Exclusive: Corbin Bernsen (Showtime’s City on a Hill), Timothy V. Murphy (TNT’s Snowpiercer) and Jeremy Holm (House of Cards) have signed on to star in the horror film Herd, from director Steven Pierce.
The indie co-written by Pierce and James Allerdyce tells the story of a woman who ends up trapped between a zombie outbreak and warring militias as she tries to outrun her past. Pierce is producing Herd as the inaugural feature under his newly-minted Fp banner, alongside Allerdyce, Lori Kay, Matt Mundy and Bret Carr. Production will commence in Missouri early next month.
Bernsen is a two-time Emmy and Golden Globe nominee perhaps best known for Arnie Becker on 20th Television’s LA Law, who recently signed on to reprise the role in an ABC revival. The actor can currently be seen on Showtime’s City on a Hill and will also soon be seen on...
The indie co-written by Pierce and James Allerdyce tells the story of a woman who ends up trapped between a zombie outbreak and warring militias as she tries to outrun her past. Pierce is producing Herd as the inaugural feature under his newly-minted Fp banner, alongside Allerdyce, Lori Kay, Matt Mundy and Bret Carr. Production will commence in Missouri early next month.
Bernsen is a two-time Emmy and Golden Globe nominee perhaps best known for Arnie Becker on 20th Television’s LA Law, who recently signed on to reprise the role in an ABC revival. The actor can currently be seen on Showtime’s City on a Hill and will also soon be seen on...
- 3/22/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
"You coded her to fall in love with you." Gravitas has released a new trailer for a very low budget, indie sci-fi noir film titled Wetware, from filmmaker Jay Craven. This originally premiered in 2018 at the Vermont Film Festival, and it was made mostly in Vermont by a Vermont-based filmmaker. Wetware is a film noir set in a near future set at Galapagos Wetware, a cutting edge genetic engineering firm where people down-on-their-luck apply to be Mungos—genetically altered humans with enhanced stamina for dreary jobs like street sweeping and slaughterhouses, or arduous jobs in deep sea mining, industrial agriculture, and toxic clean-up. With business booming, geneticist Hal Briggs has new ideas for high-end Mungos. What can Briggs do to make them complete? And will these altered prototypes still be considered human? Briggs experiments, changing the codes, then his prototypes escape. Wetware stars Jerry O'Connell, Cameron Scoggins, Bret Lada, Aurélia Thiérrée,...
- 11/24/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The first of the year’s award ceremonies — a full month before 2015 even ends — Gotham Independent Film Awards were held last night. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Tom McCarthy‘s journalism drama Spotlight picked up top honors of Best Feature (as well as Screenplay, and the pre-determined Ensemble award).
While Carol unfortunately came up empty-handed, The Diary of a Teenage Girl‘s Bel Powley surprised with Best Actress and Paul Dano took home Best Actor for Love & Mercy. Also featuring Tangerine‘s Mya Taylor as Best Breakthrough Actor, check out the full list of winners below in red.
Best Feature
Carol
Todd Haynes, director; Elizabeth Karlsen, Tessa Ross, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley, producers (The Weinstein Company)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Marielle Heller, director; Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit, Miranda Bailey, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Heaven Knows What
Josh and Benny Safdie, directors; Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear-McClard,...
While Carol unfortunately came up empty-handed, The Diary of a Teenage Girl‘s Bel Powley surprised with Best Actress and Paul Dano took home Best Actor for Love & Mercy. Also featuring Tangerine‘s Mya Taylor as Best Breakthrough Actor, check out the full list of winners below in red.
Best Feature
Carol
Todd Haynes, director; Elizabeth Karlsen, Tessa Ross, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley, producers (The Weinstein Company)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Marielle Heller, director; Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit, Miranda Bailey, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Heaven Knows What
Josh and Benny Safdie, directors; Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear-McClard,...
- 12/1/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Kicking off the onslaught of awards this year, as always, is the Gotham Independent Film Awards, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Usually a strong slate highlighting some of the year’s most overlooked films, 2015 is no different as The Diary of a Teenage Girl leads the pack with four nominations. Close behind is Carol and Tangerine with three each overall.
Other players in the category of Best Feature include Spotlight and Heaven Knows What, while some of my other favorite films of the year, including Listen to Me Marlon, The Mend, James White, Results, and Mistress America, were recognized. With a ceremony set for November 30, check out the full list below thanks to Variety.
Best Feature
Carol
Todd Haynes, director; Elizabeth Karlsen, Tessa Ross, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley, producers (The Weinstein Company)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Marielle Heller, director; Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit, Miranda Bailey,...
