The KILLER RACK Rollout

One year ago, I was in the middle of the shoot for KILLER RACK (we shot on weekends in August and September).  This summer flew by for me, thanks to paying gigs on TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES and Fred Olen Ray's TRIAL (more on that when it premieres on TV - my daughter Kaelin will be seen by millions), and now here we are on te cusp of September, aka film festival season.

I typically submit my films - if I submit them at all - to only a handful of festivals; I'm more focused on secring DVD distribution.  For me, film festival season usually means the endless hours of work I devote to Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival.  But I've come t respect and admire a lot of filmmakers who have traveled to Buffalo for my fest, and I decided to take the plunge with KILLER RACK...in part because it's a comedy, and comedies should be seen with an audienc whenver possibe, and in part because I think audiences will love it.

So far, we're doing quite well: we've had about 10 rejections and 5 acceptances - a very high acceptance rate, believe it or not.  And there are still 35 more to hear from!  Here's what I can report so far:

We will have our world premiere at the Scare-a-Con Film Festival, held in conjunction with Scare-a-Con The Convention, in Verona, NY (about three hours away from Buffalo).  The con is Sept. 11th - 13th, and I'm told we'll screen twice.  We've been nominated for Best Feature, Best Actress (Jessica Zwolak), and Best Director.  Hey, that's me!  I think I've only been nominated for Best Director once before, for SLIME CITY MASSACRE at PollyGrind.  I didn't win, but SCM did win Best Feature, which was even better.  After a decade as a publuished novelist, I know how meaningless awards are, but he truth is film festival laurels are important to the marketing of a film.

We have also been accepted to The Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival in Belfast, Ireland, and the Fright Night Theatre Film Festival in Hamilton, Ontario.  International, baby!  We've also received word on two more festivals - big ones - but we can't announce until they do.  And tehre will be a bunch more next week.  So we'r doing well on that front.

The reviews have started to land as well.  They have been gratifying to say the least.  Here are the first three.

Dread Media (podcast):

http://www.earth-2.net/podcasts/dreadmedia/episodes/dreadmedia_416.mp3

Really Awful Movies (web text):

http://reallyawfulmovies.com/

We Live Film (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ottsx1muG0&feature=youtu.be