Film at Eleven

Here’s an interesting sounding project. The Moonlight Murders is a a film noir style horror thriller based on the old Texarkana moonlight phantom murders case from the 1940’s.

The film, which is being directed by Russ Diaper, is loosely based on the old classic The Town That Dreaded Sundown, and the cast includes Kim Sønderholm who made quite an impact around these parts with Brutal Incasso.

The Moonlight Murders is currently in preproduction, but already has a MySpace page up. So if you like a touch of reality with your horror, go check it out.

The call for entries for the 2007 Terror Film Festival is now open. The regular deadline ends on June 13th with a late submission deadline of August 13th.

Terror Film Festival is a bad-azz international film festival for lovers of horror, fantasy, sci-fi, thriller and drama, and we put our filmmakers, screenwriters, and fans FIRST! Our award-winning website gets tons of hits for you and we run every October in Philadelphia PA at the very cool Ethical Society Building, right across from beautiful Rittenhouse Square.

Now in Year Two, TFF offers almost $10,000 in cash and prizes, including 14 filmmaker awards, 6 screenwriter awards, 20 Claw Award categories, and 4 cash prizes! Plus! Our world-class screenwriting competition! Plus! Every submitted project is featured on our website along with photos and website links JUST FOR SUBMITTING A PROJECT, to maximize your exposure. TFF pioneered the concept in 2006 and we’re proud to continue to offer it to our creative artists. And that’s why they love us. Because we know it’s all about THEM! And by that, we mean YOU!!

So, submit a film, submit a screenplay, or just come out and enjoy the fun. We’ve got the latest and greatest from the next wave of up and coming filmmakers and screenwriters from around the world!! Tell all your friends and feed the need to yell out SPEED!

You can enter your film or screenplay either by downloading a submission form or online through Withoutabox.

Long Pigs (review), Nathan Hynes and Chris Power’s film about a pair of young filmmakers who set out to make a documentary about a cannibal serial killer, was the winner of the Best Mockumentary Feature award at this year’s Mockfest film festival.

Anthony Alviano, who plays the film’s serial killer also took home the Best Actor award.

Congratulations all round for a well-deserved win.

The Cryptshow Festival is a project that aims to promote the all of the artistic expressions of the fantastic and terror genres. Cinema, illustration and music all come be together in the same place on July the 12th, 13th and 14th.

The Café Suau (St. Adrià del Besos Barcelona) will be exhibiting art, showing short and feature films and will have a DJ session. On top of this there will be gore, shouting, alcohol and more.

All in all, it is a genre extravaganza.

There will be an opening ceremony at 7:30pm on Thursday 12th June followed - at 11:30pm - by a screening of Ricardo Ribelles’ The Baron Against the Demons.

On June 23rd 2007, Timewarp Films will be presenting Come scream for a great cause! - a Don Dohler Double Feature Benefit Screening.

Cult filmmaker Don Dohler (1946-2006), master of low budget sci-fi and horror films and co-founder of Baltimore’s Timewarp Films, produced 11 movies and influenced thousands of DIY (Do It Yourself!) horror and science-fiction filmmakers.

Help celebrate Dohler’s life and work — with a double feature of his first and last films!

**Proceeds from the screening benefit the “Joyce Dohler Foundation,” a charity providing continued care for Don’s sister Joyce, who is developmentally disabled and for whom Don was guardian.**

In Alien Factor (197, an alien spacecraft makes a crash landing in Baltimore, releasing its bloodthirsty cargo of beasts—the lizard-like “Leemoid,” slimy “Inferbyce,” and wild and wooly “Zagatile!”

And in Dead Hunt (2006), ten movie reviewers at a horror film convention find themselves victims of gruesome traps and danger lurking in every shadow!

Beer, wine, liquor, sodas, juices, sparkling water and, of course, popcorn, will be available at the theater concession area.

The screening starts at 7:00pm and costs $15 general admission or $12 for Creative Alliance members. And the location is Creative Alliance at The Patterson, 3134 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore Maryland 21224.

For more details ot to buy tickets, you can contact Creative Alliance on 410-276-1651 or via their website, www.creativealliance.org.

Caught in the Headlights, which documents the conflict between wildlife and automobile culture will have its broadcast première on June 7th at 7 pm on Montana Public Television. Repeat broadcasts will be shown at 4:30 pm on June 9th and 8:30 am on June 10th.

In the United States where over four million miles of roads cross the landscape, an animal is killed on the road every 11.5 seconds - with one million vertebrate animals falling victim to automobile collisions annually.

Through the voices of six individuals who are intimately familiar with vehicle-wildlife conflicts, Caught in the Headlights is a
quirky, informative exploration of automobile culture. Two Department of Transportation employees combine humor and sensitivity while taking the viewer on a tour along Montana’s state highways.

A Wildlife rehabilitator since childhood turned raptor educator, painter, and welder, shares her work and perspective of the hardships that birds face in a world where car collisions are the leading cause of injury and death for raptors.

Raising a child as a single father may be hard; try combining that with an hour long commute to work through prime deer and elk habitat. One auto-body painter tells stories of close calls with wildlife on the road while warning of societal stubbornness.

A road ecologist from the Netherlands studies opportunities for creatures to cross roads safely while providing his own social
commentary on the past, present and future of our transportation infrastructure.

Another man seeks apology and ceremony by turning roadkill into bronze sculptures. His bold artwork challenges us to examine our dependency on the automobile through death preserved on the walls of a Seattle-area gallery.

Caught in the Headlights weaves together these diverse voices united in their reverence for the long ignored casualties of the highway.