Stars: Jena Carpenter, Yancy Butler, Melora Walters, George Harrison Xanthis, Izabela Vidovic, Maiara Walsh, Goran Visnjic, Miraj Grbic, Ian Fisher, Alla Tumanian | Written and Directed by Kathryn Michelle, Elizabeta Vidovic
The Accursed opens with a text crawling across the screen telling us about groups of Croatian women who banded together into groups or Sisterhoods, of three to harness the elements. And how all of them moved to the USA and prospered, except for one such trio. I’m sure you can guess who this film is about. And probably how it all ends up for that matter.
After emigrating to America Aishe (Jena Carpenter; The Hatred) catches Hana with her husband. In the ensuing chaos, Hana kills Aishe before she can complete an epic curse on her and her family. Which means that Nadia has to cut off Hana’s hand and bury Aishe with it over her mouth to...
The Accursed opens with a text crawling across the screen telling us about groups of Croatian women who banded together into groups or Sisterhoods, of three to harness the elements. And how all of them moved to the USA and prospered, except for one such trio. I’m sure you can guess who this film is about. And probably how it all ends up for that matter.
After emigrating to America Aishe (Jena Carpenter; The Hatred) catches Hana with her husband. In the ensuing chaos, Hana kills Aishe before she can complete an epic curse on her and her family. Which means that Nadia has to cut off Hana’s hand and bury Aishe with it over her mouth to...
- 3/9/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to the public health documentary The End of Medicine, executive produced by two-time Oscar nominee Rooney Mara and Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, with plans to release it in theaters and on digital and VOD platforms this summer.
The film from BAFTA-winning director Alex Lockwood and writer-producer Keegan Kuhn explores the link between our treatment of animals and emerging health threats such as pandemics and antibiotic resistance. It specifically looks at zoonotic diseases—germs and viruses that spread between human and non-human animals—which threaten the health and lives of the entire human population.
The End of Medicine entered production in October 2019, shortly before Covid-19 began headlines around the world. It features interviews with some of the world’s leading scientists whose research and testimonies conclude that the public health emergency we are presently facing was inevitable and is far from over.
“We...
The film from BAFTA-winning director Alex Lockwood and writer-producer Keegan Kuhn explores the link between our treatment of animals and emerging health threats such as pandemics and antibiotic resistance. It specifically looks at zoonotic diseases—germs and viruses that spread between human and non-human animals—which threaten the health and lives of the entire human population.
The End of Medicine entered production in October 2019, shortly before Covid-19 began headlines around the world. It features interviews with some of the world’s leading scientists whose research and testimonies conclude that the public health emergency we are presently facing was inevitable and is far from over.
“We...
- 1/31/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to the WWII-era romantic drama I’ll Find You from director Martha Coolidge. The Anthem Sports & Entertainment company plans to release the title starring Adelaide Clemens (To the Stars), Leo Suter, Stephen Dorff, Connie Nielsen and Stellan Skarsgård in theaters and on demand on February 25.
Inspired by true stories of Polish musicians from the 1930s and 1940s, I’ll Find You centers on the tender, music-infused relationship between Robert (Suter) and Rachel (Clemens) that is forged when the pair meet as music school students—he, a promising singer and she, a violin prodigy. While Robert is torn away from Rachel following the German invasion of Poland, he vows to find her, no matter the cost.
David S. Ward and Bozenna Intrator penned the script for the film, which was shot on location in Poland and New York. Intrator also produced it alongside Lukasz Raczynski, Zbigniew John Raczynski and Fred Roos, with Alexander Roos exec producing.
“I’LL Find You is a beautiful romance film set against the harsh background of World War II,” said Gravitas Ventures’ Manager of Acquisitions, Brett Rogalsky. “What director Martha Coolidge was able to do with these elements is truly impressive, and we’re excited to be able to bring this film to the public.”
“From the beginning I loved the theme in this film that music has an almost magical power to heal,” added Coolidge, “and that it can inspire and move all people even those at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum.”
Coolidge is an Emmy nominee and DGA Award winner who has previously directed films including Material Girls, The Prince and Me, Angie, Lost in Yonkers, Rambling Rose, Plain Clothes, Real Genius and Valley Girl, along with episodes of such series as Siren, Angie Tribeca, Madam Secretary, The Night Shift, Psych and Weeds.