Other players in the category of Best Feature include Spotlight and Heaven Knows What, while some of my other favorite films of the year, including Listen to Me Marlon, The Mend, James White, Results, and Mistress America, were recognized. With a ceremony set for November 30, check out the full list below thanks to Variety.
Best Feature
Carol
Todd Haynes, director; Elizabeth Karlsen, Tessa Ross, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley, producers (The Weinstein Company)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Marielle Heller, director; Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit, Miranda Bailey,...
- 10/22/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Northern Borders screens as part of the 23rd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival at Landmark’s Tivoli Theatre on Sunday, November 16 at 5:45 Pm. Get ticket information here
Bruce Dern follows up his Oscar-nominated performance in last year’s Nebraska with his starring role here as family patriarch Austen Kittredge, Sr in writer/director Jay Craven’s adaptation of Howard frank Mosher’s acclaimed novel. While his character in the former film was endearingly befuddled, this man is bitter and abrasive. This tale begins in 1956 as ten year-old Austen III ( Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) is picked up by his estranged grandfather at a rural Vermont train station. They’ve never met, but the lad is to spend a few weeks with them at the old family farm/sawmill until his father picks him up. The boy soon meets his grandmother, the eccentric, ethereal Abiah (Genevieve Bujold), a nurturing contrast to her stern,...
Bruce Dern follows up his Oscar-nominated performance in last year’s Nebraska with his starring role here as family patriarch Austen Kittredge, Sr in writer/director Jay Craven’s adaptation of Howard frank Mosher’s acclaimed novel. While his character in the former film was endearingly befuddled, this man is bitter and abrasive. This tale begins in 1956 as ten year-old Austen III ( Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) is picked up by his estranged grandfather at a rural Vermont train station. They’ve never met, but the lad is to spend a few weeks with them at the old family farm/sawmill until his father picks him up. The boy soon meets his grandmother, the eccentric, ethereal Abiah (Genevieve Bujold), a nurturing contrast to her stern,...
- 11/14/2014
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Peter and John" Tweetable Logline: Peter’s life shatters when the fortunes of his malingering brother take a mysterious turn. Elevator Pitch: Peter and John is written and directed by veteran filmmaker Jay Craven and stars Jacqueline Bisset and Christian Coulson. In the wake of the Civil War and the collapse of the whaling industry, Nantucket is in ruins. The Roland family is tested when one son receives a mysterious inheritance. Meanwhile, a strange woman arrives on the island, bringing with her a secret that threatens to destroy Peter’s reputation. An ambitious collaboration between Marlboro College and Kingdom County Productions, Peter and John provides film students the...
- 4/22/2014
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
The Independent Filmmaker Project has selected ten documentaries for its 2013 Independent Filmmaker Labs, Ifp's annual year-long fellowship for first-time feature directors. The selected teams will participate in three week-long sessions over the course of 2013, with the first taking place May 13-17 in New York City. Since 2005, 148 docs and narrative features have participated in the labs, with 82% of the projects completed and premiered at major Us and international festivals, and 60% finding distribution on platforms beyond the festival circuit. The selected projects for the 2013 Documentary Lab and Lab Fellows are: Approaching the ElephantGiven uncommon freedom and individual rights, a group of young children enroll in a newly opened 'free school,' where rules are created democratically - students and teachers have an equal vote - and classes are voluntary. Fellows: Amanda Wilder (Director/Dp), Jay Craven (Producer). Brooklyn, NYBringing Tibet Home Tibetan artist...
- 5/14/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
AFI Fest
Writer-director Jay Craven calls "Disappearances" a Vermont Western, an apt description for this Depression-era saga of whiskey running across the Canadian border. A frontier spirit and a strong connection to the landscape inform the piece, which aims not to wow but to immerse the viewer in a mystical, hardscrabble, bygone world.
Craven explores matters of character, family and fate with a wise restraint; even the film's passages of magic-realism are subdued. With its dreamy languor and nature-attuned rhythms, "Disappearances", which screened at AFI Fest, will not be an easy boxoffice proposition. But the presence of three near-iconic figures of art house cinema -- Kris Kristofferson, Genevieve Bujold and Gary Farmer -- will lure buffs and adventurous filmgoers.
Based on the 1977 novel, "Disappearances" marks Craven's third screen adaptation of a work by Howard Frank Mosher. The Vermont-based director, who also filmed Mosher's "Where the Rivers Flow North" and "Stranger in the Kingdom", has a clear feel for the place and its history. "Disappearances" unfolds in the state's Kingdom County in 1932, centering on Bonhomme patriarch Quebec Bill (Kristofferson), a man of remarkable equanimity and resilience. After losing his barn to fire, he returns to the family occupation of whiskey running, over the mild objections of his wife, Evangeline (Heather Rae), in order to raise much-needed cash to buy hay for his starving animals. He also convinces her that their 15-year-old son, the hopefully named Wild Bill (Charlie McDermott), should join him on the Prohibition-defying expedition.
