Quick Shop

I recently found out that Quick Shop is an official selection of the Terror Film Festival in Philadelphia, PA! We’ll be screening in a block of shorts starting at 5:15 PM on Friday, October 28, 2011. This is great news as the festival is very local to a lot of the cast and crew…I plan on attending and hope to see a lot of you there. Quick Shop has also been nominated in two categories for their Claw Awards: Best Thriller Short Film and Best Cinematography. Finally, as a bonus, any actor/actress that brings in a head shot and resume gets free entry into the festival!

Another review of Quick Shop also came in recently, this one from Mike Bohatch at HorrorNews.net:

http://horrornews.net/40318/film-review-quickshop-2011-short-film/

And finally, next Friday I’ll be travelling up to Concord, NH to attend the SNOB Film Festival. I’m really looking forward to this one as the screening should be well attended and the Q&A session afterwards should be fun.  I will blog about it when I get back on Saturday.

Quick Shop was recently accepted into its fourth film festival, the SNOB (Somewhat North of Boston) Film Festival in Concord, NH. Although they haven’t published the official schedule yet, the festival director told me that Quick Shop will be screening at the 9:30 PM block on Friday, September 16th. This block of films will be of the genre “suspense/twisted tales”, and I’m told it should be well attended. Let’s hope so…I’m looking forward to a Q&A session where someone actually asks me a question. 🙂

I’m planning on making the trip up to Concord to attend the screening. It’s actually a busy weekend for me as I also have a wedding to attend to that Saturday night. The plan is to drive up to Concord Friday morning (about 6-7 hours), attend the screening, then drive home Saturday morning in time for the wedding. It’ll be grueling but I think it’ll be worth it. SNOB is a festival that I’ve heard a lot of good things about, and so far they’ve been great at communicating with me. Should be fun…

Quick Shop also just received its ninth online review, this latest one coming from Paul Pritchard over at PulpMovies.com. Paul reviewed my previous short film One-Day Seminar back in 2008, and had some kind words to say about Quick Shop. Check out his full review here:

http://www.pulpmovies.com/2011/08/quick-shop/

Scott Shoyer over at AnythingHorror.com just posted his review of Quick Shop:

http://anythinghorror.com/2011/08/09/horror-short-quick-shop-2011/

Thanks for the kind words Scott, glad you enjoyed it. You can follow Scott on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/#!/Anythinghorror

This past weekend was the New Kingston Film Festival up in the Catskill Mountains in New York, and I was lucky enough to be able to attend with my wife. I would be lying if I said the festival went without a hitch…but we had a good time nonetheless in a very beautiful and scenic part of New York.

Unfortunately the weather didn’t really cooperate. It rained most of the time we were there, which forced us to have dinner at “the barn”, where we chowed down on Cha Cha Hut pork products and listened to some live music. Around 8 we headed about a mile down the road to a field behind a church where they had this giant inflatable screen setup. Everyone pulled in drive-in style and we awaited the start of the movies…that’s when things got interesting.

Just before the movies were scheduled to start, the inflatable screen buckled and folded over itself…several times. 🙂 The movies started about 30-45 minutes late, but hey, at least the screen was staying up. Quick Shop was supposed to screen around 12:15 AM, but because of the initial delay and some problems with one of the other DVDs, they decided to bump my movie up a bit sooner since I was in attendance.

So Quick Shop screened around 11:45 PM…the first 30 seconds of the film had no sound, but it eventually came on and everyone who was left seemed to enjoy it…there were cheers and horn beeping afterwards.

The next day I attended the Meet the Filmmakers event back at “the barn”, where the small audience was allowed to ask the filmmakers any questions they had about our films. I had to leave early because it was my oldest daughter’s birthday, but I learned a lot of interesting things from the other filmmakers.

It was a pleasure to meet the festival director Clark Shah-Nelson and his wife Seema. Really nice and down-to-earth people, who always maintained their composure and positive attitude even when things were going wrong. I also met Laura Israel, director of the feature documentary Windfall. This was a very interesting film about putting up wind turbines in the local area farmland…really makes you think twice about wind power.

So despite the bad weather and the technical difficulties, we had a good time and Quick Shop notched it third festival screening. You can check out some pictures from the festival on the Media page.