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"Nothing's turned out the way that I planned it." 1091 Pictures has released a trailer for an indie road trip comedy titled Hudson, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Sean Daniel Cunningham. This won the Audience Award at the 2019 Phoenix Film Festival, and picked up a few other awards at festivals that year. It's finally arriving on VOD for all to enjoy this year. On a journey to scatter his mother's ashes, a reclusive, timid man encounters unexpected friendships and a chance to start living his life - a dysfunctional adventure of self discovery, and mini-golf, and broken Volvos. "Hudson is a feel good, funny road trip movie with big laughs and an even bigger heart." Starring Richard Masur (who played Clark in The Thing!), with Gregory Lay, David Neal Levin, and Mary Catherine Greenawalt. This looks like a worthy discovery. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Sean Daniel Cunningham's Hudson,...

Motion Picture Exchange has acquired worldwide sales rights on the coming-of-age horror film “Student Body,” and will be launching it out of the Cannes Virtual Market next week.

Written and directed by Lee Ann Kurr in her feature debut, the film features Montse Hernandez, Cheyenne Haynes (“Camping”), Harley Quinn Smith, Austin Zajur (“Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”), Anthony Keyvan, and Christian Camargo. “Student Body” is produced by the breakout, all female creative team of Rachel Liu, Sandra Leviton and Kurr.

The story centers around high school student Jane Shipley (Hernandez), who seeks to mend her splintering relationship with childhood best friend Merritt (Haynes), and fit in with Merritt’s rebellious clique. When Jane’s math teacher (Camargo) oversteps his bounds, an apathetic high school administration forces Jane and Merritt to take matters into their own hands, driving their relationship into further turmoil and inciting deadly consequences.

“For me,...