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Jared D. Weiss Reveals…The Beakmann Incident

Jared D. Weiss Reveals…The Beakmann Incident

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Animator Jared D. Weiss has so far brought us the award-winning short “Transmission,” “Hog And Fog,” “Frog Dog Log,” and as of today…The Beakmann Incident. This one isn’t for the faint-hearted, but true crime stories rarely are. You’ll see a profile of the mysterious and unnerving Beakmann, his suspicious habits and his disturbing appearance. You’ll hear eyewitness accounts from those who were there and, ultimately, see raw footage of the heinous crime itself. Beakmann is currently serving time in the county jail. This short features a voice cast spanning the globe, recorded in Busan, South Korea, Aarhus, Denmark, and Los Angeles, USA. It stars actors 장구성 (Guseong Jang), Lyuba Halacheva, Henry Bonsu, and Weiss himself. If you enjoyed this short, Weiss has made several more, and they’re all on his Vimeo page. Weiss is also Storyboard Director on Lazor Wulf, the Adult swim show about “finding the inner strength to buy your own cereal, not dying, and the art of the scam.” According to Weiss, work just wrapped up on

Horror Short Dear Guest Hits Home On Halloween

Horror Short Dear Guest Hits Home On Halloween

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Last March, Look At Me Films announced a new horror short they would be distributing on the festival circuit, “Dear Guest.” Given that it was March, we have no idea how many festivals that short actually made it to, but the short is about to get a second life on streaming services. In the short, a young couple checks into a rental home for their vacation, only to find they’ve wandered into a disturbing game concocted by the home’s owner. Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism) and Noureen DeWulf (Good Girls) star as the couple at the center of the story. The short was directed by Megan Freels Johnston, the founder of Look At Me Films, and produced by Johnston, Michael May (Auto/Biography), and Bill Whirity (Prey). Megan has hopes that the short will get enough attention that she can expand it into a feature. It’s not the first offer from Look At Me Films, which specializes in giving filming projects to new independent moviemakers. They were behind the Sundance short

How To Make It In Bloomywood

How To Make It In Bloomywood

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David Meyers is a screenwriter currently developing several projects. One is a TV project starring Michael Shannon called “We Will Not Be Silent,” originally developed as a stage play before COVID made such things hard to pull off. He’s also preparing a pitch to Netflix for a young adult comedy pilot. But in the meantime, he’s keeping himself busy with his current creation, Bloomywood. Bloomywood is the take of Michael Bloomstein, a hapless young artist trying (and failing) to make it in Tinseltown. The series consists of a string of shorts now watchable on YouTube, like this one: “The Gist.” Bloomstein is prepared to pitch his script, if he can get the chance…and if he can even figure out where “the chance” is. It gets worse…this woman is his career coach. In this longer short she explains how to be “assertive,” refuses to read his script and keeps steering the conversation toward payment for her services. Unfortunately the young man picks up on none of these red flags because he’s

Beware The Shadow In This Supernatural Short

Beware The Shadow In This Supernatural Short

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Crypt TV has released Shadow, a short film created as a proof of concept, on their YouTube channel. A mother and son are grieving the loss of her husband, who she believes perished in an accident. Suddenly…he appears at the door! He somehow survived, but their moment of joy is soon tampered down by the fact that something doesn’t feel right here. Specifically, something seems to have returned with him…a vengeful ghost, wearing his face! None of this is explained in the short, which was merely created to illustrate how the movie might look. It’s a three and a half minute long sequence where the mother character, played by Valeska Miller, sneaks down to the cellar when she hears a strange noise. Bad idea. Should Shadow be made into a movie, Miller will be joined by Ryan Scott Greene as her husband / the Shadow, and Nathaniel Howdeshell as her son. Benjamin Howdeshell is the producer and director of Shadow, from a script written by Mike Doyle. Shawn Wallace serves

