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Production studio Wavelength has announced its official sponsorship of the Yellow Springs Film Festival. From the press release: On Sunday, October 6, 2024, at 1:45 Pm Et, Wavelength, in partnership with Ysff, will host its first-ever Wave Grant showcase featuring short films from Wave Grant alumni including Ana Verde’s Te Llaman Las Olas (The Waves Call You), Geena Hernandez’s Chicks, Sofia and Andrea Riba’s American Girl, Hannah Patterson’s Late to the Party, Amanda Gordon’s Sugar Honey, Leena Kurishingal’s No Escape, and Neha Aziz’s So, That Happened. The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Wavelength’s Head of […]

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Production studio Wavelength has announced its official sponsorship of the Yellow Springs Film Festival. From the press release: On Sunday, October 6, 2024, at 1:45 Pm Et, Wavelength, in partnership with Ysff, will host its first-ever Wave Grant showcase featuring short films from Wave Grant alumni including Ana Verde’s Te Llaman Las Olas (The Waves Call You), Geena Hernandez’s Chicks, Sofia and Andrea Riba’s American Girl, Hannah Patterson’s Late to the Party, Amanda Gordon’s Sugar Honey, Leena Kurishingal’s No Escape, and Neha Aziz’s So, That Happened. The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Wavelength’s Head of […]

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Filmmakers have many remarkable superpowers. The ability to create kaleidoscope fractals of terrifying credit card debt. The ability to turn any friendship into a stark transactional binary. The ability to blot out the very sun itself with the G&e crew’s interlocking vape exhalations.

Most impressively, filmmakers have the ability to take some abstract, internal element of the human experience and physicalize it into something photographable and dramatic. Sure: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But sometimes in movies, a cigar is actually the memory of your dead father, a metaphor for America’s self-immolation, or—occasionally—a penis.

Of course, a reliable way to transmute emotions and anxieties into something tangible, visible and narratively propulsive is to lean on metaphysics and the supernatural. Just look at the prestige horror boom of the last 15 years, which has turned grief and despair into ghosts and haunted houses so often it’s become cliche.

Exclusive: Wavelength, the production company behind such films as On Swift Horses and Cusp, has revealed the 2023 recipients of its Wave Grant. Amanda Gordon, Karine Benzaria, Leena Kurishingal, Melina Kyomi Coumas and Neha Aziz each will receive $5,000 to create their first short film alongside production mentorship from Wavelength’s executive team. Read a bio for each recipient below.

The Wave Grant, which stands for “Women at the Very Edge,” aims to help a first-time female or non-binary filmmaker of color with the production of their first short documentary or narrative film (under 30 minutes). In addition to the $5,000 grant, Wavelength will provide mentorship in the producing, development and post-production of the filmmaker’s story as well as fundraising and distribution strategy.

“Each year, we are in awe of the outstanding talent that the Wave Grant attracts,” said Jenifer Westphal, Founder, CEO and Executive Producer at Wavelength. “This year’s class of...

You always have to love a movie whose title also doubles for the plot synopsis. Such a case is Fast Zombies With Guns. For all of you out there who hate zombies that can run, this time they can run and shoot.

"Collateral damage ... sometimes it's unavoidable. Paul Varlo's (Charles Ramsey) attempt to kill the man who is going to rat him out by poisoning his water supply leads to an outbreak of zombie carnage! To make matters worse, these zombies are different, they're faster, meaner and they're armed!

With the town being overrun by fast zombies with guns, one group of people are attempting to make their escape to Chicago to survive.

Meanwhile, Jake (Tony Swansey) and his girlfriend Laura (Leena Kurishingal) are on their way to Spring Grove to bring Varlo a priceless heirloom and collect their 2 million dollars. They make it to Spring Grove and discover an empty town,...