[Press Release] A film by award-winning filmmaker and writer Keith Hodder (Van Gore): Rift swept the film festival circuit achieving Official Selection in 10 festivals across the globe and winning the “Best Lgbt Short Film” award at the 2013 Vegas Indie Film Festival. Via the 2013 Boston Lgbt Film Festival, Rift also was showcased in New England for Comcast Xfinity Video On Demand subscribers.Among many of the notable festivals the piece was also welcomed to screen at Air Canada’s enRoute Film Festival, opening the festival’s Toronto screening and was viewed by passengers on many of their Air Canada flights. Starring Zach Sale, Ari Blinder, and Emily Goss, Rift focuses on a family man struggling to cope with his hidden urges and keep his devotion in check upon the unexpected arrival of...
- 6/2/2014
- by Keven Skinner
- The Daily BLAM!
For their 9th annual edition, the Atlanta Underground Film Festival will be assaulting the south from its Goat Farm Arts Center screening center on Sep. 13-16 with four days and nights of independent feature films, shorts and documentaries.
Some of the feature films screening include Lisa Duva’s multi-dimensional Cat Scratch Fever, Jason Lapeyre’s thriller Cold Blooded and Brady Hall’s hilariously named Hello, My Name Is Dick Licker.
This year’s Auff is also packed to the gills with short films with multiple blocks of shorts screening per day. Some of the special ones to look out for are Neil Ira Needleman‘s A Few Words in Favor of God, Jim Haverkamp‘s When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl and Mike Salva‘s award-winning animated short Pound Dogs.
The full film lineup is below, but please visit the official Atlanta Underground Film Festival website for more details and to buy advance tickets.
Some of the feature films screening include Lisa Duva’s multi-dimensional Cat Scratch Fever, Jason Lapeyre’s thriller Cold Blooded and Brady Hall’s hilariously named Hello, My Name Is Dick Licker.
This year’s Auff is also packed to the gills with short films with multiple blocks of shorts screening per day. Some of the special ones to look out for are Neil Ira Needleman‘s A Few Words in Favor of God, Jim Haverkamp‘s When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl and Mike Salva‘s award-winning animated short Pound Dogs.
The full film lineup is below, but please visit the official Atlanta Underground Film Festival website for more details and to buy advance tickets.
- 9/11/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Last year up-and-coming filmmaker Keith Hodder made quite a splash in the indie genre community with the faux Grindhouse-style trailer Van Gore he co-directed with Peter Strauss and Jerrad Pulham that was selected to be a part of the Hobo with a Shotgun home release.
Now Hodder is back with his latest project called Shift, a short thriller about recent university graduate Ryan Stewart (Nick Stojanovic), who travels to Toronto with dreams of big success but instead comes face to face with harsher realities.
When he's jobless and out of money, Ryan has to make peace with his own personal defeat and make the long drive back home to eastern Canada. But things take a different turn when he picks up a clever and manipulative hitchhiker (Christian McKenna), who begins to test Ryan's emotional and psychological limits along the way.
Recently Dread Central caught up with Hodder to hear more about his latest project,...
Now Hodder is back with his latest project called Shift, a short thriller about recent university graduate Ryan Stewart (Nick Stojanovic), who travels to Toronto with dreams of big success but instead comes face to face with harsher realities.
When he's jobless and out of money, Ryan has to make peace with his own personal defeat and make the long drive back home to eastern Canada. But things take a different turn when he picks up a clever and manipulative hitchhiker (Christian McKenna), who begins to test Ryan's emotional and psychological limits along the way.
Recently Dread Central caught up with Hodder to hear more about his latest project,...
- 3/29/2012
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
When picking up the new Hobo With a Shotgun Blu-ray release, I had heard that a faux trailer was included, one that had won a contest much like Jason Eisner’s very own trailer did. And when sitting down to watch the special features, I decided to check out this trailer and dug it a lot. I liked the trailer for Van Gore so much that the small world of Twitter made it possible to give all of you a nice interview with one of the directors of that trailer, Keith Hodder. He took time out of his busy schedule to give all of our readers a little peek behind the method to their madness and various other tidbits. And of course I threw in a smidgeon of Criterion flavor to the mix as well.
What is your background when it comes to film making? How did you start? Any...
What is your background when it comes to film making? How did you start? Any...
- 7/29/2011
- by James McCormick
- CriterionCast
A little while back we told you about a Hobo With a Shotgun contest in which aspiring filmmakers were asked to create their own "grindhouse" trailer. The winner would get their trailer shown on the forthcoming Hobo DVD. Well, Keith Hodder, Peter Strauss and Jerrad Pulham made the cut with their preview for Van Gore . What do you think? Worth the cut?...
- 5/4/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Chances are, if you follow the news here at Dread Central, then you most likely are aware of the amazing story behind how writer/director Jason Eisener’s faux trailer Hobo With a Shotgun was picked as the winner of the 2007 Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse fan trailer competition. After Eisener was awarded the top prize, Hobo continued to gain a huge amount of fan support which ultimately fueled the demand for a feature-film version of the tale of a street urchin dishing out justice, one shell at a time.
