Watch the Trailer for TILL DEATH: "Emma (Megan Fox) is stuck in a stale marriage to Mark and is surprised when he whisks her away to their secluded lake house for a romantic evening on their 10th anniversary. But everything soon changes, and Emma finds herself trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, the target of a plan that gets more sinister at every turn."
Available In Theaters And On Demand July 2
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Watch the Short Film STEAM: "In celebration of Pride Month, Brazilian director João Dall’Stella (Stalls, Dia De Las Carpas) has debuted his latest short film, Steam, free for audiences on YouTube. Over the course of 15 minutes, Dall'Stella follows an attractive young couple who decide to spice things up by visiting a bathhouse, only to find a murderous rampage behind the steam instead.
A native of Brazil, Dall'Stella relocated to Los Angeles to start a film career, helming a number of shorts to show his take on life as a gay Person of Color. His AFI thesis film Dia De Las Carpas won the DGA Student Grand Prize for Latino Directors and has been featured in prestigious showcases and festivals such as CAA Moebius, SAG-AFTRA Foundation and Oscar-qualifying film festivals. His short film Stalls has played in more than 50 LGBTQ+ Festivals worldwide. As a member of the Latinx and LGBTQ communities, he began making movies to create his own world where he celebrates them through his stories. His dream is to direct an original film about a gay superhero.
Ahead of the bow, Dall'Stella shared, "Steam is a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community that I'm part of and a combination of personal experiences that I have had throughout my life. It’s fun, thrilling, and scary. It has the perfect combination of love, sex, and death. The horror genre offers a campy quality that fits perfectly with the queer community and that’s why so many of us love horror films.
An imperative aspect was to have a cast of LGBTQ+ actors in the short film because when you created something within the community, you promote change to the industry. We need to tell our own stories without sacrificing the authenticity to please the general audience's eyes.""
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Watch the Trailer for I DREAM OF A PSYCHOPOMP: "A grieving widower haunted by the distressed ghost of his recently deceased wife is visited in his dreams by a psychopomp who teaches him about the spirit world and soul guiding through stories of death and the supernatural.
IDOAP is set in a fictional small American town called Spellbound and includes 3 contemporary ghost stories that intertwine in a wraparound: Spellbound High Monster hop, a segment about an introverted girl who’s encouraged by her friends to ask her crush to the high school Halloween social, Answers, a story about a medium motivated by her dark past to assist in an investigation of a missing boy, and Until Forever, a curious girl sneaks into an abandoned library to seek out an urban legend about an immortal Vampire.
Director Danny Villanueva Jr. speaks about his motivation for creating a film about the subject of death, his personal journey throughout the making, and how the film became a grieving tool when he lost his mother to lung cancer during post-production: “Creating this film was a way to familiarize myself with death in order to try to ease some of its force when it knocks. Throughout the editing process, I was the primary caregiver of my dying mother who passed away from stage 4 lung cancer on Memorial Day of 2020. She was truly a great human being and my closest friend. I found my exposure to the subject of death and understanding why it is what it is through creating this film to be helpful through the grieving process. I hope this film can be beneficial for others going through bereavement.”.
The film stars Jillian Lebling (Bridge of Spies, The Blacklist), Elohim Peña, Ben Shaul, Peter Knox, Steven Alonte, Kulani Kai, N. Meridian, Fiona Rose, and more. Screenplay is written by Danny Villanueva Jr. And J. Anthony Ramos. The music is composed by Donny Walker of Mind Exchange Music. Coloring was done by Jeff Olm (The Revenant, Avengers: Age of Ultron).
I Dream of a Psychopomp premieres September 3rd at the historic Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL. Tickets are on sale now. For a list of screenings and to purchase tickets, visit
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