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Lawrence Arts Center Screening

For those of you in the Lawrence/Kansas City area, SUSPENSION will screen at 7pm, Thursday, September 11th at the fabulous Lawrence Arts Center facility as part of their Thursday Night Movie series next month. Come take part in a discussion after the film! Tickets are $5 at the door.

Earlier this month, we had three great screenings in Porto Alegre, Brazil as part of the Fantaspoa Film Festival. The audiences down there love movies; in fact, I learned that the pirated version of SUSPENSION is available with Portuguese subtitles, and its been downloaded over 2,000 times! I saw a lot of crazy horror movies from South America while down there, and I have to say, the rest of the world has a few things to learn about gore...

Finally, a short article about the movie appears on p. 26 of the July/August issue of HighDef Magazine. The digital version is available as a free download:

HighDef Magazine
Lawrence Arts Center Calendar

Posted August 25, 2008 by Ethan

More International Fests

I want to thank everyone who's picked up a copy of the DVD this summer, and especially to everyone who's recommended the movie to a friend! Even though SUSPENSION is now released here in the States, we still have several more international film festivals to enjoy as we attempt to bring it to an even wider audience.

We had a wonderful time at the Avignon Film Festival in France this June. I felt especially lucky to get to meet a ton of incredibly talented filmmakers with first features, as well as spend some time with experienced directors like The Toxic Avenger creator Lloyd Kaufman. We saw many exciting, original films: keep your eye out for the documentary Wild Blue Yonder, the animated feature Sita Sings the Blues, and the French crime-comedy Family Values. Next up is the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Porto Alegre, Brazil in August...

Review in Australia's Synergy Magazine Online (Look under "DVD Reviews")

Posted July 15, 2008 by Ethan

DVD ON SALE TODAY!

The release date is here, and all of you with pre-orders will get yours soon!

Remember: if you are in the LA area, next Sunday, June 1, at 7:30 PM is your chance to see SUSPENSION on the big screen as part of the USC Almuni screening series at the Norris Cinema Theater on campus. There are plenty of seats, the picture and sound quality are amazing, and tickets are FREE, so make a reservation now:

Reserve a seat for the USC screening

Check out some of the press we've gotten for the release:

Fox 4 New "Screening Room" Segment
Suite101.com Interview
FilmGekco.com Review and Interview
Hartford Courant Review
AnEvibe.com Interview
Kansas City Star mention
Lawrence Journal World mention
Radio Interview on KCUR, with actor Scott Cordes (link is about half way down page)

Posted May 27, 2008 by Ethan

DVDs for Pre-Sale!

We're starting the countdown to SUSPENSION's May 27th DVD release from Warner Home Video! The DVD is packed with bonus features including:

- A 13-minute "Making the Visual Effects" featurette containing behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the filmmakers, actors, and effects artists. We look in-depth at the whole process of creating the effects from early storyboards, to elaborate wire rigs on-set, to the final computer wizardry of our talented artists.

- Deleted scenes with introductions and explanations by directors Alec Joler and Ethan Shaftel

- Director Commentary (Okay, this is the first time Alec and I have done one of these, so you'll have to be easy on us!)

- Dolby 5.1 mix for those of you with fancy speakers at home!

If you pre-order your DVD from directly from our website this month, you'll receive a copy signed by directors Ethan Shaftel and Alec Joler, and writer/producer Aris Blevins. This is a LIMITED EDITION collector's item, and you can only get it by pre-ordering now from our site. Your payment information will be taken, but your credit card will not be charged until your signed copy of SUSPENSION is shipped.

BUY THE DVD TODAY

Posted May 7, 2008 by Ethan

Belgium = Blast

I am pleased to report that SUSPENSION had a great international premiere in Belgium, and we got a chance to make a bunch of new friends. Our hosts at the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival were INCREDIBLE, and there were many opportunities to talk to other filmmakers from all over the world. Some highlights: getting interviewed on Belgian pop radio, sampling cherry beer at a bar that stocks 3,000+ varieties, eating dinner with Neil Marshall, (the director of THE DESCENT), and of course, enjoying midnight snacks of waffles and chocolate.

If you ever get a chance to attend this festival for any reason, DO IT!

Posted April 18, 2008 by Ethan

Festival Updates

We've had a great time this last several weeks at both Sedona International, where we had a sold-out, opening-night show, and at Cinequest, where we had great audiences for all three screenings, and people stuck around to ask in-depth questions late into the night. They were the rare type of movie-lover question that we really hadn't received before, with a lot of "what was the significance of..." and "I noticed a correlation between..." that was very gratifying to hear. We were screening in Silicon Valley, so I guess it's no surprise the number of blogs that covered the festival. Links below to a couple that really liked our movie. Also, we got a really great review in The Metro that makes comparisons to Cronenberg and Shyamalan, with a special shout-out to Ben Van Cleave's work on the cinematography.

San Jose Metro Review
JasonWatchesMovies Blog
IndyFilm Co-Op Blog

Posted March 7, 2008 by Ethan

Lawrence Screenings

I'd like to thank everyone who made it to one of the showings in Kansas last week. We got a great turnout, even on Superbowl Sunday, and nice articles in the Lawrence and Topeka papers and on KJHK (links below). For those of you who preferred to watch the game, you still got a chance to see SUSPENSION star Annie Tedesco. She appeared in a CareerBuilder.com commercial as an unhappy woman whose still-beating heart jumps out of her chest and quits her job for her in one of the stranger Superbowl commercials in recent memory. Congratulations to Annie, and use the link below to check it out on YouTube.

Lawrence Journal World Article
KJHK 90.7 Review
Annie's Superbowl Commercial

Posted February 12, 2008 by Ethan

Best Science Fiction Film Award

Good news! I just found out that we won the "Spirit of Independents" award at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival for the Best Science Fiction Film. Thanks to everyone who came out for the screening and thanks to our hosts at the film festival for making it a great experience.

Posted December 3, 2007 by Ethan

Our Movie is "Riveting"

I want to thank everyone who turned out for our work-in-progress screening in Kansas City last month. We got some great reviews and I want to share them with you. So far, after only two reviews, the critics seem to be awfully fond of the word "riveting" when describing our film:

The Kansas City Star Article (expired)
AnEVibe.com Review

Posted October 7, 2007 by Ethan