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Bad
Blood: The Hunger,
not the typical Horror Fare
A Macabre Thriller ... With a Twist of Class
By Debbie L. Sklar
Horror films are here to stay. So say the filmmakers of Bad Blood: The Hunger,
actor/director Conrad Janis and Writer/Producer Maria Janis.
Conrad Janis with over 700 acting credits is perhaps best known as Mindy’s
dad on Mork & Mindy, the popular sitcom starring Pam Dawber and Robin
Williams. Janis, as the eminence grise of Bad Blood...The Hunger, stars
and directs opposite three-time Academy Award nominee Piper Laurie, as Carrie,
the wry but menacing matriarch of the film. Janis' wife Maria, an actress with
countless credits herself, wrote and produced Bad Blood: The Hunger and
they both talked enthusiastically with Indie Fest about their horror
film, why they wanted it to be different, and what’s next for this busy couple.
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 Skylight
By Laurie Smith
The scratchy, flickering film noisily displays the frozen tundra of the
Antarctic as the dry drone of a sleep-inducing narrator describes the behavior
of the penguin and the harsh habitat in which they live. The audience has no
idea what they are about to see, when one of the googly-eyed birds breaks away
from the colony, innocently waddling toward an odd beam of sunlight...
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 Indie Fest filmmaker achieves success
By Michael Langston Moore
For any aspiring filmmakers or screenwriters out there, Jerry G. Angelo has some
words of wisdom:
“Knowing what you want to accomplish is not possible.”
Sounds bleak?
Well, not really. In fact, Jerry G. Angelo is a young
writer/director/actor/producer who has created several film productions, won a
handful of awards, and received wide acclaim. At age 31, Jerry has been
fortunate enough to accomplish a great deal. He has been involved with film
since 2003 in a variety of capacities, and has even appeared in an acting role
on the series “24.” But if you ask Jerry, he never would have foreseen his
moviemaking success....
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 Blue Road Beckons
First time filmmaker hones in on relationships
By Debbie L. Sklar
It may have taken him longer than he wished, but first-time filmmaker Oliver
Cukor, 45, of Blue Road Films Inc., persevered. His film Blue Road, about a
relationship, took him 8 years to complete, but it paid off; he recently won an
Indie Fest Award.
He says he always dreamed of becoming a filmmaker and was hit with the film bug
after he saw one particular movie. “I have wanted to be a filmmaker since I was
quite young. My family would often go to movies when I was a child, but...
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Indian film Boond delivers
Strong message and story wins
filmmaker Indie Fest Award
By Debbie L. Sklar
Water is something we
all need to survive but often take for granted.
Indian filmmaker, Abhishek
Pathak, 23, knows this all too well and delivers a powerful message in his
short film titled Boond, which means “A Drop.” He is the creative director
for a production house called Big Screen Entertainment that produces between
three and four films a year.
Shot along the Pakistan border in Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, the story
follows a female villager and her son who...
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 Good-Bye Brother
Skylight Kunming Documentary Pays Homage
By Debbie L. Sklar
Rather than just say a simple good-bye to their brother, the late Michael
Sutherland of Santa Barbara, who died in an unexpected white water rafting
accident in his adopted home of Kunming, China in 2007, his siblings made a
short documentary film called Skylight Kunming: A Tribute to Michael
Sutherland, in his honor via their production company, Zag Zoo Films located in
Paris.
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