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INFERIS (2024) – Film Festival Screenings Update

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INFERIS (2024) – a short psychological horror film!

Just a quick update to say I am really pleased the low budget film I wrote and produced did really well at various festivals throughout 2024. I’m still waiting for responses from a few more festivals, but here are some of the events it was screened at:

SCREENINGS

Raindance Film Festival, London – Open Shorts Night – June 2024 – https://raindance.org/festival-programme/open-shorts-night-presented-by-toofar-media/

International Gold Awards – Award Winner – 2024  https://filmfreeway.com/InternationalGoldAwards

Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival – Official Selection – October 2024 – https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/unrestricted-view-horror-film-festival-2024/

Terror-on-Tyne Horror Film Festival – Official Selection – October 2024 – https://www.terrorontyne.com/

Sci-Cine Sci-fi & Fantasy Film Festival – Official Selection – October 2024 – https://filmfreeway.com/SciCine

West London Film Festival – Official Selection – October 2024 – https://www.wlff.co.uk/

SamhainBaucogna International Film Festival, Tangiers – Official Selection – November 2024 – https://filmfestival.samhainbaucogna.com/

Spook Screen, Cork – Official Selection – December 2024 – https://www.facebook.com/spookscreen

Horror-On-Sea Festival, Southend-on-Sea – Official Selection – January 2025 – https://www.thewhitebus.co.uk/film-festivals/horror-on-sea

PITCH

“They make you work like hell!”

Inferis (2024) is an eerie, unsettling and psychological no budget short horror film. A mood piece relying on atmosphere, creative lighting and impactful sound design.

Recent prison leaver, Joseph Mann, begins a new job at Inferis Security. Hoping for a fresh start he finds himself drawn toward a mysterious door that leads to god knows where.

CAST & CREW

Director: Philip Wolff

Writer: Paul Laight

Producers: Paul Laight and Philip Wolff

Cast: Shaun Rivers and Julia Florimo

Cinematography: Toma Iaramboykov

Sound: Delbert Grady

Camera Assistant: Jackey Limbu

Lighting Assistant: Max Wronka

Editor and Post-Production: Gary O’Brien

Music: Premium Beat & Lord Oscillator

Watch INFERIS (2024) here:

© 2024 A Fix Films and 21st Century Wolff Production

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31st RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW – ACTORS-TURNED-DIRECTORS!

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31st RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW – ACTORS-TURNED-DIRECTORS!

As the Office Manager for the Raindance Film School, it is always exciting when the Raindance Film Festival is about to start. This year it runs from Wednesday 25 October 2023 to Saturday 4th November 2023 in Central London. All the amazing details can be found here: https://raindance.org/festival/

There are so many brilliant films to choose from, so it can be an impossibly difficult decision to narrow down one’s choice. If you have the time I recommend you buy a Festival Pass and go and watch everything. If you’re not fortunate enough to be able to do this you could thematically link your cinema choices.

I am always interested in following the careers of actors who become directors. The well-respected director, Dan Attias once said that,
“. . . the best training he had for directing was being an actor.” Indeed, there are many great actors who have become fine film directors, including: Clint Eastwood, Jordan Peele, Jodie Foster, George Clooney, Greta Gerwig, Denzel Washington and Ben Affleck. So, here are four brilliant actors-turned-directors who have films screening at the 31st Raindance Film Festival.

DAY OF THE FIGHT (2023)

The opening gala film is written directed by Jack Huston and promises to be an incendiary drama of power and redemption.

Opening Night Gala: Day of the Fight + Q&A SOLD OUT

EMBERS (2023)

Directed by Christian Cooke, this film is a controversial and gripping drama about incarceration and sexual rehabilitation.

Embers + Q&A

PARACHUTE (2023)

Pitch Perfect franchise actor, Brittany Snow, heads behind the camera with a gritty exploration of addiction and cathartic romance.

Parachute

WARHOL (2023)

Okay, the ultra-talented Adam Ethan Crow was not specifically an actor. Yet, he was certainly a prominent presence on the stand-up comedy scene, before turning his abundant skills to filmmaking. His latest film, Warhol, is a multi-stranded drama that connects various characters to powerful effect.

Warhol + Q&A

Paul Laight is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and blogger. In 2005, he formed Fix Films and has written and produced many shorts and other promos. Many of his films have been screened all over the world at various film festivals. Paul is currently working on feature and short film scripts for future productions. His work can be found here: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/FixFilmsLtd

https://thecinemafix.com/

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The 30th RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL!

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Raindance 30th Film Festival

Discover. Be Discovered.


Raindance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the UK. Holding the 30th festival in 2022, Raindance is based in the heart of London’s buzzing West End film district.

Raindance Film Festival is officially recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences USA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the British Independent Film Awards. Selected shorts will qualify for Oscar® and BAFTA considerations.

Festival Sections:
– World-renowned programme of the best UK and international independent films.
– House of Raindance – talks and panels at Genesis Cinema
– Raindance VRX programme for virtual reality and new media
Networking events
– Attracting 16,000 visitors including 500 industry professionals into London.

The 30th Raindance took place between October 26 – November 5 2022 in Central and East London. I attended many of the amazing events.

Opening Night Gala and Film – Corner Office (2022)

The opening night Gala at the Waldorf Hotel, was a fantastic event and Jonathan Pryce and Vanessa Redgrave deservedly received Raindance icon awards.

The opening gala was preceded by the opening film. Starring the cast-against-type, Jon Hamm, Corner Office (2022) is a fine surreal comedy. He portrays an office worker who finds a room in the office which no other worker can see. Is he crazy or the sanest person in the company? Joachim Back directs a stylish and offbeat indie cinema treat!

House of Raindance at Genesis Cinema

At the wonderful Genesis Cinema, near Stepney Green in East London, the Raindance Film Festival created the House of Raindance and Backyard cinema marquee full of fantastic industry events and screening. These included: panels with industry professionals from TooFar Media, Paus TV, and Celtx; masterclasses with filmmaking experts and retrospective screenings of classics such as Pulp Fiction (1994), Memento (2000) and Old Boy (2003).

Closing Party and Film – Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game (2022)

After watching over 15,000 feature and short film submissions, the Raindance programmers delivered an array of amazing cinematic works. Films screened from all over the world included: Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls (2022), Iguana (2022), Pantafa (2022), Karaoke (2022), Little Axel (2022), Swallow (2022), Razorlight: Fall to Pieces (2022); and many shorts programmes including Raindance Film School Student Showcase, Queer, Horror, Radical Agendas and Transient Venture strands.

Having opened with a brilliant film, Raindance 30th Film Festival closed with another entertaining one too. It was the romantic, heroic and comedic 1970s period film, Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game (2022). It’s the story of Roger Sharpe, the young midwesterner who overturned New York City’s 35 year-old ban on pinball machines. Influenced stylistically by Martin Scorsese, it is a niche but fascinating and bumping slice of American legal historia. Safe to say to the closing party at Genesis Cinema was flipping marvellous too.

See you next year at the 31st Raindance Film Festival!