Fest organizers say: "The Dark Carnival Film Festival is an international festival of independent horror films, featuring special guests, a horror-themed dance party and a live carnival sideshow performance. Dark Carnival will be held in Bloomington, Indiana (near the Indiana University campus)."DAY...
Located near Cinecitta Studios in Rome, the National Film School – part of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – is not only the oldest film school in Western Europe, but also one of the most competitive in Italy. Students are selected through a rigorous audition process to enroll in ...
Documentary Shorts: Near and Far CountryAustralia, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Nepal, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United StatesRun Time86 minutes Synopsis Using diverse methods of observation, animation, and essay, the filmmakers in this program showcase the flexibility of documentary form. Each...
Second, the lead bounty hunter is Cameron’s future (and now ex-) wifeKathryn Bigelow, who was also using Paxton in herNear Darkaround the same time (1987). Paxton’s band of outlaws is especially delightful: it includes colleagues fromAliensandNear Dark(Henriksen andJenette “Vasquez” Gold...
For as long as residents can remember, the urban housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood have been terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand. He can easily be summoned by simply repeating his name five times into a mirror...
About the filmmaker – Writer and Director Philippe Lacote grew up in Abidjan near a movie theater – the “Magic”. His work as a director has taken on several forms, before focusing in 2002 on the recent history of his country with CHRONICLES OF WAR IN THE IVORY COAST, a film on the...
Irish adventurer turned expert safety diver Stephen Keenan, meanwhile, was raised near the sea, but as a young man he set out on a quest to find himself, traveling across Africa before landing in Dahab, Egypt and establishing a dive school. Despite their very different paths, the two would...
ISOTRE Films announces the World, Los Angeles and Chicago premieres ofSTOMACH IT, the new psychological body horror film starringJon Lee Richardson(BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F), and written and directed byPeter Klausner(COASTING). The film was produced by Klauser and Torey Rubin (RWBY, Zall Goo...
The oldest film school in Western Europe was founded in 1935 by Benito Mussolini’s head of cinema, Luigi Freddi. It has numerous facilities in Italy, with headquarters in Rome near the historic Cinecittà studios. Over the years, its students have included everyone from directors Michelangelo An...
His near-suicidal quest to set five world records in under four months brings him to the farthest reaches of the globe and to the very edges of human performance. In the process, he’s forced to reevaluate all the skills and beliefs on which he has built his entire life. FREEDIVER is ...