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As an actor, Peter Vack is known for his work in television series such as I Just Want My Pants Back (series lead), Mozart In The Jungle, and Love Life, and recent independent films like Pvt Chat, Eugene Kotlyarenko’s The Code and his virtuoso turn as an evil version of “Peter Vack” in Actors. As a filmmaker, he has gotten a reputation for demanding an “all in” approach from his performers. His first feature, Assholes (called “the most disgusting movie ever”), won a jury prize at SXSW, and his latest, www.RachelOrmont.com, described […]

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As an actor, Peter Vack is known for his work in television series such as I Just Want My Pants Back (series lead), Mozart In The Jungle, and Love Life, and recent independent films like Pvt Chat, Eugene Kotlyarenko’s The Code and his virtuoso turn as an evil version of “Peter Vack” in Actors. As a filmmaker, he has gotten a reputation for demanding an “all in” approach from his performers. His first feature, Assholes (called “the most disgusting movie ever”), won a jury prize at SXSW, and his latest, www.RachelOrmont.com, described […]

The post “Your Own Formula, In You, Is Discovered in the Petri Dish of Confidence and Belief”: Peter Vack, Back To One, Episode 318 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Exclusive: Blu Hunt (The New Mutants) and Peter Vack (Pvt Chat) are in production in North Macedonia on Replay, the sophomore feature from veteran music video director Jason Lester (High Resolution), which has unveiled a first-look still.

Specifics as to the plot of the film are under wraps, though it’s been described as an unconventional romantic drama following a young couple on a trip through North Macedonia. Also starring Sara Klimoska (You Won’t Be Alone), Morgan Krantz (In the Dark), and The Ion Pack podcast’s Kj Rothweiler (Salamander Days), pic’s written by Lester and Hunt.

Manuel Inacker, Sara Ferro, Stephen Belden, Lester and Hunt are producing alongside EPs David Lipper, Robert A. Daly Jr., David Grove Churchill Viste and Jayne Sullivan.

“It’s been incredible getting to film Replay in North Macedonia, a country that could not be more thematically appropriate for the story we’re telling in the film,...

Buddy Duress, an actor best known for starring opposite Robert Pattinson in the Safdie brothers 2017 film Good Time, has died. He was 38. The actor’s brother, Christopher Stathis, confirmed the passing with People on Tuesday, February 27, revealing Duress died of “cardiac arrest from a drug cocktail” in November 2023. Born in May 1985 in Queens, New York, Duress landed his first big-screen acting gig in Benny and Josh Safdie‘s 2014 psychological drama film Heaven Knows What, where he played low-level drug dealer Mike. He would collaborate with the Safdie brothers again in their 2017 feature Good Time, which stars Pattinson as a small-time criminal who tries to free his developmentally disabled brother (Benny Safdie) from police custody while attempting to avoid his own arrest. Duress played Ray, a criminal recently released on parole. Duress’ other credits include Person to Person (2017), The Mountain (2018), The Great Darkened Days (2018), Pvt Chat (2021), Flinch (2021), and the 2022 black comedy Funny Pages,...

Buddy Duress, who co-starred alongside Robert Pattinson in the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time, has died at the age of 38.

According to People, Duress died of “a cardiac arrest from a drug cocktail” in November 2023. His death was confirmed to People by his brother, Christopher Stathis.

Duress made his acting debut in the Safdie Brothers’ 2014 film Heaven Knows What, in which he played a drug dealer named Mike. Duress initially met co-director Josh Safdie while on the run after skipping out on a drug in-patient program. He ultimately missed the film’s premiere as he was apprehended by police and sent back to prison.

In 2017, following his release from prison, Duress reconnected with the Safdie Brothers for the crime thriller Good Time. The film, partially based off of his own journal, featured Duress in the role of the career criminal Ray, opposite Pattinson and Benny Safdie.

Duress also appeared in such films as 86’d,...

Buddy Duress (né Michael C. Stathis), who starred alongside Robert Pattinson in the Safdie brothers’ 2017 crime thriller “Good Time,” has died. He was 38.

Duress’ brother Christopher Stathis revealed to People on Tuesday that the actor died in November 2023 of “cardiac arrest from a drug cocktail.”