Gravitas Ventures was founded in 2006 and sold to multi-platform media company Anthem Sports & Entertainment in November. Recent releases from the company include Michael Lembeck’s Queen Bees; Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Our Friend, starring Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson, and Jason Segel; Vanguard, directed by Stanley Tong and starring Jackie Chan; and Andy Tennant’s The Secret: Dare to Dream, starring Katie Holmes. Gravitas has also recently acquired titles including Adrian Martinez’s feature directorial debut iGilbert; the Kathy Bates drama Home, from writer-director Franka Potente; family adventure film The King’s Daughter, starring Pierce Brosnan; Jason Pollock’s doc Finding Kendrick Johnson; and The Accursed, a horror film marking the feature directorial debut of writer-directors Elizabeta Vidovic and Kathryn Michell.
Inspired by true stories of Polish musicians from the 1930s and 1940s, I’ll Find You centers on the tender, music-infused relationship between Robert (Suter) and Rachel (Clemens) that is forged when the pair meet as music school students—he, a promising singer and she, a violin prodigy. While Robert is torn away from Rachel following the German invasion of Poland, he vows to find her, no matter the cost.
David S. Ward and Bozenna Intrator penned the script for the film, which was shot on location in Poland and New York. Intrator also produced it alongside Lukasz Raczynski, Zbigniew John Raczynski and Fred Roos, with Alexander Roos exec producing.
“I’LL Find You is a beautiful romance film set against the harsh background of World War II,” said Gravitas Ventures’ Manager of Acquisitions, Brett Rogalsky. “What director Martha Coolidge was able to do with these elements is truly impressive, and we’re excited to be able to bring this film to the public.”
“From the beginning I loved the theme in this film that music has an almost magical power to heal,” added Coolidge, “and that it can inspire and move all people even those at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum.”
Coolidge is an Emmy nominee and DGA Award winner who has previously directed films including Material Girls, The Prince and Me, Angie, Lost in Yonkers, Rambling Rose, Plain Clothes, Real Genius and Valley Girl, along with episodes of such series as Siren, Angie Tribeca, Madam Secretary, The Night Shift, Psych and Weeds.
Gravitas Ventures was founded in 2006 and sold to multi-platform media company Anthem Sports & Entertainment in November. Recent releases from the company include Michael Lembeck’s Queen Bees; Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Our Friend, starring Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson, and Jason Segel; Vanguard, directed by Stanley Tong and starring Jackie Chan; and Andy Tennant’s The Secret: Dare to Dream, starring Katie Holmes. Gravitas has also recently acquired titles including Adrian Martinez’s feature directorial debut iGilbert; the Kathy Bates drama Home, from writer-director Franka Potente; family adventure film The King’s Daughter, starring Pierce Brosnan; Jason Pollock’s doc Finding Kendrick Johnson; and The Accursed, a horror film marking the feature directorial debut of writer-directors Elizabeta Vidovic and Kathryn Michell.
- 1/11/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to iGilbert, the feature directorial debut of actor Adrian Martinez, in which he also stars alongside Dascha Polanco and Raùl Castillo. The indie distributor will release the drama in theaters and on demand on December 31.
iGilbert centers on Gilbert Gonzalez (Martinez), who feels isolated from the world. He is 39, a virgin, obese and lives with his sarcastic, overprotective mother, who owns the Manhattan brownstone. Fearful of life and people, yet starving for human connection, Gilbert takes photos of women secretly, wherever and whenever he can. Enter Jana (Polanco), a tenant in the building and the source of innumerable fantasies.
Jana is a contradiction – beautiful but haunted by her own insecurities that inhibit her from standing up to her ex-boyfriend Tony (Castillo), an Iraq war vet with Ptsd.
iGilbert centers on Gilbert Gonzalez (Martinez), who feels isolated from the world. He is 39, a virgin, obese and lives with his sarcastic, overprotective mother, who owns the Manhattan brownstone. Fearful of life and people, yet starving for human connection, Gilbert takes photos of women secretly, wherever and whenever he can. Enter Jana (Polanco), a tenant in the building and the source of innumerable fantasies.
Jana is a contradiction – beautiful but haunted by her own insecurities that inhibit her from standing up to her ex-boyfriend Tony (Castillo), an Iraq war vet with Ptsd.
