Banned In Edmonton, “The Killing Games” Gets World Premiere At The Calgary International Film Fest.
The Calgary International Film Festival has said that The Killing Games will make it’s World Premiere on Saturday September 22nd as a part of the Late Show Series. “We are just ecstatic that Calgary has accepted the movie to Premiere at their festival,” States director Barry J. Gillis.
Bruce Fletcher who is a programmer with The Calgary International Film Festival… More...
The Calgary International Film Festival has said that The Killing Games will make it’s World Premiere on Saturday September 22nd as a part of the Late Show Series. “We are just ecstatic that Calgary has accepted the movie to Premiere at their festival,” States director Barry J. Gillis.
Bruce Fletcher who is a programmer with The Calgary International Film Festival… More...
- 8/29/2012
- by HorrorNews.net
- Horror News
This past June we got word from Canadian filmmaker Barry J. Gillis that his new film The Killing Games had been deemed "too violent" to screen at the Edmonton International Film Festival, but that's all water under the bridge now that it has been accepted by the Calgary International Film Festival.
From the Press Release:
The Calgary International Film Festival has announced that The Killing Games will make its world premiere on Saturday, September 22nd, as part of the fest's Late Show Series. “We are just ecstatic that Calgary has accepted the movie to premiere at their festival,” states director Barry J. Gillis.
Bruce Fletcher, a programmer with the Calgary International Film Festival, told Gillis that he watched the movie twice and found it to be very entertaining. Gillis continues, “We're so happy that Bruce, Brenda Lieberman, and the Calgary International Film Festival were brave enough to take a chance on The Killing Games,...
From the Press Release:
The Calgary International Film Festival has announced that The Killing Games will make its world premiere on Saturday, September 22nd, as part of the fest's Late Show Series. “We are just ecstatic that Calgary has accepted the movie to premiere at their festival,” states director Barry J. Gillis.
Bruce Fletcher, a programmer with the Calgary International Film Festival, told Gillis that he watched the movie twice and found it to be very entertaining. Gillis continues, “We're so happy that Bruce, Brenda Lieberman, and the Calgary International Film Festival were brave enough to take a chance on The Killing Games,...
- 8/29/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
"Oh, yeah, you guys are infamous," said Bruce Fletcher as he leaned back in his chair, his trademark jack-o'-lantern grin stretching across his face. "You're downright notorious." He was referring to the reaction our documentary about film festivals, Official Rejection, generated when it came up in conversation during a recent informal gathering of various festival directors at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- 11/12/2009
- MovieMaker.com
Bruce Fletcher introduced me to David Gregory’s feature directorial debut Plague Town when it had its world premiere at Dead Channels 2008 and encouraged me to interview Gregory, which I accomplished during the festival. I now offer up that transcript in conjunction with Plague Town‘s May 12, 2009 DVD/Blu-Ray release from Dark Sky Films.
David Gregory is one of the international DVD industry’s most in-demand Bonus Features providers. He has produced and directed more than 130 “making of” documentaries on films as diverse as Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Wicker Man, The Deer Hunter, Faster Pussycat, Don’t Look Now, Heathers and Repulsion. As co-founder of the UK/Us DVD labels Blue Underground and Severin, he has produced many of the industry’s most widely acclaimed discs and collections, including The Final Countdown, The Alan Clarke Collection and The Mondo Cane Collection, which includes his feature-length documentary The Godfathers of Mondo.
David Gregory is one of the international DVD industry’s most in-demand Bonus Features providers. He has produced and directed more than 130 “making of” documentaries on films as diverse as Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Wicker Man, The Deer Hunter, Faster Pussycat, Don’t Look Now, Heathers and Repulsion. As co-founder of the UK/Us DVD labels Blue Underground and Severin, he has produced many of the industry’s most widely acclaimed discs and collections, including The Final Countdown, The Alan Clarke Collection and The Mondo Cane Collection, which includes his feature-length documentary The Godfathers of Mondo.
- 5/15/2009
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
Canadian animator Troy Nixey is best-known as a graphic illustrator who has collaborated with such notable creators as Mike Mignola and Neil Gaiman, as well as creating his own works. As reported by filmbud Peter Sciretta at /Film, Guillermo del Toro—after seeing Latchkey’s Lament—tapped Nixey on the shoulder to direct the remake of the 1973 cult classic telefilm Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. “Now you know the kind of film you have to make to catch Guillermo del Toro’s attention,” Dead Channels programmer Bruce Fletcher quipped in his introduction.
As Tentaco Productions synopsize at the film’s official website, Latchkey’s Lament employs a blend of CGI animation and live action to tell a tale of love and heroism. Mr. And Mrs. Key are snatched from their home late one evening by the insidious Keyfiend and taken back to his monolithic factory. There Mr. Key...
As Tentaco Productions synopsize at the film’s official website, Latchkey’s Lament employs a blend of CGI animation and live action to tell a tale of love and heroism. Mr. And Mrs. Key are snatched from their home late one evening by the insidious Keyfiend and taken back to his monolithic factory. There Mr. Key...
- 10/7/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
Genres are borrowed skins. Filmmakers adopt them and adapt them to fit the stories they want to tell. In the case of Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish coming-of-age vampire tale Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma in) the tale is so dense with nuance, so textured with masterful indirection and tender delights, so imaginative in how it reconfigures established tropes of the vampire mythos that it stretches the skin taut, rendering it nearly translucent to reveal its wondrous heartbeat within, like the vulnerable pulse at one’s temples. With Let the Right One In, Eli’s coming and, no, you won’t want to hide your heart.
As Dead Channels programmer Bruce Fletcher announced proudly to his opening night audience, ”Let the Right One In is perhaps the best genre film since Pan’s Labyrinth.” By programming Alfredson’s Bay Area premiere, Fletcher once again proves how much...
As Dead Channels programmer Bruce Fletcher announced proudly to his opening night audience, ”Let the Right One In is perhaps the best genre film since Pan’s Labyrinth.” By programming Alfredson’s Bay Area premiere, Fletcher once again proves how much...
- 10/5/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
While scurrying up Bay Street in Toronto I was hailed by Bruce Fletcher to come join him and friends at an outdoor table to lift “twobeer”; a welcome invitation on a humid afternoon. Bruce introduced me to “Ant” Timpson, Executive Producer of Head Strong, a feature film development company out of New Zealand; Ian Rattray, the Co-Director of London’s Film4 Frightfest; and James Faust, Senior Programmer for the AFI Dallas International Film Festival. After achieving a perfect buzz, we stumbled into a press screening of Sauna, but not before Bruce gave me the heads-up on the line-up for San Francisco’s upcoming Dead Channels: Festival of Fantastic Film to be held October 3rd-9th, 2008 at San Francisco’s Roxie Film Center and on October 9th at Oakland’s Parkway Speakeasy. This year’s Festival will showcase 20 feature films and 20 short films from 10 countries and it includes exclusive world premieres,...
- 9/17/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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