Jaws Festival 2012

We’re excited to announce JAWSFEST: The Tribute, taking place August 9-12 on Martha’s Vineyard. This fan-centric event includes presentations by original cast and crew members, a museum-style exhibit of JAWS memorabilia, a shark conservation exhibit, and a tribute to Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, and Peter Benchley followed by a screening of JAWS on a big screen in Ocean Park, Oak Bluffs.

As JAWS fans know, the film was shot entirely on Martha’s Vineyard in the spring/summer of 1974. It was Steven Speilberg’s second film. It is a cult classic for many reasons, including John Williams’ music, Verna Fields’ editing, and the fact that the mechanical sharks brought from Hollywood malfunctioned during production on the first two film acts.

Confirmed VIP attendeesinclude Joe Alves (production director), Carl Gottlieb (screenwriter), Lee Fierro (Mrs. Kintner) and Susan Backlinie (Chrissie), and the families of Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, and Peter Benchley. More VIP attendees will be announced in the coming months.

There is a also substantial shark conservation component to the event. The JAWSFEST team is working with Wendy Benchley, the Shark Savers organization, Discovery Channel, Featherstone Center for the Arts, shark expert Dr. Greg Skomal, and others to develop presentations, artwork, and exhibits to educate and inform the public about shark and raise funds for shark conservation.

More information is available at www.jawstribute.com

Jack the Ripper

This October, NCM Fathom will take you on an eerie journey back in time to the 1888 dimly lit nightscape of the cobbled stone streets of London where the infamous murderer dubbed Jack the Ripper terrorized the impoverished Whitechapel district. 

NCM Fathom, SuperVision Media, and Butterfinger present Fathom Thriller Thursdays – a horrifying event bringing two nights of terror to movie theaters nationwide on October 13 and 27.

Starting at 7:30 pm (local time) fans will be treated to the first ever showing of Butterfinger the 13th, a special horror featurette. Butterfinger the 13th is the story of a troubled young camper that disappears in a bizarre fire, leaving nothing but questions and dark legends of the Masked Butterfinger Butcher behind.

Then at 8:15 pm (local time) Fathom Thriller Thursdays will feature the intriguing docu-drama, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Story, which exposes the truth behind the legendary killer, including key evidence from Scotland Yard, as well as segments with forensic experts, criminologists and historians discussing why Britain’s favorite mass murder remains unsolved to this day. Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Story comes to select movie theaters on Thursday, October 13 and October 27.

We hope you’ll spread the word about this exciting contest and Halloween feature by sharing information about Fathom Thriller Thursdays with your readers through mediums such as blog posts, newsletters, Facebook and Twitter. For more details about Butterfinger the 13th and Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Story, including information on participating movie theaters and tickets, visit www.fathomevents.com.

Summer Sci-Fi Horror Play Festival

June 9 – July 3 at The Kraine Theater

EndTimes Productions will present VIGNETTES FOR THE APOCALYPSE V, the 5th annual edition of New York’s oldest and largest Sci-fi/Horror themed theater festival, beginning June 9 at The Kraine Theater. This year, the Festival will offer 34 plays, a concert and a movie,  presented in 9 evening-length programs curated by Rusell Dobular. The Festival will premiere new works by Derek Ahonen (The Amoralists’ Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side), Mac Rogers (Best Play winner for Viral at FringeNYC),  Crystal Skillman (NYIT Award for Best Play for The Vigil), Jerrod Bogard (Spin Cycle for Wide Eyed Productions), Mark Borkwoski (The Perfect Witness, Cost of A Soul), among others.

The program and schedule for VIGNETTES FOR THE APOCALYPSE V is as follows:

Bill #1: 6/9 at 6:30, 6/11 at 6, 6/19 at 6, 6/24 at 6, 6/26 at 8, 6/30 at 6:30, 7/2 at 6

• Downtown Theater by Toby Scales. Two workers stumble into something terrible while excavating an old theatre in New York. The play takes place entirely by the light of the workers’ headlamps. Directed by Daniel Solon.

• Wardrobe of the Living Dead by Maximilian Clark. Trapped in a closet, hordes of the undead are scraping at the door. Please, God, if there’s anyone out there, do you know when the new season of House starts? Directed by Jenna Dempesy.

• The You Knows Know by Derek Ahonen. In a population controlled future where the “You Knows” have abused their political power, a young married couple hide from authority to protect their unborn child from a very different America. Directed by Kristin Skye Hoffmann.