Duress was born in Queens, New York, in May 1985. He made his acting debut in Josh and Benny Safdie’s 2014 film “Heaven Knows What,” which also stars Caleb Landry Jones and Arielle Holmes. In “Good Time,” Duress portrayed Ray, a drug dealer who becomes Connie Nikas’ (Pattinson) partner in crime as the two attempt to retrieve a Sprite bottle containing liquid LSD.

Along with “Heaven Knows What” and “Good Time,” Duress worked on such films as “Person to Person” (2017), “The Great Darkened Days” (2018), “Beware of Dog” (2020), “Pvt Chat” (2020), “Flinch” (2021) and “Funny Pages” (2022). Duress has two more unreleased projects: a short film titled “Skull” and Jay...

A year and a half ago, Get Out, Us, and Nope writer/director Jordan Peele‘s production company Monkeypaw Productions acquired the genre film pitch Goat from writers Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie, the plan being that Peele would be producing Goat as part of Monkeypaw’s overall deal with Universal Pictures. Now the sports-related horror project is finally making its way toward production, and in recent weeks we’ve learned that Justin Tipping – who made his feature directorial debut with the 2016 drama Kicks – will be directing the film, with lead roles going to Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie) and Tyriq Withers (The Game). Now Deadline reports that the female lead role has gone to Julia Fox.

Deadline also says that Fox is “best known for her New York Times best-selling book Down the Drain“, while the description for that book (you can pick up a copy Here) says, “Julia Fox...

Actress Julia Fox ("Uncut Gems") poses for the January 2024 issue of "Cosmopolitan" (UK) magazine, photographed by Marcus Cooper:

Prior to her role in "Uncut Gems", Fox was a clothing designer, launching the women's knitwear line "Franziska Fox". She also worked as a model, painter and self-publisher of two books showcasing her own photography.

Fox made her feature film debut in the feature "Uncut Gems" (2019), playing the mistress of 'Howard Ratner' (Adam Sandler), an erratic jewelry dealer and gambling addict.

Fox also starred in the feature "Pvt Chat", now available on demand. 

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Actress Julia Fox ("Uncut Gems") poses for the Knwls "Precious" wardrobe campaign, photographed by Elizaveta Porodina:

Fox is noted for her debut film performance in the 2019 feature "Uncut Gems", receiving a 'Breakthrough Actor Award' at the 2019 'Gotham Awards'.

Fox started as a clothing designer and launched the women's knitwear luxe line, "Franziska Fox", with her friend Briana Andalore.

She also worked as a model, posing for the last nude edition of Playboy in 2015.

She self-published two books of photography, "Symptomatic of a Relationship Gone Sour: Heartburn/Nausea", published in 2015 and "Ptsd", published in 2016. She has since appeared in campaigns for Diesel, Coach New York, and Supreme, in editorials for "Cr Fashion Book", "The Last", 'Office", "Wonderland", "Vogue","Vogue Italia", "The Face", "Paper", "V", "Interview", and Vogue (Czechoslovakia).

Fox made her feature film debut in the 2019 Safdie brothers Netflix film "Uncut Gems", playing a diamond showroom saleswoman and mistress to the film's protagonist.

Dasha Nekrasova, Chloe Cherry and Betsey Brown have been cast in “www.RachelOrmont.com,” a sci-fi drama currently in production.

The film, the second feature from writer and director Peter Vack, is described as a “psychedelic technosatire about growing up in captivity.” The project is produced by The Ion Pack in association with Gummy Films, Simone Films and Fast Rainbow Films. Previously, Vack helmed “Assholes” in 2017.

Vack is also known for his work as an actor on shows such as “The Bold Type,” — where he memorably played web editor Patrick, who managed “The Dot Com” of the show’s fictional magazine — “Love Life,” “I Just Want My Pants Back” and “Mozart in the Jungle.”

Nekrasova made her film debut with “Wobble Palace” in 2018, which she co-wrote with director Eugene Kotlyarenko, and also appeared in “The Ghost Who Walks” and “Pvt Chat,” the latter of which also featured Vack. Last year...

Take a look at actress Julia Fox ("Uncut Gems") posing for "Office" magazine, photographed by Byron Spencer:

Prior to her role in "Uncut Gems", Fox was a clothing designer, launching the women's knitwear line "Franziska Fox". She also worked as a model, painter and self-publisher of two books showcasing her own photography.

