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In the new series, Found Footage Finds, filmmaker Chris Vander Kaay creates a one-of-a-kind experience for found footage fans as he chronicles the history of the subgenre. With a five-episode first season, Vander Kaay and partner We Are Your Neon, LLC, craft something perfect for fans of in-world camera.

Ahead of the series’ premiere on Found TV, we have an exclusive clip from episode three that chronicles the history of using the zombie within the found footage subgenre.

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The new series won’t just feature Vander Kaay. There will also be interviews with filmmakers such as Lesley Manning (Ghostwatch), Corey Grant (Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes), Michelle Iannantuono (Livescream), Dillon Brown (Tahoe Joe), Richard Rapphorst (Frankenstein’s Army), and many more. The series also features key insights from experts and superfans, like author Grady Hendrix (How to Sell a Haunted House), film scholar Preston Fassel, and Voices from the Mausoleum channel founder Angel Krause.

Filmmaker Chris Vander Kaay has partnered with We Are Your Neon, LLC, to bring found footage fans a new show unlike anything else: a recommendation series for all things found footage and fake documentary. Found Footage Finds is a docuseries presented in found footage style that explores the vast and varied history of found footage filmmaking, sharing hidden gems and forgotten titles, and getting behind-the-scenes stories of many of these films from interviews with the filmmakers themselves.

Filmmaker interviews include Lesley Manning (Ghostwatch), Corey Grant (Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes), Michelle Iannantuono (Livescream), Dillon Brown (Tahoe Joe), Richard Rapphorst (Frankenstein’s Army), and many more. The series also features key insights from experts and superfans such as author Grady Hendrix (How to Sell a Haunted House), film scholar Preston Fassel, and Voices from the Mausoleum channel founder Angel Krause.

Found Footage Finds will have its exclusive season one premiere on Found TV,...

Ghostwatch, a 1992 BBC film, blurred the line between fact and fiction, influencing films like Late Night with the Devil. The film presented a live investigation into a haunted house, using real BBC personalities and advanced technology to create a sense of reality. Ghostwatch sparked mass panic in England, leading to its banning and the tragic death of a teenager who believed the film's demonic entity possessed him.

In the early days of cinema, the dividing line between fact and fiction was crystal clear. Outside the odd occurrence like the infamous War of the Worlds controversy instigated by a young Orson Welles in the 1930s, audiences generally took for granted that what they heard on the radio and what they saw on television was, more often than not, make-believe. As technology (not to mention storytelling ingenuity) advanced, that line became harder and harder to differentiate.

Many will point to a film...

Every movie genre happens to have its offshoots, but horror gave origin to the most exciting ones. The horror genre has gone through major changes throughout the years: back in the early 20th century, there was a domineering presence of the supernatural through the figures of classical monsters such as the vampire, the werewolf, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Mummy. With time, people realized that humans can be just as scary.

As filmmakers discovered new ways to scare audiences, the horror genre has split into a string of different approaches and styles. To label a film simply as horror doesn't say much about the story nowadays, especially with the advent of what's known as "elevated horror," a fairly new subgenre that rejects traditional horror elements, using it merely as a tool to amp up the film's dark psychological charge. When it comes to terrifying audiences, some subgenres have stood out...

Outgoing BFI festivals director Tricia Tuttle has joined the National Film And Television School as Acting Head of Department for the directing fiction course.

Tuttle’s role at the Nfts will be part-time until she completes her duties at the BFI following BFI Flare, the organization’s Lgbtqia+ film festival, in March, at which point she will join the film school on a full-time basis.

Tuttle stepped down as festivals director at the BFI in October 2021 after a decade working for the organization. For the past five years, she has led the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare. Last year, under Tuttle’s directorship, the London Film Festival screened 164 feature films, including 23 premieres across film and TV, with highlights including the world premiere of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio and the international premiere of She Said, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan.

Tuttle was previously Deputy Head of Festivals...

