Synopsis: The universe does not care. The abyss is stupid. Narrated by author Bracken MacLeod, this Herzog-inspired fever dream uses 100% stock footage to reflect on the banality of existence. Written, directed & produced by Izzy Lee Narration by Bracken … Read More
Clickbait (2018) A college student who will do just about anything for Internet fame is kidnapped by a fan, and her reluctant roommate is the only one who can save her in this horror satire of popularity culture. Score available … Read More
We had a great time as guests on Without Your Head on March 14, 2019 along with our pal, Jim McDonough! http://www.withoutyourhead.com/uploaded/mediafiles/WYH_190316.mp3 We’re also extremely honored to be the music of the month on the fantastic Without Your … Read More
We couldn’t be more excited to return to the Boston Underground Film Festival with Clickbait this year! We had a great time with our previous films: Blood of the Tribades, Magnetic, and TEN. Facebook Event Tickets Three years after winning … Read More
Blood of the Tribades is an official selection of the Horror-on-Sea Film Festival 2019 – screens January 12, 2019! “…a love letter to offbeat lesbian vampire films that offers powerful discourse on self-identity, feminism, and the violence wrought from religious … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at Fright Night Horror Weekend Film Festival – November 25-27, 2016 – Louisville, KY Blood of the Tribades 1hr 18min Sunday Room B 12:15pm Another film that Michael and Sophia had a small part in, The Ungovernable Force … Read More
Blood of the Tribades Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival November 4-13, 2016 Eastern Hills Cinema in Williamsville, New York Sophia and Michael will be in attendance! Monday, Nov. 7th at 9 pm Ticket Information We’re a festival highlight on Buffalo News! Coverage on … Read More
Blood of the Tribades won Best Feature (overall) at Imaginarium Convention! 2016 Imaginarium Convention – Imaginarium Convention Below is a complete list of Film Festival and Imadjinn Award winners for Imaginarium 2016. We extend our gratitude to all who participated … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at Upstate NY Horror Film Festival – October 15-16, 2016 – Rochester, NY Saturday, Oct 15, 2016 – Block 4 Screening Information – Facebook event “Its the 3rd year and the biggest horror film festival to come to Rochester NY … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at Scare-A-Con, Turning Stone, NY Saturday Oct 1, 2016 @ 11:00 AM Screening Information – Tickets THE HORROR/POP CULTURE PARTY OF THE YEAR! “…a love letter to offbeat lesbian vampire films that offers powerful discourse on self-identity, feminism, … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at B Movie Underground and Trash Film Festival, Breda, The Netherlands! Friday, September 2, 2016 @ 14:00 Screening Information – Program Booklet “Fans of bizarre, experimental or otherwise distorting movies are served every year at … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at GENREBLAST Film Festival, Culpeper VA Friday, August 19, 2016 @ 11:59PM Screening Information We are incredibly honored to have won the award for BEST SCORE! (listen at Blood of the Tribades Soundtrack ) We were also … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at STARBURST International Film Festival, Manchester UK! Saturday, August 28 2016 Screening Information Directors Sophia Cacciola & Michael J. Epstein will be in attendence at the festival! “A busy 3 days of Cult TV, Comics with screenings … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at GENCON Film Festival Thursday, August 4, 2016 @ 10pm Screening Information – directors Sophia Cacciola & Michael J. Epstein in attendance! PANELS: Fri 8/5 10:00AM – Sophia is on a Pre-production panel Fri 8/5 … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at Fantasmagorical Film Festival! Winner Best 70’s Throwback Film! Winner Best Vampire Film! “…the film is a love letter to offbeat lesbian vampire films that offers powerful discourse on self-identity, … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at Origins Film Festival June 18, 2016 @ 11pm Screening Information “…the film is a love letter to offbeat lesbian vampire films that offers powerful discourse on self-identity, feminism, and the violence wrought from religious dogma. Immersive, … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at International Horror Hotel! June 11, 2016 @ 10:55pm in Screening Room B – Hudson, OH Screening Information “…the film is a love letter to offbeat lesbian vampire films that offers powerful discourse on self-identity, feminism, and … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at Phoenix Comicon! June 3rd, 2016 at 8:30PM in West 102B Screening Information “…the film is a love letter to offbeat lesbian vampire films that offers powerful discourse on self-identity, feminism, and the violence wrought from religious … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at International Vampire Film and Arts Festival in Transylvania, Romania! From Stoker to Rice; from Nosferatu to classic Hammer onto Twilight, The Strain and beyond – the vampire genre is the world’s most enduring and influential horror … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at Sanford International Film Festival in Sanford, Maine! This is our third year in a row at SIFF and we couldn’t be more delighted to be included in this year’s programming! May 27, 2016 @ 4:30PM … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at Fright Nights: The Ultimate Festival of Angst in Vienna, Austria! May 11th, 2016 Information “…the film is a love letter to offbeat lesbian vampire films that offers powerful discourse on self-identity, feminism, … Read More
BUFF Bacchus created by the Whore Church Blood of the Tribades won Best New England Film at the Boston Underground Film Festival! The film world premiered to a sold-out crowd at The Brattle Theatre on (vampire) Easter as part of … Read More
poster created by kristilyn-zombie romance Blood of the Tribades 2015 was the year of vampires! We spent much of the second half of the year shooting and doing pre-and-post production on our third feature film, Blood of the Tribades. Shot … Read More
Porcelain Dalya‘s writing/directorial debut, One is now available to watch! We have worked with Dalya on too many things to count at this point (including her award-winning role as the co-ed in TEN movie) and we were happy to help … Read More
