NEWS

12/04/09

Producer/Editor Todd Miro and I have been workin all week on mastering the DVD. Adding commentary tracks, our 15 minute making-of featurette, deleted scenes and bloopers, a little intro by me asking piraters to please pay if they liked our little indpendent movie...lots of good stuff! Now we're done and it's time to send our baby off to be replicated in the plant. Yea!!!

12/02/09

Received great news today from the Cinefantasy festival in Brazil! We're soooo excited to hear the screening was a success. Drop us a line if you were there; we would loooove to hear from you!!!

"The Brazilian audience loved The Commune, people have talked about on Orkut, Twitter and blogs and the most important magazine (VejaSP) of the city cited The Commune like one of the highlights of the festival. The audience had a great time and the screening was a success! Huge congratulations to all of you for the movie. It’s a great movie!"
Vivi Amaral, Director,
Cinefantasy International Film Festival

11/20/09

Presale orders of the region free DVD have begun! Free shipping for a limited time.

11/08/09
We had our first international screeing today at Cinefantasy in Brazil. Very exciting! Wish we could have been there. Here's what they said about us in their program: "The Commune é uma mistura de mito e mistério, o filme conta sobre uma jovem virgem que se encontra isolada pelos membros da “família” em uma antiga seita religiosa que possui uma sinistra..."

11/18/09
Review by Digital Retribution.

10/26/09

The Commune has won three ACCOLADE AWARDS!

2009 Award of Excellence: Sound Overall Impact
2009 Award of Merit: Art Direction
2009 Award of Merit: Post Production Overall

Congratulations to our amazing production and post production team! Special kudos to Winter, Sharon Knight, and Todd Miro.
The Accolades are given to a select number of independent films that meet a high standard of quality and creativity. Winners receive an Accolade Statuette manufactured by the same company that makes the Oscar and Emmy.
Moviemaker Magazine named The Accolades among the top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee.

10/17/09

We had a wonderful screening at the prestigious La Femme Film Festival here in Los Angeles! It was an empowering gathering of women and the men who love hearing their stories. The closing award ceremony was very inspiring, with great speaches from Diablo Cody, screenplay winner Katie Lee Madonna, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and Marla Gibbs.

Thanks to festival coordinators Donna Hull and Leslie La Page, our fans and team who showed up to support the movie, and all our new festival friends! Viva La Femme!

10/09/09
News by Pretty/Scary

10/08/09

The Commune has won BEST SCENE 2009 from FILM SNOBBERY!

Thanks to editor in chief Nic Baisley for his tireless support of true independent film, and his amazing good taste!

The scene that won is a fan favorite: Puck and Jenny at the river. You can see it here on our Trailer and Clips page.
The cinematography by Marc Shap and crew is gorgeous. The acting by Chauntal Lewis and Emmy-winner David Lago is touching and real. The editing by Todd Miro is clever and unobtrusive. And our renaissance man Winter provided top-notch sound, sound design, and even did the "bad" music in the background (which he named Horned God Rcoks as an in-joke to our team). Congratulations, 'muners!

10/04/09
Review by Screamin' Demon

10/2/09

Press Release: The Commune screens at The Atlanta Horror Fest on its opening night!

Actress Adrian Lee returns to her hometown for Atlanta Horror Fest's feature screening of THE COMMUNE, a psychological thriller ripped from the headlines about a 16-year-old trapped on her estranged dad's commune for the summer. The Huffington Post says THE COMMUNE is "highly recommended".

Scheduled to appear in person are filmmaker Lis Fies, actress Adrian Lee, actor Stephen Wolf, and Executive Producer Brenda Fies. The 11 pm screening is Friday October 2nd, actress Adrian Lee's birthday. Lee is thrilled to see her movie play in the Plaza Theatre, the same moviehouse she enjoyed films in as a child.
09/07/09
Review by Film Snobbery's own Nic Baisley.

09/07/09
Article by Film Snobbery about our rockin' Press Kit!

09/01/09
Article by Jo Blo

08/28/09
Review by THEAction Chick! We love Katrina and G4!

08/23/09
Article by Digital Retribution

08/18/09
Review by Jennifer Holderness at Wildside Cinema.

08/01/09
Had great time being interviewed by Brian Morton at Rogue Cinema.

08/23/09
Review by Jennifer Holderness at Wildside Cinema.

07/11/09
Review by Obscure Horror.

07/09/09
Interview with Brian Kirst at Horror Society.

07/02/09
Review by Julien Fielding at Fielding on Film.

06/21/09
Review by Horror Queen at Best Horror Movies.

06/08/09
Press Release: We have won a Telly Award for Best Use of HD!

06/07/09
Our World Premiere at Dances With Films festival!

06/05/09
Review by Ellen Snortland at The Huffington Post.

06/01/09
Press Release: We are having a pre-screening benefit party for lead actress Chauntal Lewis on 6/06/09.