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2012: DARCLIGHT FILMS ARE THE SALES AGENTS FOR INBRED. DISTRIBUTION NEWS TO FOLLOW.
AIN'T IT COOL rates INBRED! Cool!
MARCH 2012
Lots of hard work still to do as we deliver the INBRED deliverables to Darclight. Alex is busy editing the making of footage into Bonus Featurettes for the DVD and BluRay release of INBRED. We have over 20 hours of behind the scenes materials so the job is very time consuming, but the end results are proving very funny and insightful. Expect some great extras.We hear very good news about UK distribution but our lips are sealed until everything is finalised and in the can. The future is bright... the future is INBRED.
FEBRUARY 2012
INBRED is officially 'on the market' for the first time, and screens at EFM, the European Film Market in Berlin to a good reception. Our sales agent, Darclight Films report back that interest was good and it was a positive result.We've been told that the film industry is feeling the recession big-time, but despite that INBRED had some very good distribution offers at EFM and deals and negotiations are under way! Great! We can't wait for INBRED to finally be available and seen by people worldwide, and this marks the first early steps... and they are good steps.
The full INBRED trailer is put online and gets 100,000 hits in two weeks, which is awesome. People really seem to be intrigued by INBRED and we hope and pray they can be patient for a bit longer and help make INBRED the success we all think it deserves.
JANUARY 2012
We are really pleased to announce that DARCLIGHT FILMS are the International Sales Agent for INBRED. Darclight Films are the horror-arm of Arclight Films. They totally share our ambitions for INBRED and they are going to make sure that it gets seen by as many people in as many countries as is possible!Darclight's excellent catalogue includes WOLF CREEK (one of Alex Chandon's fave modern horrors), WOLF CREEK 2, BAIT 3D, GRAVE ENCOUNTERS, STORM WARNING, LAKE MUNGO, THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER and many others that can be found on their website HERE
EFM (the European Film Market) is the first big film sales event this year, in Berlin in February, and INBRED is screening and will be heavily promoted. We hope that major distribution deals happen soon after.
The official, 'proper' INBRED trailer is coming very soon and it will rock!
DECEMBER 2011
The Festival circuit dies down and serious negotiations about sales agents and distribution for INBRED take hold. The film has caught the eye of quite a few decent world sales agents each with different terms and ideas which need to be mulled over and with INBRED producers in three different time zones the process takes time! INBRED wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2012.NOVEMBER 2011
The INBRED producers are deep in talks with world sales agents as INBRED seeks a World Sales agent who shares our belief and ambition with INBRED.Meanwhile, INBRED continues to have brilliant Festival screenings. The Leeds International Film Festival screening on November 8th was INBRED's Northern premiere, deep in the Yorkshire country we pastiche in the film. If INBRED works it needs to work where it was made... and it did, stupendously. The show was sold out (which led to a 2nd screening a week later!) and the crowd loved it. It had one of the best reactions so far, with every subtle (are not-too subtle) Yorkshire reference getting a hearty laugh. Alex and many cast and crew were there, and the show began with one of the cast (Damien Lloyd Davies) fire breathing outside the cinema!
Leeds was quickly followed by a Friday Night prime-time slot at the up 'n' coming Abetoir Film Festival in lovely and sunny (yes!) Aberystwyth in Wales. INBRED played really well to a small but wonderfully friendly crowd. The guest of honour at the festival was the lovely Victoria Price, daughter of our hero Vincent Price, who gave a wonderful talk about her dad. Vincent rules! Abertoir rocked. Alex has put photographs of his brilliant weekend in 'Aber' on Facebook, HERE.
OCTOBER 2011
Busy week! On Friday 21st INBRED was the Opening Film at Sheffield's CELLULOID SCREAMS FESTIVAL to a sold out crowd and went down a storm, with a great Q and A by the cast. A lovely review by one of the audience can be found HERE. And on the 22nd Alex and Yazid screened the film to 200 horror fans at Yazid's own festival, SPLATTERDAY NIGHT FEVER in Saarbruken, Germany, to a great response. This was followed by Alex's first time in a German nightclub... which he survived with minimal damage! Alex returned to London on the 24th leaving Yazid to travel to Finland to show INBRED at the Night Visions Festival on the 26th. INBRED's tour of duty continues...October 8th. INBRED screens at the wonderful Sitges Film Festival to an amazing audience response. Renowned genre writer Alan Jones wrote in his blog, "The line to see INBRED snaked all through downtown Sitges and the reception it got was nothing short of phenomenal. The packed audience cheered all the way through, then clapped along with the end theme song while dancing in the aisles." Alex and producer Yazid thoroughly enjoyed the festival... and the heat-wave weather. Sitges was a great opportunity to meet fellow filmmakers and 'network' without even trying. We made some great contacts and some great friends. It was a festival to remember. You can see Alex's photos from the festival HERE.
Following our test screenings at some film festivals we've remixed and remastered and finalised INBRED and we are very happy with the results. This finished version will premiere at the Sitges Film Festival in sunny Spain which we hear is awesome. INBRED is in the Melies competition and also the Midnight Extreme competition and we've got a good screening date, first film on Saturday midnight.
SEPTEMBER 2011
INBRED screened in sunny Sweden at the Lund Fantastic Film Festival and recieced an honourable mention from the Melies Jury. (We lost out to 'Attack The Block'!) They said "Alex Chandon and his Inbred is the most violent movie we’ve seen, still it’s one of the most hilarious and unrealistic stupid comedies we’ve seen coming out of Britain in years. And thank you Alex for helping us build up the stereotype of British men and their dental problems. We love you." Many thanks to the organisers and guest hosts for looking after us. You can see Alex's photos from the festival HERE.
