Quinn Armstrong's Survival Skills is coming to On Demand and digital, with an eye on some limited theatrical play, across the U.S. at the beginning of December. Screen Anarchy has an exlusive clip to share with you today. You can see it, and the trailer, below. We open on a crackling VHS title sequence where our Narrator (Stacy Keach) introduces us to the movie, or, a police training video starring Jim (Vayu O’Donnell), a bright-eyed police cadet who is anxious to begin his life on the force. Good luck, Jim! Our own Josh caught the film when it played during the collaborative virtual festival Nightstream. You can read his full review here. Here are a couple excerpts. Reminiscent of any number of...
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- 11/17/2020
- Screen Anarchy
"Wish me luck, honey!" Good Deed + Cranked Up have released an official trailer for a film titled Survival Skills, a spoof comedy / mockumentary designed as a training video from the 1980s. This premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival earlier this year, and also played at Fantasia Fest this summer, as well as the Rhode Island, Horrible Imaginings, and Raindance Film Fests. "This film stems from my years of work in domestic violence, filtered through a darkly comic lens and a full-throated attack on modern American policing," says writer / director Quinn Armstrong. Survival Skills is a biting police training video expertly narrated (by Stacy Keach) like so many of the educational videos we remember fondly from back then... Lost for years and only now recovered, we meet Jim (Vayu O'Donnell), the perfect policeman in a perfect relationship in a perfect community, who gets in over his head when he tries to resolve a domestic violence case.
- 10/14/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Nacelle Company is teaming with Breaker’s Blockchain Entertainment Studio on the release of Antarctica, a romantic comedy written and directed by Keith Bearden. Starring Chloë Levine, Clea Lewis, Damian Young, and newcomer Kimmie Muroya, the pic will be released sometime later this year.
It’s a story of two life-long best friends that experience a tidal wave of adult pressures and problems as they face down their last year of high school in small-town USA. Will they crack under the societal pressures, or will they triumph over the metaphorical icy tundra they call their late teens?
The deal was negotiated by Anna Roberts of The Nacelle Company and Jake Craven of Breaker.
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Dark Star Pictures has nabbed the North American distribution rights to Climate Of The Hunter, the Mickey Reece-helmed horror film which will screen at the Nightstream...
It’s a story of two life-long best friends that experience a tidal wave of adult pressures and problems as they face down their last year of high school in small-town USA. Will they crack under the societal pressures, or will they triumph over the metaphorical icy tundra they call their late teens?
The deal was negotiated by Anna Roberts of The Nacelle Company and Jake Craven of Breaker.
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Dark Star Pictures has nabbed the North American distribution rights to Climate Of The Hunter, the Mickey Reece-helmed horror film which will screen at the Nightstream...
- 10/10/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Hello everybody, what’s up? You’re listening to I Was Just Wondering With Tom Salmon! The podcast that dives into music, film and games and everything else in between.
My guest on this week’s episode is Quinn Armstrong who directed, produced and wrote his first feature-length film Survival Skills (2019) starring Stacy Keach and Vayu O’Donnell. The film tells the story of Jim, the perfect policeman and the subject of a lost 1980s training video detailing his attempts to resolve a domestic abuse case outside of the law.
We jumped into Quinn’s experience working with the police as a domestic abuse volunteer that inspired him to write and direct the film, the pitfalls of nineteen-eighties nostalgia and what’s it like directing the Hollywood legend Stacy Keach.
You can find out more about Survival Skills right now at https://www.survivalskillsmovie.com...
My guest on this week’s episode is Quinn Armstrong who directed, produced and wrote his first feature-length film Survival Skills (2019) starring Stacy Keach and Vayu O’Donnell. The film tells the story of Jim, the perfect policeman and the subject of a lost 1980s training video detailing his attempts to resolve a domestic abuse case outside of the law.
We jumped into Quinn’s experience working with the police as a domestic abuse volunteer that inspired him to write and direct the film, the pitfalls of nineteen-eighties nostalgia and what’s it like directing the Hollywood legend Stacy Keach.
You can find out more about Survival Skills right now at https://www.survivalskillsmovie.com...
- 8/25/2020
- by Thomas Salmon
- The Cultural Post
Stars: Vayu O’Donnell, Tyra Colar, Spencer Garrett, Stacy Keach, Ericka Kreutz | Written and Directed by Quinn Armstrong
Presented as a police training video from the 80s, Survival Skills places the audience in the position of police trainee, telling the story of rookie cop Jim Williams – the star of the training video and the perfect human being; perhaps too perfect… his idealistic, almost unemotional, naive, personality earning him the nickname of Robocop. Jim’s idealism gets the ire of his partner Allison (Ericka Kreutz) who warns Jim about trying to be the perfect cop to no avail. However Jim’s idealism is set to be broken when Jim and Allison answer a domestic violence call at the Jennings household.
You see, in his attempt to be the best he can be as a police officer, Jim can’t leave the case alone. Even when the omnipotent narrator, and presenter of this...
Presented as a police training video from the 80s, Survival Skills places the audience in the position of police trainee, telling the story of rookie cop Jim Williams – the star of the training video and the perfect human being; perhaps too perfect… his idealistic, almost unemotional, naive, personality earning him the nickname of Robocop. Jim’s idealism gets the ire of his partner Allison (Ericka Kreutz) who warns Jim about trying to be the perfect cop to no avail. However Jim’s idealism is set to be broken when Jim and Allison answer a domestic violence call at the Jennings household.
You see, in his attempt to be the best he can be as a police officer, Jim can’t leave the case alone. Even when the omnipotent narrator, and presenter of this...
- 8/20/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The world isn’t what it used to be no matter how vehemently a Republican believes the opposite when explaining that the 1791 ratification of an American’s “right to bear arms” includes the civilian purchase of military-grade automatic weaponry. Technology exploded exponentially over the past two decades and our laws, infrastructure, and politics have been very slow to adapt. The reason is simple of course: the patriarchy. It’s why our country still believes it holds jurisdiction over a woman’s body. It’s why we funnel finances from education and mental health initiatives to our national thirst for violence a lack of both exacerbates further. It’s why our police force has ostensibly gone to war with the citizens it’s supposed to keep safe. “Protect and Serve” became “Control with Fear” overnight.
Because writer/director Quinn Armstrong understands that a lot of the suffering felt today comes as...
Because writer/director Quinn Armstrong understands that a lot of the suffering felt today comes as...
- 8/19/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
FilmBuff and Sunnyside Films announce the release of feel-good summer comedy The Weekend, directed by Brian Avers whose acting credits include Rock N' Roll, Lieutenant of Inishmore, King Lear and recent hit premiere The Explorer's Club at Mtc, and featuring a cast of celebrated young New York actors including Heather Lind The Merchant of Venice, Pygmalion, Carson Elrod The Explorer's Club, All in the Timing, Peter amp the Starcatcher, Bhavesh Patel War Horse, Vayu O'Donnell Man and Boy, Golden Boy, Amber Gray Natasha, Pierre amp the Great Comet of 1812, and more...
- 8/14/2013
- by Movies News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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