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Cinema Retro has received the following press release:

The 2015 Portland Film Festival is Oregon’s largest film event of the year, with 80 narrative and documentary feature films and 134 short films selected out of 3500 Submissions.

This weeklong extravaganza also includes over 75 Master Classes, Two Lifetime Achievement Tributes, and an unprecedented live event featuring Several Thousand Festivalgoers As Extras in a record-setting Zombie Day Event.

Los Angeles – August 13, 2015 – Portland Film Festival announced today the feature film competition programs, opening and closing screenings, music and midnight sections, tribute presentations, northwest, and special screenings for the 2015 Portland Film Festival. The 3rd Annual festival is a weeklong event of 214 screenings of feature length and short films from around the world, red carpet world premieres, tributes to filmmaking legends, more than 50 hours of professional workshops, nightly after-parties and more.

The third annual Portland Film Festival will take place September 1 – 7th, 2015, in Portland, Oregon, at seven venues throughout the city,...

The third annual Portland Film Festival happens from September 1st through 7th this year. With a program featuring 80 narrative and documentary feature films and 134 short films the festival announced their feature film competition programs, opening and closing screenings, music and midnight sections, tribute presentations, northwest, and special screenings.The narrative program will include World Premieres of Sridhar Reddy's 6 Angry Women, Hooroo Jackson's Aimy in a Cage, Heather de Michele's As Good As You, Sophie Mathisen's Drama, and Tebogo Malope's For Love & Broken Bones."Portland audiences are the most enthusiastic, film-savvy crowds in the nation, and we're proud to bring them a stellar festival schedule this year.  We've created an incredibly diverse and large program of films and events that honor cinema legends, celebrate new approaches and experimentation in film,...

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The Portland Film Festival's (September 1-7) competitions, opening and closing screenings and special presentations lineups have landed. The festival will take over the city at seven venues to screen world and regional premieres, and treat festgoers to after-parties, red carpets and tributes to film legends. Plus, there's a special Labor Day event inviting audiences to appear as extras on the set of George Cameron Romero's "Zombie Day Apocalypse." Herewith the full lineup: Narrative Competition 10 films to celebrate the best of independent cinema by filmmakers who push the boundaries with imagination and style. 6 Angry Women / U.S. (Director: Sridhar Reddy, Screenwriters: Alexandra Bennett, Barbara Figgins, Katelin Healy, Danielle McConnell, Fawzia Mirza, Alison Plott, Sridhar Reddy) A young, unarmed black teenager is shot by a white neighborhood watchman, and it is up to a jury of six women to determine if the man is guilty of murder. Cast: Alexandra Bennett,...

Talk about a dream wedding! Can you imagine not only marrying the love of your life, but also having John Legend serenade you for your first dance? Lucky for Sunitha and Sridhar Reddy, this was their reality! As the couple took the floor, "Grammy Award winner John Legend" was announced over the speakers, and Legend himself suavely walked up to the piano at the stage. He tapped the piano keys and launched into his well-known hit "All of Me." At one point during the performance, the groom lifted his bride and spun her around the dance floor--the perfect way to punctuate such a sweet moments. Of course, this isn't the first wedding that has featured the vocal stylings of John...

Paul Pope has revealed his directorial debut 7x6x2.

Sridhar Reddy served as co-writer and co-director on the Battling Boy creator's project, which debuted on BoingBoing.

7x6x2 is set in an alien desert where a serviceman is repairing a terraforming robot.

He and a young surveyor are attacked by seven supposedly extinct rock monsters in the middle of the night.

Pope also created the score with musician Ben Rubin.

He is currently working on a graphic novella adaptation of 7x6x2.

The film was made in partnership with Tribeca Digital Studios and Sony, and shot with the Sony F55 camera prototype.

Reddy is also adapting The One Trick Rip-Off. Pope is involved in a feature based on Battling Boy.

