Reminder: Virtual Q&A Series “Dissecting Horror” Continues TONIGHT at 6 PM (PST) with Facebook Live Pride Panel!
To celebrate Pride Month, the next installment of our “Dissecting Horror” digital panel series (in partnership with Impact24) will focus on the LGBTQ+ creative talent behind some of your favorite horror projects. The panel will take place TONIGHT, June 17th at 6 PM PST.
Panelists include John Berardo (writer/director of Dembanger), Carla Patullo (composer of Porno), Paul Etheredge (director of Hellbent), and Chris Crane (production designer for Disappearance at Clifton Hill). Logan Crow, Executive Director of The Frida Cinema will be moderating.
Dread Central and Impact24 launched the “Dissecting Horror” digital panel series April 15th with a focus on horror film scores. Panelists included composers Ronen Landa (Dark Sky Film’s 1BR), Devin Burrows (IFC’s The Wretched), Christian Davis (Vertical Entertainment’s Behind You), and Rafaël Leloup (IFC Films’ The Other Lamb).
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The second installment of the series took place May 6th and spotlighted the stunts of some of your favorite genre projects. Panelists included Emmy-winning stunt coordinator Hiro Koda (Netflix’s Stranger Things), stunt double and coordinator Jahnel Curfman (Netflix’s Bird Box), stunt coordinator Harry Dakanalis (Universal Pictures’ The Invisible Man) and stunt coordinator and double Jennifer Badger (The WB’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
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The last panel took place May 27th and focused on effects. Panelists included Heath Hood (special effects coordinator for Universal’s Halloween & Halloween Kills), Marcus Taormina (visual effects supervisor for Netflix’s Bright & Bird Box) and Jeremy Hays (special effects supervisor for Sony Pictures’ Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Warner Bros. Pictures’ Doctor Sleep) and Jason Piccioni (visual effects supervisor for Hulu’s Castle Rock, FX’s American Horror Story).
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“Dissecting Horror” will be streamed on Dread Central’s Facebook page through Facebook Live (as well as other streaming platforms). The panel will also be made available on our official Youtube channel.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
Carla Patullo
Award-winning composer Carla Patullo, also known as White Widow, has created rich and diverse soundscapes for film and television productions that have won awards such as a Daytime Emmy, a BAFTA, an Independent Spirit Award, and the GLAAD Media Award.
Skywalker Sound and the Sundance Institute selected Carla as a Composer Fellow for the 2018 Sundance Film Music and Sound Design Lab, during which she developed her haunting and vocally-driven score to Keola Racela’s horror-comedy Porno which premiered at SXSW and is now available On Demand via Fangoria. According to Variety Magazine, “Carla Patullo’s score is a nicely poker-faced channeling of fantasy-action soundtrack tropes from a generation ago.”
She is currently working on three feature documentaries: Of Shadows, about animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger; Canta di Liberta, about the renowned Italian singer Milva; and Gregorio Davila’s LGBTA doc LA: A Queer History.
With sounds that range from raw industrial to lush orchestral, Carla’s other credits include the award-winning Sundance selection Spa Night, and the Outfest selections Letter to Anita, Jeanne Cordova, and Choke. Carla also co-founded the production company Trick Studio, through which she directed and scored the award-winning animated short film, Cinderella, A Shadow Ballet, based on Reiniger’s original 1922 silent film Aschenputtel. Carla’s score won her a Global Music Award, and two Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominations for Best Original Score and Best Singer-Songwriter. Carla followed up her success by directing and scoring the critically-acclaimed short, Lotte That Slihouette Girl, which earned her a Music+Sound Award nomination for Best Short Film Score, won the American Documentary Film Festival award for Best U.S. Short, was one of the Hottest Shorts at Hot Docs, and shortlisted for a 2018 IDAAward.
