijla Mumin) when it begun in Los Angeles over a year ago... here's another. The overview and complete lineup speak for themselves, so click Here to head over to the home site for the series. There are two filmmakers named Larry Clark, and this is Not about the Larry Clark whose ephebophiliac imagination has given us films like Kids, Bully, and Wassup Rockers! Just so we’re clear, this Larry Clark is Black, a Cleveland native who went to UCLA along with Charles...
- 1/24/2013
- by Brandon Wilson
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: The retro is being rebooted for runs in Philly, Toronto and New York through February. We're revisiting our reviews/write-ups/interviews on the series (from Brandon Wilson and Nijla Mumin) when it begun in Los Angeles over a year ago... here's another. The overview and complete lineup speak for themselves, so click Here to head over to the home site for the series. In Alile Sharon Larkin’s 1982 film A Different Image, main character Alana, played by Margot Saxton-Federella says to her male friend Vincent as she motions to her breasts and butt: “All they see is this and this. The rest is invisible.” Of all of the films...
- 1/23/2013
- by Nijla Mumin
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: The retro is being rebooted for runs in Philly, Toronto and New York through February. We're revisiting our reviews/write-ups/interviews on the series (from Brandon Wilson and Nijla Mumin) when it begun in Los Angeles over a year ago... here's another. The overview and complete lineup speak for themselves, so click Here to head over to the home site for the series. Black cowboys aren’t often portrayed in American film, even though they played an integral role in the development of the Western frontier. This is one of the reasons I decided to see Larry Clark’s Cutting Horse (2002) on Sunday night, screened as part of the UCLA L.A....
- 1/22/2013
- by Nijla Mumin
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: The retro is being rebooted for runs in Philly, Toronto and New York through February. Over the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting our reviews/write-ups/interviews on the series (from Brandon Wilson and Nijla Mumin) when it begun in Los Angeles over a year ago... here's another. The overview and complete lineup speak for themselves, so click Here to head over to the home site for the series. When I asked Jerri Hayes how it felt to revisit her star turn in Jamaa Fanaka’s second feature Emma Mae (1976) after a recent screening, she answered without hesitation. “You know, it’s so different; I was sitting there relating to Emma...
- 1/18/2013
- by Brandon Wilson
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: The retro is being rebooted for runs in Philly, Toronto and New York through February. Over the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting our reviews/write-ups/interviews on the series (from Brandon Wilson and Nijla Mumin) when it begun in Los Angeles over a year ago... here's another. The overview and complete lineup speak for themselves, so click Here to head over to the home site for the series. Ashes & Embers is agitprop. It does not seek to entertain. It does not want you to sit down, settle in, shut off your brain and have fun. Haile Gerima’s film announces its contempt for such fanciful Hollywood confection in its first...
- 1/17/2013
- by Brandon Wilson
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: The retro is being rebooted for runs in Philly, Toronto and New York through February. Over the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting our reviews/write-ups/interviews on the series (from Brandon Wilson and Nijla Mumin) when it begun in Los Angeles over a year ago... here's another. The overview and complete lineup speak for themselves, so click Here to head over to the home site for the series. Saturday's screening of Billy Woodberry’s Bless Their Little Hearts, couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time. Set in the decaying urban centers of Los Angeles in the early 1980’s, the film is a rare glimpse into a working...
- 1/16/2013
- by Nijla Mumin
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: The retro is being rebooted for runs in Philly, Toronto and New York through February. Over the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting our reviews/write-ups/interviews on the series (from Brandon Wilson and Nijla Mumin) when it begun in Los Angeles over a year ago... here's another. The overview and complete lineup speak for themselves, so click Here to head over to the home site for the series. To Sleep With Anger was released with a small bit of fanfare in 1990. Charles Burnett had already acquired a reputation as one of our most important homegrown auteurs even if most of the audience, black and white alike, were unfamiliar with his work. ...
- 1/15/2013
- by Brandon Wilson
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: The retro is being rebooted for runs in Philly, Toronto and New York through February. Over the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting our reviews/write-ups/interviews on the series (from Brandon Wilson and Nijla Mumin) when it begun in Los Angeles over a year ago... here's another. The overview and complete lineup speak for themselves, so click Here to head over to the home site for the series. Sankofa is an Akan word meaning roughly, “We must go back and reclaim our past in order to move forward.” Haile Gerima’s cinematic rendering of this is perhaps one of his greatest filmmaking achievements. Screened this weekend as part of...
- 1/14/2013
- by Nijla Mumin
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: The retro is being rebooted for runs in Philly, Toronto and New York through February. Over the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting our reviews/write-ups/interviews on the series (from Brandon Wilson and Nijla Mumin) when it begun in Los Angeles a year ago... here's another. In Julie Dash’s film Illusions, Mignon Dupree, played by Lonette Mckee says, “People make films about themselves.” Though she is referring to the exclusionary practices of the Hollywood studio system, her statement also applies to the films screened this weekend as part of UCLA’s La Rebellion Film Series. There was a unique “self” in each film; a...
- 1/10/2013
- by Nijla Mumin
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: The retro is being rebooted for runs in Philly, Toronto and New York through February. Over the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting our reviews/write-ups/interviews on the series (from Brandon Wilson and Nijla Mumin) when it begun in Los Angeles a year ago... starting with this one. In two weekends time, the L.A. Rebellion retrospective at the at the Hammer Museum, hosted by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, is shaping up to be the year’s most important series. Sadly, the competition is weak these days (what with the New Beverly devoted to grindhouse spanophilia, American Cinematheque having lost all of its...
