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Clickbait @ FANtastic Horror Film Festival, San Diego WON: Best Supporting Actress (Brandi Aguilar)

We had a really fun time attending FANtastic Horror Film Festival in San Diego! Clickbait won Best Supporting Actress (Brandi Aguilar)! We were nominated for: Best Feature, Best Actress (Amanda Colby Stewart),  Best Supporting Actor (Seth Chatfield), Best Score (Night Kisses w/ Catherine … Read More

Sophia wins Les Femmes Du Genre wrestling belt award at GenreBlast! (and Sophia and Michael win “Nuclear Pens” for having multiple screenplays place as finalists)

Sophia was honored at GenreBlast Film Festival 2018 (where we also had Clickbait and Leopard premiere) with the wrestling belt for Les Femmes Du Genre! The Les Femmes award recognizes “an outstanding woman in genre filmmaking,” and during the awards, … Read More

Clickbait world premieres at GenreBlast, wins Best On-Screen Duo – Alamo Drafthouse – Winchester, VA – Sept 1 – 3:15 PM – Also was nominated for: Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Score, Best Cinematography

The GenreBlast Film Festival 2018 film festival was a blast and we are extremely honored to be recognized for: Best On-Screen Duo (Amanda Colby Stewart & Brandi Aguilar) And in non-Clickbait categories: Les Femmes Du Genre (Sophia Cacciola) Nuclear Pen [multiple finalist screenplays] (Michael J. … Read More

Listen to the Clickbait cast w/Sophia and Michael live interview on WithoutYourHead – with Bob Elmore of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Listen at: http://www.withoutyourhead.com/viewnews.php?autoid=110241 Download at: http://www.withoutyourhead.com/uploaded/mediafiles/WYH_180803.mp3 https://www.facebook.com/events/222524611924749/ http://www.withoutyourhead.com/viewnews.php?autoid=110218 Sophia and Michael will join Neal Jones of Without Your Head around 9 PM EST to intro the movie before passing the torch for discussion to Clickbait leads Amanda Colby Stewart, Brandi … Read More

International anthology A Taste of Phobia featuring Sophia and Michael’s “Somniphobia” out on DVD and VOD via Artsploitation

  “Somniphobia”  Produced, written, and directed: Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein Director of Photography: Bryan McKay Production Assistants: Lianne O’Shea and Tyler Sage Music, sound, and editing: Michael J. Epstein Starring: Michael J. Epstein as Elijah Lianne O’Shea as … Read More

Variety premieres Lee DeWyze music video for “Paranoia” (Sophia is cinematographer)

https://open.spotify.com/album/2Ucr4w3CHRZBMyXjLAPiIG We had a wonderful time working with brilliant singer-songwriter and American Idol winner Lee DeWyze to shoot a series of live music videos. Sophia was the shoot cinematographer. Michael was AC/b-cam op.  Directed by: JOHN KVIKLYS Produced by: ANDREW … Read More

Wretched Productions’ doc, More Blood (directed by Heidi Moore), features Darling Pet Munkee and Blood of the Tribades

Wretched Productions’ More Blood, a documentary that takes a look at why horror audiences like to watch death and gore in movies is out now! The doc features Darling Pet Munkee‘s “X-Ray Specs” in the credits and a clip from Blood of … Read More

Sophia is cinematographer on series of videos for brilliant singer-songwriter and American Idol winner Lee DeWyze

https://open.spotify.com/album/2Ucr4w3CHRZBMyXjLAPiIG We had a wonderful time working with brilliant singer-songwriter and American Idol winner Lee DeWyze to shoot a series of live music videos. Sophia was the shoot cinematographer. Michael was AC/b-cam op.  Directed by: JOHN KVIKLYS Produced by: ANDREW … Read More

The book, Indie Science Fiction Cinema Today: Conversations with 21st Century Filmmakers, features an interview with Sophia about Magnetic (and an image from Magnetic on the cover)

Indie Science Fiction Cinema Today: Conversations with 21st Century Filmmakers Kindle Edition by Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay,‎ Chris Vander Kaay Sophia has an extensive interview in this book published by McFarland about indie sci-fi cinema (and we got the cover image!). It is broken … Read More

Michael does audio post production work on the short film, ‘Friendsgiving’ (2018)

  I had the pleasure of doing some audio post-production work on the short, Friendsgiving – directed by Samantha Kolesnik, written by Samantha Kolesnik and Sean Richard Budde. The cast includes Nathan Ludwig, Kaylor Otwell, Eddie Gutierrez, Sami Griffith, Kelsey Andrae, Frank Pontillo, and Alastair Wharton. The … Read More

Check out the fascinating similarity between Eminem and Beyoncé’s “Walk on Water” (2017) and The Motion Sick’s “Walk on Water” (2008)!

Check out the fascinating similarity between Eminem and Beyoncé’s “Walk on Water” (2017) and The Motion Sick’s “Walk on Water” (2008)! The Motion Sick’s “Walk on Water” (2008) Read “Walk on Water” by The Motion Sick on Genius Eminem and Beyoncé’s “Walk … Read More

Trashsploitation (2018): a collection of horror, exploitation, b-movie, grindhouse, and trash trailer features TEN and Blood of the Tribades trailers! Now out on blu-ray, DVD, and VHS via SRS Cinema

VESTRA PICTURES TRASHSPLOITATIONGRINDHOUSE, HORROR, SOV, TRASH, EXPLOITATION FILM TRAILERS! The greatest collection of current underground movie trailers around!THE MOST SHOCKING FILM TRAILER COMPILATION OF ALL TIME!COMING ATTRACTION FILM TRAILERS!Produced by TONY NEWTON “GRINDSPLOITATION”, “VHS LIVES: A SCHLOCKUMENTARY”.FEATURING THE BEST GRINDHOUSE, … Read More

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