The pensive but eager Wild Bill's coming-of-age adventure involves his first taste of whiskey and his first time killing a man. Through it all he receives advice, warnings and prophecies from Cordelia (Bujold), his mystical aunt who reads a particular omen in the sudden appearance of a golden-eyed snow owl. Although she stayed back on the farm with the boy's mother, Cordelia appears to him at various times during the trip. Better than anyone, she understands his connection to preceding generations of Bonhomme men -- some of who disappeared under the influence of liquor and illegal activities. Quebec Bill's other partners in this latest run are his longtime farmhand, Rat (William Sanderson), a man of constant sorrow, and brother-in-law Henry Farmer), proud owner of a Cadillac he has named White Lightning.
Quebec Bill soon determines that their contract job for a couple of French-Canadian bootleggers involves stealing back hijacked Seagram's from the notorious Carcajou (Lothaire Bluteau), a feral pirate in Civil War regalia. After snatching a dozen cases of the contraband liquor, they try to outrun the seemingly unkillable Carcajou, his gang, a motorboat and automatic rifles. During the four-day odyssey they steal a train, enlist the help of a monk (Luis Guzman) who's a devoted imbiber and persevere in the face of serious injuries, pressing on across eerily beautiful woods and lakes.
Led by Kristofferson's fascinating Quebec Bill, the cast delivers flavorful but unshowy performances that suit the material. Wolfgang Held's graceful, evocative widescreen camerawork and the Arcadian/Celtic dirge of the score by composers Judy Hyman and Jeff Claus are strong components of the impressively realized low-budget production.
Writer-director Jay Craven calls "Disappearances" a Vermont Western, an apt description for this Depression-era saga of whiskey running across the Canadian border. A frontier spirit and a strong connection to the landscape inform the piece, which aims not to wow but to immerse the viewer in a mystical, hardscrabble, bygone world.
Craven explores matters of character, family and fate with a wise restraint; even the film's passages of magic-realism are subdued. With its dreamy languor and nature-attuned rhythms, "Disappearances", which screened at AFI Fest, will not be an easy boxoffice proposition. But the presence of three near-iconic figures of art house cinema -- Kris Kristofferson, Genevieve Bujold and Gary Farmer -- will lure buffs and adventurous filmgoers.
Based on the 1977 novel, "Disappearances" marks Craven's third screen adaptation of a work by Howard Frank Mosher. The Vermont-based director, who also filmed Mosher's "Where the Rivers Flow North" and "Stranger in the Kingdom", has a clear feel for the place and its history. "Disappearances" unfolds in the state's Kingdom County in 1932, centering on Bonhomme patriarch Quebec Bill (Kristofferson), a man of remarkable equanimity and resilience. After losing his barn to fire, he returns to the family occupation of whiskey running, over the mild objections of his wife, Evangeline (Heather Rae), in order to raise much-needed cash to buy hay for his starving animals. He also convinces her that their 15-year-old son, the hopefully named Wild Bill (Charlie McDermott), should join him on the Prohibition-defying expedition.
The pensive but eager Wild Bill's coming-of-age adventure involves his first taste of whiskey and his first time killing a man. Through it all he receives advice, warnings and prophecies from Cordelia (Bujold), his mystical aunt who reads a particular omen in the sudden appearance of a golden-eyed snow owl. Although she stayed back on the farm with the boy's mother, Cordelia appears to him at various times during the trip. Better than anyone, she understands his connection to preceding generations of Bonhomme men -- some of who disappeared under the influence of liquor and illegal activities. Quebec Bill's other partners in this latest run are his longtime farmhand, Rat (William Sanderson), a man of constant sorrow, and brother-in-law Henry Farmer), proud owner of a Cadillac he has named White Lightning.
Quebec Bill soon determines that their contract job for a couple of French-Canadian bootleggers involves stealing back hijacked Seagram's from the notorious Carcajou (Lothaire Bluteau), a feral pirate in Civil War regalia. After snatching a dozen cases of the contraband liquor, they try to outrun the seemingly unkillable Carcajou, his gang, a motorboat and automatic rifles. During the four-day odyssey they steal a train, enlist the help of a monk (Luis Guzman) who's a devoted imbiber and persevere in the face of serious injuries, pressing on across eerily beautiful woods and lakes.
Led by Kristofferson's fascinating Quebec Bill, the cast delivers flavorful but unshowy performances that suit the material. Wolfgang Held's graceful, evocative widescreen camerawork and the Arcadian/Celtic dirge of the score by composers Judy Hyman and Jeff Claus are strong components of the impressively realized low-budget production.
- 11/14/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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