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I am proud to return to Maine's Emerge Film Festival this spring with A Peculiar Thud! Thanks for making us an official selection this year!  A Peculiar Thud is an official selection of the Southeast New England Film, Music & Arts Festival in Providence, RI. Congrats to the team and thanks to SENE! A bunch of crew will be there in attendance. Check out http://www.kilteredproductions.com/screenings.html for details on upcoming screenings.  Deadpoint has been accepted to the 2017 River Bend Film Festival in Indiana. Thanks for inviting us back, River Bend!  Today I achieved the greatest success of my entire career: I was informed that I will be granted promotion and tenure by Connecticut College. I began applying for jobs in academia in 2007, and today, I can let go of the worry of having to do it again. I can make Connecticut my home. I am deeply grateful to and thankful for my family, friends, teachers, and colleagues who helped me get here, and without whom, I’m not sure I would have made it. Most of all - tenure means nothing without their love and support that makes my life possible, worth it, meaningful, and beautiful.  A Peculiar Thud will be screening at the 15th annual Riverside International Film Festival in California this spring. Thanks so much to Nancy and the jurors at RIFF!  A Peculiar Thud is an official selection of the Short to the Point International Short Film Festival in Romania! Congrats to my team and thanks, Short to the Point! 
Last night, A Wheel out of Kilter won Best Feature Film at the Macabre Faire Film Festival in New York!
The entire festival was awesome. I got to meet some amazing filmmakers, writers, and producers, do some interviews with New York press, and see some great scary films.
The star of the festival is the director herself, Elsie. Elsie has been running this festival despite going through chemotherapy for stage 4 breast cancer. She is a vibrant, beautiful personality, full of compassion, humor, and vulgarity. She's as shocking as she is inspiring and everyone fell in love with her immediately. Elsie (and your team), I am so thankful to you for accepting my film, nominating it for no less than seven awards, and eventually awarding it with your top prize. Here are a few pictures from the evening--
Above: Elsie congratulates me after the awards ceremony. I love this woman.
Below: Some shots of me being interviewed on the red carpet.
Finally, below, you can watch some excerpts from the award ceremony where they announce Best Feature Film. Apologies to my fellow nominees, whose names and films I've removed from this edit for the sake of time.
A Peculiar Thud has been accepted to its first film festival - the 18th annual DC Independent Film Festival - where it will be screening next month! The festival is very selective and it is an honor to have been accepted. It's the first festival I've heard back from too - perhaps this is indicative of a successful future for my newest film...? Some of the team will be attending... more details soon. Read more about it here: https://dciff-indie.org/2017/01/09/announcing-the-dciff-2017-shorts/ Thanks, DCIFF!  This coming weekend in Ronkonkoma, A Wheel out of Kilter is up for SEVEN awards!
Check out the webpage for this awesome festival http://www.macabrefairefilmfest.com/nominees-2017.html We are up for: Best Cinematography in a Feature (Matthew Herbertz & Ross Morin) Best Editing in a Feature (Brian Newell & Ross Morin) Best Sound in a Feature (Ross Morin) Best Screenplay in a Feature (Ross Morin) Best Actor in a Feature (Ross Morin) Best Director in a Feature (Ross Morin) and Best Feature I will be there at the gala to celebrate the nomination. Thank you, Macabre Faire!! This Friday, DePauw University will be flying me out for a screening A Wheel out of Kilter followed by a Q&A. I'm excited to return to the midwest with this film. Thanks, DePauw and my filmmaking partner, Matthew Herbertz, for inviting me!  A Wheel out of Kilter was nominated for the Freaky Feature Award at the Broken Knuckle Film Festival. Freak-ing great news! Thanks Broken Knuckle!  My first peer-reviewed journal came out today! My paper, "Trauma and Dissociation in All This Can Happen" was published in the International Journal of Screendance. It's a free and open-source journal so you can read the article here. Thanks to Claudia Kappenberg for putting this issue together and thanks, of course, to my friend David Hinton, co-creator of the film, All This Can Happen.   A great turnout for the premiere of A Peculiar Thud! Over 750 people at the State Theater in Portland, Maine turned out to see Damnationland 2016.  Me and Malcolm Mills - star of A Peculiar Thud.  A Peculiar Thud team members from left to right: Lindsay Sirois (sound), RJ Wilson (grip, Damnationland producer), Malcolm Mills (star), Ross Morin (writer/director), Kyle Clark (gaffer), Stuart Vyse (Assistant Director).  Me and Stuart Vyse - Assistant Director of A Peculiar Thud  Me and my two original producers - my parents
Just got the great news that A Wheel out of Kilter was accepted into the Macabre Faire Film Festival! Check out the "Sundance With Fangs" here!  What a night! The Damnationland 2016 premiere was amazing. A PECULIAR THUD started off the night with screams of pure terror! Thanks so much to Charlotte, Michelle, Eddy, Remy, RJ and Allen at Damnationland for all their hard work - what an incredible evening! More pictures to come.  An amazing turnout at the State Theater in Portland, Maine!  Tonight is the premiere of my new short film, A Peculiar Thud at the State Theater in Portland, Maine! I'm excited to see friends and family and share this new terrifying film as part of Damnationland 2016! Cast and crew will be there including: Malcolm Mills (lead actor), Stuart Vyse (Assistant Director), Kyle Clark (Gaffer), Lindsay Sirois (Sound), Ryän J. Wilsön II (Grip/Damnationland Producer). We'll on be together for the after party at Geno's Rock Club right next door. A night of terror is forthcoming!  Check out the article on MaineToday.com below: http://mainetoday.com/movies-and-film/indie-film/hot-damnationland-years-homegrown-horror-series-sure-spook/ 
I'm excited to release the official trailer for my upcoming film, A PECULIAR THUD. Check it out!
Greg is still out there, lost in the woods, performing Hamlet soliloquies to a hatchet murderer. A Wheel out of Kilter is an official selection of New York's Broken Knuckle Film Festival! Aside from being a very cool festival that screens films on television, it is one of the only festivals that uses a middle finger as its official laurel.  A Man of God has just been accepted to the Blow-up International Arthouse Film Festival in Chicago! Blow-up is such a unique festival - check it out here. Thanks for including our film in this year's lineup, Blow-up!  We just got the great news that the Southwest Indiana Film Festival has accepted Deadpoint to screen at this year's festival on October 1, 2016 in Jasper, IN. Thanks, SWIFF!  Tickets for the Damnationland premiere of A Peculiar Thud are on sale here: http://www.statetheatreportland.com/event/1318283-damnationland-2016-portland/ 
We are gearing up for A Peculiar Thud's premiere at the State Theater in Portland, Maine on October 14! In the meantime, Damnationland has released this exclusive (and totally original) interview with me featuring behind the scenes footage from the film.
Thanks to everyone who came out to the packed theater at Connecticut College for our screening of A Wheel out of Kilter last night! We were joined by Kyle Clark (composer and assistant editor) for an hour long Q&A after the film. Faculty, staff, students, friends, family, and even the President of the College and her husband were in attendance. It was an awesome night - thanks for coming out and making last night such a meaningful experience.
Only year ago, A Wheel out of Kilter premiered at its first film festival, the Princeton Independent Film Festival. As fate would have it, today Princeton announced that Wheel's prequel, Deadpoint, was accepted! The film will screen on September 30, 2016. We are thrilled to be returning to Princeton with this film. Thanks, Sara, and the rest of the Prindiefest team!  |
