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Hey Canada! Vengeance de los Muertos is playing this Saturday (5/25) in a short film programme as part of the 8th annual Montreal Underground Film Festival. This is a CANADIAN PREMIERE.

tickets are $5

6pm
Peut-Être Vintage
6029a Ave du Parc, Montréal QC
Canada

I’m happy to announce, my short Vengeance de los Muertos has won the Independent Spirit Award for shorts at this years Fantastic Planet Int’l Film Festival in Sydney, NSW Australia. I had a great time at the festival and wanted to thank everyone involved.

@fpfilmfestival Independent Spirit Award short film 2013 Vengeance De Los Muertos @teadub Steven C Wallace Fantastic Planet Film Festival

— shane k (@_shane_k) April 22, 2013

Vengeance de los Muertos is screening its AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE tonight at 7pm at the Fantastic Planet / A Night of Horror International Film Festival. Its playing in Dendy Newtown, NSW (Sydney) in front of another great film, The Mansion. I will be in attendance. Come out and say hello!

Vengeance de los Muertos is going to be screening at midnight along with the cult classic SAMURAI COP on March 30th, 2013 at the 15th annual Boston Underground Film Festival. I’ll be there. Tickets are $10.

(ticket purchase link below)

https://www.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?w=ddc492dcd92aced8f1986b7da52a688e&t=tix

I’m happy to announce, my new short film ‘VENGEANCE de los MUERTOS’ will be premiering at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival ( SF Indiefest ) on 2/16 @ midnight. I’ll be opening up for Manborg, a Canadian sci-fi film that premiered at last years Fantastic Fest in Austin. I’ll be in attendance for this event as well as some SF Indiefest parties. I’m really looking forward to this, if you’re in the neighborhood swing by and say “hi”. I’d love to see ya.

Address:

Roxie Theatre
3117 16th Street
San Francisco, California 94110

Tickets are $10

This years Film Independent Forum 2012 (FIND Forum) opened with David O. Russell’s quirky love story, ” Silver Linings Playbook “. The film stars Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, Wedding Crashers, A-team) and Jennifer Lawrence (X-men, and the Hunger Games). Cooper is a recently released patient from a mental facility where he was serving a 10 month stay on a plea bargain for assaulting a colleague after catching he and his wife engaged in scandal. Determined to win her back he enlists the help of his best friend’s wife’s sister, played by Lawrence. She agrees help out in order to get closer to Cooper. Both stars play semi unbalanced characters very convincingly and the direction is top notch. Robert De Niro and Chris Tucker both play supporting roles adding a nice comedic touch. I can honestly say: I’m not really into romantic comedies, but if you see one this holiday season; make it Silver Linings Playbook. It’s scheduled to be released November 21st 2012.

Voodoo Swing’s music video for their song Westcoast Boogie is playing tonight as an official selection at CURTA8 Festival Internacional de Cinema Super 8 de Curitiba in Brazil.

For more info, check http://www.curta8.com.br/

The super 8mm music promo I shot for Voodoo Swing’s album ” Keep on Rollin’ ” is an official selection at the 11th annual Super 8mm Fesztivál in Szeged, Hungary.

Earlier today I attended one of the Short Film Corner SFC Breakfast sessions. For those who have a film in the Short Film Corner, you are registered on a number mailers detailing various activities going on throughout the festival. The Breakfast’s are a series of “speed dating” style meetings where filmmakers get to pitch their film’s to distributors, television aggregators and screening venues for 5 minutes in a free-for-all roundtable breakfast setting.

I thought it was a good event, and I have some promising leads for my new short once its released. To be successful, you not only need to have artistic vision, good story telling abilities and all that. You also need to be a solid business person (or work with one). I can’t stress the importance of meeting people face to face in an event like this over blind email submissions.

Some of the companies represented at my sessions were:

SHORT TV AND SHORT HD

L´AGENCE DU COURT MÉTRAGE

FESTIVAL DEL FILM LOCARNO

TV3 TELEVISIO DE CATALUNYA

DAZOO FILM AND MEDIA LTD

etc…

Below is a copy of the email I received informing me I’d been selected

from: sfcbreakfast
to: sfcbreakfast
date: Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:26 AM
subject: May 20th Breakfast Confirmation – Short Film Corner

Dear participant,

We are glad to inform you that you will be able to attend a Short Film Corner breakfast on Sunday, May 20th at 9 a.m.

This session will take place at the Terrasse du Festival (in the Palais des Festivals, Level 4). Please make sure to arrive on time.

Due to a very high number of requests, please note that:

- Only one person per request and per film will be accepted. If you have asked to attend with one or several collaborators, please choose only one person to represent your film.

- The breakfast time and date will not be subject to any change.

Looking forward to welcoming you in Cannes,

My new short, VENGEANCE de los MUERTOS is going to have a pre-screening later this month at the Short Film Corner, part of the Marché du Film at the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival.