Filmmaker and former editor of the Ask The Filmmaker Column for Digital Filmmaker Magazine, Emma Dark has taken some time out during this lockdown period to answer some current filmmaking and production questions! Of course this being lockdown, Emma hasnt typed up wording or launched it in a magazine. She has taken the time to…
The first season of the new 8-episode series DisGraced, which fixes on the sexism and double standard of Hollywood, has been released online! Grace Greene is clawing her way back to the middle. Five years after her big break turned out to be a big flop, a struggling actress asks herself how much humiliation she’s…
Beverly, an short film is now available for you to watch for free on YouTube I first started hearing about the film a few years ago and kept up to date with its journey ever since and now you can check it out. The film explores British identity through the perspective of a mixed race…
Acclaimed actor Dylan Baker (“Hunters”, “The Good Wife”, Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” films) stars in 2020’s most thrilling short film Nightfire – premiering in your lounge room today! Two American agents (Lorenzo Pisoni and Greg Hadley) are hired to retrieve military chips containing a large sum of government money. Their plan goes awry when an unexpected political prisoner…
What is it like to hit rock bottom? Those who have hit rock bottom in life know the answer to that, and those that havent, might think they know the answer- but do they truly understand what its like to reach the bottom of the barrel, to have the belief that this is the end…
PURGATORIC is an experimental art film from award-winning filmmaker Emma Dark (Salient Minus Ten, Seize the Night). Shot digitally it has been affected in post production to give it a Super 8mm look and feel. The film explores themes of death, sadness, uncertainty, and ultimately hope. PURGATORIC stars cult film and arts icon Billy Chainsaw (Strippers vs Werewolves, Cry Wolf), with music…
“Short Subjects” first release goes live on Friday 6th October with Damon Rickard’s gripping thriller THE PACKAGE, followed on 20th October by psychological horror DISSOCIATIVE from the same director. Both films will be available to stream and download via Amazon Video, and Amazon Prime members get to watch the films absolutely free! Chris had…
This weekend I sat down and watched a wonderful short film. How To Be Human, and here are my thoughts. The world is a mess, and in this wonderful short film ‘How To Be Human’ we dont learn why, but we dont need to learn why.. We are given a snapshot into an unpleasant world that…
If you are a movie fan and arent familiar with the name Peter Mullan, then you just arent familiar with his name, but you will be familiar with the man himself. With a filmography that any actor would kill for, Peter Mullan is right up there as one of my favourite character actors around. With…
We’ve all waited for ‘the one’. The one who catches our eye, the one who keeps our interest, the one who won’t expect us to trudge down that conventional path. Annie Waits tells the story of lust and disappointment, as a twenty-something waits for her adult life to begin. The vignette stars Andrew Simpson (Notes…
Directed by Phil Whitehead, ‘Impulsive’ is a wonderful short film that I had the pleasure of watching a day or so ago. Running only 11 minutes, Im always so impressed with the majority of short films, not only because they manage to tell a story in a running time just over a couple of music…
SEIZE THE NIGHT has been one of the most talked about short films on the independent horror scene over the past year. In its time on the festival circuit the film has won creator Emma Dark an MMBF Rising Star award at Ireland’s The Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival, garnered favourable reviews from a multitude…
Filmmaker Emma Dark announces release date for SEIZE THE NIGHT British independent filmmaker EMMA DARK has announced the highly anticipated online release date for her sensational horror/action short film SEIZE THE NIGHT Emma Dark’s self-produced and directed short film SEIZE THE NIGHT has been one of the most talked about films on the independent horror…
Over the past couple of years, I have made time to watch more short films than I ever used to. Short films arent as easy to find as feature films. They dont get the same amount of ‘press’ or coverage as the Hollywood blockbuster films, they are shot on a far lower budget than most…
When five friends head off into a forest for a day of drinking and escapism, you just know by the title Twisted Part 1 that things arent going to be a brilliant day out for the group. Twisted Part 1 was first hatched in 2010 with the script and has finally seen the light of day…
