Alice Jacobs is Dead - Trailer for short zombie related film

John La Zar and Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog, Escape from New York, The Cannonball Run) star in the thrilling short film Alice Jacobs Is Dead, which was written and directed by Alex Horwitz. The story revolves around Dr. Ben Jacobs (La Zar), who is out to save the world. The drug he has created allows mankind to fight back against the Z-virus, which nearly destroyed civilization entirely. Now, in the aftermath of the crisis, he's trying to cure the last victims of the disease. But what will happen when he brings his mysterious work home to help his ailing wife?

This looks superb and has had some cracking reviews by people who have seen it.

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The Hell Patrol - Trailer for short Zombie film

Lt. Sandi Fletcher leads her beat up squad of "Hell Patrollers", across a post-zombilyptic California, fighting their way through the undead, back to the safe city of San Francisco

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Vein Juice - Short Film

Have a look at this. It is by the filmmaker Mattson Tomlin who recently got in touch to let me know of this short film he shot on 16mm. Cheers Mat. Check out his film site.

Three acrobats, Green, Red, and Blue, compete for a taste of Vein Juice.

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Glory at Sea - Stunning short film

This is an amazing short film by Benh Zeitlin. It is based on the terrible tragedy in New Orleans. Well worth watching it.
A group of mourners and a man spat from the depths of Hades build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea.

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Here. My Explosion - a tilt-shift feature film by Reid Gershbein

Tilt-Shift miniature faking is a creative technique whereby a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated to give an optical illusion of a photograph of a miniature scale model.

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Wayne - Short Film

Directed by Andy Schlachtenhaufen, starring Dave Schlachtenhaufen and Mike Lussenden and featring music by Joey Cienian, Wayne is completely unassuming until the final minute. It is beautifully shot and definitely worth your time.

Wayne (2009) from Andy Schlachtenhaufen on Vimeo.

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Solomon Kane: The Return of Sir Richard Grenville - Fan film

I recently posted an update on the official Solomon Kane feature starring James Purefoy.

While doing that I stumbled across this short fan film of Robert E Howard's favourite Puritan. Let me know what you think of it.

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Mama - Short horror film that is getting remade

Guillermo del Toro is in negotiations to produce the horror feature Mama for Universal Pictures says Risky Biz Blog. Andy and Barbara Muschietti are writing the English-language script based on their acclaimed Spanish-language short with Andy directing and Barbara producing. The Muschiettis are currently working on the script. The plotline for the full feature is being kept under wraps, but the short centers on two girls, Victoria and Lily, who are on the run from a ghostly woman who appears to be their mother in a Gothic home.

Below is the short film.

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Marooned? - Trailer

A middle-aged science fiction nerd role-plays as his favorite space hero out in the desert when he hits his head and becomes convinced he is a space hero for real. When he starts to suspect his role-playing buddy of being an enemy alien, what started as a ridiculous fantasy game becomes a matter of life and death.

Written and directed by Ryan Nagata
Starring Justin Roiland and Mike McCafferty

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Partly Cloudy - First clip from Pixar's new short

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Carousel - One shot shootout inspired by The Dark Knight

Directed by Adam Berg, Carousel is a 2 minute 19 second short film sponsored by Philips. The film offers an exploration into one single frozen moment of time in a robbery gone wrong in one Hard Boiled-inspired continuous tracking shot. The story line is obviously taking a cue from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, featuring a swat team who has moved in to a decimated hospital, entering into a shootout with a bunch of robbers wearing sinister clown masks. Around 90 per cent of the footage and stunts were captured in camera.

Created entirely by Stink Digital, this new interactive campaign promotes Philips’ latest entrant into the television market, the CINEMA 21:9. Berg conceived it to work as an endless loop. Visitors to the microsite therefore have the option to ‘spin’ through the film’s single take shot repeatedly, to stop on a specific frame, or to watch it at the preordained speed. The film also contains embedded hotspots, which, when triggered, transport the viewer seamlessly from the heavily posted film to a behind-the-scenes version of the same shot. Check out the short film below.

Philips :: Carousel campaign (Adam Berg + Stink Digital) from Designloops on Vimeo.

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Partly Cloudy - Shot from Pixar's new short film

Ain't It Cool News has the first official photo from the short.

Everyone knows that the stork delivers babies, but where do the storks get the babies from? The answer lies up in the stratosphere, where cloud people sculpt babies from clouds and bring them to life. Partly Cloudy is about Gus, a lonely and insecure grey cloud, who is a master at creating "dangerous" babies like crocodiles, porcupines, and rams.

As Gus's creations become more and more rambunctious, his loyal delivery stork partner, Peck, must work harder and harder. How will Peck manage to handle both his hazardous cargo and his friend's fiery temperament?

Partly Cloudy will shown in front of Up in theaters on May 29th

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Lasarus Taxon - The New Sea dominates all

The feared consequences of global warming are at their peak when one man crosses the New Sea trying to save his daughter from the clutches of death. A tale about going beyond the limits of the human race and the survival of the species.

“We carry our dead inside”

A film that explores darkness (fear, anguish, solitude) and light (faith, hope, love); and digs into the limits of suffering and human pain. A piece that required talented interpretations due to the fact that the characters live under the extreme circumstances of starvation and desolation. Ariel, Mingo and Maia, three magnificent actors.