• Dating Sucks by Mike Poblete. A cautionary tale about a man who gets more than he bargains for from a craigslist casual encounter. Directed by Justin Ness.

• The Madhouse by Jerrod Bogard. A classic-style Guignol in which a publisher sends a horror novelist with writer’s block to an insane asylum for inspiration. Directed by Leal Vona.

For more info visit: http://endtimesproductions.org/2011/vignettes-for-the-apocalypse-5/

Once It Started

These fun and frantic short films—comedy, animation, music videos—tell the twisted tales of terrified souls trapped inside the machine. One of these little old ladies is not like the other, but she’s settling mong the group. This ordinary office is not what it seems, but you may end up working here. A disturbing chaos is sweeping these average American high school scenes, but there’s no time to transfer out. And once we have gone into the future, we may never come back whole. But patch up that shabby space suit, dust off that bloody prom dress, and batten down the hatches: it’s gonna be a spectacular show when this ship goes down.

Venue:

On the Roof of Brooklyn Technical High School
29 Fort Greene Place (between Dekalb and Fulton), Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY 11217
G to Fulton, C to Lafayette, 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or B,M,Q, R to Dekalb

8:00 PM Doors Open

8:30 PM Live Music by Ela Orleans

9:00 PM Films Begin

11:00PM After Party at No. 7 Restaurant (7 Greene Avenue at Fulton Street), sponsored by Radeberger Pilsner.

Tickets and more information at:
http://rooftopfilms.com/2011/schedule/no-way-out/

The Films:

TWINSET(Amy Rose | Scotland | 12 min.)

Tea, cake and stilettos; old ladies in an Essex church welcome a towering transvestite as one of their own, but family life proves a little more difficult.

JPBF (Stephen Collins | USA | 7 min.)

It may look like an ordinary office, and it may seem like an ordinary job, but you’d be surprised what they do at JPBF Inc.

ONCE IT STARTED IT COULD NOT END OTHERWISE (Kelly Sears | Houston, Texas | 7 min.)

Part disaster film, part Freudian animation, Once It Started… bears witness to a series of absurd and horrible disasters that strike an American high school, eerily mirroring larger political and social markers of the recent past. Supported by the Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund. kellysears.com

PROM NIGHT (Celia Rowlson Hall and Jae Song | Brooklyn, NY | 8 min.)

Prom night is ritual, disco balls, expectation, corsages, dresses, holding, sweating, status, entering in twos, balloons, school gyms, dancing slow and fast.

WE USED TO CALL PEOPLE LATE AT NIGHT (Eran Hilleli, Anna Shevchenk and Yoav Brill | Israel | 2 min.)

A melancholy animation about prank calls gone awry in the lonely anonymous night.

EVASION (Speedy Graphito | France | 5 min.)

A child-like purple ninja is chased by spirits, snakes and gear-creatures in a shifting Candyland fantasy world—but maybe it was all on screen.

PROTOPARTICULAS (Chema Garcia Ibarra | Spain | 8 min.)

The experiment was (almost) a success: protomatter exists! But… chemagarcia.com

OUT OF NOWHERE (Will Lamborn | Los Angeles, CA | 19 min.)

In this neo-noir western thriller, Peter may outrun his killer, over and over and over, but can he escape from nowhere?

WOUNDED MAN (Zachary Volker | New York, NY | 6 min.)

“(Indecipherable.) (Indecipherable.) Check his left pocket.” Two career criminals debate the merits of letting an associate bleed to death in a motel bathroom. zacharyvolker.com

MODERN SPLEEN (Lisa Lugrin and Clément Xavier | France | 7 min.)

Another man, another bathroom, another epic, hairy battle. Courtesy of Autour De Minuit.

LIARS: SCISSOR (Andy Bruntel | TK | 4 min.)

Adrift at sea in this Liars music video, a man finds land . . . and can’t get rid of it.

BURNING WIGS OF SEDITION (Anna Fitch and Simon Cheffins | San Francisco, California | 8 min.)

A post-moral tale of self-obsession, finery and the ephemeral nature of oppression, set in the steamy belly of a creaking ancient galleon. When the libertines crack the whip and the slaves revolt, this high seas dispute can only be resolved by a dance off, set to the tunes of the Extra Action Marching Band. wdfilms.com & extra-action.com