A recent Underground Film Journal article titled “Web Series Or Movie: Which Should You Make?” inspired a lively and spirited discussion on Facebook between several independent filmmakers that explored their personal ideas on the future of digital distribution. The provocative back-and-forth has been reprinted below. (With all the filmmakers’ permission.)
The dialogue was particularly kicked off by Australian indie filmmaker Dominic Deacon (Only the Young Die Good, Burlesque) and also included filmmakers Nathan Wrann (Burning Inside, Hunting Season), Bob Moricz (Felony Flats, Bumps), Robin Franzi (Susan for Now), Michael Galinsky (Battle for Brooklyn, Horns and Halos) and Journal editor Mike Everleth.
(Filmmaker comments below have not been edited except for some extremely minor format/style changes and typos. Otherwise, these are their exact words.)
Dominic Deacon
“No filmmaker claims their feature-length film is only seven minutes and nobody is making 90 minute webisodes. But, why the hell not? Easy answer: Nobody...
The dialogue was particularly kicked off by Australian indie filmmaker Dominic Deacon (Only the Young Die Good, Burlesque) and also included filmmakers Nathan Wrann (Burning Inside, Hunting Season), Bob Moricz (Felony Flats, Bumps), Robin Franzi (Susan for Now), Michael Galinsky (Battle for Brooklyn, Horns and Halos) and Journal editor Mike Everleth.
(Filmmaker comments below have not been edited except for some extremely minor format/style changes and typos. Otherwise, these are their exact words.)
Dominic Deacon
“No filmmaker claims their feature-length film is only seven minutes and nobody is making 90 minute webisodes. But, why the hell not? Easy answer: Nobody...
- 1/28/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Publishing companies Dalton Gang Press and Bad Lit Press are proud to announce the co-release of Hunting Season: The Original Screenplay, the original shooting script written by Nathan Wrann that was produced as the hit indie horror movie in 2007. Both the screenplay and the feature-length film are available on Amazon.
The published screenplay includes the full shooting script, plus several additional scenes that didn’t make it into the finished film, including an alternate opening, and production notes by Wrann who directed the movie based on his own screenplay.
Hunting Season: The Original Screenplay follows a group of teenage friends who head out into the woods for a weekend of drinking and partying, but run afoul of a pair of vicious, sadistic hunters who attack the kids in an onslaught of raw, brutal violence.
Dalton Gang Press has previously published several successful novels, such as young adult paranormal...
The published screenplay includes the full shooting script, plus several additional scenes that didn’t make it into the finished film, including an alternate opening, and production notes by Wrann who directed the movie based on his own screenplay.
Hunting Season: The Original Screenplay follows a group of teenage friends who head out into the woods for a weekend of drinking and partying, but run afoul of a pair of vicious, sadistic hunters who attack the kids in an onslaught of raw, brutal violence.
Dalton Gang Press has previously published several successful novels, such as young adult paranormal...
- 9/29/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Genre indie filmmaker Nathan Wrann has written and released his first original novel, Dark Matter Heart. The book is being released through Wrann’s Dalton Gang Press, an offshoot of his film production company. You can purchase Dark Matter Heart in a variety of formats, including Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook and more. (Full list of formats below.)
Dark Matter Heart is a Young Adult Paranormal Thriller and is the first in a planned series of novels starring the character Cor Griffin, a teenage bloodsucker. The official description reads:
A new town. A new school. A new beginning. Seventeen year-old Cordell Griffin and his mother move from Los Angeles to the Pacific Northwest to deal with his “allergies,” and start a healthier new life. Cor has one goal: To blend in and be invisible. Unfortunately for him, no matter how far he goes, he can’t run away from his secrets.
Dark Matter Heart is a Young Adult Paranormal Thriller and is the first in a planned series of novels starring the character Cor Griffin, a teenage bloodsucker. The official description reads:
A new town. A new school. A new beginning. Seventeen year-old Cordell Griffin and his mother move from Los Angeles to the Pacific Northwest to deal with his “allergies,” and start a healthier new life. Cor has one goal: To blend in and be invisible. Unfortunately for him, no matter how far he goes, he can’t run away from his secrets.
- 6/8/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Musician William Beckett strikes a distraught pose in an exclusive photo from the upcoming adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale The Fall of the House of Usher. The film will be the acting debut for the frontman of the popular rock group The Academy Is… He’ll be starring as the film’s Narrator. (A larger version of the above photo can be seen below.)
