Variety Review for “Stranger Things”
We are excited to announce that Stranger Things has received a great review from Variety. Adeel Akhtar and Bridget Collins receive praise for their intelligent performances and the film is called delicate, dignified and soulful. Here’s an extract: Shot on the English seaside and with a Dreyer-esque instinct for the complexity and frankness of the […]
Salt Lake Tribune Filmmaker Profile
The Salt Lake Tribune has posted an interview with us about the the making of Stranger Things and… erm…. about making films as a married couple. Click here to check it out.
First Day in Park City
We’ve arrived in frosty Park City, Utah and are busy getting everything ready for Slamdance. We checked in at Filmmaker Registration this morning and put up our posters at the Treasure Mountain Inn a.k.a Slamdance HQ. We were there early and so were able to nab a great spot. Lindsay MacKay, our production manager on […]
Help us get buzz at Slamdance
Even if you’re not sure if you can make it, please help get our film noticed at the Slamdance Film Festival. There are two simple ways you can help us: 1) The boldest and best way you can help us is to join b-side (just click here to register) and then, as a b-side member, […]
Slamdance Schedule is online
We hope to see you at one of the two screenings of Stranger Things at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City this January. Stranger Things will be in competition at the festival and will be screened with the short film Mam. Here are our screening times: January 21, 2011 @ 12:30PM January 25, 2011 […]
Happy New Year and Happy New Newsletter
A huge THANK YOU to our supporters, fans, cast and crew for your support over the last year. It’s been a very exciting period for us with the film and we’re looking forward to continuing the adventure in the new year. There’s much more to come. Our first act of 2011 is to improve our […]
Slamdance here we come
Great news! Stranger Things will be screening in competition at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival. You may remember that our short Ruth & Maggie (which also starred Bridget Collins and Victoria Jeffrey) premiered at Slamdance in 2006. We had an amazing time there and are delighted to return with our feature. The festival takes place […]
“Four Lions” US Release
Chris Morris’s controversial comedy Four Lions is opening in cinemas in select cities in the US this Friday, including the Angelika in New York. Our very own Adeel Akhtar is hilarious in the film as Faisal, the most hapless of suicide bombers. Four Lions recently received five nominations for the British Independent Film Awards. . […]
Excellent review of “Stranger Things”
Matthew Connolly of the Times Herald-Record, who saw “Stranger Things” at Woodstock, has given it an “excellent” rating in his review. Connolly writes: A nuanced and perfectly-proportioned character study, Stranger Things attunes itself to those small shifts in trust and temperament that occur when two strangers first discover a shared connection. Here, that recognition becomes […]
Filmmaker Magazine on Woodstock Win
Scott Macaulay has posted a mention of our Woodstock Best Feature Award on the Filmmaker Magazine blog. Scott picked us for the 25 New Faces of Independent Film list in 2009 after seeing a cut at the IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab. He writes about “Stranger Things”: This is a beautiful, delicate, and extremely well directed […]