Outfest’s holiday fundraiser “’Twas the Night Before Give-Mas” on Monday night featured appearances by prominent Lgbtqia+ leaders and creatives, including Wilson Cruz, Margaret Cho, Charlie Carver, Candis Cayne, Alexandra Billings and “Veneno” star Jedet.
The evening helped raise funds for Outfest initiatives, including OutSet, a joint collaboration with the Los Angeles LGBT Center that empowers queer youth to share stories through film; the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project, which documents Lgbtqia+ history and Outfest Fusion People of Color Festival celebrating queer filmmakers of color. The event was co-sponsored by Variety and hosted by the magazine’s senior culture and events editor Marc Malkin. It was produced by Kyle Shea, who also co-wrote and co-directed with Mav Viola.
The line-up also included remarks and performances by Steve Canals, Ian Harvie, Cheyenne Jackson, Gretchen Wylder, Nikki and Jill Goldstein, Nneka Onuorah, Jeremy Glazer, Ally Pankiw, Shakina Nayfack and Sherry Cola.
“It was...
The evening helped raise funds for Outfest initiatives, including OutSet, a joint collaboration with the Los Angeles LGBT Center that empowers queer youth to share stories through film; the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project, which documents Lgbtqia+ history and Outfest Fusion People of Color Festival celebrating queer filmmakers of color. The event was co-sponsored by Variety and hosted by the magazine’s senior culture and events editor Marc Malkin. It was produced by Kyle Shea, who also co-wrote and co-directed with Mav Viola.
The line-up also included remarks and performances by Steve Canals, Ian Harvie, Cheyenne Jackson, Gretchen Wylder, Nikki and Jill Goldstein, Nneka Onuorah, Jeremy Glazer, Ally Pankiw, Shakina Nayfack and Sherry Cola.
“It was...
- 12/1/2020
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- Variety Film + TV
Retrofit Films is entering the shortform interactive content game with the first-ever minutelong Lgbtq Instagram soap series Hidden Canyons from creator Brant Rotnem. Co-directed by Fawzia Mirza (CBS’s The Red Line), the first season consists of 26 episodes that are a minute or less and follows seven friends as they navigate the relationships and challenges of Lgbtq life in the titular fictional city of Hidden Canyons. The first nine episodes will debut on the social media platform on May 17 at 5 p.m. Pt/8 p.m. Et. The remaining episodes air Wednesdays and Sundays through early August.
“We often see reductive depictions of the Lgbtq+ world in media,” said Rotnem. “I wanted to tell stories that speak to the nuances we don’t get to see. For instance, what is the community’s relationship to materialism and success? Should we structure romantic relationships like straight couples, or redefine them in our own way?...
“We often see reductive depictions of the Lgbtq+ world in media,” said Rotnem. “I wanted to tell stories that speak to the nuances we don’t get to see. For instance, what is the community’s relationship to materialism and success? Should we structure romantic relationships like straight couples, or redefine them in our own way?...
- 5/15/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson, Micah Hauptman, Daniel R. Hill, Sean O’Bryan, Jeremy Glazer | Written by Julie Lipson, Stu Pollard | Directed by Jen McGowan
Rising British star Hermione Corfield takes the lead in Rust Creek, an engaging low budget survival thriller that starts out like a Wrong Turn knock-off but becomes something more substantial instead.
Directed by Jen McGowan, Rust Creek centres on Kentucky college student Sawyer Scott (Corfield), who impulsively decides to skip Thanksgiving with her family and drive to Washington D.C. for a job interview. However, her Gps strands her in the frozen backwoods, where she has an encounter with scuzzy meth-dealers Hollister (Micah Hauptman) and Buck (Daniel R. Hill) that leaves her injured and fleeing for her life.
After collapsing, Sawyer is rescued by meth cook Lowell (Jay Paulson) and hides out in his trailer, though she’s not entirely sure she can trust him.
Rising British star Hermione Corfield takes the lead in Rust Creek, an engaging low budget survival thriller that starts out like a Wrong Turn knock-off but becomes something more substantial instead.
Directed by Jen McGowan, Rust Creek centres on Kentucky college student Sawyer Scott (Corfield), who impulsively decides to skip Thanksgiving with her family and drive to Washington D.C. for a job interview. However, her Gps strands her in the frozen backwoods, where she has an encounter with scuzzy meth-dealers Hollister (Micah Hauptman) and Buck (Daniel R. Hill) that leaves her injured and fleeing for her life.
