Our secret ident for Arrow Video FrightFest this year is now online – #FFIDENT20 – FrightFest Opening Night of the Dawn of the 28th Day. Starring Andy Nyman, Emily Booth, Kim Newman, Jack Doolan, Adam Green & Joe Lynch.
It was screened before the UK premiere of Come to Daddy at FrightFest on Thursday 22nd August 2019.
The foul-mouthed, felt-mouthed little puppet is now available on iTunes in the US and Europe thanks to Shorts International! Connie is just a snip at only $2.99 or £1.99 respectively – so fill your stockings this festive season.
Connie has had an incredible journey since the shoot in May 2016, playing festivals globally, including awards qualifiers, scooping awards, receiving great reviews and entertaining audiences we could only have dreamed of. Sharing it with a whole new audience is something else, so we’re proud to be working with Shorts International.
You can buy it in the US here, and Europe here.
Since making its festival debut last August at Horror Channel FrightFest, Blood Shed has been selected for more than 30 festivals across the globe, winning 6 awards and garnering many more nominations. Our latest win in February was the Best International Short award at Nevermore Film Festival in North Carolina.
Blood Shed has been selected for two Oscar qualifying festivals in the USA. The first is Nashville Film Festival – one of the longest-running film festivals in the US and one of the most acclaimed in the South. Blood Shed screens with Found Footage 3D on 18th & 19th May. Nashville had nearly 5000 short film submissions this year, selecting just 215, and Blood Shed is competing as part of the Graveyard Shift competition.
The second qualifier is Seattle International Film Festival! It’s the largest and most highly-attended festival in the USA and the selection of films this year is not to be missed. Blood Shed screens on 26th May as part of the Terror Internationale block. Seattle have screened several of our previous films – Connie, Crazy For You and Severance.
We’ve agreed a licensing deal with Shorts International to broadcast Connie and Crazy For You on ShortsTV in North America, Europe and South Asia for five years from late 2018. Both films will also shortly be added to the ShortsTV online stores on Amazon (UK, USA and Germany) and iTunes (in over 80 countries) for purchase.
We’re excited to be working with Shorts International as ShortsTV is the world’s first 24/7 HD TV channel dedicated to shorts, and currently available to approximately 25 million homes worldwide. We’re thrilled that our short films will reach such a wide audience beyond the film festival circuit.
Launch date details coming soon.
Blood Shed had its World Premiere at Horror Channel Frightfest on 27th August and was a great success! It was a joy to see so many happy, shed-fancying, Kickstarter supporters at the screening at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square, London.
We were really moved by the support, and overjoyed at the laughs and cheers that filled the cinema screen. Thanks so much to all who attended.
Reviews
We’ve also had a flurry of great reviews following the screening! Here are a couple of links and extracts:
“A thirteen-minute slice of genius… enough gags and gore to put a smile on anyone’s face”
“Davies and her partner-in-cinematic-crime James Moran have a perfect handle on what makes an entertaining and memorable short.”
“a hilarious comic book-style throwback to the DIY gore of the Eighties”
“The result is a funny, gory throwback to an epoch when, supposedly, men were men, women were women, and outbuildings were flesh-hungry hellsheds.”
“…indebted to the CGI-free horror of the Eighties, and in particular to George A. Romero’s Creepshow (1982)… as though this were a lost British segment of Romero’s anthology film.”
“Loaded with laughs and gore to satisfy in this very niche sub-genre you never knew you needed.”
Upcoming Festivals
Blood Shed has been selected for the Wimbledon International Short Film Festival 2017, which takes place in October. We’re one of just fourteen shorts selected from across the globe. This is one of the UK’s top ten short film festivals (Metro), so we’re thrilled to be included, but we’re also nominated for the coveted Best London Filmmaker award, and also eligible for the Best Short Film and Audience awards.
And hot off the press, we’ve just heard the film has been selected for the Kerry Film Festival in Ireland, also in October. This is a long-running festival supported and endorsed by luminaries such as Paul Greengrass, Finola Dwyer, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson, Maureen O’Hara, John Moore and Mark Bomback. A great festival for our Irish Premiere!
We have more festival announcements coming up that we can’t reveal just yet, but all will be listed on the Blood Shed screenings page on the official website.
It looks like the shed will be very busy over the coming months – maybe she needs a secretary…
