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“Los Angeles, 2064. In a world where humans have to live along the living dead, a new job opportunity arises: zombie catcher. Karl Neard, his sister Maggie, and his Belgian friend Freddy Merckx, all embrace this “career” in the hope of making easy money. Unfortunately, the job is not that simple: not only are the “dead” still walking, but they also have a terrible stench and an awful sense of humor. As a matter of fact, zombies just don’t care about anything, as their lives are behind them and they now have an eternity to enjoy what is left of the world. Karl and his team will quickly find this fact out as they end up surrounded by all sorts of ghoulish freaks.

We Are Zombies is a collaboration between Christal Film Productions, Full House, a label of Borsalino Productions and Maneki Films, and Humanoids’ European sister company Sparkling, in association with Kinology. Spengler is producing the film for Sparkling. The project is backed by SODEC, Telefilm Canada, Sofitvcine, La Banque Postale Image, Cofimage, refundable tax credit for Québec film and television production, Eurimages, Cofinova, and the Canadian Film and Video Production Tax Credit.

“The Zombies That Ate the World has been compared to Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, and the works of Judd Apatow. The comic was also praised by the likes of George A. Romero, Joe Dante, and Tobe Hooper.

Shot in Canada back in the spring, We Are Zombies is now in post-production and is toplined by Québécois actors Alexandre Nachi (nominated for the 2019 Best Supporting Role Iris via 1991) and Derek Johns (The Wolf and the Lion [+]), alongside Australian actress Megan Peta Hill. Written by RKSS based on Jerry Frissen and Guy Davis’ comic book series, the film was developed and produced by Gaël Nouaille, Laurent Baudens and Didar Domehri on behalf of Full House (the joint label of Borsalino Productions and Maneki Films), We Are Zombies is executively co-produced by Canada’s Christal Films. Also co-produced by Sparkling (Humanoïdes Associés’ production arm), We Are Zombies enjoys support from Eurimages, SODEC, Téléfilm Canada and the SOFICA companies Sofitvcine, Cofimage, La Banque Postale Image and Cofinova. International sales are steered by Kinology.”

RKSS previously directed the films Turbo Kid and Summer of 84.

Masterclass First look – @Whitney Museum / New York. Immersive content projections commissioned by Little Cinema. Creative Director: Bruno Ribeiro with 3d artists: Olivier Caron / Vincent Masson / Bruno Delouzillière. Music composed by Ricardo Romaneiro. And produced by Sebastien Vergne with content manager, Marie Dussart.

Timo von Gunten is a screenwriter and director based in Zurich. His creative childhood helped him direct his first film projects from an early age. From 2010 to 2017, various short films followed and were shown and awarded at international film festivals such as Dubai, Sapporo or Locarno. In 2017, his work LA FEMME ET LE TGV (Jane Birkin) was nominated for an Academy Award® and won the Swiss Film Award. In 2020, Timo completed the Master in Screenwriting at the art school of Zurich. He is now pursuing his feature film career mainly as a director. From October 2021 to March 2022, Timo has been working as a co-director (B-unit) with acclaimed Swiss director Michael Steiner on the 6-episode series Beschatter (Swiss National TV production).

Meredith Hambrock has worked in writing rooms on over 125 episodes of TV comedy where she’s had the opportunity to write for many Canadian icons, among them, Michael J. Fox, Brent Butt, Russel Peters, and Bret the Hitman Hart. Best known for her work on the three-time CSA winning series, Corner Gas Animated, she was recently nominated for a Leo Award for Best Screenwriting-Animation.

Her darkly funny crime novel, Other People’s Secrets is being published in September 2022 by Crooked Lane Books. Early reviews are calling it “a perfectly plotted quest….with real characters whose humanity and depth reaches out from every page” and have praised its “madcap energy and inimitable voice.” A three-time finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize, in 2019 she received a Canada Council Grant for her short story collection, currently titled Woof! after publishing in national magazines Maisonneuve and Descant.

De Montréal aux Cantons de l’Est, un groupe de cinéastes de la relève émergente se regroupe aux quatre à six mois pour tourner leurs projets. C’est par la passion du cinéma que leur vient une urgence de créer. Par exemple, La vendeuse, court métrage sorti en janvier 2022, fut le tout premier projet de l’équipe. Ils développent ensuite Course de novembre, et viennent de terminer le tournage de Comment faire taire une foule en colère le 1 er juin dernier.

« C’est un sentiment incroyable de réaliser un film avec ses amis. C’est du travail, oui. Mais c’est surtout le sentiment de support et d’accomplissement que ça entraîne quand on se débrouille comme on peut avec le talent de tous et chacun », vous diront-ils.

De cette relève, on y compte Éloïse Lavictoire à la réalisation, Camille Desrochers à la direction photo et Laurianne Ménard comme actrice. S’en sont ajoutés leurs bons amis, Yann Reynolds et Gabriel Barbeau, également cinéastes émergents. Ils travaillent maintenant avec la boîte Peartree Productions d’Alex Poirier.

Le travail de ce groupe de passionnés est bien loin de passer inaperçu. Éloïse et Camille ont remporté le prix coup de cœur de l’intercollégial du cinéma 2021 avec leur court métrage À contrecœur. On a aussi pu voir le court métrage Une mouche en décembre d’Alex Poirier nominé au Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma en avril dernier. Comme quoi les succès s’enchaînent déjà pour cette relève!

Timo von Gunten’s short film with actress Jane Birkin (of Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg Fame) in the leading role premiered as part of the official short film competition at the 69th Locarno Film Festival and was nominated for best action short at the 89th Academy Awards. The movie is available on Prime.

Apocablyss is a new creative studio (est. 2021) dedicated to creating magical, interactive and multi-platform entertainment that inspires human connection and conscious engagement. Founded on feminist principles, our studio bends towards exploring surrealism, psychedelic, altered states of consciousness and surrealism within fun, colourful, good-vibe environments. Apocablyss specializes in creating meditative and transformative environments IRL as well as in VR/AR, print and video game formats.

Apocablyss is devoted to using new media to explore new forms of storytelling, invoking conversations around caring for our planet and protecting life, and creating animated and programmed speculative fictions that ultimately help us re-connect and re-imagine ourselves and the world around us in these troubled and turbulent times.

Apocablyss recently received funding from Weird Ghosts, an impact fund for studios led by underrepresented founders across Canada. They support video game studios with grants, catalytic investments, and community in order to build strong, impactful teams of underrepresented makers who are shaping the future of games.

This from Caleb through Curate Films.

After riding off into the sunset of the Behold, form the Glove music video, Matt continues to cross through multiple dimensions. Behold the Glove is part of the MUSE NFT release on Niftygateway: Simulation Theory : Sequence I Open Edition by Muse.

See video here.

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This was all done in Unreal 4.

Metaform Studio / Paris.