After collapsing, Sawyer is rescued by meth cook Lowell (Jay Paulson) and hides out in his trailer, though she’s not entirely sure she can trust him.
- 3/15/2019
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
It’s hard to choose a single moment that best exemplifies the hard-edged feminist lens at work in director Jen McGowan’s chilling “Rust Creek,” but the image of the teenage Sawyer (Hermione Corfield) gruffly ripping off her acrylic nails to scale a ditch is a top contender. It’s a move that might be perceived as funny in a more commercial genre film, but is entirely believable in McGowan’s understated and plausible nightmare — making it all the more chilling.
Intimate in scope to its great advantage, “Rust Creek” begins and ends with Sawyer’s journey, with a stable of male friends and foes providing color and intrigue. When she receives word of a job interview in Washington D.C., the soon-to-be college graduate hops in her red SUV and hits the road. Following her navigation app, Sawyer turns off the highway to avoid traffic, and quickly finds herself...
Intimate in scope to its great advantage, “Rust Creek” begins and ends with Sawyer’s journey, with a stable of male friends and foes providing color and intrigue. When she receives word of a job interview in Washington D.C., the soon-to-be college graduate hops in her red SUV and hits the road. Following her navigation app, Sawyer turns off the highway to avoid traffic, and quickly finds herself...
- 1/17/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Typical to the start of a new year, specialty newcomers are rather few this weekend. Holiday and awards holdovers are still at center stage, while the Sundance Film Festival looms toward the end of the month. This weekend, Katherine Waterston, Michiel Huisman, Michael Shannon and Luke Evans star in Tribeca premiere State Like Sleep, opening Friday day-and-date via the Orchard. The film is the second narrative feature by Meredith Danluck. Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson and Micah Hauptman star in IFC Midnight’s thriller Rust Creek by Jen McGowan, which also will roll out day-and-date. And Well Go USA is releasing Chinese action title Mojin: The Worm Valley, the follow-up to Mojin: The Lost Legend, which the company released stateside in 2015.
State Like Sleep
Director-writer: Meredith Danluck
Cast: Katherine Waterston, Michiel Huisman, Michael Shannon, Luke Evans
Distributor: The Orchard
State Like Sleep debuted at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where...
State Like Sleep
Director-writer: Meredith Danluck
Cast: Katherine Waterston, Michiel Huisman, Michael Shannon, Luke Evans
Distributor: The Orchard
State Like Sleep debuted at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where...
- 1/4/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Too often, filmmakers forget that less can be more. Luckily, the creative forces behind Rust Creek, a new thriller hitting theaters, they know this. Within the first ten minutes, the action and story are already set into motion. Independent cinema like this is always preferable to overly pretentious fare. This flick just wants to tell a lean, mean, and razor sharp story. Without question, they do. This is a really solid film that only pauses to breathe once a breath needs to be taken. It suggests a real strong future for the filmmakers and especially for its star, who is a real find. As mentioned above, the movie gets down to it rather quickly. Sawyer Scott (Hermione Corfield) is a college student with a plum job interview scheduled in Washington D.C. in a few days. En route, she winds up getting horribly lost in the maze-like Kentucky forest. One...
- 1/4/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
When Sawyer Scott (Hermoine Corfield) receives the call she’s been waiting for, she can’t help but smile. It’s the first step towards a post-collegiate future with a job in Washington DC all but secured — the tiniest bit of uncertainty preventing her from telling her folks why she won’t be home for Thanksgiving despite high spirits. She packs her SUV, activates her phone’s Gps, and sets off east with an impromptu detour through the backwoods of Kentucky courtesy of a traffic jam on the highway. The computerized voice sends her to a dead-end that barely looks like it ever was a road and then to a bridge she’s unsure will support the weight of her car. Maybe switching to analog (a paper map) will get her back on track.
Unfortunately for Sawyer, Rust Creek isn’t the type of place to help unsuspecting travelers escape.
Unfortunately for Sawyer, Rust Creek isn’t the type of place to help unsuspecting travelers escape.
