Exclusive Wind Walkers Interview Clips: Writer/Director/Star Russell Friedenberg and Actor Kiowa Gordon
For the next several days we’ll be highlighting a series of interview clips for Wind Walkers (review), one of the After Dark Film Festival’s “8 Films to Die For.” On tap today we have writer, director, and star Russell Friedenberg and actor Kiowa Gordon.
About Wind Walkers:
Once again Courtney Solomon showcases yet another heart-lurching horror under his company, After Dark Films. Wind Walkers, a spine-chilling Native American tale set in the wilds of Florida, will be the 8th and final film in the “8 Films to Die For” horror festival, in theaters October 16, 2015.
Written and directed by talented filmmaker Russell Friedenberg and produced by Iron Circle Pictures and Sweet Tomato Films, Wind Walkers will bring the first ever film with a Native American flair to the brand. The Dark Side Magazine has referred to the film as: “Unremitting and furious, Wind Walkers breathes fresh air into the genre.”
“We’ve saved the most unique for last,” says Stephanie Caleb, EVP of Creative Affairs & Acquisitions at After Dark Films. “Wind Walkers digs deep into Native American history and the psyche of our shared yet tortured pasts. It explores the nature of what it means to be cursed as an individual and as a community. The gradual withering away of the collective soul and all that makes us human is on display in this horrifying tale of the violent rebalancing of nature’s scales.”
The film stars Phil Burke (“Hell on Wheels”), Russell Friedenburg (Among Ravens), Kiowa Gordon (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), Zane Holtz (“From Dusk Till Dawn,” The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Christopher Kriesa (Cast Away), Castille Landon (Sex Ed), and Glen Powell, Jr. (The Expendables 3; The Dark Knight Rises).
“Wind Walkers was a blast to make, and we think taking it into the world with After Dark will be equally fun,” say producers Heather Rae and Dori Sperko. “Russell’s vision plays on many levels, and the genre audience is in for a wild ride!”
“8 Films to Die For” will be released in theaters on October 16, 2015, with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment handling all ancillary forms of media, including Digital HD, DVD, and VOD.
Synopsis:
A U.S. solider returns home from captivity to find that his best friend and fellow former POW has gone AWOL. While out on an annual hunting trip with his friend’s father and some extended family, their group comes under attack by an ancient Native American curse that has mysterious connections to his best friend’s heritage and the prison in which they were once held captive.
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