Vincent J. Roth Premieres Doctor Who Tribute Short Online

Vincent J. Roth Premieres Doctor Who Tribute Short Online

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As we speak, millions of people are cracking up from Cabin Fever in their own quarantined homes. Vincent J. Roth (remember, the “Surge of Power” guy?) feels he can do something about it. He’s been working on a new short about one of his favorite subjects, Doctor Who…and he was planning some kind of public social premiere, but there are more urgent matters now. So Roth is bringing the short to YOU! “Surge of Power: Doctor Who Tribute” will make its premiere live on Vimeo April 4. Join him and the producers on Facebook Live at approximately 10 PM Eastern / 7 PM Pacific. They’ll introduce the movie, and then give everyone the password to watch it free on Vimeo. Then, once the movie is done, return to Facebook Live for a special Q&A and a chance to win prizes. “In light of the current state of the world, I want to help lift people’s spirits, so we decided to show the movie virtually, offer some fun comedy and engage

The Ascension Of Ava Delaine Now On Amazon Prime

The Ascension Of Ava Delaine Now On Amazon Prime

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Hewes Pictures has delivered the experimental short The Ascension Of Ava Delaine to Amazon Prime Video. Running at just five minutes and seven seconds, it may not sound like much, but it took a lot of effort to pull off. You see, the short was shot entirely by drone, in one take, by one woman who had to change wardrobe multiple times. That woman was horror icon Tonya Kay (D-RAILED, EVIL BONG 777, GIRL ON THE THIRD FLOOR), who also directed the short. How did she pull it off? “What you see from the drone front is the movie,” says Kay. “What was happening behind those walls was a whirlwind of rambunctious nudity and focused determination.” We bet. “Everyone has seen single-takes performed horizontally – even on a drone. I wanted to challenge the technology and give viewers something they’ve truly never witnessed before: a story-based single-take that travels vertically – voyeuristically meeting our actress on a new floor, in new wardrobe, in a new decade of her life, with

Watch A Teaser For The Horror Short “Dear Guest”

Watch A Teaser For The Horror Short “Dear Guest”

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Look At Me Films is an independent production company that specializes in giving filming projects to new independent moviemakers. They’ve were behind the Sundance short film Sparks, the cult horror flick Rebound, and most recently, The Ice Cream Truck starring Deanna Russo. Now Look At Me is bringing us “Dear Guest,” a chilling new horror short that will be making the festival circuit over the next few months. In the short, a young couple checks into a rental home for their vacation, only to find they’ve wandered into a disturbing game concocted by the home’s owner. Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism) and Noureen DeWulf (Good Girls) star as the couple at the center of “Dear Guest.” The short was directed by Megan Freels Johnston, the founder of Look At Me Films, and produced by Johnston, Michael May (Auto/Biography), and Bill Whirity (Prey). Megan has hopes that the short will do well enough to blossom into a full feature. We don’t know if Look At Me Films is arranging any plans

Sci-Fi Short The Long Dig Now Viewable On Fangirl Nation

Sci-Fi Short The Long Dig Now Viewable On Fangirl Nation

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Aernoauts is a tabletop game from Electric Purple Studios that will be released some time in the future (a specific date hasn’t been revealed). But you can get an introduction to the game’s post-apocalyptic world right now, thanks to The Long Dig, a new short premiering soon on Fangirl Nation. The short is mainly the creation of Kate Hackett, a multi-talented actress and writer who’s been performing since age 4. She’s worked on several independent films and most recently created, wrote and starred in the Amazon series Classic Alice. Eve (Hackett) scours decaying old ruins for Antenoch technology that was buried or otherwise preserved. Having – she hopes – perfected a mixture of oils that will prevent the decay of Antenoch artifacts, Eve is equipped to safely remove them from these ruins. Today, she’s found an old transportation hub, perhaps a subway, haunted by monsters and hiding treasure. It is an adventure in darkness, with flashes of fear and bursts of action, about one woman’s desperate desire to return home.