A story in which the “New Sea” dominates and has taken over the land, converting it into a World of utter violence and sheer necessity.

Lazarus Taxon is a sci-fi/horror short film directed by Denis Rovira that aims to surprise due to its auteur theory style (Haneke, Tarkovsky) and provoke the spectator to reflect upon the social and critically unsustainable situation. It is a story about survival and the limits of humankind.

We carry our loved ones within, when they leave the only way to keep them with us is on the inside. Lazarus Taxon, in paleontology, is the term used to describe a species that becomes extinct and later reappears…a biblical concept that furthermore gets entangled into a terrorizing story. Horror morphs with a story of true love, twisted and dark. The perfect union between Eros and Thanatos.

In Lazarus Taxon we find that in fact we aren’t born into this world and die alone. As far as the visual inspiration of film I must recognize two masters: the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and the painter Zoran Music (Slovenia). “We aren´t the last ones”, is the title of one of his most famous works.

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Paula Peril and The Mystery of the Crystal Falcon

This is a trailer for a great looking short film based on a comic by James Watson and Atlantis Studios.

The Mystery of the Crystal Falcon follows the adventures of Paula “Peril” Perillo, a sexy and determined investigative reporter who investigates the brazen theft of a strange artifact. She teams with photographer Jimmy Smith, but jealous rival reporter Veronica Vilancourt is also after the story, and all three soon uncover the perilous truth behind an ancient evil.

“This series is a deliberate throwback to 1940s mysteries and cliffhanger serials” said Watson, “and The Mystery of the Crystal Falcon is designed as an introduction to characters that until now have appeared only in the comics. We hope people will connect with the characters, and look forward to Paula’s next peril-filled adventure!”

Valerie Perez (Tears of the Dragon) stars as Paula Peril along side Marla Malcolm (2001 Maniacs) and Ben Lamm (My Sixteenth Summer), and was directed by Savvy Lorestani. The short film, first in a new series of films based on the comic book, is for sale via the web, and on DVD starting in June.

Source: Fan Cinema Today

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Iron Man vs Bruce Lee

This is a cool little piece of stop motion animation.

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Mi Amore Vive En Las Alcantarillas - Bizarre....just really bizarre

Spanish director Manuel Arija De La Cuerda is destined for cult stardom, his ticket to international attention his stomach-churningly hilarious short film Mi Amore Vive En Las Alcantarillas - or My Love Lives In The Sewers in English - a coming of age story unlike any other. It’s the story of an awkward young man still stuck living at home with his parents, a man with no friends to speak of and no social life whatsoever, a man who sees a ticket out of his dead end existence when he realizes that the seemingly random letters that keep appearing on his toilet paper are actually a series of messages. “Help me!” the paper cries, “I’m stuck in the sewer!” - Twitch

Definitely a whole shed load of WTF on this one.

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Kingdom Of Moderate Sunshine - A possible telescreen piece

The filmmaker Alessandro Cima, sent me his latest film to share with you. Let me know what you think of it. Over to Alessandro.

Made for http://www.CamouflageLenses.com. I wanted to make the kind of film that might play on Winston Smith's telescreen in his Oceana home from George Orwell's novel, 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.'

I had originally set out to make a film that criticized the use of fascist art techniques for political purposes in the U.S. The primary example of this currently is the famous picture of Barack Obama by artist Shepard Fairey. The poster is powerful but strikes me as bizarrely fascist in its technique and focus on the hero personality gazing upward toward some grand future above all our heads. Pretty damned terrifying if you ask me. But I'm obsessed with the whole idea of it and what drives people to start using this kind of imagery. So I had wanted to make a short film that objected to this kind of thing. But as I worked, I realized that I had made a weak choice. Far better to make an actual fascist film from some mythological totalitarian state that had mastered all the methods of population and mind-control through sound and image. So that's what I did.

After you watch the film, try reading this frightening article from the Daily Mail about the rise of fascism in Europe.

Look at the photos and compare with imagery from the film. Scary, isn't it?

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Son of Golem - Warrior and Zombie have a chat

Alex Cheng describes his new 8 minute post-apocalypse short as "an absurdist take on the pressures of cultural assimilation"

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Stolen Planet - Trailer for sci-fi short film

This looks like a pretty cool independent sci-fi film. I love the whole look of it.

The story behind Stolen Planet takes place in a future where Earth is a dying planet reliant upon the excavation of resources from other worlds. It follows Charles Hockner (Brian Deaver), a technician who is sent to check on interplanetary outpost JP-693 after it fails to report in. Upon arrival he expects to find a malfunctioning communication tower, but instead what he discovers leaves him fighting for his life, and not just his own…

Below is the teaser trailer for the short film. It has been nearly 3 years in the making. Coming to festivals very soon!

Directed by: Nick Kougioulis
Starring Brian Deaver

Shot using the Sony Ex1 in studio and on location

Stolen Planet Movie Trailer from Nick Kougioulis on Vimeo.

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Baton - Anime style sci-fi

Set in three, 20 minute parts, Baton is an animated scifi film directed by both Ryuei Kitamura and Shunji Iwai. Check out the trailer.

Baton trailer

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