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Ken Kirby (Good Trouble) and Michelle Krusiec are set to star in the supernatural thriller The Uncanny from Abel Vang and Burlee Vang, writes Deadline.

The feature, which is a follow up to the Vang Brothers’ 2016 feature Bedeviled (pictured), will be produced by Carr Lee and Stephen Stanley and also feature Ellen Wroe (Final Destination 5).ADVERTISING

The story follows social worker Claire Yang, who has been haunted for years by visions that she is only just beginning to understand as a connection to the spirit world. When she is assigned a new domestic abuse case, she discovers that the problem is being caused by a supernatural entity and must use her clairvoyance to help save the family.

“The spiritual medium, often a female, is a horror archetype that has appeared in almost every film where a family is faced with a supernatural haunting and she usually enters the story in the third act to save that hopeless family,” said the Vang brothers in a joint statement. “It is never about her story – she is simply reduced to a plot device. In our film, we’re re-inventing this character as if we’re telling an origin story. We explore her backstory, and all the barriers she must struggle through in order for her to find her place in the world.”

It is slated to shoot in Los Angeles and Orange County.

Newcomer Trey Tucker Joins Scott Eastwood, Orlando Bloom in ‘Outpost’ (Exclusive)

The up-and-comer also nabbed a lead role opposite Mena Suvari in indie thriller ‘Viscous.’  See full article here.

Up-and-coming actor Trey Tucker has nabbed back-to-back roles, one a lead, another a key supporting part.

Tucker, who appeared in The Space Between Us, is starring opposite Mena Suvari in Viscous, a dramatic thriller indie from writer-director Braden R. Duemmler.

The story tells of the co-dependent and imperfect love between a mother (Suvari) and her daughter, which is tested when the “perfect” man, played by Tucker, enters their lives.

Abel Vang, Kristina Esposito and Stephen Stanley are producing.

Tucker is also shooting The Outpost, a military action movie from Millennium that tells the true story of a team of U.S. soldiers that faced an army of hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Tucker will play a member of the team.

The movie also stars Scott Eastwood, Orlando Bloom and Cory Hardrict and is directed by Rod Lurie (The Contender). Marc Frydman and Paul Tamasy are producing.

Tucker made his feature debut with The Space Between Us, the sci-fi drama that starred Asa Butterfield and Gary Oldman. He also co-starred in indie The Matchmaker’s Playbook.

He is repped by APA and Douglas Management Group.

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The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) has announced the award winners for its 21^st celebration of the SCAD Savannah Film Festival.

The honors were revealed during an awards brunch held at local restaurant The Olde Pink House. A key stop on the Oscar festival circuit, this year’s SCAD Savannah Film Festival screened a total of 164 films, including 33 narrative films, 16 documentary films and 115 shorts, more than any year before.

Twenty-seven awards were announced from the 105 films that competed in the categories of narrative features, documentary features, professional shorts, animated shorts, and student shorts selections.

PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION

• Best Narrative Feature – Tomorrow
• Best Documentary Feature – The Human Element
• Best Narrative Short – Geoff
• Best Directing – Will Kenning & Michael Rouse – Geoff
• Best Editing – Hold The Night
• Jury Award for Acting – Skyler Samuels – Spare Room
• Jury Award for Screenwriting – One Cambodian Family Please For My Pleasure
• Jury Award, Unheard Voices – Facing The Dragon

STUDENT & ANIMATION

• Best Animated Short – Grands Canons
• Animation Jury Award – The Likes and Dislikes of Marj Bagley
• Best Student Short – Blue Christmas
• Best Student Animation – Creature From The Lake
• Silver Screen Society – Best Short Film by a SCAD Student – $30 To Antarctica
• Student Jury Award – Cinematographer

GLOBAL SHORTS FORUM

• Best Global Short Overall – Period. End of Sentence.
• Best Global Short: Narrative – Believe Her
• Best Global Short: Documentary – Period. End of Sentence.
• Best Global Short: LGBTQ & You – Conway Pride
• Best Global Short: Woman Walks Ahead – Period. End of Sentence.
• Best Global Short: Don’t Dis My Ability – Take Me To The Waves
• Best Global Short: A Sporting Chance – The Conqueror
• Global Shorts: Jury Award – Boy Saint
• Global Shorts Jury Award – Marie’s Crisis

SHORTS SPOTLIGHT

• Shorts Spotlight: Best of Show – My Indiana Muse
• Shorts Spotlight: Best Animated Delight – One Small Step
• Shorts Spotlight: Best LOLz Short – Bertie
• Shorts Spotlight: Best Bump in the Night Short – Other Side of the Box

Professional jury members were Laura Berwick (Berwick & Kovacik), Kevin Fallon (The Daily Beast), Amy Kaufman (LA Times), Bill Keith (Entertainment Weekly), Richard Lawson (Vanity Fair), Elise Pearlstein (Participant Media), David Westhead (actor/produce) and Alison Willmore (Buzzfeed).