- 1/9/2013
- by Brandon Wilson
- ShadowAndAct
VH1 has ordered The June Ambrose Project, a half-hour docu-series that stars celebrity stylist June Ambrose, for an early 2012 launch. On the show, Ambrose and her team of assistants will work on reshaping the looks and brands of up-and-coming and established celebrity clients. Each episode will chronicle an image makeover and overall rebranding. In addition to makeovers, the series will chronicle Ambrose’s family life. The June Ambrose Project is executive produced by Michael Hirschorn, Wendy Roth, Jeff Schmidt and Brandon Wilson for Ish Entertainment.
- 9/19/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Slow news day today… stumbled upon this post from 2009, back when the site had about 10 readers . Thought I’d repost since there are so many more of you regulars now, who probably haven’t seen it.
I do that from time to time, as some of you may have already noticed. But anyway, here ya go…
My good man, self-proclaimed cinephile, aesthete, dad, unrepentant liberal, resolute agnostic, English teacher, filmmaker-manqué, and once co-host of the previous incarnation of my podcast, The Obenson Report, the Genius Bastard himself, Mr Brandon Wilson, decided to utilize Twitter to count down his list of Spike Lee’s 10 Worst Female Characters. And since Twitter only allows a 140-character limit per post, he had to keep his analysis succinct, spread out over several Tweets.
I told Brandon that I’ll post each entry on his list, as he Tweets them, and combined them all in this post.
I do that from time to time, as some of you may have already noticed. But anyway, here ya go…
My good man, self-proclaimed cinephile, aesthete, dad, unrepentant liberal, resolute agnostic, English teacher, filmmaker-manqué, and once co-host of the previous incarnation of my podcast, The Obenson Report, the Genius Bastard himself, Mr Brandon Wilson, decided to utilize Twitter to count down his list of Spike Lee’s 10 Worst Female Characters. And since Twitter only allows a 140-character limit per post, he had to keep his analysis succinct, spread out over several Tweets.
I told Brandon that I’ll post each entry on his list, as he Tweets them, and combined them all in this post.
- 4/1/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Listen To Interviews w/ Barry Jenkins (“Medicine For Melancholy”) + Scott Sanders (“Black Dynamite”)
Barry Jenkins’ latest effort, an amazing new film for the Itvs Futurestates project debuted today. If you missed my earlier post announcing it, click Here to read and watch the film.
It seemed like it was just yesterday that Barry made a splash on the indie film scene with his feature film debut, Medicine For Melancholy. That was over 2 years ago…
I interviewed Barry the week that IFC Films opened his film in theaters… the week of January 26th 2009, specifically. And I’ve embedded that interview in this post, for those who have never heard it! It’s an entertaining, insightful interview, as I think you’ll find, and worth listening to. But you actually get a 2-for-1 with that specific podcast episode, because, right after Barry, I also interviewed Scott Sanders, the director of Black Dynamite, which had just been acquired at the Sundance Film Festival by Sony Pictures for a reported $2 million!
It seemed like it was just yesterday that Barry made a splash on the indie film scene with his feature film debut, Medicine For Melancholy. That was over 2 years ago…
I interviewed Barry the week that IFC Films opened his film in theaters… the week of January 26th 2009, specifically. And I’ve embedded that interview in this post, for those who have never heard it! It’s an entertaining, insightful interview, as I think you’ll find, and worth listening to. But you actually get a 2-for-1 with that specific podcast episode, because, right after Barry, I also interviewed Scott Sanders, the director of Black Dynamite, which had just been acquired at the Sundance Film Festival by Sony Pictures for a reported $2 million!
- 3/21/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
On this blog, we’ve often wondered about and investigated the current whereabouts of past promising black filmmakers who just seemed to vanish after their auspicious debuts, like, in this case, award-winning writer/director Cauleen Smith, whose 1998 first feature film, Drylongso, co-written by Salim Akil (Girlfriends, The Game, Jumping The Broom) – a coming-of-age drama about a young woman who begins photographing, for preservation purposes, what she deems “America’s most endangered species,” African-American males – premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
The film itself is very hard to find. It’s not on DVD, as far as I know. You might be able to get a VHS copy on eBay.
After Drylongso, Cauleen tried and tried and tried to get her second feature financed and produced, without success; despite it being selected as a Tribeca All-Access Project, a few years ago. Titled I Am Furious Black, the script’s synopsis read,...
The film itself is very hard to find. It’s not on DVD, as far as I know. You might be able to get a VHS copy on eBay.
After Drylongso, Cauleen tried and tried and tried to get her second feature financed and produced, without success; despite it being selected as a Tribeca All-Access Project, a few years ago. Titled I Am Furious Black, the script’s synopsis read,...
- 1/14/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Shadow And Act was invited to a Disney showcase at the studio’s Burbank, CA main theater yesterday, where we were to be treated to an exclusive sneak peek at Tron: Legacy, as well as a screening of an entire unfinished copy of Disney’s upcoming animated feature Tangled. The 2-hour presentation was hosted by studio chairman Rich Ross and was followed by a cocktail reception.
I (Tambay) live in New York, and obviously couldn’t make it, but thankfully my comrade and filmmaker, Mr Brandon Wilson (find him on Twitter Here), who does live in L.A., was able to attend for Shadow And Act, and he typed up the below review/summary of all he experienced. So, read on for first-impressions on both films (although, really, I’m sure everyone will probably skip right to the Tron section of the write-up ). Enjoy! (And thanks Brandon for this! The...
I (Tambay) live in New York, and obviously couldn’t make it, but thankfully my comrade and filmmaker, Mr Brandon Wilson (find him on Twitter Here), who does live in L.A., was able to attend for Shadow And Act, and he typed up the below review/summary of all he experienced. So, read on for first-impressions on both films (although, really, I’m sure everyone will probably skip right to the Tron section of the write-up ). Enjoy! (And thanks Brandon for this! The...
- 10/1/2010
- by Brandon Wilson
- ShadowAndAct
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