ECHOES Wins Awards at AOF

ECHOES’ first film festival was a huge success! We took home three awards and 11 nominations from the Action on Film Megafest 2018 in Las Vegas! A big congratulations to Campbell Crates for her Best Actress win in addition to ECHOES’ Best Visual Effects and Best Artwork win!

 

We spent the week viewing independent films and getting to know filmmakers from around the world. Some of our cast and crew were able to make it to the World Premiere Screening:

Pictured: Kari Koeper (Makeup Department Head), Angela Crates, Campbell Crates (Amber), Cameron Crates (Abby),  Kenneth Mader (Filmmaker), and Ashely Melendez (Makeup Department). Not pictured Lily Thaisz (Officer Lane & Second Assistant Director).

Award Nominations & Wins

Action on Film International Film Festival

• WON – Best Visual Effects – Short – Kenneth Mader
• WON – Best Artwork (One Sheet / Poster) – ECHOES / Kenneth Mader 
• Best Drama – Short – ECHOES
• Best Actress – Short – Cameron Crates
• Best Supporting Actress – Short – Julia Bauer

Hollywood Dreamz International Film Festival

• WON – Best Actress – Short – Campbell Crates
• RUNNER UP – Best Score – Short – Bruce Chianese
• Best Young Performer Female – Feature or Short – Cameron Crates
• Best Sound Design – Short – Bruce Chianese
• Best Dialogue – Short – Kenneth Mader
• Best Visual Effects – Short – Kenneth Mader

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ECHOES World Premiere in Vegas!

We just finished post-production on our latest short film ECHOES
and it has already been accepted as an Official Selection
in two film festivals!

ECHOES will have its World Premiere Screening in the
Action on Film International Film Festival
and the Hollywood Dreamz International Film Festival
at the Brenden Theaters in the Palms Hotel, Las Vegas
Saturday, August 18th, in the 6:00 pm Block
Ticketing and more info here: https://www.actiononfilmfest.com/tickets

After her father’s untimely death, a teenager suffering from sleep disorders is haunted by a vengeful spirit which may or may not be a hallucination. Her visions ultimately lead to a shocking revelation about an unsolved murder.

BONUS

Our feature film DISPLACEMENT will also have an Exclusive Encore Screening at
Action on Film Sunday, August 19th, 6:00 pm Block

ECHOES stars Cameron Crates (The Bandit Hound), Campbell Crates (Displacement), Andrea Lee Davis (A Doggone Hollywood), Lou Richards (Mad Men), Julia Bauer in her first major role in Los Angeles, and Andi Wagner (Deadly Sins).

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Displacement & Passing Darkness Now Available in the UK!

Maderfilm has landed across the pond with both Displacement and our short film Passing Darkness streaming on Amazon Prime!

Displacement stars the UK’s very own Sarah Douglas (Ursa from the original Superman movies, and most recently Mrs. Averill in A Christmas Prince), along with The Bold and the Beautiful’s Courtney Hope, Academy Award Nominee and Golden Globe Winner Bruce Davison, Golden Globe Winner Susan Blakely, and Christopher Backus (Bosch).

Check out this cool new international poster that just launched the film online in the UK –>

To watch the movie click here:

(Coming to Germany and Japan in early 2018!)

Haven’t seen Displacement in the U.S. yet?
You can watch it here:

Or visit our website for more options.

Our award-winning short film Passing Darkness is also streaming on Amazon in the UK as well as here in the U.S. If you haven’t seen it yet now’s your chance!

Passing Darkness is about a skilled martial artist who must protect her young daughter from dark forces that threaten not just their lives, but her sanity… and learn a shocking truth on her way to redemption.

This film was instrumental in director Kenneth Mader’s journey toward making Displacement and set the bar in terms of production value. Check out the new trailer:

 

MADERFILM’S ‘DEEP FOCUS’ IS NEXT FEATURE; McDOWELL, DAVISON ATTACHED

Hot on the heels of the North American Theatrical and VOD release of its multi-award-winning sci-fi thriller Displacement, Maderfilm Productions has announced that Deep Focus will be the next feature film on its slate to go into production in 2018, with the recent attachment of legendary actor Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) and returning Displacement star Bruce Davison (X-Men).

A sophisticated dystopian supernatural thriller and cautionary tale that explores the dangers of deforestation and emerging diseases, Deep Focus follows the story of a Pulitzer Prize winning photo journalist who begins seeing images of death in her lens, which she believes may be precognitive visions of a coming biological holocaust… the same disease that killed her young daughter. Or did it?  Kenneth Mader will once again helm from his original script that won Best Screenplay honors at the AOF Written Word Awards. McDowell is attached to play enigmatic scientist Dr. Reichfeltz, with Davison to portray the role of an Anglican Priest, Father Oren.

Mader was recently named one of the “Top 100 Indie Filmmakers in the World” in the book by Action On Film’s Del Weston. Displacement took home Best Science Fiction Film honors at both the Downtown L.A. Film Festival and the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, along with a Best Supporting Actor Award for Bruce Davison, a Chrononaut Award for Outstanding Time Travel Film in the Boston Science Fiction Festival, and was an Official Selection in the Phoenix Film Festival and USA Film Festival. It enjoyed a limited theatrical release this past summer day and date with VOD, is also available on DVD, was acquired by A+E Networks for a World Broadcast Premiere on Lifetime, curated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their Margaret Herrick Library, and is being hailed by critics as “A clever masterpeice” and “A Brilliant Mind-Bender That Will Keep You Guessing”.

Packaging and financing for Deep Focus is currently underway, with other prominent talent, sales agents and distributors circling. More news coming soon as the project moves forward.