It's time to check out a sexy and creepy new trailer for Sridhar Reddy's new horror flick 'Lilith'. Julia Voth -below ('Bitch Slap') stars as Sarah Wilson who begins getting supernatural visions of her dead sister and awakes in a frightening building full of ruddy demons. Lili Reinhart, Nancy Telzerow, Bianca Christians, Spencer Jay Kim, Lauren Ondecker and Jeremy Kendall co-star. Check out the full plot, trailer and head on over to the official Facebook page for more!...

The trailer for the latest indie film from director Sridhar Reddy is here, and it takes us straight to hell. Just without all the excess heat and pitchforking. Check it out!

Lilith stars Bitch Slap's Julia Voth. Be sure to head on over to the director's Lilith blog, where he shares his thoughts on the film's genesis and a whole lot more. Dig on an excerpt below along with some really cool eye candy.

"The concept was to have a large, creepy building where each floor served as a ring of hell, and Satan was in a chest freezer in the basement morgue. The concept was vague and lacked a clear protagonist and antagonist (hell is a force of antagonism, not an antagonist itself), and by nature The Inferno was a passive, observational story, but something about it felt right. Can't really tell you why, but it did. After many days of soul searching,...

After a bunch of teases on a hidden blog, filmmaker Sridhar Reddy is gearing up for Afm by releasing the first official plot details and teaser trailer for Lilith, which stars Julia Voth as a woman traveling through the several levels of Hell. "Contemporary take on Dante's 'Inferno,' 'Lilith' is the story of Sarah Wilson, who finds herself haunted by visions of her tragically murdered younger sister, Lilith. After a night of surreal terror, Sarah is led by her visions of her dead sister into a hellish labyrinth populated by bloodthirsty demons and bedeviled ghosts from her past. Her journey into darkness forces Sarah to confront painful secrets and her innermost fears, and her path back to reality is one fraught with terror, sadness and deception."...

Sridhar Reddy had many of us curious about his upcoming feature film, Lilith , when we discovered some images and early poster art on his blog . It's that spot where we found a sales trailer - prepped for the American Film Market next week - for Lilith , giving us a first look at star Julia Voth ( Bitch Slap ) in action. Described as a contemporary take on Dante's "Inferno," Lilith is the story of Sarah Wilson, who finds herself haunted by visions of her tragically murdered younger sister, Lilith. After a night of surreal terror, Sarah is led by her visions of her dead sister into a hellish labyrinth populated by bloodthirsty demons and bedeviled ghosts from her past. Her journey into darkness forces Sarah to confront painful secrets and her innermost fears,...

A new indie horror film is crawling our way from Sridhar Reddy which, if we do say so ourselves, looks pretty bitchin'. One look at the imagery and concept art inside, and we think you'll agree.

Check out some stills from the film, entitled Lilith, which stars Bitch Slap's Julia Voth, below. And be sure to head on over to the director's Lilith blog, where he shares his thoughts on the film's genesis and a whole lot more. Dig on an excerpt below along with some really cool eye candy.

"The concept was to have a large, creepy building where each floor served as a ring of hell, and Satan was in a chest freezer in the basement morgue. The concept was vague and lacked a clear protagonist and antagonist (hell is a force of antagonism, not an antagonist itself), and by nature The Inferno was a passive, observational story,...

Sridhar Reddy has been in post-production on an indie horror film entitled Lilith for a number of months now and it officially landed on my radar this morning. Julia Voth ( Bitch Slap ) toplines the cast and, while exploring Reddy's blog for the film, we've found some screen grabs, a commissioned poster and his thoughts on the story's genesis. "The concept was to have a large, creepy building where each floor served as a ring of hell, and Satan was in a chest freezer in the basement morgue. The concept was vague and lacked a clear protagonist and antagonist (hell is a force of antagonism, not an an antagonist itself), and by nature The Inferno was a passive, observational story, but something about it felt right. Can't really tell you why, but it did. After many days of soul...