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The 17th annual Boston Underground Film Festival is set to explode all over the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square on March 25-29.

Opening Night: The fun kicks off on the 25th at 7:30 p.m. with the exciting new flick from the always amazing Astron-6 collective, The Editor, an homage to the brutal Giallo movies of the ’70s and ’80s directed by Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy. This will be followed by the restored version of the legendary cult classic Gone With the Pope by the notorious Duke Mitchell.

Closing Night: Goodnight Mommy the debut feature film by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, will screen at 8:30 p.m. on the 29th and is a nightmarish vision of familial dread when twin brothers believe their cosmetically altered mother is literally not the woman she used to be.

Other features include a mix of horror, like Matt O’Mahoney’s...

Black Nights Film Festival kicks off 17th edition with Canadian Oscar submission Gabrielle.

This year’s Industry@Tallinn programme (Nov 25-29) will welcome 36 industry speakers from a dozen countries.

The event will also include the signing of Memorandum of Mutual Interest between Estonian Film Institute and Korean Film Council (Kofic).

The panelists on the Hollywood panel include Garrick Dion of Bold, Gloria Fan of Mosaic, Kyle Franke of Xyz and Jeff Barry of ICM. The future festivals/distribution panel will feature Jarod Neece of SXSW, Tim League of Alamo Drafthouse and Daniel Kim of Busan.

The Canadian panel includes Fantasia’s Stephanie Trepanier, Toronto’s Natalie Lue and filmmaker Malcolm Sutherland.

A South Korean panel will include producers Ellen Kim and Tae-joon Park and will be moderated by Screen’s Deputy Asia Editor Jean Noh.

There are also discussions devoted to Japanese co-production, film music, tarnsmedia and animation.

Meanwhile the festival kicked off Friday with director [link=nm...

Forming Game is Malcolm Sutherland's engaging animation, as a couple sit to play a game, shapes and images on the board dance and interact, building up to a rather surprising result. Missed your favourite show, forgot to record it and can't wait for the repeat? Then why not watch TV online, check it out on Sky Player - simply register and start watching straight away.

A last year we reported on an interactive film project called Star Wars Uncut. The idea behind this project was to recreate the whole movie Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope using 472 15 second scenes from the movie, created by fans of the movie. They could recreate the scene anyway they wanted. This is the ultimate Sweded style film production. It's actually quite entertaining.

The Project was started  in early 2009, and now it is complete! You can watch the full movie now! Just click on the image below and enjoy!

Here is just one of several clips from the film! - Hello There.

Star Wars Uncut - Scene 113 - "Hello there" from Malcolm Sutherland on Vimeo.

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