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Clapboard Jungle (2020)Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Navigating the current film business is more difficult than ever before. Rapidly changing technology and an overcrowded marketplace have led to an industry in which anyone can now make a film, but few can make a living. Following five years in the life and career of independent filmmaker Justin McConnell (Lifechanger), this documentary explores the struggles of financing, attracting the right talent, working with practical effects and selling the finished product in the hope of turning a profit. Featuring interviews with a range of industry luminaries - including Guillermo del Toro (Crimson Peak), Sid Haig (Spider Baby), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Mick Garris (The Stand), Dick Miller (Matinee), Tom Holland (Fright Night) and George A. Romero (The Crazies), alongside a host of others - not only are technical aspects and interpersonal skills discussed but also the emotional stamina and little-known tips needed to survive in the low budget film industry. A warts-and-all exploration of what it takes to get a film made and released, 'Clapboard Jungle' serves as a survival guide for the modern independent filmmaker and offers a fascinating insight into a side of the industry with which few are likely to be familiar. - Director:
- Justin McConnell
- Cast:
- Chris Alexander, Dave Alexander, Chad Archibald
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The Adventure of Kina and Yuk (2023)Kina & Yuk / Kina et Yuk, renards de la banquise
A stirring docu-adventure, 'Kina and Yuk' follows two arctic foxes on the brink of parenthood, navigating a rapidly changing Yukon landscape. As global warming thins their icy home and food becomes scarce, Yuk ventures further to feed Kina and their unborn cubs. Disaster strikes when shifting ice separates them, stranding them on different floes. Now desperate, each must traverse unfamiliar, treacherous terrain - encountering predators, unexpected allies, and breathtaking frozen vistas - to reunite and welcome their offspring. Narrated with empathy and visual poetry, this heartwarming tale explores love, survival, and resilience, reflecting humanity's own environmental challenges through the intimate eyes of wildlife. - Director:
- Guillaume Maidatchevsky
- Cast:
- Virginie Efira, Veronique Boileau, Trinity Vittrekwa
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American Woman (2018)The Burning Woman
"American Woman" finds poignant drama in one woman's gruelling odyssey, thanks in no small part to Sienna Miller's outstanding work in the leading role. In a blue-collar town in Pennsylvania, a 32-year-old woman's teen daughter goes missing and she is left to raise her infant grandson alone. The story is told over the course of 11 years: we journey with her from the time her daughter vanishes, through the trials-and-tribulations of subsequent years, and ultimately to the long-awaited discovery of the truth. - Director:
- Jake Scott
- Cast:
- Christina Hendricks, Aaron Paul, Sienna Miller
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In the thrilling sequel to the breakout hit, "Don't Breathe 2" reprises Norman Nordstrom (Stephen Lang), who has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin. He lives with a young girl and has recreated the family stolen from him by a drunk driver. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of unseemly criminals kidnap her. Norman is forced to tap into even darker and more creative instincts in an effort to save her. - Director:
- Rodo Sayagues
- Cast:
- Stephen Lang, Madelyn Grace, Brendan Sexton III
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The El Duce Tapes (2019)El Duce!
In the early 90's, aspiring filmmaker Ryan Sexton lugged a giant camcorder into some of the seediest clubs and the filthiest apartments in Hollywood. There he filmed hour upon hour of VHS footage of the jaw-dropping offensive Shock Rock band The Mentors, focusing on their infamous lead singer, 'El Duce'. 30 years later, the team behind 'The Nightmare' and 'Room 237' and the editor of 'Leap of Faith: William Friedkin' on 'The Exorcist' uncover this dusty stockpile of long forgotten and unseen - footage. They begin to piece together a picture of the man under the black executioners hood and what his wilfully offensive act and controversial views might tell us about 21st century America. An Incendiary, tragicomic documentary (midway between 'The Decline of Western Civilisation' and 'Crumb') which has been hailed as 'Essential Viewing' by CineVue and called 'Dark and Irresistible' by director John Carpenter, 'The El Duce Tapes' will chew you up, spit you out, and leave you floored. - Director:
- Rodney Ascher
- Cast:
- Steve Broy, Eric Carlson, El Duce
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Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)Bad Cupcake
The producers of 'M3gan' and 'The Black Phone' bring the terrifying horror game phenomenon to life as a blood-chilling film. Recently fired and desperate for work so that he can keep custody of his little sister (Piper Rubio), Mike (Josh Hutcherson) agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. But Mike soon discovers that nothing at Freddy's is what it seems. Mike's nights at Freddy's will lead him into unexplainable encounters with the supernatural and drag him into the black heart of an unspeakable nightmare. - Director:
- Emma Tammi
- Cast:
- Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail
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In the late 90s, a video archivist (Harry Shum Jr.) unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the conspiracy behind them.