- 11/2/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
"If I would've known, I never would've come here." Gravitas Ventures has unveiled the trailer for an indie horror film titled The Accursed, also known as Severed Silence, from writers / filmmakers Elizabeta Vidovic and Kathryn Michelle, both making their feature directorial debut with this film. It opens in a few more weeks, available to watch on VOD anywhere. Yancy Butler stars as a woman who has spent twenty years suppressing and fighting off a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline. Then one day a family member knowingly releases it, forcing her to kill or to be killed. The cast includes Izabela Vidovic, Goran Visnjic, Maiara Walsh, George Harrison Xanthis, and Melora Walters. Unfortunately this does not look good at all. Only thing I'm wondering is what's in the vines moving all on their own. Strange. Here's the trailer (+ poster) for Elizabeta Vidovic & Kathryn Michelle's The Accursed, from YouTube...
- 10/20/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to The Accursed, the first feature from writer-directors Elizabeta Vidovic and Kathryn Michelle, which will be released in theaters and on demand November 12.
The horror film from Almost Normal Productions centers on Hana (Yancy Butler), who has spent 20 years suppressing a curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it, forcing her to kill or to be killed.
Izabela Vidovic, Goran Visnjic, Maiara Walsh, George Harrison Xanthis, and Melora Walters also star.
“The Accursed sprouted out of our love of the horror genre. Imbued with rich Eastern European folklore, it explores our fear of all things lingering in dark corners and presses on our deep insecurity of being betrayed,” said Vidovic and Michelle. “Our characters have all become prisoners of their own device as they attempt to keep...
The horror film from Almost Normal Productions centers on Hana (Yancy Butler), who has spent 20 years suppressing a curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it, forcing her to kill or to be killed.
Izabela Vidovic, Goran Visnjic, Maiara Walsh, George Harrison Xanthis, and Melora Walters also star.
“The Accursed sprouted out of our love of the horror genre. Imbued with rich Eastern European folklore, it explores our fear of all things lingering in dark corners and presses on our deep insecurity of being betrayed,” said Vidovic and Michelle. “Our characters have all become prisoners of their own device as they attempt to keep...
- 10/15/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
After being one of the jury members for the 2019 Popcorn Frights Film Festival and hosting a virtual conversation with the cast of Smiley Face Killers as part of the festival's 2020 virtual Wicked Weekend Halloween celebration, Daily Dead's Derek Anderson was honored to host a Q&a with the cast and crew of The Accursed, which had its world premiere as part of the virtual edition of the seventh annual Popcorn Frights, and the insightful discussion is now available online for all to enjoy!
Below (via the Popcorn Frights YouTube channel), you can watch Derek talk with The Accursed co-director/co-writer/producer Kathryn Michelle, co-director/co-writer/producer Elizabeta Vidovic, and actor/producer Izabela Vidovic about the making of their ambitious new horror film!
Be sure to visit Almost Normal Productions to keep up to date on The Accursed and their other exciting projects, and go to Popcorn Frights' official website for...
Below (via the Popcorn Frights YouTube channel), you can watch Derek talk with The Accursed co-director/co-writer/producer Kathryn Michelle, co-director/co-writer/producer Elizabeta Vidovic, and actor/producer Izabela Vidovic about the making of their ambitious new horror film!
Be sure to visit Almost Normal Productions to keep up to date on The Accursed and their other exciting projects, and go to Popcorn Frights' official website for...
- 9/22/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Writer-directors Elizabeta Vidovic, Kathryn Michelle inspired by Eastern European folklore.
Los Angeles-based Bleiberg Entertainment’s genre label Compound B has added supernatural horror The Accursed starring Yancy Butler and Goran Visnjic to its Cannes sales roster.
The company holds worldwide sales rights and will introduce footage leading up to the Cannes Marché in July.
The Accursed hails from writer-director duo Elizabeta Vidovic and Kathryn Michelle and is inspired by Eastern European folklore.
Decades after a betrayal leads to a curse being placed on a family bloodline, a wedding reunites the estranged clan. When a dark force starts to pick them off one by one,...
Los Angeles-based Bleiberg Entertainment’s genre label Compound B has added supernatural horror The Accursed starring Yancy Butler and Goran Visnjic to its Cannes sales roster.
The company holds worldwide sales rights and will introduce footage leading up to the Cannes Marché in July.
The Accursed hails from writer-director duo Elizabeta Vidovic and Kathryn Michelle and is inspired by Eastern European folklore.
Decades after a betrayal leads to a curse being placed on a family bloodline, a wedding reunites the estranged clan. When a dark force starts to pick them off one by one,...