On Halloween night 1992, the BBC switchboard became inundated with an estimated one million phone calls related to a now-infamous TV broadcast. Convincingly filmed as a live news report—even featuring recognizable BBC presenters Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene and Mike “Smitty” Smith—Ghostwatch convinced a wide swath of the British populace (reportedly including Parkinson’s own mother) that a real-life possession was unfolding in front of their eyes, and that a demonic entity was being channeled through their own screens. Though programmed as part of the network’s narrative anthology series Screen One, many viewers tuned into the program after the identifiable drama banner […]

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On Halloween night 1992, the BBC switchboard became inundated with an estimated one million phone calls related to a now-infamous TV broadcast. Convincingly filmed as a live news report—even featuring recognizable BBC presenters Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene and Mike “Smitty” Smith—Ghostwatch convinced a wide swath of the British populace (reportedly including Parkinson’s own mother) that a real-life possession was unfolding in front of their eyes, and that a demonic entity was being channeled through their own screens. Though programmed as part of the network’s narrative anthology series Screen One, many viewers tuned into the program after the identifiable drama banner […]

The post Gender Biases, Ghoulish Visages and “Jazzy” Broaches: Director Lesley Manning on Ghostwatch 30 Years On first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

London punk outfit Chubby and the Gang have released a new song, “I Hate the Radio,” from their upcoming album, The Mutt’s Nuts, out August 27th via Partisan.

“I Hate the Radio” is a lovelorn tune that finds the band ditching their typical loud and fast rock & roll sound for gentler, janglier tones more reminiscent of Sixties pop, as well as Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. “Now all the violins and choirs don’t sound the same,” sings frontman Charles “Chubby” Manning Walker. “Every time I hear that beat,...

Drama written, directed by team behind controversial BBC documentary Ghostwatch.

Toby Kebbell has been cast as twin brothers in sci-fi film Extrasensory from Genesius Pictures.

Lesley Manning directs from an original screenplay by Bafta-winning writer Stephen Volk.

The duo worked together on Ghostwatch, the infamous drama-mockumentary presented by Michael Parkinson that received over 30,000 complaints when it aired on BBC1 in 1992.

Kebbell plays twin brothers who are recruited for a top-secret experiment by Soviet Russia to test the power of telepathic communication.

Harry Gregson Williams (The Martian, Prometheus) will write the score. Produced by Debbie Gray (Northern Soul) and Myf Hopkins, former head of production at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Extrasensory has been developed with and is supported by Film Cymru Wales.

Shooting will commence in late October 2017.

Genesius has also announced that Elbow front man Guy Garvey and I Am Kloot’s Peter Jobson have written the score for upcoming comedy drama The More You Ignore Me, starring...

Craig Lines Oct 31, 2016

24 years after infamous UK horror TV event Ghostwatch aired on the BBC, we chat to its director Lesley Manning...

Although Ghostwatch aired in 1992 and was never shown again on TV, its legacy endures. From the excellent Behind The Curtains documentary to its frequent appearances on “Scariest Moments” lists, people love to talk about what still remains the most controversial drama in broadcast history (and retains the record number of viewer complaints).

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To celebrate the BBC releasing it, at last, through their online store, Den Of Geek talked with director Lesley Manning about making the programme and its enduring influence…

How does it feel that every few years, so many people want to talk to you about Ghostwatch?

Well, because Stephen [Volk, writer] and I felt like lepers for a few years afterwards,...

Craig Lines Oct 31, 2016

We chatted to Rich Lawden, the maker of documentary Ghostwatch: Behind The Curtains, about the haunting legacy of Pipes...

When Ghostwatch screened on BBC1 in 1992, it received a record number of complaints from viewers who were upset, shocked, terrified or angry about it. Worried that perhaps they had gone too far, the BBC refused to rebroadcast it and, as a result of its relative obscurity, the show took on a near-mythical cult status. However, one young viewer it made a huge impression on was Rich Lawden who, twenty years later, would release a passionate and comprehensive documentary (Ghostwatch: Behind The Curtains) that covered everything you could ever want to know about the programme but were afraid to ask.

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With both Ghostwatch and Behind The Curtains released this...

