Happy New Year from all at First Quarter Films.
Poster for Allthingshorror February screening
First Quarter Films are proud to have another short, ‘Wheels of Death’, screening as part of allthingshorroronline’s second batch of independent horror movie screenings taking place tonight in Somerville, MA, USA. Go to allthingshorroronline.com for details.
Rob Kennedy directs Emma Keane 'In the Night, In the Dark'
First Quarter Films have wrapped shooting on a super short shocker, ‘In the Night, In the Dark’ Thursday night (Jan 21st) and director Rob Kennedy will begin post production on the project with Producer/collaborator Andrew Mahon next week. This marks the teams’ first time working with the wonderful Emma Keane and the daunting Red One! Keep an eye out for the finished film soon!
The guys at allthingshorroronline.com have selected ‘Trick or Treat’ to kick off their inaugural screening of “truly independent horror film features and shorts”.
‘Trick or Treat’ – about a young woman terrorised by a most unusual trick or treater – will screen Wednesday January 6 at the Somerville Theater, 55 Davis Square, Somerville MA 02144 from 7 – 9 pm
Price: $5
Catch a clip here: http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1197343257/
Our short film Wheels of Death was exhibited at the New York City Horror Film Festival on Friday the 20th of November at Tribeca Cinemas in Manhattan. The show sold out and we had a full house. The other shorts in our program included X-Mess Detritus, Death in Charge, Hunger, Sinkhole, Attackazoids, Deploy!! and afterwards the feature film Sweatshop screened. Our film got plenty of laughs and we met some great people at the festival. We particularly enjoyed X-Mess Detritus, Death in Charge, and Sinkhole, which won the award for best short film. We also enjoyed Gigi Romero’s short film Together. We would like to thank festival director Michael Hein for being supportive of our film and giving us a great reception in the big apple! To read Mike Snoonian’s review of Wheels of Death on his blog All Things Horror.
The New York City Horror Film Festival has finally announced their line-up. Wheels of Death will be shown as a part of “Program 2″ at 7.30pm, Nov 20th. Tickets and a full list of the festival line-up are available here. It’s $16 per “Program” of which there are 11, or $160 for an all access pass.
Wheels program block is as follows:
Friday, Nov. 20th 7:30pm
Sweatshop (feature)
Attackazoids, Deploy!! (short)
Sinkhole (short)
Wheels of Death (short)
Hunger (short)
Death In Charge (short)
Hope to see you all there.
Wheels of Death will be screening later this month at the NYC Horror Festival. When we have the exact times and dates we’ll let you know. Full trailer below the cut.
Wheels of Death has gotten a few mentions in the Irish media of late.
Donald Clarke writes for the Irish Times…
Bloodthirsty, viscerachewing congratulations go out to Dubliners Edward and Rob Kennedy, whose Wheels of Death horror short recently won the Killer Shorts Competition at the Monster Mania Convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The flick thus becomes the first film ever to earn an advance slot in the line-up for the 2009 New York City Horror Film Festival.
And even the Irish Film and Television Network has found us newsworthy…
‘Wheels of Death’, the latest short film from Dublin based independent film company First Quarter Films (founded by Rob & Edward Kennedy, and Andrew Mahon), has won the first ever Killer Shorts Competition at the Monster Mania Convention held in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on August 23rd. An audience vote on a dozen entries resulted in ‘Wheels of Death’, by Irish directors Edward & Rob Kennedy, walking away with the prize.
Nothing major perhaps, but it has made our mothers proud.
Great news. Wheels of Death has won the Killer Shorts Sudden Death Competition at Monster Mania Con in New Jersey. The audience voted our film their favourite which means Wheels of Death will be screening again in November at the NYC Horror Film Festival. Once we know exactly when Wheels is playing we’ll let you know.
FEARSmag.com writes…
The NYC Horror Film Festival 2009 (www.nychorrorfest.com), in conjunction with Monster Mania Con (www.monstermania.net), & sponsored by FEARSmag.com, is pleased to announce the winner of the first ever KILLER SHORTS SUDDEN DEATH COMPETITION, held August 23, 2009, at the Monster Mania Convention in Cherry Hill, NJ. An impressive audience turned up to vote on a dozen entries and the audience favorite was WHEELS OF DEATH by directors Edward & Rob Kennedy, from Dublin, Ireland. As a result, WHEELS OF DEATH is the first film ever to earn an advance slot in the program for the 2009 NYC Horror Film Festival.
And we even found our way onto Fangoria.com (so that’s one lifelong goal accomplished)…
A large audience voted WHEELS OF DEATH into the winner’s circle, giving it an advance slot at this year’s NYC Horror Film Festival, which takes place November 18-22 at the Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street).
A huge thanks to everyone who voted and rest assured you’ll be seeing us all at the NYC Horror Film Festival come November.