An effective horror keeps you unaware of the danger lurking in the shadows. The less you know about what’s coming the better because you don’t want to end up spending your time guessing how the problem will be solved when you should be experiencing its escalating terror. This means filmmakers won’t be able to rely on jump scares to wake audience members up, a staple in mainstream Hollywood genre fare wanting everything spelled out in lieu of atmospheric tension that builds its mythos as it progresses. The task then falls to indie artists with the creative freedom to place their vision onscreen regardless of bottom-line concessions. They can afford to scare with what’s not made visible as opposed to that which is manipulated to shock with brute force.
Gary King’s latest Among Us (formerly Unnerved) is one such example of how creative license almost always...
Gary King’s latest Among Us (formerly Unnerved) is one such example of how creative license almost always...
- 8/7/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress, as presented by the creators themselves. At the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Foreign Lovers
Logline: A lonely New Yorker serendipitously meets a mysterious foreigner and sparks ignite.
Elevator Pitch:
“Foreign Lovers” is a passion project inspired by true events. An Lgbt romantic dramedy where two strangers from different parts of the world serendipitously collide and share an organic connection. Sparks ensue and inspire changes within. Along the way we meet a palette of wild characters that you only encounter in New York. A colorful dreamlike meditation on love and life in the digital world.
Production Team:
Timothy Ryan Hickernell – Writer/Director/Actor (“Till We Meet Again” and the upcoming Indian feature “Omerta,...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Foreign Lovers
Logline: A lonely New Yorker serendipitously meets a mysterious foreigner and sparks ignite.
Elevator Pitch:
“Foreign Lovers” is a passion project inspired by true events. An Lgbt romantic dramedy where two strangers from different parts of the world serendipitously collide and share an organic connection. Sparks ensue and inspire changes within. Along the way we meet a palette of wild characters that you only encounter in New York. A colorful dreamlike meditation on love and life in the digital world.
Production Team:
Timothy Ryan Hickernell – Writer/Director/Actor (“Till We Meet Again” and the upcoming Indian feature “Omerta,...
- 12/21/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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