Exclusive: Virginia Woolf adaptation Flush is being sold in Cannes.

Joseph Fiennes is to make his feature directorial debut on the Virginia Woolf adaptation Flush, one of several titles from London-based production company Genesius that The Little Film Company is touting to Cannes buyers.

Flush is scheduled to shoot in the UK at the end of the year and centres on a jealous cocker spaniel that tries to come between its owner and her lover when they plan to elope.

Debbie Gray of Genesius produces and Ellen Little and Genesius’ Julian Gleek are executive producers.

The slate includes The Ladykiller, which Tim Fywell is lining up to direct in September based on Martina Cole’s crime thriller.

Gray produces with Cole and Chris Whiteside, while Gleek handles executive producer duties.

Lesley Manning will direct sci-fi thriller Extrasensory, about twins involved in a secret Russian space mission. Gray produces with Gleek on board as executive producer.

Principal photography...

The 16th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival announced its line-up in a press conference today.

Here is the complete list of films which will be screened at the festival:-

International Competition

Difret

Dir.: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari (Ethiopia / 2014 / Col / 99)

History of Fear (Historia del miedo)

Dir.: Benjamin Naishtat (Argentina-France-Germany-Qatar-Uruguay / 2014 / Col / 79)

With Others (Ba Digaran)

Dir.: Nasser Zamiri (Iran / 2014 / Col / 85)

The Tree (Drevo)

Dir.: Sonja Prosenc (Slovenia / 2014 / Col / 90)

Next to Her (At li layla)

Dir.: Asaf Korman (Israel / 2014 / Col / 90)

Schimbare

Dir.: Alex Sampayo (Spain / 2014 / Col / 87)

Fever

Dir.: Raphaël Neal (France / 2014 / Col / 81)

Court

Dir.: Chaitanya Tamhane (India (Marathi-Gujarati-English-Hindi) / 2014 / Col / 116)

Macondo

Dir.: Sudabeh Mortezai (Austria / 2014 / Col / 98)

India Gold Competition 2014

The Fort (Killa)

Dir.: Avinash Arun (India (Marathi) / 2014 / Col / 107)

Unto the Dusk

Dir.: Sajin Baabu (India (Malayalam) / 2014 / Col / 118)

Names Unknown (Perariyathavar)

Dir.: Dr. Biju (India (Malayalam) / 2014 / Col / 110)

Buddha In a Traffic Jam

Dir.

As we’ve seen here in the first few weeks of 2014, the landscape of the horror genre is absolutely flooded with found footage movies, and we primarily have two movies to thank/blame for that; The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity.

While 1999’s Blair Witch Project is often credited as the first horror movie made in the Pov found footage style, such a claim is actually quite untrue. Though Blair Witch is no doubt the movie that popularized the style, and Paranormal Activity the one that re-invented it and brought it into a new decade, there were actually a handful of found footage films that came out well before the horrifying tale of the witch in the woods.

Here are seven of those handheld horror movies, which all predate The Blair Witch Project!

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) - Theatrical Trailer

Cannibal Holocaust – 1980

What’s the very first found footage movie ever made?...

Exclusive: Keanu Reeves has been approached to star in Antti J. Jokinen’s thriller The Criminal about organised crime in Finland and Russia.

Pitching the project at the first edition of the Northern Seas Film Forum (Nsff) in St Petersburg at the weekend, producer Markus Selin of Solar Films Inc. Oy and director Jokinen said that they are speaking to the Matrix star about headlining the crime thriller which is set to shoot next year.

The Criminal is based on interviews conducted with Russian and Finnish felons over the past four years and has the Organised Crime Unit of the Finnish Police now serving as an advisor on the screenplay.

Selin revealed that Ireland’s Subotica Films is already onboard as a co-producer and he is now looking for a Russian company to join the production.

The $16m (€12m) production would shoot in Helsinki, Dublin and St Petersburg in Russian and Finnish with the English actors speaking...

