What do docs The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and Mad Hat Ballroom have in common? Both films received their world premiere in Park City, but not at Redford's festival but the other main street venue the hosts Slamdance. If I'm on target with my predictions, we'll be seeing the filmmakers of these docs, Seth Gordon (as a producer) and Marilyn Agrelo in Park City once again, but with Sundance credentials. - What do docs The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and Mad Hat Ballroom have in common? Both films received their world premiere in Park City, but not at Redford's festival but the other main street venue the hosts Slamdance. If I'm on target with my predictions, we'll be seeing the filmmakers of these docs, Seth Gordon (as a producer) and Marilyn Agrelo in Park City once again, but with Sundance credentials. An Invisible Sign of My Own...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
Concluding our interviews with the filmmakers behind three upcoming horror films being co-produced by Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix and Mpi Media Group (start tracking back through the previous stories here), we now come to Bitter Feast and writer/director Joe Maggio. Although Maggio, unlike his Glass Eye stablemates, is a newcomer to horror, he’s an established indie filmmaker with the well-received Virgil Bliss, Milk And Honey and Paper Covers Rock to his credit, “and I’m very excited to be working with Larry and Glass Eye,” he tells Fango.
Bitter Feast will be the first of the Glass Eye/Mpi trio to go before the cameras; shooting begins late this month, and Maggio explains the storyline: “James LeGros [from Phantasm II and Fessenden’s The Last Winter] plays a mad chef who kidnaps a food blogger whom he believes has torpedoed his career. The blogger is played by Joshua Leonard, who you may know from The Blair Witch Project...
Bitter Feast will be the first of the Glass Eye/Mpi trio to go before the cameras; shooting begins late this month, and Maggio explains the storyline: “James LeGros [from Phantasm II and Fessenden’s The Last Winter] plays a mad chef who kidnaps a food blogger whom he believes has torpedoed his career. The blogger is played by Joshua Leonard, who you may know from The Blair Witch Project...
- 6/18/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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