In addition to composing, Carla is a prolific songwriter and has had over 100 song placements on Emmy-winning shows, such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Young & the Restless, Skins, and in dance performances by Maddie Ziegler on the show Dance Moms. Furthermore, Carla has toured internationally as a solo performer and with her band. Her vocals can be heard on the Microsoft video game Project Spark, and the PBS show Craft in America. She was also the musical director for actress/comedian Sandra Bernhard’s I Love Being Me, Don’t You album tour, which included performances with Liza Minnelli, Rufus Wainwright, and Justin Vivian Bond.
Chris Crane
Production designer Chris Crane has been working in the film industry since 2008. He has designed a number of high profile festival films, including the Ricky Tollman directed feature film Run This Town (SXSW 2019), Matt Johnson’s Operation: Avalanche (Sundance Film Festival 2016), The Rainbow Kid, directed by Kire Paputts (Toronto International Film Festival 2016) and Clara, directed by Akash Sherman (Toronto International Film Festival 2018-for which he was also nominated for a DGC Craft Award for Best Production Design). The digital series Cold won a Streamy Award for Best Drama in 2017 and the OMNI television series Blood & Water has been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Dramatic Series in 2017 and 2019.
Recent projects he has worked on include the sci-fi-ish feature film Code 8 (directed by Jeff Chan and produced by/starring Stephen Amell and Robbie Amell) and the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 feature film Clifton Hill (now titled Disappearance at Clifton Hill) directed by Albert Shin. Chris was again nominated for a DGC Craft Award for Best Production Design for this film. He also production designed the CRAVE TV darkly comedic limited series New Eden and just completed working on the 5th season of the comedy series The Baroness Von Sketch Show for CBC.
John Berardo
Originally from Norman, Oklahoma, John received his MFA in Film & TV Production from USC and his BA from UCLA in Theatre Directing and Playwriting. John co-founded production company Shatterproof Films, which specializes in genre-based films with topical social messages. Dembanger, a topical reinvention of the slasher genre for the social media generation, was scheduled to be his debut feature at SXSW 2020.
Paul Etheredge
Paul Etheredge is best known as the writer/director/editor of Hellbent, the first gay slasher film. He’s also the director/producer for two SONY TV productions, the experimental horror web series, Buried Alive, and the action-noir, Angel of Death, which featured stuntwoman Zoe Bell in her first starring role. Additionally, Etheredge worked on the queer supernatural soap, Dante’s Cove for two seasons, as a writer (Season 3) and the lead story editor (Season 4).
Beyond writing and directing, Etheredge served as the art director for Morgan Freeman’s series, Through the Wormhole, and as production designer for Eli Roth’s History of Horror. Etheredge will resume writing/directing as soon as this damn coronavirus allows.
Logan Crow (Moderator)
Logan Crow is an avid and lifelong film lover, with a particular fondness for the avant-garde, horror, cult, and international cinema. Having previously founded cult cinema website Mondo Celluloid and the non-profit Long Beach Cinematheque, since 2014 Crow has served as the Executive Director of The Frida Cinema, a non-profit independent art-house theater which he founded in Santa Ana, CA, and which curates an eclectic mix of classic and contemporary cinematic programming, as well as Pop-Up Drive-In screenings and community events.
About Impact24 PR:
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Based in Los Angeles, we are a team of passionate and experienced communications experts who shape and define the public profiles of many of the industry’s leading creative artists, including composers, directors, costume designers, cinematographers, production designers, music supervisors, makeup artists, VFX, VR/AR and more.
We pride ourselves on strategically elevating each client’s personal and professional brand in alignment with their objectives, identity and persona. With thousands of print publications, millions of blogs and billions of social media interactions, we guide our clients through the complex world of entertainment with an effective, positive and results-driven approach.
Are you excited to tune in to our “Dissecting Horror” live Pride Panel TONIGHT, June 17th at 6 PM (PST)? Let us know in the comments below or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! You can also carry on the convo with me personally on Twitter @josh_millican.
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