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HOWTO: Demon Summoning shows at festival, Hugh chairs Raindance panel, more…

Lots of stuff going on over here, so here’s a quick summary of the coolest bits!

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HOWTO: Demon Summoning is on the Official Selection for the Fargo Fantastic Film Festival! This is HOWTO’s first festival showing, and I’m really pleased!

I’m running a panel at the prestigious Raindance Film Festival entitled “Hacking Hollywood VFX”. I’ll be joined by 3-4 panelists - just confirming the final slots, but I’m very pleased to say that indie filmmaking legend Chris “Guerilla Filmmaker” Jones and Paddy Easton, VFX supervisor on dozens of Hollywood films have already confirmed as the first two panelists.

“Cellar and Tower” AND “Dangerous Treasures” are both in post-production. Yep, I’ve somehow ended up running the two projects more or less side by side, and they should be seeing the light of day in a couple of months or less. These two films are set in the same universe as “HOWTO: Demon Summoning”, but have quite different styles - Cellar and Tower diving into Lynchian territory, whilst Dangerous Treasures is more of an action-horror…

After that, part 2 of Carcosa is on the table, and then into the next in the HOWTO series, which is provisionally titled HOWTO: Resurrection…