Canadian Filmmakers! Raven Banner Wants Your Short Film For SINISTER CINEMA!

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST

Attention Canadian filmmakers! The lads at Raven Banner Entertainment want a cracking Canadian short film to open the May 29th screening of Cabin Fever: Patient Zero so they are having a contest! You have until April 14th to submit a four-to-six-minute short film with a theme of your choosing. Raven Banner will choose a winner and their short will screen across Canada that night. You will also get ten passes to the cinema closest to you to share the experience with family and friends. "We've always strived to bring a festival-like experience to our Sinister Cinema presentations," said Raven Banner's Andrew Hunt. "Part of that experience is to open each screening with a unique short film, preferably by a Canadian filmmaker. Steven Kostanski's Bio-Cop, Josh MacDonald's...

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The Devil Brings Up The Past In The First Trailer For Brazilian Horror QUANDO EU ERA VIVO

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST

Brazilian cinema finally seems to be waking up to genre films in 2014. Only a few weeks after the commercial release of Rodrigo Aragão's splatterfest Mar Negro, it's time for one of the most promising talents in Brazilian film to show his new work to local audiences.In his first solo effort after a solid career in short films and a debut feature (Hard Labor) co-directed by Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra teamed up with producer Rodrigo Teixeira (Frances Ha) to venture into supernatural territory with the psychological thriller Quando Eu Era Vivo ("When I Was Alive" in a literal translation), which opened to great reviews in several cities this Friday. Based on a novel by cult writer Lourenço Mutarelli, the film tells the story of Junior...

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