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Breaking Glass Pictures today announced the acquisition of Outfest hit THE REVIVAL from first-time director Jennifer Gerber, writer Samuel Brett Williams, and producer Sophie Finkelstein.

Based on Williams’ 2010 hit play, THE REVIVAL is a treacherous love story between a closeted preacher and a handsome drifter who shows up at his church.

When Eli (Rysdahl) begins preaching at his father’s old church, he is desperate to open the minds of the fire-and-brimstone congregation. His plans are quickly derailed when he strikes up a relationship with fascinating drifter Daniel (Booth). Tensions soon come to a head, with simmering resentments and repressed emotions all leading to a revival that will shake this sleepy Arkansas town to its core.

After THE REVIVAL’s stage run in 2010, The Advocate declared “if there is a God, [The Revival] will be made into a movie!” Zachary Booth (KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, DAMAGES) and David Rysdahl (DEAD PIGS, BULL) give electric performances as their undeniable attraction endangers them both in the face of religion. The two were awarded a Special Mention by the jury at NewFest for their “outstanding performances” and The Hollywood Reporter called them “riveting”. Ira Sachs (LITTLE MEN, LOVE IS STRANGE) said “It came to me half way through that it was an Ingmar Bergman movie set in the Ozarks.” He also described the film as “true Southern Gothic”. Following the film’s sold out Outfest Premiere, The Hollywood Reporter wrote “Gerber deftly wrings suspense from source material that mixes, and sometimes swerves between, romance, satire and vigilante thriller.”

The film will have a Los Angeles theatrical release beginning January 19 at Laemmle Music Hall and a DVD/VOD release January 23rd on iTunes, Amazon Instant, Google Play, Vudu, Fandango, and through local cable and satellite providers. DVD Special Features will include director’s commentary, deleted scenes, and an alternate ending.

THE REVIVAL

Genre: Drama/LGBT

Running Time: 84 min.; Rating: NR; Language: English; Audio: Dolby 5.1

SRP: $24.99; UPC: 855184007280

Cast:

David Rysdahl

Zachary Booth

Raymond McAnally

Lucy Faust

Stephen Ellis

Director: Jennifer Gerber

Written by: Samuel Brett Williams

Producer: Sophie Finkelstein

Co-Producer: Stephen Stanley, Chris Laszlo

From PR Newswire

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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Danay Garcia (TV’s Fear the Walking Dead, Sniper: Ultimate Kill, TV’s Prison Break), Danny Trejo (Machete, TV’s Sons of Anarchy) and Golden Globe nominated actors Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, Young Guns) and Steven Bauer (TV’s Ray Donovan, Scarface) star in the gripping tale of blood for blood in the crime thriller AVENGE THE CROWS, launching on Blu-ray, DVD and digital Dec. 5.

Danay Garcia stars as Loca, a former gang member who now makes her money dealing drugs while protecting her cousin Cammy (Angelique Rivera) from the realities of life on the street. After Joker (Michael Flores) gets orders from prison-mate Casper (Phillips) about Loca and her drug-dealing partner Carlos (Emilio Rivera), he is released from prison and sets out to settle an old debt. Once attacked, Loca turns to rival gang leader Angel (Cesar Garcia) and local bar owner Tony (Trejo) to stop Joker and squash a potential war with a Mexican drug cartel. Former professional boxer Victor Ortiz has a cameo in the film as Loca’s slain husband Manny.

Synopsis
The pendulum of revenge is set in motion when an assassin named Joker is released from prison with orders from the Reyes Ricos prison gang to take down Loca, an ex-gang member who once ran the powerful Los Grajos crew before it was destroyed. Now Loca makes her living pushing drugs, and maintains a watchful eye on her young cousin, Cammy, the only family she has left. Although she is cunning and street smart, Loca doesn’t see Joker coming, and he attacks Cammy to lure her out of hiding. While launching her counterstrike, Loca gets tangled up with a rival crew, and then dragged to the brink of war with a Mexican drug cartel. As the pressure mounts she must make the hard choice between avenging the ones she’s lost and survival.

AVENGE THE CROWS was written and directed by Nathan Gabaeff and produced by Steven Gabaeff, Nathan Gabaeff, Stephen Stanley, Danay Garcia, Michael Flores, Trent Garrett, Robert Baek, Cindy Barger and Tereza Kacerova for Gabaeff Pictures. The film is being distributed by Gravitas Ventures. The film has a runtime of 96 minutes and is rated R for violence and sexual content.