Last month's Imagine Film Festival Amsterdam was an on-line only event unfortunately, but that didn't stop the festival from scoring a true world première, and one with an animated film, no less. That film is Ryan Braund's feature debut Absolute Denial, and (how ironic) it's about a smart computer who desperately wants to get on-line. Nick is a University student with an interest in Artificial Intelligence. He has a bit of an obsessive streak, as he neglects his studies and his social contacts, focusing only on the new computer he's planning to build, one which theoretically can out-think humans. Using a fairly simple set-up and some learning algorithms, Nick manages to get his test subject running and learning. He has put in some safeties though:...
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- 5/5/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: UK sales outfit Sc Films International has acquired worldwide rights to science-fiction animation Absolute Denial ahead of the American Film Market.
Currently in the latter stages of post-production, the film is set in the not-too-distant future and follows a genius programmer who sacrifices everything in his personal and professional life to build a supercomputer of unprecedented power. Soon the artificial intelligence develops beyond anything he could imagine and the lines between reality and fantasy become increasingly blurred.
The film is the passion project of writer-director-producer Ryan Braund, formerly a director at the BBC. Chris Hees of Bridge Way Films co-produces and Troy Russell composed the score.
Sc Films intend to submit the film to festivals heading into 2021. Delivery is expected imminently.
Braund commented: “This film started out as a very personal, passion project. Due to the pandemic and lockdowns, I was then able to focus on the intricate hand-drawing – over 30,000 frames of animation!
Currently in the latter stages of post-production, the film is set in the not-too-distant future and follows a genius programmer who sacrifices everything in his personal and professional life to build a supercomputer of unprecedented power. Soon the artificial intelligence develops beyond anything he could imagine and the lines between reality and fantasy become increasingly blurred.
The film is the passion project of writer-director-producer Ryan Braund, formerly a director at the BBC. Chris Hees of Bridge Way Films co-produces and Troy Russell composed the score.
Sc Films intend to submit the film to festivals heading into 2021. Delivery is expected imminently.
Braund commented: “This film started out as a very personal, passion project. Due to the pandemic and lockdowns, I was then able to focus on the intricate hand-drawing – over 30,000 frames of animation!
- 11/3/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
We’re back with the latest edition of the Indie Spotlight, which contains all the independent horror news recently sent our way. This week’s edition looks be our biggest yet, with trailers for Molly Crow and VIViD, news on the Shriekfest Film Festival, a new clip from Bad Kids Go to Hell, multiple short films, and much more:
First Details on Alice D: “In the early 1900′s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice’s ghost, and was eventually abandoned. One hundred years later, the old structure is renovated into a beautiful mansion. It is still rumored to inhabit the ghost of Alice. Despite this, the new owner; the rich and arrogant heir to the Davenport fortune, decides to throw a wild party for his first night in the house.
First Details on Alice D: “In the early 1900′s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice’s ghost, and was eventually abandoned. One hundred years later, the old structure is renovated into a beautiful mansion. It is still rumored to inhabit the ghost of Alice. Despite this, the new owner; the rich and arrogant heir to the Davenport fortune, decides to throw a wild party for his first night in the house.
- 1/27/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
The TromaDance Film Festival has moved to the most toxic place on Earth for its 11th annual edition: New Jersey! That’s right, screw the snow! TromaDance has moved the hell out of Park City and will be making Asbury Park a little bit skeevier on April 16-17 with a grotesque abomination of a lineup of short films and features.
On the 16th, check out the dear ol’ uncle Lloyd Kaufman’s brutally hilarious, bloody and feces-tastically toe-tapping Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, a musical set in a fast food restaurant haunted by demonic spirits.
Then, on the 17th, its a gargantuan all-day affair of riotous and offensive short films from all over the world, plus a screening of Tom Six’s bizarro feature-length horror film The Human Centipede in which a mad doctor sews innocent victims together mouth-to-butt. Hey, whatever turns you on.
Plus, there’s panel discussions,...
On the 16th, check out the dear ol’ uncle Lloyd Kaufman’s brutally hilarious, bloody and feces-tastically toe-tapping Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, a musical set in a fast food restaurant haunted by demonic spirits.
Then, on the 17th, its a gargantuan all-day affair of riotous and offensive short films from all over the world, plus a screening of Tom Six’s bizarro feature-length horror film The Human Centipede in which a mad doctor sews innocent victims together mouth-to-butt. Hey, whatever turns you on.
Plus, there’s panel discussions,...
- 4/14/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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