Ghostwatch

Stars: Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Craig Charles, Mike Smith, Gillian Bevan | Written by Stephen Volk | Directed by Lesley Manning

Back in 1992, in the halcyon days before Paranormal Activity, The Blair Witch Project and Most Haunted, the BBC used Michael Parkinson to terrify the nation in a one-off TV special called Ghostwatch. Viewers were invited to watch as real-life presenters including Sarah Greene and Craig Charles investigated the spooky goings on in ‘Britain’s most haunted house’ in the hopes of either a few cheap thrills (mostly provided by a hammily hateable Charles) or the uncovering of a hoax, but over 90 minutes they got a hell of a lot more.

Let’s get the bad out of the way first: Ghostwatch has not been treated well by either time or a DVD release. The twenty years since its first broadcast have seen a meteoric rise and fall of found-footage films...

Ghostwatch is twenty years old this Hallowe’en and one man’s mission to reunite the creative forces behind the spellbinding and rightly famous broadcast is almost at an end.

I’ve written about the show before for a seasonal Video Vault and had the chance to talk with writer Stephen Volk about Ghostwatch and the resurgence of the found footage subgenre which came after it. Trawling through the Horror category of your local Netflix and Lovefilm emporium you can’t escape the fact that for every Blair Witch Project there are a dozen Paranormal Entities; the method of filming has unfairly become shorthand for lazy, reductive filmmaking.

When Ghostwatch appeared it was the first time the (then) modern idiom of the outside broadcast and studio bound ‘reality’ TV show was subverted. Friendly presenters and a bank of phone-in desks were commonplace on the Beeb back then and though the...

By Erin Lashley, MoreHorror.com

When Michael Calls - 1972

Helen begins receiving phone calls from a troubled child who claims to be her nephew Michael. The problem is that Michael died fifteen years ago.

Phone calls from beyond the grave are bad enough, and these sound mighty eerie, if you are affected by sounds in horror films the way that I am. But what really has the potential to be chilling is the idea that, if it’s not a ghost calling, then someone has to be absolutely batshit crazy to perpetrate a hoax like this. Not only that, but they’ve managed to coerce a living child into making the phone calls.

Michael Douglas is here in an early role, and if you’re a fan of Falling Down then you know that he does disturbed characters very well.

When Michael Calls stars Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, and Michael Douglas,...

The Awakening is a welcome return to the big screen for writer Stephen Volk, self proclaimed ‘tub-thumper’ for the horror genre and the man behind the acclaimed small screen horrorshows Afterlife and Ghostwatch.

His new film (out in UK cinemas tomorrow ) was directed by Nick Murphy and is as far from the Death-by-irony gorefests which litter the horror landscape of the last ten years as can be. It is a proper character based ghost story which I enjoyed immensely and has Rebecca Hall and Dominic West investigating the supposed supernatural death of a boy at a remote boarding school.

Our conversation took place on Hallowe’en, nineteen years to the day since his celebrated and controversial TV drama Ghostwatch aired and I couldn’t begin the conversation without talking about the huge impact it has had on the depiction and popularity of the supernatural on TV.

During the conversation we...

Director: Lesley Manning Writer: Lesley Manning Starring: Chloë Annett, Lee Boardman, Dorothy Duffy, Orlando Seale Leila (Chloë Annett) and Paul (Lee Boardman) have developed some serious trust and jealousy issues over the course of their marriage. For the first act of this dire tale of festering emotions, they seem to try to hold themselves together for the sake of their two children; but as Paul grows increasingly suspicious that Leila is cheating on him, Leila attempts to explain to him that it is all in his head. The situation really spirals out of control as various items around the house begin to go missing, and for whatever reason Paul gets blamed. Clandestine text messages on cellphones and the appearance of a new video camera might become clues to unravel the mystery of who in this relationship is battier...or maybe they are just red herrings? But then the question of...

By Sean O’Connell

Hollywoodnews.com: A handful of stellar titles with Oscar aspirations have been programmed into this year’s Austin Film Festival schedule, which begins on Oct. 20 with an as-yet-unnamed Opening Night selection.