Fox made her feature film debut in the feature "Uncut Gems" (2019), playing the mistress of 'Howard Ratner' (Adam Sandler), an erratic jewelry dealer and gambling addict.

Fox recently starred in the feature "Pvt Chat", now available on demand.

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The dramatic feature “Pvt Chat”, written and directed by Ben Hozie, stars Julia Fox as ‘Scarlet’ and Peter Vack as 'Jack', streaming on Apple TV and On Demand:

"...'Jack' is a gambler, living in New York who becomes obsessed with 'Scarlet', a 'cam girl' from San Francisco.

"Jack’s obsession reaches a boiling point when his fantasy suddenly materializes after he spots Scarlet on a rainy street in Chinatown..."

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"Pvt Chat" is a drama feature, written and directed by Ben Hozie, starring Peter Vack as 'Jack', a gambler obsessed with 'cam girl' 'Scarlet' (Julia Fox), streaming on Apple TV and On Demand: 

"...'Jack' is a gambler, living in New York who becomes obsessed with 'Scarlet', a 'cam girl' from San Francisco. 

"His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes into reality after Jack spots Scarlet on a rainy street in Chinatown..." 

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Take a look at actress Julia Fox ("Uncut Gems") posing for "Office" magazine, photographed by Byron Spencer:

Prior to her role in "Uncut Gems", Fox was a clothing designer, launching the women's knitwear line "Franziska Fox". She also worked as a model, painter and self-publisher of two books showcasing her own photography.

Fox made her feature film debut in the feature "Uncut Gems" (2019), playing the mistress of 'Howard Ratner' (Adam Sandler), an erratic jewelry dealer and gambling addict.

Fox recently starred in the feature "Pvt Chat", now available on demand.

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Take a look at  actress Julia Fox ("Uncut Gems"), posing for both "Wonderland" and "Numéro" magazines:

Prior to her role in "Uncut Gems", Fox was a clothing designer and launched women's knitwear line, "Franziska Fox". She also worked as a model, exhibiting painter and photographer, self-publishing two books of photography.

Fox made her feature film debut in "Uncut Gems" (2019), playing a showroom saleswoman. mistress of 'Howard Ratner', an erratic jewelry dealer and gambling addict.

Fox recently starred in the feature "Pvt Chat" September 2021.

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Take a look at actress Julia Fox ("Uncut Gems") posing for the latest edition of "Numéro" Netherlands Magazine, photographed by Jack Waterlot:

Prior to her role in "Uncut Gems", Fox was a clothing designer and launched women's knitwear line, "Franziska Fox". She also worked as a model, exhibiting painter and photographer, self-publishing two books of photography.

Fox made her feature film debut in "Uncut Gems" (2019), playing a showroom saleswoman. mistress of 'Howard Ratner', an erratic jewelry dealer and gambling addict.

Fox recently starred in the feature "Pvt Chat", scheduled for an on-demand release September 2021.

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The U.S. lineup at Mubi next month has been unveiled, featuring films by Claude Chabrol, Paulo Rocha, Ulrich Köhler, and more. Notable new releases include Pedro Costa’s striking Locarno winner Vitalina Varela as well as the Julia Fox-led Pvt Chat (check out our extensive interview with director Ben Hozie here.).

As part of their series Thrills, Chills, and Exquisite Horrors, the Martin Scorsese favorite Wake in Fright joins Mubi, along with Fabrice Du Welz’s Alleluia, Nicolas Winding Refn’s underseen Fear X, and Ben Wheatley’s trippy A Field in England.

Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.

October 1 | Alléluia | Fabrice Du Welz | Thrills, Chills, and Exquisite Horrors

October 2 | Styx | Wolfgang Fischer

October 3 | The Green Years | Paulo Rocha | Double Bill: Paulo Rocha

October 4 | Change of Life | Paulo Rocha | Double Bill: Paulo Rocha

October 5 | Your Day Is My Night | Lynne Sachs

October 6 | Hey, You!

Take a look at new images of actress Julia Fox ("Uncut Gems") in the latest edition of "Numéro" Netherlands Magazine, photographed by Jack Waterlot:

Prior to her role in "Uncut Gems", Fox was a clothing designer and launched women's knitwear line, "Franziska Fox". She also worked as a model, exhibiting painter and photographer, self-publishing two books of photography.

