SHOW & GROW: September 27th, Blood Junkies
by Meghan Scibona
Register Now, Space is Limited!
Blood Junkies, by NYWIFT member Meghan Scibona,
co-directed with Don Downie
82 minute feature
The program will begin at 5:30 with refreshments and socializing at:
Splash Studios, 49 West 23rd St, NYC
http://www.splash-studios.com/main.html
Alison McMahan will moderate.
Seating is limited to fifteen people so you MUST RSVP to:
[email protected]
in order to attend.
Synopsis:
Rescuing lost kids is social worker Charity Miller’s job. But it becomes an obsession when she encounters the impossible — a runaway who looks exactly like her big sister Hope, unchanged since her disappearance 20 years earlier. Despite her instincts, Charity follows her sister into a derelict Brooklyn building inhabited by mysterious young addicts. Charity needs to save Hope. But nothing is easy in a den full of vampires, addicted to human blood. These Blood Junkies have no intention of
allowing her to leave their nest alive. And a maniacal stalker from Hope’s past has plans of his own.
Website: http://www.thebloodjunkies.com/
Interview with the directors in Fangoria magazine:
http://www.thebloodjunkies.com/news.html
About the Filmmakers:
Meghan Scibona - Director (NYWIFT member) is a director and producer.
Her director/producer credits include the Nickelodeon web series "Exit Strategy"; the series "podOpera Brooklyn" and "Wing Women"(all three co-directed with SMXL partner Don Downie); numerous short
films, an experimental feature "Tag, You're It" and a sitcom pilot "Aspiring Line". She line-produced the feature "Ghost Club” in Atlanta, about a popular ghost hunting reality TV show gone horribly wrong.
Meghan’s next directing project is a feature length romantic comedy (in development). She is currently producing a feature length documentary called "The Price of Power" with award winning director Scott Colthorp. Meghan has worked at Focus Features in the development department and at the Tribeca Film Festival in the press department.
Meghan and her four partners run Small Media Extra Large, a creative content and digital video production company; and interactive studio. http://smallmediaxl.com/
Don Downie - Director is a Brooklyn-based Director and Cinematographer.
A veteran of the digital filmmaking revolution, he integrates a strong background in creative arts with a deep understanding of the technical aspects of production. He has more than 12 years of NYC production experience.
Some of Don’s recent directing work includes the TeenNick web series “Exit Strategy,” the interactive soap opera “podOpera Brooklyn,” (both co-directed with SMXL partner Meghan Scibona); the TV pilot “Twenty-Anything,” and a live theatre and video installation for The Public Theatre’s 365 Days/365 Plays.
Don has filmed commercials, industrials, short films, countless Internet videos, and TV material for Saturday Night Live, all the major networks, and a few minor ones. He is an expert in using small media to tell big stories. Don is a partner in a hybrid film / interactive studio called Small Media Extra Large.
ABOUT SHOW AND GROW
A Focus Group for your Rough Cut By filmmakers for filmmakers
Show and Grow is the test-screening and feedback program, and member benefit that NYWIFT offers to its members. Any member who has worked in any capacity on a film can bring in a rough cut to screen to a small audience. The audience then fills out especially prepared questionnaires, followed by a discussion moderated by NYWIFT member, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film scholar Alison McMahan, www.HomunculusProds.com
Show and Grow events are held at the screening room of our sponsor, the full-service audio post-production studio Splash Studios, 49 West 23rd Street , 6th Floor, NY, NY 10010. (212) 271-8747
http://www.splash-studios.com/main.html