Eisener, who still remains humble about his success to this day, decided he and his other Hobo collaborators wanted to give back to the community that got them to where they are today and held their ownfan trailer competition. The trailer that slayed the competition, Van Gore, the twisted tale of an artist that uses human blood to create his masterpieces,...
Eisener, who still remains humble about his success to this day, decided he and his other Hobo collaborators wanted to give back to the community that got them to where they are today and held their ownfan trailer competition. The trailer that slayed the competition, Van Gore, the twisted tale of an artist that uses human blood to create his masterpieces,...
- 4/29/2011
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
Greetings, horror geeks! Today, I have a special interview with the winning director of the “The Hobo With A Shotgun Trailer Contest,” Keith Hodder. His entry Van Gore, took home the bloody prize and has many people wondering whether or not the serial-killing artist will expand onto the big screen. Check out what Hodder has to say about that as well as his thoughts on exploitation films and the future of some of his other projects.
Where did the idea for Van Gore come from?
When we heard about the trailer, I sat down a bit. Usually when I sit down and think, I get pretty lucky and ideas tend to come up that night or the next day. The idea of Van Gore just popped into my mind. It originally started as an artist that drained people’s blood. I started thinking about what kinds of weapons he would...
Where did the idea for Van Gore come from?
When we heard about the trailer, I sat down a bit. Usually when I sit down and think, I get pretty lucky and ideas tend to come up that night or the next day. The idea of Van Gore just popped into my mind. It originally started as an artist that drained people’s blood. I started thinking about what kinds of weapons he would...
- 4/22/2011
- by Michael Haffner
- Destroy the Brain
Read our exclusive interview with director and writer Keith Hodder, who along with Peter Strauss and Jerrad Pulham, won the ‘Bobo With A Shotgun’ trailer contest for their fake trailer ‘Van Gore.’ The trailer, which is currently playing on youtube.com, follows the title character, an artist, as he kills people and uses them as part of his artwork. Hodder discusses with us, among other things, how he felt when he found out he won the contest and where he got the inspiration for the trailer. ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’ is currently available via Magnolia On-Demand, and hits select theaters May 6, 2011. Shockya (Sy): You won the ‘Hobo With A...
- 4/21/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
The fine folks behind grindhouse throwback Hobo with a Shotgun (currently on VOD; in theaters starting May 6th) recently held a faux Grindhouse Trailer contest, which makes sense since Hobo started as a faux grindhouse trailer itself. Many entered and 5 finalists were chosen: Van Gore, Daddy Cross, Earwigs, Charlene She Wolf of My Heart and Care Center Slaughterhouse. The public voted and Van Gore, a Color Me Blood Red inspired splatter fest about a demented artist who lures his fans into becoming more a part of his art than they ever imagined emerged victorious. The other day I had the chance to chat with Van Gore writing/directing team Keith Hodder & Peter Strauss to talk about all of the ingredients that make a...
- 4/20/2011
- FEARnet
Jason Eisener, the director of Hobo With A Shotgun announced a contest that would give other fans of grindhouse movies a shot at creating their own trailer to be featured on the Hobo DVD release. Last week we posted the trailers for the five finalists, and my personal favorite, Van Gore by director Keith Hodder ended up winning the competition. Below you can watch the trailer, which is in my opinion, a perfect homage to the H.G. Lewis classic Blood Feast. Enjoy.
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- 4/15/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
A winner has been chosen! The winner of the Hobo With a Shotgun fake trailer contest is Van Gore from River Rogue Productions Keith Hodder, Peter Strauss, Jerrad Pulham and Kris Fisher. Check it out below. Van Gore is a demented artist who inspires his naive art disciples, only to lure his fans into becoming more a part of his art than they ever imagined! By killing, then draining his victims, Van Gore stuns the art community with his perplexingly original creations that they can't understand -- so they eat it up, then he eats them up... so to speak. Van Gore is the world's first port-mortem artist!
- 4/14/2011
- FEARnet
Back in 2007 Robert Rodriguez and SXSW teamed up to put on a fake trailer contest for the release of Tarantino and Roriguez’s double-bill Grindhouse. The contest encouraged fans to make their own exploitation/grindhouse inspired film trailers. Jason Eisener, an unknown at the time, unveiled his trailer about a homeless vigilante in Hobo With A Shotgun. Since winning the competition and subsequently expanding it to a feature film, Eisner wanted to extend the contest once again with the release of Hobo. With over 100 submissions, the panel of judges (which included genre vet Joe Dante) awarded a trailer by Keith Hodder, Peter Strauss and Jerrad Pulham. Feast your eyes on the art of Van Gore.
Clearly referencing the Corman classic Bucket of Blood (which also features an artist making art from the dead), Van Gore is a fun, little, one-note trailer that will surely bring a smirk to your face.
Clearly referencing the Corman classic Bucket of Blood (which also features an artist making art from the dead), Van Gore is a fun, little, one-note trailer that will surely bring a smirk to your face.
- 4/11/2011
- by Michael Haffner
- Destroy the Brain
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