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Pixar Vet Alan Barillaro Moves To Passion Pictures

Searching For Sugar Man producer Passion Pictures has signed Oscar-winning Pixar veteran Alan Barillaro as Creative Director for its Animation division. Barillaro will further Passion’s push into animated features and TV series, having already been behind the likes of Netflix’s Love, Death and Robots. He is the second Pixar veteran to join Passion in the past year, following David Park’s move to be Head of Production and Exec Producer. Barillaro joined Pixar in 1997 and worked on the likes of A Bug’s Life, Lightyear, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles, along with winning an Oscar for animated short Piper. He recently secured a global three-book deal with Candlewick Press and the Walker Books Group. Passion Founder Andrew Ruhemann called him a “true pioneer in the animation world and an inspiration to many.” Barillaro hailed Passion as a “creative hub for some...

Stars: Jamie Bernadette, Teo Celigo, Erik Aude, David Carey Foster, Daniel Gardner | Written and Directed by Todd Bartoo

Joan is an enforcer known for her ruthless tactics and wild, reckless lifestyle. After she is double crossed and left for dead, she becomes a vengeful spirit, wielding dark and mysterious powers. Can she use these abilities to take down those who wronged her without sacrificing her own soul?

Jamie Bernadette does her best to pave a new road for the title’s kill-crazy, hyper-sexed Joan. But like any good anti-hero, Joan isn’t all bad; she has a strong sense of loyalty to her underworld boss, Frank (David Carey Foster). The demented, yet strangely sweet, father/daughter dynamic between these two characters is one of the solid points to the film. Joan also has a knack for saving the helpless dregs of society, or at least not murdering them. She’s a good bad guy,...

Joan Butler is an implacable spirit out to bring down the mobsters that left her for dead in writer/director Todd Bartoo’s highly-anticipated and unique unification of The Crow and Death Wish, Killing Joan – released this April from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Joan (Jamie Bernadette, All Girl’s Weekend, I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu) is an enforcer known for her ruthless tactics and wild abandon. After she is double crossed by her boss and left for dead, she becomes a vengeful spirit and is doomed to wander the Earth until she is able to take down the men that attacked her.

With eye-popping visual effects by Paul Lada (Prometheus, Harry Potter, Pacific Rim Uprising) and a superlative support cast including Teo Celigo, Erik Aude, David Carey Foster, Katarina Leigh Waters, Erin O’Brien and Daniel Gardner, Killing Joan is released on Digital on April 3rd and DVD on July 10th.

Hailing from writer/director Todd Bartoo, we’ve got a sneak peek at the upcoming revenge horror/thriller Killing Joan, which definitely sounds like it’s taking a page from The Crow. In the clip, we see star Jamie Bernadette (All Girl’s Weekend, I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu) rocking some black leather and facing a brick wall […]...

Joan Butler is an implacable spirit out to bring down the mobsters that left her for dead in writer/director Todd Bartoo’s highly-anticipated and unique unification of The Crow and Death Wish, Killing Joan – released this April from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Joan (Jamie Bernadette, All Girl’s Weekend, I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu) is an enforcer known for her ruthless tactics and wild abandon. After she is double crossed by her boss and left for dead, she becomes a vengeful spirit and is doomed to wander the Earth until she is able to take down the men that attacked her.

With eye-popping visual effects by Paul Lada (Prometheus, Harry Potter, Pacific Rim Uprising) and a superlative support cast including Teo Celigo, Erik Aude, David Carey Foster, Katarina Leigh Waters, Erin O’Brien and Daniel Gardner, Killing Joan is released on Digital on April 3rd and DVD on July 10th.