Fox made her feature film debut in "Uncut Gems" (2019), playing a showroom saleswoman. mistress of 'Howard Ratner', an erratic jewelry dealer and gambling addict.

Fox recently starred in the feature "Pvt Chat", scheduled for an on-demand release September 2021.

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For this writer, it’s been fascinating to watch the evolution of Dark Star Pictures over the last few years, as they’ve become one of the most interesting distributors working in the genre space today, showcasing films like Jumbo, Pvt Chat, Dementer, Attack of the Demons, Koko-Di Koko-Da, and Climate of the Hunter, as well their most recent release, Honeydew, which makes its digital debut this week.

Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Dark Star’s Creative Director, Josh Goldbloom, and we discussed his background in the film festival scene and how that led to him joining Dark Star Pictures’ founder Michael Repsch in the indie horror trenches to help provide filmmakers with the opportunity to get their films out there for fans to enjoy. Goldbloom also gave us some insight into why the word “challenging” isn’t necessarily a bad thing when it comes to marketing a film,...

The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 25th edition as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada, with a

dynamic program of scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops running from August 5 through August 25, 2021, once again using the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72.

As the summer approaches, the festival will be following advice from local health authorities, with the possibility of also adding a range of flagship physical events to the lineup.

Last summer’s virtual edition was a phenomenal success, screening to 85000 spectators and amassing a record amount of media coverage, with 475 accredited journalists from around the world covering Fantasia and its titles. The lineup showcased 104 features, a quarter of which were World Premieres, with the majority securing distribution out of the festival, with highlights including “The Block Island Sound” selling to Netflix, “Come True” to IFC, “The Paper Tigers” to WellGo USA,...

Taking place this August as a virtual event for viewers in Canada, the 25th annual Fantasia International Film Festival will open with the world premiere of the zombie comedy Brain Freeze:

Press Release: Thursday, April 8, 2021 // Montreal, Quebec -- The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 25th edition as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada, with a dynamic program of scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops running from August 5 through August 25, 2021, once again using the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72.

As the summer approaches, the festival will be following advice from local health authorities, with the possibility of also adding a range of flagship physical events to the lineup.

Last summer’s virtual edition was a phenomenal success, screening to 85000 spectators and amassing a record amount of media coverage, with 475 accredited journalists from around the world covering Fantasia and its titles. The lineup showcased 104 features,...

I first heard about Pvt Chat during its long post-production period in 2019. The film struck me as too good to be true: an erotic drama, directed by Ben Hozie of Bodega, about a man (Peter Vack) obsessed with an internet cam girl (Julia Fox), along with supporting turns by Buddy Duress, Dasha and Anna from Red Scare, and Keith Poulson––not to mention a score by Parquet Courts’ Austin Brown.

With the film now in theaters and on digital, I asked Hozie to take part in a conversation, promising I “wouldn’t ask any boring or stupid questions.” He graciously agreed.

The Film Stage: One of the things I appreciate about Pvt Chat is how you handled the sex scenes—they’re super unstylized and raw, with an intimate, unpredictable quality. What was the process like? What were some of the conversations you had with the cast and crew to set the tone?...

Pvt Chat is a brilliantly creative, and somewhat risqué new feature, requiring, let’s say, a somewhat courageous leading performance. And that’s just what Peter Vack delivers, bringing internet gambler – and cam-girl obsessive – Jack to life. We had the pleasure of speaking to Vack about this release, as he tells us whether he had any apprehensions taking on a role of this nature, and what a pleasure it was to collaborate with co-star Julia Fox. And of course, given what was required of the talented performer, we couldn’t help but ask whether he’s going to let his parents give the movie a watch…

Watch the full interview with Peter Vack here:

Synopsis

Jack is an Internet gambler living in NYC who becomes fixated on Scarlet, a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materialises in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy Chinatown street.

Julia Fox was one of several breakouts to emerge from 2019’s finest and most stressful film, “Uncut Gems,” and while many critics dismissively referred to her character exclusively as Adam Sandler’s mistress, the unconventional genius of Fox’s performance in that underworld caper was that her troublemaking club girl was ultimately revealed to be every bit as conniving as the Sandman’s rapacious jeweler hero. Fox, deservedly, became a star based on Josh and Benny Safdie’s Diamond District masterwork, and the question of where her career would go from there remains a tantalizing one (Fox is one of many set to appear in Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming “No Sudden Move”).