- 1/2/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
"If they find you here, they'll kill ya." IFC Midnight has released a trailer for Rust Creek, an indie survival thriller from filmmaker Jen McGowan which premiered at the Bentonville Film Festival earlier this year. The film is about an "ambitious, overachieving college senior" who is heading to a job interview, but makes a wrong turn and ends up stranded deep in the frozen Kentucky woods. She is forced into an uneasy alliance with an strange loner with "shadowy intentions", while trying to survive and find her way back home safely. The cast includes Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson, Micah Hauptman, Sean O'Bryan, Daniel R. Hill, John Marshall Jones, and Jeremy Glazer. This looks very much like a Kentucky woods thriller, exactly as it sounds, with some twists & turns to go along with the survival. Not sure if it's any good though. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Jen McGowan's Rust Creek,...
- 11/28/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
IFC Midnight has acquired U.S. rights to Rust Creek, a thriller directed by Jen McGowan, penned by Julie Lipson and starring Hermione Corfield. The label plans for a January theatrical release.
Corfield, in her first leading role, plays Sawyer, an ambitious, overachieving college senior with a seemingly bright future. While on her way to a job interview, a wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the frozen Kentucky woods, where she’s punished by the elements and pursued by a band of ruthless outlaws. She is forced into an uneasy alliance with an enigmatic loner (Jay Paulson) with shadowy intentions to escape alive. Sean O’Bryan, John Marshall Jones, Micah Hauptman, Daniel R. Hill and Jeremy Glazer co-star.
The story comes from Lunacy Productions’ Stu Pollard, who also produced. McGowan’s debut feature, 2014’s Kelly & Cal, was also released by IFC.
Corfield, in her first leading role, plays Sawyer, an ambitious, overachieving college senior with a seemingly bright future. While on her way to a job interview, a wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the frozen Kentucky woods, where she’s punished by the elements and pursued by a band of ruthless outlaws. She is forced into an uneasy alliance with an enigmatic loner (Jay Paulson) with shadowy intentions to escape alive. Sean O’Bryan, John Marshall Jones, Micah Hauptman, Daniel R. Hill and Jeremy Glazer co-star.
The story comes from Lunacy Productions’ Stu Pollard, who also produced. McGowan’s debut feature, 2014’s Kelly & Cal, was also released by IFC.
- 9/20/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
IFC Midnight has acquired the U.S. rights to the thriller “Rust Creek,” starring British actress Hermione Corfield in her first leading role.
Jen McGowan directed from a script by Julie Lipson, based on a story by Lunacy Productions’ Stu Pollard, who also produced the thriller.
“Rust Creek” stars Jay Paulson, Sean O’Bryan, John Marshall Jones, Micah Hauptman, Daniel R. Hill, and Jeremy Glazer. IFC Midnight is planning a January theatrical release.
Corfield, whose credits include “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” plays an ambitious, overachieving college senior with a seemingly bright future. While on her way to a job interview, a wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the frozen Kentucky woods, where she’s punished by the elements and pursued by a band of ruthless outlaws. With nowhere left to run, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with Paulson’s enigmatic loner.
In accordance with Lunacy Productions’ mandate to support female filmmakers,...
Jen McGowan directed from a script by Julie Lipson, based on a story by Lunacy Productions’ Stu Pollard, who also produced the thriller.
“Rust Creek” stars Jay Paulson, Sean O’Bryan, John Marshall Jones, Micah Hauptman, Daniel R. Hill, and Jeremy Glazer. IFC Midnight is planning a January theatrical release.
Corfield, whose credits include “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” plays an ambitious, overachieving college senior with a seemingly bright future. While on her way to a job interview, a wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the frozen Kentucky woods, where she’s punished by the elements and pursued by a band of ruthless outlaws. With nowhere left to run, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with Paulson’s enigmatic loner.
In accordance with Lunacy Productions’ mandate to support female filmmakers,...
- 9/20/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Hungry? Here are a few TV snacks to satisfy your midnight craving.
- Shelley Long is returning to "Modern Family" as the ex-wife of Ed O'Neill's Jay Pritchett. "We have a very funny story for her," says Ep Steve Levitan in a new interview, hinting that the tension between Jay and his ex will mount now that Gloria is pregnant. [TV Guide]
- Casey Wilson has a new TV project in the works. Don't worry -- she's not leaving "Happy Endings," but she and Bff/writing partner June Diane Raphael and producer Will Gluck have sold a sitcom to ABC about housewives in the 1950s. Raphael is in talks to star. [Deadline]
- "Days of Our Lives" Emmy winner Tamara Braun will guest-star on the fifth episode of "Castle" Season 5 as a city councilwoman/bar owner who was seen with a murder victim in the Hamptons. [THR]
- Zoe Hart is getting some...