INBRED had a great screening at the Strasbourg Film Festival. The French loved it. George Romero was there but unfortunately didn't see the film. We would have loved a quote!
Following the succesful FRIGHTFEST screenings we have recieved lots of interest from sales agents and distributors and we are in current negotiations to secure ourselves some great people to work with and help bring INBRED to the world.
We want to make INBRED available to see, buy and watch as soon as possible, but these deals take a while so in the meantime we will be taking INBRED on a world tour of film festivals and events!
Please check out our new FESTIVALS page for details of screenings coming up in the UK, Europe and beyond.
The first online reviews are now appearing and we're relieved and happy to see they are looking good. We have links and snippets of these at another new page, REVIEWS .
AUGUST 2011
All hands were on deck as we worked night and day to get a version of INBRED ready to screen at FRIGHTFEST. We literally finished the day before the festival, so it's been quite a stressful month and that's why we haven't updated the web-site in a while. The grading and the sound were the last things to do and the people we used were all amazing. The wonderful Dado Valentic at Soho post production facility Mytherapy did our grading and mastering. And our brilliant sound mix was orchestrated by Thomas Lawes at The Electric Studios in Birmingham with sound design by Michael Nowacki. Together these three worked absoulte miracles and we are incredibly pleased with the end result. The screening at Frightfest at the 1,200 seater Empire cinema was an epic experience. The film got a brilliant reaction from a packed house of horror fans, with all the cast and crew in attendance. This was the first time anyone, including director Alex Chandon had seen the film play through in its entirety, so there were many first night nerves, but thankfully everything went well and everyone had a chance to relax and rejoice afterwards. A massive thank you must go to FRIGHTFEST (check out their website HERE ) and its wonderful organisers Paul McEvoy, Ian Rattray, Alan Jones and Greg Day. Thank you for making the whole INBRED possee have a great day.
JULY 2011
Great news! INBRED has been accepted into the prestigious Film 4 FRIGHTFEST FILM FESTIVAL, to be held at the incredible Empire Cinema in Leicester Square, London which seats 1,300 people. Wow. The festival organisers really enjoyed the screener and have given us a great spot as the penultimate film. INBRED screens at 6.30pm on Bank Holiday Monday 29th August 2011. For details of the full FRIGHTFEST line up go to their OFFICIAL WEBSITE. Tickets for individual films go on sale on August 1st. Expect the INBRED cast and crew to turn up in their masses. Everyone is very excited about this.INBRED has some lovely poster designs which we include in the photo gallery. The striking main promotional artwork is by Daniel Schlüter from Stylewalker Design Media Artworks. We also have had some beautiful teaser posters designed by the talented Silverferox, whose website is HERE.
JUNE 2011
The INBRED opening scene is finally filmed! This sequence features a cameo from the lovely Emily Booth who has appeared in Alex's last two feature films. Alex says Emily is a good luck charm and he might well be right as the scene went off amazingly well and promises to deliver a knock out opening to INBRED. "They should have given him the lemonade." Indeed.MARCH 2011
The massive job of INBRED's visual FX has begun. Having gone through the film we have about 170 shots that require some sort of digital FX work, varying from simple removal of street signs or sky replacement... all the way up to complex 3d motion tracking. These FX shots are digital composite shots, blending real elements to create a seamless end result and avoiding CGI. Our aim is that you won't notice the ammount of clever digital shots in the final film.FEB 2011
The INBRED edit stage is finally over. The mammoth job proved harder than anyone envisaged but the end result was worth the effort and the first cut is getting a great response from those who have viewed it. This is just a work print with no sound design or music or digital fx but even so it rocks apparently!The INBRED teaser trailer has had a brilliant response, there are now a few versions up on YOUTUBE with total viewings of 50,000, which is very cool and the comments are all encouraging. People are guessing as to what the film is about... and are mostly way off the mark! This will shock and surprise in equal measure we hope.
NOV 2010
INBRED is currently in the initial post production stage. The film is being edited by Olie Griffin and Alex Chandon and word has it that things are coming together nicely. Alex hopes to have a rough cut in December and so then the Digital FX and sound work can begin. The official press release announcing the project is released and a first teaser trailer is made public. This synchronised with a funky update of this site, so you can now watch the trailer here and find out more about the film.We are still looking for the right experienced sound designer and a colour grader to help us make INBRED a truly cinematic experience. Use the CONTACT page if you are that person and want to be part of something special.
SEPT 2010
TONS OF THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED ON THE SHOOT! INBRED looks amazing and that is thanks to the brilliant crew but also the great Yorkshire folks who helped. The film wouldn't have been possible without all the amazing help from the people in Thirsk, Skipton on Swale, Rainton, Thornton-Le-Beans, Northallerton, Rippon, Felixkirk, Huddersfield, Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, York and more. We all fell in love with Yorkshire and the beautiful countryside and warm, genuine and lovely people there.There are too many people to name and thank personally here but you'll all be in the film's credits, but a special mention must go to Michael Sanderson whose incredible generosity and love of horror films was a major factor in the shoots success. His farm was home to Alex Chandon and his assistant director Matt Russell, and he made sure they had fresh eggs every day, and he also built the best car rig and a whole cellar for us, his farm was also one of the main locations. We must also thank the wonderful Irene, landlady extraordinare at the wonderful Ye Olde Three Tuns pub in Thirsk for letting us do dreadfully wonderful things in her pub and letting us have the best Saturday nights most of us can remember (or not in some peoples cases)...
Our open casting day was a great success and we found amazing extras who all performed above and beyond our expectations. Never have so many been so splattered and remained so happy.
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LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH.