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6 months ago with 3 notes

Tagged: survivor type stephen king premiere dollar baby buried alive film festival

Two days away!  “Survivor Type” premieres at the Buried Alive! Film Festival here in Atlanta on Saturday at The Plaza Theater on Ponce de Leon.  4:00pm - 6:00pm, and the tickets are $7 to see all four short films during that block. 

I’ll be a table in the lobby after the screening, handing out free Survivor Type posters.  Come by, say hi and grab a poster!  It’s a great poster, drawn by Mike Kazantzis, the artist responsible for all the Max Payne 3 and Grand Theft Auto V art work splattered all over the web right now.

Also, there is a big closing ceremony party at the Highland Inn Ballroom at 11:00pm.  A ticket stub from the screening gets you in.  I will be there until they drag my poor, drunken carcass from the room. 

You and you and you and you should come!  You stay home.  Okay, fine, you can come too.

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7 months ago with 9 notes

Tagged: survivor type review

Aint-It-Cool-News reviews "Survivor Type" ➔

Survivor Type

In which our intrepid film director loses his fanboy mind, as Aint-It-Cool-News gives the film he directed a mostly positive review, and more importantly, gives it the thumbs up to getting the adaption of the story right.

So this is exciting.*

* understatement

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7 months ago with 1 note

Tagged: Survivor Type Stephen King

First (somewhat informal) Review of Survivor Type

This mini review is from a festival programmer that is showing the film in Argentina, of all places.  It about made me cry.

“Man…what a great work and adaptation!! You took probable the most difficult S. King story to adapt and made a professional movie that will boost the brains of all the public! Excellent performance, locations, camera management….and the effects… MY GOD. I’m one of those persons that can see all the gore present in a film, but can’t stand a <SPOILER>, and I grabbed MY own <SPOILER>. The last image of the movie was simply PERFECT and we decided THIS movie has to be the one everyone has in their minds when they left the theater, so it’ll be the one which closes the festival :) We’ve been trying to decide for a while which movie would be (it has to be one special) and now there are no more doubts: it’ll be Survivor Type.”

And that, folks, is the single best thing I have ever read in my entire life.

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1 year ago with 6 notes

Tagged: film painted love survivor type

Saturday Night in Athens... ➔

… this happened. 

I should add that we asked them to show the “Survivor Type” trailer at the screening as well, not meaning for it to be in competition, but they put it on the voting card, and it tied for second place. In addition to “Painted Love” taking the top spot.

It was a big night for me and the people with whom I make these films.  “Painted Love” is not exactly high art, but it’s funny and different and plays well to a crowd.  You can watch it here if you’ve never seen it.

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1 year ago with 9 notes

Tagged: brooke sarahchristine Survivor Type

Survivor Type - Behind the Scenes Point of Interest:  The two lovely ladies in the lower right corner are Atlanta tumblrs Brooke and Sarah, who helped me out by showing up to be extras.  They are, as the internet circa 2006 would say, teh awesome. This scene was shot at The Shelter, who were nothing but welcoming of our production.

Survivor Type - Behind the Scenes

Point of Interest:  The two lovely ladies in the lower right corner are Atlanta tumblrs Brooke and Sarah, who helped me out by showing up to be extras.  They are, as the internet circa 2006 would say, teh awesome.

This scene was shot at The Shelter, who were nothing but welcoming of our production.

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1 year ago with 4 notes

Tagged: survivor type

Dr. Richard Pine.  Time to go to work.

Dr. Richard Pine.  Time to go to work.