Continue reading ‘Pvt Chat’ Is Nasty, Unflinching Dominatrix Drama That Proves Julia Fox Should Be In All Movies All The Time [Review] at The Playlist.

Stars: Nikki Belfiglio, Atticus Cain, Buddy Duress, Julia Fox, Kevin Moccia, Keith Poulson, Peter Vack, David White | Written and Directed by Ben Hozie

Ben Hozie writes and directs Pvt Chat, a psycho-erotic drama about a New York City based online gambler named Jack (Peter Vack) who begins an obsession with a cam-girl called Scarlet (Julia Fox), which leads to different places when he runs into her in real-life on the streets.

The movie begins nicely enough, with a heart-warming scene involving masturbatory fantasies related to high-heel shoes and cigarettes, but things get a little more adult from there. The way the film is shot feels very intimate, maybe too intimate, as we enter the up-close world of Jack and Scarlet’s noxious relationship (if relationship is even the right term). The sexual acts and moments in which the two open up to one another feel like we’re in the same room,...

If you like your face rubbed in the seedy underbelly of after-hours psychosexual obsession in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, then “Pvt Chat” is the movie for you. Writer/director Ben Hozie’s great-looking indie knows how to conjure a gritty New York atmosphere of cigarette smoke and ennui in the city, but despite highly naked (in every sense of the word) performances from Julia Fox and Peter Vack, it .

And that’s not passing judgment on anyone’s sexual proclivities, as this movie assures. Jack’s (Peter Vack) taste is for women comfortably at a distance through a screen, as he spends his nights sending tokens to virtual cam girls who degrade him while he masturbates drearily. His professional life during waking hours is nonexistent: Despite seemingly plenty of disposable income, he can’t make rent on time, and his roommate recently died by suicide, leaving Jack with the bill.

Exploring how the mourning of the loss of a familiar and comfortable period in a person life, and how they become increasingly dependent on visual stimulation to overcome their pain to almost an addictive level, is a powerful journey that’s not often relatably explored in modern cinema. But the provocative new psycho-sexual thriller, ‘Pvt Chat,’ […]

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There are actors that work years searching for that breakout role in a film that will enter them into the awards conversation and lead to a huge new level in their career. Then, there are folks like Julia Fox, who are able to land a role of a lifetime really early in their careers and become a sensation right out of the gate, as she did in “Uncut Gems.” Now, Fox is hoping to keep that buzz going with her new film “Pvt Chat.”

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With “Pvt Chat” hitting select theaters this Friday and VOD next week, we are happy to give our readers an exclusive look at a clip from the new drama that stars Julia Fox as an internet dominatrix.

Continue reading ‘Pvt Chat’ Exclusive Clip: Julia Fox Is...

Vertigo Releasing has debuted a new trailer for writer, director, and Bodega front-man Ben Hozie’s ‘Pvt Chat’.

Jack (Peter Vack) is a lonely internet gambler living in New York City. He quickly becomes fixated on Scarlet (Julia Fox) – a cam girl from San Francisco. As Jack learns more about Scarlet, he discovers her unrealized talent as a painter and begins to fall hard for her. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality, and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy street in NYC Chinatown. While Scarlet is clearly hiding her whole truth, milking Jack’s wallet in the process, she also seems to develop genuine feelings for him. Jack has to find out – is their emotional connection real or is he just being taken for a ride?

The film stars Peter Vack, Julia Fox and Buddy Duress.

Also in trailers – Frank Grillo is a slimeball in...

From the moment we first encounter unwell online gambler “Blackjack” Jack (Peter Vack), he is a cheerful loose cannon. In this case, it is while he is in the middle of getting his nightly kicks on an internet sex chat site. He has found his way into a video conversation with buxom black leather-clad dominatrix Scarlet (Julia Fox), who per his instruction verbally undresses a nude Jack, coaching him to an orgasmic climax in the dark of his tiny New York apartment, while writer/director/cinematographer/editor Ben Hozie’s fish-eye lens hovers over him.

Jack is the mad antihero at the heart of Pvt Chat, scheduled for theatrical release on February 5th before premiering on VOD and streaming platforms on February 9th through Dark Star Pictures. The film is currently screening as part of the Dark Star Virtual Festival, a free online event courtesy of Dark Star and Bloody Disgusting,...