- Shelley Long is returning to "Modern Family" as the ex-wife of Ed O'Neill's Jay Pritchett. "We have a very funny story for her," says Ep Steve Levitan in a new interview, hinting that the tension between Jay and his ex will mount now that Gloria is pregnant. [TV Guide]
- Casey Wilson has a new TV project in the works. Don't worry -- she's not leaving "Happy Endings," but she and Bff/writing partner June Diane Raphael and producer Will Gluck have sold a sitcom to ABC about housewives in the 1950s. Raphael is in talks to star. [Deadline]
- "Days of Our Lives" Emmy winner Tamara Braun will guest-star on the fifth episode of "Castle" Season 5 as a city councilwoman/bar owner who was seen with a murder victim in the Hamptons. [THR]
- Zoe Hart is getting some...
- 8/31/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Mary Alice: "There is nothing more peaceful than sounds of Wisteria Lane at night...murmur of neighbour's television...hum of the street lamps...song of the nightbirds. Wisteria Lane is so peaceful that even the slightest disturbance can be very alarming." Bree (Marcia Cross) hears a noise and gets her gun, to find Vance (Jonathan Cake) in her home, claiming the front door was open and he got her call on the radio. Yeah he got here Pdq, which Bree didn't notice. She's certain she locked the door. But Vance tells her it's funny the things you recall and don't recall. He calls Bree a Vic and knows she's hiding something. She doesn't feel safe but he's watching out for her. Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) "There is nothing more peaceful than the sounds of Wisteria Lane at night, until someone comes along and disturbs the peace." Vance doesn't want...
- 2/29/2012
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
A girl staggers through the hall with a wound to the back of her head and drops dead. The other pupils can only stand around, stare and take photos on their phones. Got my killer straight off, after she was interviewed, it was too easy: jealously, the girl scorned, made fun of, the boy never noticing her. It's been done before. Flack: (Eddie Cahill) "The digital grapevine is in full effect." They even snap photos of Jo (Sela Ward) and Mac (Gary Sinise) arriving. The Vic was Olivia (Cassandra Jean) valedictorian of her senior class. Flack wants the student body cleared from the crime scene. Would've thought they'd have done that as soon as they arrived. Those students were just making a spectacle of the Vic. Imagine going to school with that shallow lot, though most teens usually are, but not everyone. Jo comments on how most of the rich...
- 5/4/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
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Cold Case - Episode 6.18 - Mind Games - Press Release
Newly discovered notes of a currently homeless and delusional paranoid schizophrenic lead the team to investigate if he killed his psychiatrist in 2004, on "cold case," sunday, march 22
Songs Recorded by the Legendary John Lennon Are Featured Exclusively throughout the Episode
Billy Lush ("The Black Donnellys") and Jacqueline Obradors ("NYPD Blue") Guest Star as the Paranoid Schizoprenic and His Slain Psychiatrist
"Mind Games" - The team tries to determine if a homeless and severely delusional paranoid schizophrenic killed his former psychiatrist by arson in 2004 - before dropping out of college and fully losing his grip of reality, on Cold Case, Sunday, March 22 (9:00-10:00 Pm, Et/Pt) on the CBS Television Network.
John Lennon hits will be the only songs featured throughout the episode.
Series Regulars:
Lilly Rush................................. Kathryn Morris
Scotty Valens................................. Danny Pino
Lt.
Cold Case - Episode 6.18 - Mind Games - Press Release
Newly discovered notes of a currently homeless and delusional paranoid schizophrenic lead the team to investigate if he killed his psychiatrist in 2004, on "cold case," sunday, march 22
Songs Recorded by the Legendary John Lennon Are Featured Exclusively throughout the Episode
Billy Lush ("The Black Donnellys") and Jacqueline Obradors ("NYPD Blue") Guest Star as the Paranoid Schizoprenic and His Slain Psychiatrist
"Mind Games" - The team tries to determine if a homeless and severely delusional paranoid schizophrenic killed his former psychiatrist by arson in 2004 - before dropping out of college and fully losing his grip of reality, on Cold Case, Sunday, March 22 (9:00-10:00 Pm, Et/Pt) on the CBS Television Network.
John Lennon hits will be the only songs featured throughout the episode.
Series Regulars:
Lilly Rush................................. Kathryn Morris
Scotty Valens................................. Danny Pino
Lt.
- 2/21/2009
- Ausxip.com
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