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We had a grand world premiere of Magnetic at The Boston Underground Film Festival! 3/29/15 at 12 PM at The Brattle Theatre. Facebook Event We’re also excited that films we helped out on in some capacity are also showing … Read More
not a movie set scar! 2014 had its ups and downs… We managed to make a whole movie, Magnetic. We traveled with TEN at festivals and got distribution for it (will be out in April), and record some songs. … Read More
UPDATE: TEN IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR YOUR EYES AND EARS! Buy the issue! “TEN is up to something a little different, looking to subvert audience expectations…and while TEN contains the scenario’s requisite blood and nudity, it veers off in directions … Read More
this is serious business. here I am pre-gaming with a vegan donut! This past weekend was a total whirlwind and we had the most amazing time premiering TEN at both the Brooklyn Girl Film Fest and the Boston Underground Film … Read More
“Imagine Scream crossed with The Usual Suspects…The art comes with meticulously framed shots full of color, the enjoyment with puzzling out the crazy plot twists.” – Boston Herald “…a Clue-esque, genre-mixing murder-mystery at a haunted mansion…with enough themes and tropes … Read More
TEN was very fortunate to have some help during shooting with feeding our 17 cast and crew on location for eight days! on the road to the set of TEN! Snack Factory sent us huge boxes of Pretzel Crisps – … Read More
Sophia & Michael hard at work 2013 was a weird and wonderful year of many projects of the film and music variety. Here is the past: 2012 Review – 2011 Review Before we get started, we made a few year-End Lists/Summaries: http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2013/12/30/bostonemissions-favoritesoftheyear2013/ http://trainwreckdsociety.com/2014/01/ … Read More
We are extremely excited to announce that we’re in preproduction for our 2nd feature film, MAGNETIC. On December 31st, at 11:58:07 PM Coordinated Universal Time, Earth, the third planet from the star sol will have its atmosphere ripped to shreds … Read More
https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/ wrote a song about traveling to Paris to kiss Oscar Wilde? We’re debuting it on October 3rd at Oberon? But why?!?!?!? Jade Sylvan‘s Kissing Oscar Wilde book release party!https://www.facebook.com/events/147511405445366/ Tickets: http://bit.ly/kisswilde Why go to a book release party in … Read More
Walter Sickert’s “Saint of Glass Worms” Last year, https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/‘s Art-Exchange Project included 5 songs written via the inspiration of 5 of our favorite visual artists. Each of those artists also then created a new visual piece based on a song … Read More
Friends of TEN is our blog series briefly highlighting fundraisers and projects that are associated with independent film, particularly genre film. Help BUFF raise a bit of money to make their 15th year a smashing success! We’ve enjoyed being part … Read More
2012 Recap! Okay, 2012 was a big one. Here’s 2011, that was big too, but different. After last year, we had the lofty goal of releasing 10 albums in 2012. We would have done it too, if we didn’t get … Read More
Our campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaeljepstein/ten-b-movie-psychological-thriller-full-of-twists We just wanted to pass along a big thank you to the contributors to our campaign! We’re extremely excited to have you all be a part of this project and we look forward to sharing more news about … Read More
We are extremely excited to announce that Darling Pet Munkee‘s “X-Ray Specs” music video will be screening at the 2012 Boston Underground Film Festival! The complete schedule is available at: http://bostonunderground.org/2012-schedule/ (or as a PDF). The video was shot at Radio, mostly … Read More
Darling Pet Munkee officially releases our debut album, _Glows in the Dark_ on 1/14/12 at Radio in Somerville! We are very excited to perform live in the venue that we shot our “X-Ray Specs” video! We’ll have guest burlesque and theater … Read More
The Vivs’ 2nd Annual Holiday Bash and Benefit!Saturday, December 17th, 2011; 6:30 p.m. The Regent Theatre Featuring An All-Star Lineup of Bands and Performers: • Big Dipper• The Vivs• Tanya Donelly and Bill Janovitz• Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling• The … Read More
I have decided to post the complete collected tale of buying The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library‘s Volume One on vinyl…only problem is…it’s not released on vinyl. Several people have requested this single post so that they could share it and easily get through … Read More
We’re bringing Prisoner-rock to the people this weekend! Please join us/tell your friends to join us in Brooklyn & Philly! 9/3/11 SATURDAY$5 · Spike Hill Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling (9PM)I Love Monsters(10PM) 186 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg -Brooklyn, … Read More
Watch the video at Magnet! For those curious on just how close (it’s disturbing, really) we got it to the original – here is a link to a shot-within-shot video of The Prisoner (1967) and “Episode 1 – Arrival” (2011) and … Read More
Sophia’s Rock Beat is devoted to taking video of local bands and posting it. Read previous Rock Beats HERE. It has been a busy couple of weeks since returning from Austin for SXSW. Our first stop was the BUFF (Boston … Read More
Last October, http://blog.michaeljepstein.com/2010/10/most-epic-video-shoot-of-all-time-with.html I gave an update on the bulk of the shooting for our epic music video that recreates the opening sequence of The Prisoner. We’ve had several days of shooting since then. We spent two days shooting the resigned cabinet … Read More
Live photos and video archives
SAD UPDATE: SKIPPY IS MISSING! A bit back, I had mentioned the great crisis taking place in Somerville regarding the possibility that Skippy, a rare mummified squirrel’s natural habitat would be torn down in favor of attracting and housing living … Read More
Our EP was officially released on April 3rd at Church of Boston (with some wonderful bands – another post on that soon!) and we really felt the love from the Boston community leading up to the show. Here’s the run-down … Read More
all links go to something interesting. Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling: In July we recorded 3 songs with Mike Quinn at The Moontower (download them here!), and had a kick-ass photo shoot with Kelly Davidson. In August, we … Read More