eff yeah indie actors

I’m happy to be able to share TUB online now that it has completed its festival run! TUB is an 8-minute experimental short film, written, directed and edited by Gloria Endres de Oliveira and starring Melissa-Kelly Franklin. 

TUB is based on & influenced by Shakespeare’s Ophelia and her Pre-Raphaelite depictions; 19th century asylums for women & their treatment form for hysteria called Hydrotherapy; Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid; found footage horror films; Jung’s and Freud’s models of dream interpretation; the footage of Laura Palmer & Donna at a picnic in Twin Peaks & the Japanese, Korean and American screen adaptations of Kōji Suzuki’s novel Ringu.

- Nominated for Best Experimental Film at the 2015 NEXTFRAME Student Film Festival (Philadelphia)

- Screened at the 2015 SIGNES DE LA NUIT International Film Festival in the category “Focus Allemagne” (Paris)

- Screened at the 2015 SIGNES DE LA NUIT International Film Festival in the category “Focus Allemagne” (Paris)

- Nominated for Best Short Film - Germany at the 2014 ZEICHEN DER NACHT International Film Festival (Berlin)

- Nominated for Best International Short Film at MACABRO - Festival Internacional De Cine De Horror 2014 (Mexico City)

- Screened at BIDEODROMO 2015 - Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Experimental (Bilbao)

- Screened at CineAutopsia | Bogotá Experimental Film Festival 2016

I’m so thrilled to be able to finally share the news that my short film PORTRAIT, starring Gloria Endres de Oliveira and Raphael Acloque, is finally complete; thanks to the tireless efforts of the talented cast and crew!

To celebrate I wanted to share some new graded stills with you, and soon, Portrait’s beautiful original song ‘Unquiet’, composed and performed by talented musical goddess, Amy Kakoura.

PORTRAIT is a feminist period short film inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s short story ‘The Oval Portrait’ and pre-raphaelite artist and muse Lizzie Siddal.  The film tells the story of Sybil, a gifted young artist who discovers that her passion for both her work and her artist-lover are irreconcilable - a realisation which has devastating consequences.

Cinematography by:  Ann Evelin Lawford

Colourist: Rebecca Goodeve

Written & Directed by: Melissa-Kelly Franklin

Randomly plugging this again because I finally got around to showing it to @amilynh the other day and decided I’m still pretty darn proud of it. (And very much wish ALL the indie filmmakers had their shit together the way Colin does. The fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants guerrilla filmmaking thing has a certain thrill, but it kinda gets old.)

This is pretty much Colin’s love letter to Hammer and the Italian horror films of the 60s. (He was basically looking for the second coming of Barbara Steele, so I’m eternally grateful that he could see it when a 5'9" ginger read for him.) It’s more atmospheric than gory.

EDGE of the WOODS

In an almost future, Red leads her friends on a journey to grandma’s house, but there are wolves in the woods, and the path grows less clear every day.

Starring: Raquel Chavez, Jo Chiang, Korinne Winter, Shelley Farmer

Produced by Nora Mueller / Directed by Amrita Singh / Story by Jo Chiang

Written by Jo Chiang and Anya Josephs

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