Los Angeles-based Dark Star Pictures and horror website Bloody Disgusting are set to host a groundbreaking weekend event from Friday, January 22nd to Sunday, January 24th, 2021, celebrating the distributor’s most recent acclaimed international genre offerings. The lineup will feature selections from Sundance, Fantasia, Nightstream, and Cinepocalypse, including Pvt Chat, Koko-Di Koko-Da, Jumbo, Attack of the Demons, Dirty God, and Climate […]...

We're back with another installment of Horror Highlights! Today, check out the red band trailer for Bloody Hell, learn more about the Midnight Musical Podcasts, and find out how you can take part in Dark Star Pictures' virtual film festival!

Watch the Red Band Trailer for Bloody Hell: "A man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell… only to arrive somewhere much, much, much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified conscience."

Director: Alister Grierson Screenwriter: Robert Benjamin Cast: Ben O'Toole, Caroline Craig, Matthew Sunderland, Travis Jeffery, Jack Finsterer, Meg Fraser, Ashlee Lollback Run Time: 94 Minutes Rating: Rated R for Bloody Violence, Gore, and Language Throughout Distributor: The Horror Collective

In Select Theaters, Drive-Ins and On Demand January 14, 2021, On DVD/Blu-Ray January 19, 2021

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Midnight Musicals Season 1 Trailer: "Welcome to the podcast musical underground. We are a...

Looking for something fun to do next weekend that doesn’t involve scrolling through endless lists of movies and TV shows to find something to watch? Well then look no further than Dark Star Pictures’ free online film festival!

You read right: Dark Star Pictures, the purveyor of great genre movies, is hosting a free film festival! The event runs from January 22 to 24 and will feature some of the distributor’s most recent acclaimed genre offerings including selections from Sundance, Fantasia, Nightstream, and Cinepocalypse.

Titles include Pvt Chat, Koko-Di Koko-Da, Jumbo, Attack of the Demons and Climate of the Hunter.

The festival will close with the announcement and one-time-only screening of the latest acquisition from t...

Los Angeles-based Dark Star Pictures and horror leader Bloody Disgusting are set to host a groundbreaking weekend event from Friday, January 22nd to Sunday, January 24th, 2021, celebrating the distributor’s most recent acclaimed international genre offerings. The lineup will feature selections from Sundance, Fantasia, Nightstream, and Cinepocalypse, including Pvt Chat, Koko-Di Koko-Da, Jumbo, Attack of the Demons, Dirty God, and Climate of […]...

Here's something great from our friends at Dark Star Pictures. They're getting together with Bloody Disgusting and putting on a free virtual film festival of some of their recent acquisitions.    One week tomorrow night, from Friday, January 22nd to Sunday, January 24th you go online and watch free screenings of Pvt Chat, Koko-Di Koko-Da, Jumbo, Attack of the Demons, Dirty God, and Climate of the Hunter.    There is also a super secret screening of Dark Star's latest acquisition that will be announced during the festival.    Information about how to RSVP for this special event is in the press release below.    Los Angeles-based Dark Star Pictures and horror leader Bloody Disgusting are set to host a groundbreaking weekend event from Friday, January...

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With Covid-19 shuttering cinemas and disrupting genre film fests, Los Angeles-based Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting have come up with a novel way to unveil their latest horror pic acquisition: feature it as a surprise secret finale to a free virtual film festival to run from Jan. 22 to 24.

The indie distributor and horror film website are betting genre fans will come to stream recent international horror offerings like Pvt Chat, Koko-Di Koko-Da, Jumbo, Attack of the Demons, Dirty God and Climate of the Hunter and then stay to view a still secret screening of the latest pick up ...

With Covid-19 shuttering cinemas and disrupting genre film fests, Los Angeles-based Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting have come up with a novel way to unveil their latest horror pic acquisition: feature it as a surprise secret finale to a free virtual film festival to run from Jan. 22 to 24.

The indie distributor and horror film website are betting genre fans will come to stream recent international horror offerings like Pvt Chat, Koko-Di Koko-Da, Jumbo, Attack of the Demons, Dirty God and Climate of the Hunter and then stay to view a still secret screening of the latest pick up ...

