film festival

Gear Up For HEROFEST 2014 This May!

Film reporters like myself get all kinds of shortfilms shared to us from aspiring content creators, particularly screenfighters and independent filmmakers looking to get acknowledgement through a bigger audience, the generosity of appreciative fans through future crowdfunding efforts to create films with better equipment and more people, and a possible shot for bigger projects in film. One good way to start, however, is to get your film circulated through film festivals, which is where film community The Collective, and independent filmmaker and Herofest 2014 film fesitival fellow organizer Jeff Lunzaga’s production company comes in: Torrid Productions in association with The Collective presents it’s 8th annual ACTION film festival featuring Bay Area ACTION filmmakers. Did we mention ACTION? We’re talking about Martial Arts to Superheroes to Sci-Fi Adventures to Gangwars. We are looking for new blood this year to showcase their work at our big screen event this MAY. So grab your […]

Hell Faces A New Enemy In The Trailer For MANBORG

Lee B. Golden III

Director Steven Kostanski has invaded the internet with a glorious revival of twisted 80’s and 90’s cyber punk post apocalyptic future mayhem with a trailer for the April 30, 2013 home release of the award-winning 2011 science fiction action thriller, MANBORG! Here is synopsis and a press release rundown of the film courtesy of Dread Central: The forces of Hell have risen to the surface of the Earth to wreak unspeakable havoc on humanity, and it will take a real superhuman to save the world. Or at least Manborg – a spectacular creature of the future and the hero of MANBORG, the cult favorite sci-fi/fantasy homage coming to select theaters and DVD on April 30, 2013, from Dark Sky Films. The armies of Hell have taken over the Earth, and all that stands in the way of the villainous Count Draculon and humanity’s total extinction is a motley crew of […]

Subway Cinema Presents Three Days Of Classic Kung Fu!

Lee B. Golden III

Bullets Over Chinatown is reporting that the New York Asian Film Festival will be hosting a full three-day weekend of 35mm features of classic Hong Kong cinema titles at the Anthology Film Archives on April 19, 20 and 21. The film event will include such titles as The Odd Couple, Angel Terminators, Shaolin vs. Wutang and more, PLUS a special secret title screening on Saturday, April 20 at 8:00pm. The festival weekend will be dedicated to the memory of the late NY Asian Film Festival organizer and treasurer for Subway Cinema, Daniel Anderson Craft, who passed away on the evening of January 4, 2013 due to terminal cancer. Craft’s dying wish was granted when filmmaker J.J. Abrams and screenwriter Damon Lindelof responded to an online campaign to let Craft get a chance to see a rough cut of the upcoming film, Star Trek: Into Darkness. Craft was 42. Click HERE […]