Shadows in the Sun will be at the Dinard British Film Festival. The festival runs 2nd – 5th October 2008. I’m not sure yet if this will be its premiere.

As soon as I know more I’ll post.

Source: indieWIRE

High Point Films, the film sales division of Carey Fitzgerald’s London based High Point Media Group, has acquired international sales rights to David Rocksavage’s “Shadows in the Sun” and has sold Hanro Smitsman’s “Skin” to Ascot Elite, Germany. “Shadows” stars the Oscar nominated Jean Simmons, as well as James Wilby and Jamie Dornan. The film follows the story of a man who visits his mother on the Norfolk coast and finds himself concerned with her relationship with a mysterious young man. “Skin,” based on true events, is Smitsman’s first feature, having previously won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale for his short, “Klaas.” “Skin” details the Nazi skinhead movement and focuses on Frankie, a teenage son of Jewish Holocaust survivor who slowly gets roped in. High Point also picked up world sales for “Summer Heat,” a Dutch romantic thriller about a magazine photographer who falls in love with a mysterious woman connected to gangsters. Fitzgerald said in a statement, “‘Shadows in the Sun’ is a moving, beautifully realized and ultimately redemptive film about family, memory, forgiveness and love.” Regarding “Skin” and “Summer Heat,” he said the film represented “some of the most exciting talent, both established and fresh, coming out of Holland today.”

Source: indieWIRE

High Point Films, the film sales division of Carey Fitzgerald’s London based High Point Media Group, has acquired international sales rights to David Rocksavage’s “Shadows in the Sun” and has sold Hanro Smitsman’s “Skin” to Ascot Elite, Germany. “Shadows” stars the Oscar nominated Jean Simmons, as well as James Wilby and Jamie Dornan. The film follows the story of a man who visits his mother on the Norfolk coast and finds himself concerned with her relationship with a mysterious young man. “Skin,” based on true events, is Smitsman’s first feature, having previously won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale for his short, “Klaas.” “Skin” details the Nazi skinhead movement and focuses on Frankie, a teenage son of Jewish Holocaust survivor who slowly gets roped in. High Point also picked up world sales for “Summer Heat,” a Dutch romantic thriller about a magazine photographer who falls in love with a mysterious woman connected to gangsters. Fitzgerald said in a statement, “‘Shadows in the Sun’ is a moving, beautifully realized and ultimately redemptive film about family, memory, forgiveness and love.” Regarding “Skin” and “Summer Heat,” he said the film represented “some of the most exciting talent, both established and fresh, coming out of Holland today.”

Source: telegraph.co.uk

The much cherished Hammer Horror film franchise is back with a very 21st-century tale of vampires.

Hammer Horror is back from the dead. Thirty-two years after its last diabolical despatch from the dark side (Christopher Lee disgracing the cloth as a heretic priest in To the Devil… a Daughter), one of the most cherished franchises in British film history is about to return with Beyond the Rave, a blood-spattered tale of vampires on the rampage among hardcore dance fans.

And, while the setting is bang-up-to-date (it’s infused, too, with allusions to the conflict in Iraq), the film is also at the cutting edge of distribution technology. It will be presented in 20 five-minute “webisodes” on the social networking website MySpace, before an eventual release on DVD, and will also be available to download.

A fresh-faced cast, including Jamie Dornan (Marie Antoinette) and Nora-Jane Noone (The Descent) in the lead roles, is augmented by cameo appearances by Sadie Frost, who appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Dracula, and 70-year-old Hammer Horror stalwart Ingrid Pitt (best remembered for The Vampire Lovers).

Veteran DJ/producer Pete Tong is credited with “curating” the music for the film.

Beyond the Rave is the story of Ed (Dornan), a British soldier due to fly out to Iraq, who spends his last day of freedom searching for his missing girlfriend (Noone), last seen in the company of a dubious band of rave devotees. He ends up at a dance party deep in a remote forest in the dead of night. There will be blood. Lots of it.

Dornan says he enjoyed the contrast with his previous role as Count Fersen in Sofia Coppola’s lavish biopic of the high-spirited French queen. “I had just come out of a nice family period drama, and that was partly why I wanted to do something like Beyond the Rave. I was also intrigued by the whole webisode thing.

“The shoot felt a lot faster than anything I’d done before. There was a real buzz on set because everything was so speedy. But then, if you’re going to make an impression in a five-minute episode, it’s got to be pretty sharp. It was new territory for everyone.”

And what about the lashings of gore and the ultra-violence? “Well, it was quite hard to take it seriously when you’re being attacked by a mad vampire wielding two samurai swords.”

Which again is in sharp contrast to Dornan’s next movie – the “all very pretty” Shadows in the Sun, due later this year and featuring the luminous, legendary Jean Simmons in the lead role.

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