Ben Hozie's psycho-sexual thriller Pvt Chat is coming to (some) U.S. cinemas on February 5th followed by On Demand and digital releases on February 9th. The official poster and trailer were released yesterday. You will find both down below including a selection of stills. The poster and a couple of the images are slightly suggestive so do with that information what you will. Pvt Chat had its world premiere during the digital edition of Fantasia in August last year. Hozie wrote, directed, shot and edited his film. He let other people join in on the fun as well including his key cast Peter Vack (HBO Max’s “Love Life”) and Julia Fox. His film also stars Buddy Duress, Keith Poulson, Kevin Moccia,...

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"You use these people, or they use you." Dark Star has debuted an official trailer for Pvt Chat, another cam girl stalker film. This originally premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival last year, and it lands on VOD next month. Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC who becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy Chinatown street. What will he do next? Pvt Chat stars Julia Fox (best known for Uncut Gems) as Scarlet, and Peter Vack as her stalker Jack, also joined by Buddy Duress, Keith Poulson, Kevin Moccia, and David J. White. This looks like a twisted, discomforting examination of how the internet has altered the way we connect, and empowered people to get crazier thinking they know someone from online. Here's the official trailer...

Pvt Chat starring Peter Vack and Julia Fox opens in theaters February 5th and On Demand & Digital February 9th.

Check out the trailer:

Jack is a lonely internet gambler living in New York City. He quickly becomes fixated on Scarlet – a cam girl from San Francisco. As Jack learns more about Scarlet, he discovers her unrealized talent as a painter and begins to fall hard for her. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy street in NYC Chinatown. While Scarlet is clearly hiding her whole truth, milking Jack’s wallet in the process, she also seems to develop genuine feelings for him. Jack has to find out – is their emotional connection real or is he just being taken.

Pvt Chat stars Peter Vack, Julia Fox, Buddy Duress, Keith Poulson, Kevin Moccia, and David J. White

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After delivering one of the best breakthrough performances in recent years in the Safdies’ Uncut Gems, Julia Fox is back in her first follow-up role. Ben Hozie’s Pvt Chat, which premiered at Fantasia Fest last year, is psychosexual noir following Fox’s character, who plays a cam girl that forms a bond with a client. Now set for an early February release, the first trailer and poster have arrived.

“A complicated and messy film that plays with ideas of eroticism in the digital age, Pvt Chat is repulsive, alluring, and darkly comedic,” Mike Mazzanti said in his Fantasia Fest coverage. “The film focuses obsessively on Jack, a self-absorbed, pseudo-intellectual online gambler whose primary means of human connection is with cam models. His self-aggrandizement is where the film gets the bulk of its repulsion. One model, Scarlett, played by a pitch-perfect Julia Fox, becomes the center of his fixations. Through...

Though Adam Sandler, deservedly, gets most of the love for the 2019 film, “Uncut Gems,” his performance is almost overshadowed by the relatively unknown young actress Julia Fox as his jewelry store employee/mistress. Fox’s performance is so good in that film, many people were wondering what the actress has up her sleeve next. Apparently, her next major film is the forthcoming thriller, “Pvt Chat.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Pvt Chat,” the film stars Fox as an Internet cam girl/dominatrix that earns her income by luring men in with her beauty, charm, and dominant personality.

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Rising star Julia Fox made her breakout turn in 2019 in the Safdie Brothers’ “Uncut Gems” as Howie Ratner’s (Adam Sandler) loyal girlfriend. But she’s thankfully not about to go mainstream and appears to be sticking to her New York City art scene roots. Next up, she stars as a femme fatale in Ben Hozie’s noir-inspired psychosexual, urban thriller “Pvt Chat.” In this New York-set indie, Fox is a leather-clad cam girl opposite Peter Vack as an online blackjack and her sub client, whom she meets during web calls. Watch the trailer, exclusive to IndieWire, for the film below.

In “Pvt Chat,” Jack (Vack) is a lonely internet gambler who becomes fixated on Scarlet (Fox). He discovers her unrealized talent as a painter and begins to fall hard, but his obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy street in NYC Chinatown.

Punk musician Ben Hozie made his directing debut on the ‘camgirl’ thriller.

Dark Star Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to psychological thriller Pvt Chat, which had its world premiere at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival.

Dark Star is planning a theatrical release in January followed by a VOD/digital release in February.

