Here's something for L.A. based genre filmmakers. From the sounds of it, SellingYourScreenplay.com's event Six-Figure Film Festival and Conference is targetted at filmmakers, giving information, expertise and guidance for low budget and independant filmmaking. Of particular interest to genre filmmakers will be the screenings of Japanese short film Love Shack, feature films Animal Among Us and The Rideshare Killer. The latter was directed by Ashley Scott Meyers who also runs Sys.com and wrote such gems as Snake Outta Compton and Ninja Apocalypse. So if anyone knows how to get no-budget, independant films made it's this guy. More information can be found here. SellingYourScreenplay.com (Sys), is hosting Sys’s Six-Figure Film Festival and Conference, a conference focusing on best practices associated with the writing...
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- 9/16/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Stars: Tuesday Knight, Victoria De Mare, Croix Provence, Jeffry Druce, Oliver Robins, James Balsamo, Shuja Paul, Anouk Samuel, Gavin Peretti, Eric Roberts | Written and Directed by Ashley Scott Meyers
How many ride-sharing, serial killing, psychos are we going to get in horror movies? We seem to be getting a new rideshare horror movie at least once every-other month! It seems the “killer in the woods” trope of the genre is officially being replaced by guys (or girls) driving around in rideshare vehicles killing folks willy-nilly. To be fair though, “don’t get into cars with strangers” has been something of a cultural touchstone since the invention of the motor vehicle, though in my day that ‘threat’ was usually aimed at kids and strangers with candy tempting children into vans!
Given that we’ve had a lot of these kinds of films recently, as a filmmaker it’s starting to take...
How many ride-sharing, serial killing, psychos are we going to get in horror movies? We seem to be getting a new rideshare horror movie at least once every-other month! It seems the “killer in the woods” trope of the genre is officially being replaced by guys (or girls) driving around in rideshare vehicles killing folks willy-nilly. To be fair though, “don’t get into cars with strangers” has been something of a cultural touchstone since the invention of the motor vehicle, though in my day that ‘threat’ was usually aimed at kids and strangers with candy tempting children into vans!
Given that we’ve had a lot of these kinds of films recently, as a filmmaker it’s starting to take...
- 4/1/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Ricky Flowers Jr., Motown Maurice, Donte Essien, Aurelia Michael, Joston Theney, Jon Kondelik, Tarkan Dospil, Arielle Brachfeld, Eric Paul Erickson | Written by Tim Johnson, James Kondelik, Jon Kondelik, Ashley Scott Meyers | Directed by Hank Braxton
It’s a great day in South Central: Cam and his hip-hop crew are all set to sign a record deal that could change their lives. But their jealous friend Vurkel wrecks their plans when he creates a giant, mutant snake that quickly lays waste to the city of Compton, eating everyone in its path. Soon Cam, Pinball, Neon, and Beez Neez cook up a crazy scheme to stop the monstrous, munching menace—blow it away it by pumping up the jams.
You’ve got to love Any film that starts with a snake falling out of a plane directly onto a car driving through Compton… Yes, Snake Outta Compton literally sees Snakes On A Plane...
It’s a great day in South Central: Cam and his hip-hop crew are all set to sign a record deal that could change their lives. But their jealous friend Vurkel wrecks their plans when he creates a giant, mutant snake that quickly lays waste to the city of Compton, eating everyone in its path. Soon Cam, Pinball, Neon, and Beez Neez cook up a crazy scheme to stop the monstrous, munching menace—blow it away it by pumping up the jams.
You’ve got to love Any film that starts with a snake falling out of a plane directly onto a car driving through Compton… Yes, Snake Outta Compton literally sees Snakes On A Plane...
- 2/1/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Christian Oliver, Les Brandt, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ernie Reyes Jr., Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Kaiwi Lyman, West Liang, Tara Macken, Antoinette Kalaj, Alvin Hsing, Bryan Cartago, Mark Heidelberger | Written by Ashley Scott Meyers | Directed by Lloyd Lee Barnett
Not to be confused with the Don Wong starring, badly dubbed, poorly edited film of the same name – which I distinctly remember hiring from my local video shop – Ninja Apocalypse is set years after the great war, and the titular apocalypse, where humanity has become divided into separate clans of ninjas. Clans, which besides having your usual ninja-like martial arts skills, are also blessed with strange supernatural powers: some of which look like they stepped straight out of a video game – you know the type, the typical fireballs, lightning strikes and telekinesis.
Discovering a plot to attack their land, Grandmaster Fumitaka calls on the clans under his control to a meeting deep...
Not to be confused with the Don Wong starring, badly dubbed, poorly edited film of the same name – which I distinctly remember hiring from my local video shop – Ninja Apocalypse is set years after the great war, and the titular apocalypse, where humanity has become divided into separate clans of ninjas. Clans, which besides having your usual ninja-like martial arts skills, are also blessed with strange supernatural powers: some of which look like they stepped straight out of a video game – you know the type, the typical fireballs, lightning strikes and telekinesis.
Discovering a plot to attack their land, Grandmaster Fumitaka calls on the clans under his control to a meeting deep...
- 9/14/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Man Overboard
Starring Matthew Kaminsky, Mel Fair, Floyd Van Buskirk, and Jeffry Stein
Directed by Oliver Robins
Not Rated
Man Overboard is a comedy seemingly about a lot of things – family, business, money, friends, and questioning all of them – but ultimately, when you step away from the film, it’s one idea that sticks with you: There’s a reward in doing the right thing when the wrong thing might be the easier option.
It is a comedy with a moral, and sometimes those movies fall on their faces. A comedy is supposed to make you laugh, first and foremost, and if it fails to do that, it doesn’t much matter what else the movie has going for it.
Where a lot of movies in this genre make their biggest mistake is in focusing on just the jokes. When these jokes can’t be strung together by substance, not...
Starring Matthew Kaminsky, Mel Fair, Floyd Van Buskirk, and Jeffry Stein
Directed by Oliver Robins
Not Rated
Man Overboard is a comedy seemingly about a lot of things – family, business, money, friends, and questioning all of them – but ultimately, when you step away from the film, it’s one idea that sticks with you: There’s a reward in doing the right thing when the wrong thing might be the easier option.
It is a comedy with a moral, and sometimes those movies fall on their faces. A comedy is supposed to make you laugh, first and foremost, and if it fails to do that, it doesn’t much matter what else the movie has going for it.
Where a lot of movies in this genre make their biggest mistake is in focusing on just the jokes. When these jokes can’t be strung together by substance, not...
- 7/3/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
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