Daughter Of Dismay To Make Its Debut At Arrow Video Frightfest

Daughter Of Dismay To Make Its Debut At Arrow Video Frightfest

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We’ve known for some time that Daughter of Dismay, an ambitious art film by Austrian director James Quinn, is slated for release sometime this year. What we didn’t know was where it will first turn up. Today we got our answer: check out Arrow Video Frightfest, because the short film will have its world premiere screening there. Shorts like Daughter of Dismay are notorious for their low-budget looks, but this one has been filmed entirely in 70MM IMAX photography. There will be regular 35MM and 70MM prints of the movie, but only the truly chosen theaters will get the IMAX version. Why the extravagance? As Quinn tells it, “Daughter of Dismay was always supposed to be a big project, presented in the most epic format it could be presented in. At first we were aiming for regular 70mm, but upgraded to 70mm IMAX only weeks before the shoot.” Quinn adds, “There’s a certain magic about seeing something on actual film on the big screen, especially in 70mm. I was always

Fox Celebrates Birthday Of “Alien” With New Shorts

Fox Celebrates Birthday Of “Alien” With New Shorts

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The Alien franchise will soon be over the hill — the original 1979 film turns forty this May. The studio that bankrolled that movie, 20th Century Fox, would prefer to celebrate with a new movie — but none are ready. So they’re settling for shorts. These shorts are free to view thanks to a partnership between Fox and IGN. The first creature feature is already out — but it didn’t take much work; it is literally the cutscenes from the 2014 video game Alien: Isolation re-edited into a passive experience. If you were too cowardly to play this game (and I don’t blame you), here’s an alternate way to experience it. This will be followed by six BRAND-NEW Alien shorts. Fox partnered with online platform Tongal to select the winning proposals out of 550 pitches, and they’ll be released weekly starting later this month. Alien: Alone — Hope, an abandoned crewmember aboard the derelict chemical hauler Otranto, has spent a year trying to keep her ship and herself alive as both

Watch The First Teaser For Daughter Of Dismay

Watch The First Teaser For Daughter Of Dismay

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Independent films and shorts rarely get as ambitious as Daughter of Dismay*, an Austrian art film by director James Quinn. Shorts like this are notorious for their low-budget looks, but this one has been filmed entirely in 70MM IMAX photography. There will be regular 35MM and 70MM prints of Daughter of Dismay, but only the truly chosen theaters will get the IMAX version. Why the extravagance? As Quinn tells it, “Daughter of Dismay was always supposed to be a big project, presented in the most epic format it could be presented in. At first we were aiming for regular 70mm, but upgraded to 70mm IMAX only weeks before the shoot.” Quinn adds, “There’s a certain magic about seeing something on actual film on the big screen, especially in 70mm. I was always extremely interested in this epic aspect of movies, where you don’t just go to watch something, but actually experience the entire movie to a point that’s almost physical, as part of a spectacle that evokes greater feelings than

Neill Blomkamp’s Anthem Short Is Out Now On YouTube

Neill Blomkamp’s Anthem Short Is Out Now On YouTube

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Neill Blomkamp, who seems to have found his niche in shorts, has directed a new one — and it’s out now for all to view for free. This is because it’s a commercial product meant to hype a video game, but it’s probably one you’re interested in anyway. The three-minute short is called Conviction: An Anthem Trailer, and it’s set in the world of Bioware’s anticipated upcoming MMO, decades before the game’s story takes place. “I was really blown away by this incredible world BioWare created the very first time I saw Anthem,” said Blomkamp. “Conviction sets the stage with a narrative that touches on Anthem’s beautiful and immersive world, which is ripe for exploration by these powerful Javelins. A world where danger is lurking on every ledge and in each valley.”  Time will tell if Anthem becomes enough of a sensation for people to want shorts like this. The beta test was conducted a couple weeks ago, and public opinion among those who experienced it was mixed. Bioware will need to fix

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