Connecticut-based filmmaker Nathan Wrann is helming the adaptation, which is currently in pre-production through his company Dalton Gang Productions for a 2011 release. Promotional images and video were shot earlier this month by photographer J. Sibley Law in order to start developing the film’s visual feel. Some of these photos, which are signed by both Beckett and Wrann, are available for purchase on the film’s website.
After directing two contemporary-set films — the horror movie Hunting Season and the deconstructed revenge thriller Burning...
Connecticut-based filmmaker Nathan Wrann is helming the adaptation, which is currently in pre-production through his company Dalton Gang Productions for a 2011 release. Promotional images and video were shot earlier this month by photographer J. Sibley Law in order to start developing the film’s visual feel. Some of these photos, which are signed by both Beckett and Wrann, are available for purchase on the film’s website.
After directing two contemporary-set films — the horror movie Hunting Season and the deconstructed revenge thriller Burning...
- 9/22/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
We recently reported on film distributor Channel Midnight's first DVD release, the violent and visually striking horror film Burning Inside, and now comes the news that it's being made available as an app in the iTunes Store.
From the Press Release:
Channel Midnight Releasing continues its mission to distribute unique, uncompromising genre films by using new technology to bring filmmaker Nathan Wrann's Burning Inside to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad via an app developed by Stonehenge Productions containing the Burning Inside feature film and a number of links and special features.
"We were excited to work with Channel Midnight to develop the Burning Inside app," said Mark Smillie, founder of Stonehenge Productions. "The app offers access to a new distribution channel and allows fans to engage their friends through social media and share their experiences and comments on the film. We believe this will ultimately help spread the...
From the Press Release:
Channel Midnight Releasing continues its mission to distribute unique, uncompromising genre films by using new technology to bring filmmaker Nathan Wrann's Burning Inside to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad via an app developed by Stonehenge Productions containing the Burning Inside feature film and a number of links and special features.
"We were excited to work with Channel Midnight to develop the Burning Inside app," said Mark Smillie, founder of Stonehenge Productions. "The app offers access to a new distribution channel and allows fans to engage their friends through social media and share their experiences and comments on the film. We believe this will ultimately help spread the...
- 6/16/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Film distributor Channel Midnight has announced its first DVD release, the violent and visually striking horror film Burning Inside.
Synopsis:
Burning Inside is an intense, surreal, and violent exploration of the entangled nature of revenge and memory from Nathan Wrann, Dalton Gang Productions, and Elmar Berger's Manic Entertainment. The film is the second feature by Hunting Season writer and director Nathan Wrann and stars Michael Wrann and Kristina Powis.
John Doe awakens from a coma to find that he has no memory of his life, who he was, or how he became comatose. He embarks on a life of normalcy, taking a wife, starting a family, mowing the lawn. This ‘Norman Rockwell’ world is soon torn from him, however, as he becomes driven to get revenge. Revenge for a life he does not remember. Revenge for pain lost to amnesia. Revenge for what he believes to be true. John...
Synopsis:
Burning Inside is an intense, surreal, and violent exploration of the entangled nature of revenge and memory from Nathan Wrann, Dalton Gang Productions, and Elmar Berger's Manic Entertainment. The film is the second feature by Hunting Season writer and director Nathan Wrann and stars Michael Wrann and Kristina Powis.
John Doe awakens from a coma to find that he has no memory of his life, who he was, or how he became comatose. He embarks on a life of normalcy, taking a wife, starting a family, mowing the lawn. This ‘Norman Rockwell’ world is soon torn from him, however, as he becomes driven to get revenge. Revenge for a life he does not remember. Revenge for pain lost to amnesia. Revenge for what he believes to be true. John...
- 5/19/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
. Connecticut based independent film production company Dalton Gang Productions in conjunction with Washington-based distributor Indieflix inc, is releasing their debut feature Hunting Season on Tuesday, September 29th 2009. The brutal slasher-survivalist thriller is currently enjoying successful Video On Demand distribution across the U.S, Canada and Puerto Rico through an agreement with Gravitas Ventures arranged by The Bosko Group. Hunting Season is the feature debut from director Nathan Wrann and Dalton Gang Productions. Husband and wife producing team, Nathan Wrann and Kimberly Dalton set out to create the horror movie they.d like to see . literate and coherent in plot, and brutal and unrelenting in tension. Six friends go camping deep in the woods for "the best...
- 9/27/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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