- 5/25/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Supernatural Film Severed Silence is in Post-production — Kathryn Michelle and Elizabeta Vidovic‘s Severed Silence is currently in post-production. The supernatural film involving a curse, produced by Mem Ferda, stars Goran Visnjic, Melora Walters, Izabela Vidovic, Yancy Butler, Maiara Walsh, Miraj Grbic, Dana Melanie, George Harrison Xanthis, Brianna Joy Chomer, Ian Fisher, Nick [...]
Continue reading: Severed Silence: Produced by Mem Ferda, the Kathryn Michelle & Elizabeta Vidovic Supernatural film is currently in Post-production...
Continue reading: Severed Silence: Produced by Mem Ferda, the Kathryn Michelle & Elizabeta Vidovic Supernatural film is currently in Post-production...
- 11/21/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Tagline: "The Exhumation of a Curse." Severed Silence is horror film from Almost Normal Productions. This title focuses on Hana (Yancy Butler) and a curse. Once released, this curse threatens to kill her and everyone else in her bloodline. This title was developed by: Kathryn Michelle (Resurrection County), Elizabeta Vidovic ("Hourglass") and produced by Mem Ferda (Pusher). Currently in post-production, a concept poster is available here, ahead of its release date. Showing the back of Hana and a demon in her hair, this concept poster is almost entirely shown in black and white. The title shows blood red, while the tagline: "the exhumation of a curse" focuses on the principal plotline, in the film. Hana rises from the dirt later this year or into 2021. The filmmakers have talked about the film. They have said of the story: "Severed Silence sprouted out of our love of the horror genre and our...
- 9/1/2020
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Mem Ferda is Producing the Horror Film Severed Silence A gypsy curse horror film Severed Silence is being produced by actor and producer Mem Ferda. Elizabeta Vidovic and Kathryn Michelle are directing Severed Silence. They wrote the screenplay for the film as well. Severed Silence‘s plot synopsis: “the story of a family’s desperate battle to survive a [...]
Continue reading: Severed Silence: Mem Ferda Produces a Forbidden Curse Horror Film...
Continue reading: Severed Silence: Mem Ferda Produces a Forbidden Curse Horror Film...
- 2/18/2018
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Tagline: "The Exhumation of a Gypsy Curse." Directors Kathryn Michelle and Elizabeta Vidovic are developing a Romani thriller. To star Izabela Vidovic ("Homefront,") Maiara Walsh (Zombieland) and Adam Huss, this film involves a blood curse. As well, Mem Ferda is producing this feature. A concept poster has been released for the film and it can be found here. As well, early story details are available for this unique story of passion gone wrong. The long synopsis mentions Talitha's secret affair. She is discovered with Tamas, by Aishe. And, Tamas is accidentally killed, enraging Talitha. More violence ensues as scorned lover turns on scorned lover. Michelle and Vidovic have something to say about this project. They say of their characters and the story: "we wanted to stay true to life, in that all of our characters are faulty and have made some grave mistakes. In protecting themselves, our characters actually become their own prisoners.
- 2/16/2018
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Severed Silence, written by Kathryn Michelle (Criminal Minds) and Elizabeta Vidovic (May I Die), who also both direct, tells the story of a family’s desperate battle to survive a forbidden gypsy curse, released as a result of an unimaginable betrayal.
The film is produced by Mem Ferda and stars Izabela Vidovic (Wonder, The Fosters) Maiara Walsh (The Last Ship, Zombieland) and Adam Huss (Power).
Synopsis:
A young Talitha sneaks away from her Romani engagement celebrations to meet with Tamas, her best friends husband. While experiencing a...
The film is produced by Mem Ferda and stars Izabela Vidovic (Wonder, The Fosters) Maiara Walsh (The Last Ship, Zombieland) and Adam Huss (Power).
Synopsis:
A young Talitha sneaks away from her Romani engagement celebrations to meet with Tamas, her best friends husband. While experiencing a...
- 2/16/2018
- QuietEarth.us
Severed Silence written by Kathryn Michelle (Criminal Minds) and Elizabeta Vidovic (May I Die), who also both direct, tells the story of a family’s desperate battle to survive a forbidden gypsy curse, released as a result of an unimaginable betrayal. A young Talitha sneaks away from her Romani engagement celebrations to meet with Tamas, her […]
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- 2/16/2018
- by Jeff Stevens
- ShockYa
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