The film stars Julia Fox and Peter Vack in the story of an internet gambler from New York whose fixation on a San Francisco ‘camgirl’ - an online sex acts model - reaches boiling point when he sees her on a Chinatown street.

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Unconventional love story stars ‘Uncut Gems’ breakout talent Julia Fox.

Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to erotic drama PVT Chat, which stars Uncut Gems breakout actress Julia Fox.

Vertigo picked up the rights directly from US producer Pretorius Pictures and plans to release the film theatrically and on digital platforms from February 5, 2021.

Pvt Chat will also be released by Rialto Distribution in Australia and New Zealand through its ongoing strategic partnership with Vertigo. The UK-based distributor has also partnered with Gravel Road to distribute the film in South Africa. Release dates for these territories have yet to be scheduled.

The Fantasia International Film Festival closed out its 2020 edition yesterday, having successfully transitioned to a cutting-edge digital event in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Canadian audiences proved dedicated to the long-running festival, and flocked to the digital edition, which saw over 85,000 spectators watch films and special events across the country and beyond. Of special interest to audiences were the fest’s twenty-five World Premiere features, including bows for Come True, The Block Island Sound, Hunted, Undergods, Tiny Tim: King For A Day, The Paper Tigers, The Curse Of Audrey Earnshaw, Pvt Chat, Slaxx, The Oak Room, and Unearth.

The 24th edition of the festival also saw a record amount of media coverage, with 475 accredited journalists from around the world promoting Fantasia and its ground-breaking content. From Canadian and U.S. media to popular, top-tier outlets as far away as Japan and Portugal, Fantasia’s media presence has never been stronger.

The virtual edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival had a killer lineup that included feature-length and short genre films from around the world, and they have officially announced their award winners:

03 September 2020 - Montreal, Quebec - The Fantasia International Film Festival closed out its 2020 edition yesterday, having successfully transitioned to a cutting-edge digital event in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Canadian audiences proved dedicated to the long-running festival, and flocked to the digital edition, which saw over 85,000 spectators watch films and special events across the country and beyond. Of special interest to audiences were the fest’s twenty-five World Premiere features, including bows for Come True, The Block Island Sound, Hunted, Undergods, Tiny Tim: King For A Day, The Paper Tigers, The Curse Of Audrey Earnshaw, Pvt Chat, Slaxx, The Oak Room, and Unearth.

The 24th edition of the festival also saw a record amount of media coverage,...

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Daria Woszek’s Polish comedy Marygoround was a big winner at the 24th Fantasia International Film festival on Wednesday night (September 2), earning the Cheval Noir Award for best film, director and actress.

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Brea Grant’s US entry 12 Hour Shift won best screenplay, and Jacky Heung was awarded the best actor prize for Hong Kong’s Chasing Dream.

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Stars: Nikki Belfiglio, Atticus Cain, Buddy Duress, Julia Fox, Kevin Moccia, Keith Poulson, Peter Vack, David White | Written and Directed by Ben Hozie

Ben Hozie writes and directs Pvt Chat, a psycho-erotic drama about a New York City based online gambler named Jack (Peter Vack) who begins an obsession with a cam-girl called Scarlet (Julia Fox), which leads to different places when he runs into her in real-life on the streets.

The movie begins nicely enough, with a heart-warming scene involving masturbatory fantasies related to high-heel shoes and cigarettes, but things get a little more adult from there. The way the film is shot feels very intimate, maybe too intimate, as we enter the up-close world of Jack and Scarlet’s noxious relationship (if relationship is even the right term). The sexual acts and moments in which the two open up to one another feel like we’re in the same room,...

Pvt Chat is directed by Ben Hozie and stars Peter Vack (of previous Fantasia Fest favorite Assholes) and Julia Fox. The film is a self-described “kinky plunge into loneliness” and the intimacy, false and real, that is developed online. Is it possible that, despite our constant connection, we are more alone than ever?

In Pvt Chat, Jack (Peter Vack) gambles online by day so that he may spend his earnings on the beguiling camgirl Scarlet (Julia Fox) by night. Over time, their relationship takes on the appearance of something more than a customer and client and Jack hopes to meet the cyber seductress. Scarlet insists that the distance between them makes this impossible, but Jack swears up and down that he spotted her in his neighborhood one rainy night. Secrets and obsessions could mean the end for these star-crossed online lovers.

The film creates a beautiful, but tragic portrait of...