- Director:
- Jacob Gentry
- Cast:
- Harry Shum Jr., Kelley Mack, Chris Sullivan
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Sarah (Julia Sarah Stone), a teenage runaway plagued with terrifying nightmares, signs up for a sleep study to avoid living on the streets. There, she finds an unexpected friend and confidant in Jeremy (Landon Liboiron), the scientist overseeing the study. But there's something strange about the proceedings, and being under observation seems to make Sarah's disturbing dreams even worse. As the darkness closes in, it becomes clear that she has unknowingly become the conduit to a horrifying new discovery... - Director:
- Anthony Scott Burns
- Cast:
- Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron, Carlee Ryski
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Zola (newcomer Taylour Paige), a Detroit waitress, strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough), who seduces her to join a weekend partying in Florida. What at first seems like a glamorous trip full of "hoeism" rapidly transforms into a 48-hour journey involving a nameless pimp, an idiot boyfriend, some shady guys in Tampa, and other unexpected adventures in this wild, see-it-to-believe-it tale. - Director:
- Janicza Bravo
- Cast:
- Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun
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Pete (Tom Stourton) is ready to leave his youthful indulgences behind and settle down with his girlfriend, Sonia (Charly Clive). When his university friends invite him for a country weekend way to celebrate his birthday he finds their immature ways haven't changed and he's baffled by their spontaneous invitation to a feral stranger from the local pub to join them. With the atmosphere turning from tense to terrifying to surreal, Pete reaches breaking point. Is he being punished? Is he paranoid? Or is he just part of some sick joke? - Director:
- Andrew Gaynord
- Cast:
- Georgina Campbell, Christopher Fairbank, Joshua McGuire
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Girls Nite Out (1982)The Scaremaker
The students of DeWitt University are preparing themselves for a night of fun and frolics in the form of an all-night scavenger hunt. Little do they know that they are in fact the ones being hunted…An unhinged assailant, disguised in the college's goofy bear mascot outfit - and bearing knives for claws, two years before Freddy donned his famous gloves - is stalking the campus hellbent on carving up co-eds. - Director:
- Robert Deubel
- Cast:
- Julia Montgomery, James Carroll, Suzanne Barnes
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Enid (Niamh Algar / Beau Gadsdon) is a film censor during Britain's infamous 'video nasty' era of the 80s. After her latest viewing has a disturbingly familiar storyline, she attempts to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance and embarks on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality. - Director:
- Prano Bailey-Bond
- Cast:
- Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley, Nicholas Burns
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When Big Ronnie (Michael St. Michaels) and son Big Brayden (Sky Elobar) meet lonely tourist Janet on Big Ronnie's Disco Walking Tour, the best and only Disco Walking Tour in the city, a fight for Janet's heart erupts between father and son. To make matters worse, a grease-slathered monster is roaming the streets, searching for his next unsuspecting victim. Who will win Janet's heart and can they escape the oily clutches of the infamous Greasy Strangler? - Director:
- Jim Hosking
- Cast:
- Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo
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Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, must make an agonising choice: repair his leaking luzzu - the traditional wooden fishing boat that has been in his family for generations - or decommission it and give in to the temptation of illicit dealing on the black market. Featuring a Sundance Film Festival award-winning lead performance from Jesmark Scicluna - a non-professional actor and real life fisherman - Alex Camilleri's acclaimed debut feature takes inspiration from Italian Neorealist filmmakers and offers a glimpse into the beauty of an island rarely portrayed in cinema. - Director:
- Alex Camilleri
- Cast:
- Jesmark Scicluna, Marlene Schranz, David Scicluna
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A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Jessica Holland, who, after hearing a loud 'bang' at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia. She experiences auditory hallucinations and tries to find the sources of the sounds causing her insomnia. Soon, she begins to confront the unsettling sights and sounds that call her identity into question. - Director:
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, Agnes Brekke, Daniel Giménez Cacho
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