Nightcap 5/31/14- NYAFF, Japan Cuts on Monday, Brooklyn FF is happening now, a give to The Rectory reminder and links

Things are starting to heat up with festivals and our regular Sunday slot is being taken by an over view of the Italian Open Roads series,. There is so much in motion that I just want to leave you with a couple of quick notes before the usual onslaught of links.

The films and schedule for the New York Asian Film Festival are up. You can find the information here. Tons of good stuff to be found.

Looking at the schedule I’m not sure how complete our coverage is going to be. The trouble is the multiple locations and summer vacations means some things are not going to get covered. I don’t know what is going to be lost- hopefully not much. I’ll let you know what we’ll be doing once we all hunker down and hash it out

However if you’re in New York at the end and the beginning of July you should make an effort to go see something.

For details and ticket on sale dates you can go here.
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Related to NYAFF is Japan Cuts. While the cross over period with NYAFF has revealed the films they have in common, the full Japan Cuts schedule is coming Monday.

We’ll have details as soon as they are made public.
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The Brooklyn Film Festival is going on and if you’re in the are you might want to drop in. Details can be found here.
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The Recory is still trying to finish up its funding. It’s a great project and if you can spare some cash you best throw it their way.

Here’s my piece on why you should give

Here’s their Indegogo page.
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And now Randi's Links-
On the passing of Herb Jeffries the Bronze Buckaroo
Ethics in the instant news age
Not safe for work-The opening of Ghost in the Shell Live action
Cyperpunk Lego city
No one wants to host the Olympics any more
Warhol shoots the Velvet Underground
The Plasmatics blow up a car
Clive James interviews Roman Polanski
A trip to theTexas Chainsaw Massacre graveyard
Samurai films and Star Wars
Drafts of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy found
Richard III was not a hunchback

Help Jonathan Chance's The Rectory get made.

A year and a half ago Peter Gutierrez sent me an email from Jonathan Chance. He told me that I should contact Jonathan and talk to him about a film he was trying to get made called Something Like Phenomenon,.(the title has been changed to The Rectory) .about a true life investigation into the most haunted place in England. A couple of emails were exchanged between Jonathan and myself and I quickly realized that I needed to do an interview with him. I sent off a long list of questions and Jonathan sent back answers. There were a few more questions and a few more answers. The interview can be found here and its one of the things I’m most proud about doing here at Unseen Films.

For those who want to know what it's all about, this is how Jonathan describes the story at the start of the interview:
The Haunting of Borley Rectory is a British ghost story and local legend shrouded in mystery. I’d say the story goes back to 1667 with a tale of tragedy. There was once a young couple; a Nun and a Priest in love about to elope to be married. This riled up the locals, word spread of this sinful deed and they were murdered, each in cruel sadistic ways. Where they died and the church opposite over the centuries stories emerged; sightings of the Nun, and poltergeist activity etc., not just from the locals but from lawmen, people of power and even local clergy themselves. 1800’s Borley Rectory is built on the spot by Rev. Henry Bull for his growing family. They have their own experiences of phenomena; kids eventually grow up, and move out until finally the house is empty. No one owns it. 1937, Harry Price; first parapsychologist if there ever was one, is drooling to get his teeth into Borley Rectory. He succeeds in leasing the house for a one whole year to run possibly one of the scariest, unsung ghost experiments in modern history. This is where the story will begin.

(If you want more info and haven't done so read the whole interview which is here)

Time marches on and Jonathan and his crew are getting ready to go into production on The Rectory. The trouble is they need a few extra dollars to get through the pre-production so in order to make ends meet they’ve put together an Indegogo campaign to get the money they need. This is something you need to throw some money at. Trust me on this based on the conversations I’ve had about the film and the things I’ve seen you want to be part of this. This is a great story that needs to be made, and made by someone with the talent and passion to do it right. Jonathan Chance is the guy who needs to do it.

Do me a favor and take a look at the Indegogo page and decide for yourself (It’s here). Better yet let me spend your cash for you and strongly suggest that you give a few bucks. Trust me you’ll feel good when you see the finished film.

Again the place to give until it hurts is right here.

The films Facebook page is here
The Twitter page is here..

(Full disclosure I have not yet given money yet- but it’s purely a matter of needing to wait for my credit card billing cycle to roll over)

Coming Soon: Something Like a Phenomenon

Jonathan Chance, a man of many talents and the mind behind the upcoming film Something Like a Phenomenon surprised me a couple days back saying that he had some posters for the film he wanted to share with the Unseen Films readers. Earlier tonight he made good on the promise and sent me the posters you see here.  I really like them both, though truth be told the black one, which seems to hint at the beasties of HP Lovecraft , I find exceptionally cool.

For details on the Something Like a Phenomenon read our Christmas interview with Jonathan Chance.