Watch Emma Dark’s Award-Winning Sci-Fi Horror Short SALIENT MINUS TEN On YouTube
After an incredible festival run, Emma Dark’s Salient Minus Ten (review) has now finally been released on YouTube, and we are proud to present this acclaimed short film in the player below.
Salient Minus Ten originally premiered at the London Horror Festival in Leicester Square, before going on to enjoy a healthy run at various festivals all around the world. The twelve and a half minute short combines elements of sci-fi and horror to tell the story of an ordinary man named Adam Harper (played by Alan Austen) whose life suddenly takes a turn for the extraordinary when he finds himself mysteriously transported to another world, where he is forced to compete in a sinister game of life or death organised by a woman played by Dark. The film also stars Samantha Oči, Chris Hampshire, and Beric Read.
Austen appeared in such films as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, Flash Gordon, An American Werewolf in London, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, so he has clearly had a prolific career. And if you’re an avid gamer, you might also be interested to learn that the ray gun which he wields in Salient Minus Ten (pictured in the gallery below) is actually a reversed and modified Sega light gun. So, fans should see this as a fun homage.
Dark, on the other hand, previously wrote and directed the vampire-themed short Seize the Night, and the experimental art film Purgatoric. She also recently helmed the Japanese-inspired ghost story Goryō, which formed part of The Isolation Horrors anthology.
In addition to being on YouTube, you can also now purchase an autographed DVD of Salient Minus Ten from Dark’s official website. More details are included in the following press release.
Official Press Release: Award-winning Director Emma Dark’s Retro Sci-Fi Horror SALIENT MINUS TEN comes to DVD and Digital
Having recently completed a successful run on the film festival circuit, award-winning director Emma Dark’s cerebral, retro sci-fi/horror short SALIENT MINUS TEN now comes to DVD and Digital.
SALIENT MINUS TEN’s festival journey began in 2017 when it received a glitzy world premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square, London as part of The British Horror Film Festival, and went on to play at festivals including The Dark Side Magazine’s DarkFest, Starburst Magazine’s Media City Film Festival, Rue Morgue Magazine and Unstable Ground’s Little Terrors, Screenland Theatres and Downright Creepy’s Panic Fest, and many more!
The film picked up a number of awards and nominations during its festival run, including winning writer/director Emma Dark ‘Best Director’ at Starburst Magazine’s Media City Film Festival, and the ‘Albert Pyun Inspiration Award’ at The Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival in 2018.
Emma Dark commented: “After much anticipation I’m proud to be able to present SALIENT MINUS TEN to a wider audience on both DVD and digital following a successful festival run. The project has been a labour of love for me, and I’ve consistently been involved in the production in a much wider capacity than writer/director. I do hope people enjoy the film and I’d like to thank all my wonderful cast and crew for supporting my vision, and doing such a fantastic job of it.”
Autographed DVDs are available exclusively from Emma’s Etsy store (etsy.com/uk/shop/EmmaDarkOfficial), and come packaged as a BBFC 15 rated, two disc double bill presentation with Emma’s previous award-winning festival short, action/thriller SEIZE THE NIGHT. Collector’s packs are available which include the DVD, alternative SALIENT MINUS TEN cover art by Simon Pritchard (artbeat64.com), and a set of four mini lobby cards.
SALIENT MINUS TEN is also viewable online via Emma’s YouTube channel (with a digital premiere set for 27 May 7:30pm GMT London time, including a YouTube ‘Live Chat’ with Dark).
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
* Fantoms (REGIONAL PREMIERE – NEWCASTLE UK, Star and Shadow cinema, October 2019)
* WINNER ‘Best Actor’ (Alan Austen), WINNER ‘Best Cinematography’ (Philip Bloom), WINNER ‘Best Editing’ (Emma Dark), Nominated ‘Best Short’, ‘Best Music / Sound’ (Eric Elick & Chris Collier), ‘Outstanding Female Filmmaker’ (Emma Dark) – Stormy Weather Horror Fest Summer 2019
* Medusa Underground Film Festival (REGIONAL PREMIERE – NEVADA USA, The Artisan Hotel Boutique, Las Vegas, January 2019)
* Black Sunday Film Festival (The Whirled Cinema, December 2018)
* International Moving Image Society (01zero-one, October 2018)
* WINNER ‘Albert Pyun Inspiration Award’ (Emma Dark), Nominated ‘Best Short Film’, ‘Audience Choice’, ‘Best Cinematography’ (Philip Bloom) – The Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival (NORTHERN IRISH PREMIERE, The Hub, Bangor, October 2018)
* Sick Chick Flicks Film Festival (REGIONAL PREMIERE – NORTH CAROLINA USA, The Cary Theater, Cary, September 2018)
* Nominated ‘Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy’ – Snake Alley Festival of Film (REGIONAL PREMIERE – IOWA USA, Capitol Theater, Burlington, June 2018)
* Rue Morgue Magazine and Unstable Ground’s Little Terrors Monthly Short Film Festival (CANADIAN PREMIERE, Imagine Cinemas Carlton, April 2018)
* Nominated ‘Best Horror/Sci-Fi’ – 2nd Annual – Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival (REGIONAL PREMIERE – PENNSYLVANIA USA (EAST COAST), Mauch Chunk Opera House, April 2018)
* WINNER ‘Best Director’ (Emma Dark) – Starburst Magazine’s Media City Film Festival (REGIONAL PREMIERE – GREATER MANCHESTER, The Landing, March 2018)
* Billy Chainsaw’s Nova Nights (The Horse Hospital, London, February 2018)
* Panic Fest (USA PREMIERE, Screenland Armour Cinema, Kansas City, January 2018)
* The Dark Side Magazine’s DarkFest (Genesis Cinema, November 2017)
* Nominated ‘Best Short Film’ – The British Horror Film Festival (WORLD PREMIERE, Cineworld Leicester Square, November 2017)