In between, Aff audiences will get their first looks at Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants,” Steve McQueen’s “Shame,” Lynne Ramsay’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” Rodrigo Garcia’s “Albert Nobbs” and Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene” – all films with awards hopes that will screen as part of the festival’s Marquee category.

“We’re proud to be taking our program in some exciting new directions while maintaining our focus on strong writing and engaging stories,” said new Film Programmers Stephen Jannise and Stephen Belyeu.

In addition, the fest has set up special screenings of “Toy Story” (presented by John Lasseter), an “Edward Scissorhands” screening, and a tribute to Polly Platt...

It's safe to say that British helmer Lesley Manning came to public attention in the early 1990's with "Ghostwatch," a TV show about hauntings which was passed on as a real broadcast event (a la "War of the Worlds"). For years Manning has continued to work in television, expanding into film a few years ago with the film adaptation of Martin Wagner's The Agent (I film I've never heard of, never mind seen) but when it was announced that for her next film Manning would be taking on a sci-fi thriller which would star Miranda Richardson, Sam Neill, Natalie Press and Cillian Murphy, she caught my attention.

Written by Stephen Volk (who she worked with in "Ghostwatch"), Telepathy is based in an idea as old as science: that identical twins share a bond that goes beyond blood. Here are the details on the premise:

A pair of identical twins...

Paris -- The 19th Dinard Festival of British Film will open with the 1999 movie "My Life So Far," as part of a tribute to director Hugh Hudson.

Hudson is due in the Brittany beach resort to introduce a retrospective of his films including the multiple Oscar-winning Olympic tale "Chariots of Fire" and the Tarzan adaptation "Greystoke." There also will be a retrospective on the films based on Daphne Du Maurier's work, including Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca" and "The Birds" and Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now."

Six independent British films will compete for Dinard's Golden Hitchcock Trophy. The Anglo-French jury this year is presided over by Gallic actor Lambert Wilson.

Other French premiere screenings scheduled include "The Duchess," directed by Saul Dibb and starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes; Steve McQueen's hard-hitting Bobby Sands prison drama, "Hunger"; and Terence Davies' poetic ode to Liverpool, "Of Time and the City.

Craig Lines Oct 27, 2016

The 'live' broadcast Ghostwatch scared many people witless back in 1992. It's still spooking Craig right to this day...

Like many who are old enough to remember Halloween 1992, I watched Ghostwatch when it aired on BBC1 and was just the right age; poised somewhere between old enough to love it and young enough to believe it was real. I was staying over at a friend's house and his mum had no problem letting us stay up late. We were giddy with excitement because we already loved all things supernatural and the possibility of seeing actual, real live ghosts on actual, real live TV was irresistible. Never mind that it was billed quite clearly as a fictionalised drama. Like a significant slice of the UK population, I conveniently missed the writer's credit at the start and bought into the conceit hook, line and sinker...

The premise involved a team of TV presenters (Michael Parkinson,...

Production Weekly reports Cillian Murphy and Natalie Press are set to join Miranda Richardson and Sam Neill in the sci-fi thriller Telepathy. British filmmaker Lesley Manning directs the indie project, which tells the story of two identical twins abducted by the Russian government as part of a top-secret program to test the powers of ESP as a way to make contact in space. Stephen Volk penned the screenplay. Shooting is expected to start in October.

LONDON -- Fast-rising British star Natalie Press has been cast opposite Cillian Murphy in Telepathy, producer Beyond Films said Monday. Press, who secured a London Film Critics Circle award for her portrayal of Mona in the BAFTA-winning My Summer Of Love, will star alongside Miranda Richardson and Sam Neill. The movie details the story of estranged identical twin brothers involved in a Russian space experiment and their relationship with the woman who threatens to tear them apart, played by Press. Directed by Lesley Manning, production is scheduled to begin in October. Press was attending the Festival de Cannes over the weekend for the In Competition screening of Andrea Arnold's Red Road. She is repped by Lindy King of PFD in London and Jason Weinberg of Untitled in LA.