Screenings: 'Body Image' Screens at LA Comic Con

As we wind down our ‘Body Image’ tour, we have our last two screenings coming up as part of our GeekFest Film Festival tour!

LOS ANGELES, CA
October 27-28 2018
Los Angeles Comic Con
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015
> Screening: 10/27 at 12:00pm in the Horror block
> Panel: 10/28 at 3:00pm: Writer/director Kim Garland will be on the GeekFest Filmmakers Panel

PROVIDENCE, RI
November 4, 2018 at 1:00pm
Rhode Island Comic Con
Rhode Island Convention Center
1 Sabin Street
Providence, RI 02903
*Horror block

Screenings: 'Body Image' Screens in Los Angeles & Palm Springs

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We're now moving into some super fun specialty screenings for Body Image!

First up, we'll be screening as part of the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival showcase at the ScareLA haunt convention (yes, that's a convention for Halloween haunts, haunted house attractions, and spooky makeups!).

And following on the heels of ScareLA, Body Image will screen at Comic Con Palm Springs as part of the GeekFest Film Festival tour!

ScareLA Haunt Convention
August 25, 2018 at 11:30am (Horrible Imaginings block)
Screening at:
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, California 90015

Comic Con Palm Springs
August 26, 2018 at 1pm (Horror block)
Screening at:
Palm Springs Air Museum
745 N Gene Autry Trail
Palm Springs, CA 92262

New Year, New Reel!

I've updated my demo reel to include my latest work - includes clips from my films Body Image, The End of Mara, Deal Travis In, and Vivienne Again. Check it out and if you like it, please share!

Screening: 'The End of Mara' Screens in Wisconsin

I'm happy to share that “The End of Mara” will continue its festival tour with a newly announced screening at the Flyway Film Festival in Pepin, WI!

FLYWAY FILM FESTIVAL
> Friday, October 21st at 9:30pm, Friday Night Shorts block

In The Can: 'Body Image' Wraps NJ Shoot

Last week, during a one-day shoot in Woodland Park, NJ, we shot a new horror short film called Body Image. This is a different kind of film for me: very short runtime (approx. 2 minutes), one location, one actor, and no dialogue.

We had a great cast and crew! We worked with a skeleton crew for this small shoot and everyone worked so well as a team to cover the many roles needed.

I worked again with producer Matt Garland and cinematographer Ian Choplick -- our fourth film now as a team -- and we assembled a talented crew to create the look and feel for this film.

A big thank you to each of our cast and crew for their dedication, hard work, and artistry -- and a special shout-out to our actor Jocelyn Vammer and FX makeup artist Ashley Thomas for working with me to create Abby, our single character in Body Image.

You can follow our progress as we complete the film via our City Kid Films pages on Facebook and Twitter. And thank you for your continued support!

Press: Podcast Interview with Row Three at the Flyway Film Festival

Last weekend, Matt Garland and I attended the fabulous Flyway Film Festival (alliteration, anyone?!) for the third time.

Instead of bringing a film to screen at the fest, as we've done the last two years, this year I attended as a Guest Short Film Programmer and Juror. The friends, parties, films and pie were as wonderful as ever.

While there, we ran into the guys from Row Three, Andrew James and Matt Gamble, and they interviewed us for their podcast about our role in the festival this year, our Resurrection Trilogy of short films and what else we've been working on. Thanks, guys, for taking the time to talk with us!

Listen to the podcast here (15 minutes): Flyway Pubcast #2 – Matt & Kim Garland [Shorts Programmers]

Press: Fangoria Magazine Shouts-Out 'Vivienne Again' Audience Award Win

After an amazing trip to Montreal to screen 'Vivienne Again' at the Mascara & Popcorn Film Festival – where we won an Audience Award! – Heather Buckley writes up a great recap of the event for Fangoria magazine. She covers all of the highlights and weird & wonderful goings on that make M&P so great. And she so kindly gives our film a shout-out, too. Thanks, Heather!

Click here to read the article.

Announcing My Next Film: 'The End of Mara'

The time has come to finish up my Resurrection Trilogy of short films! The final film will be The End of Mara and it's slated for release in 2015.

The End of Mara is the story of a woman who helps her husband break free of a curse that’s brought him back to life and trapped him on Manhattan Island. This film, as with the last two, will be stand-alone and character-focused.

We're just getting rolling with this project and are in the script development stage now. We have our key crew for production and post-production already lined up - the same collaborators we created the first two films with - so we will truly be keeping the films all in the same world.

In order to focus on making this last film the best it can be, I'm taking a hiatus from my Script magazine column for the next few months to put everything I have into this project.

It's going to be an amazing ride!

Follow along via Twitter at my personal account or our production company's account, or on Facebook at The End of Mara page. I will also send out periodic updates through my newsletter, which is probably the best way to stay in the loop.

Thanks for continuing with me on this journey and I hope to share lots more with you soon!

Screening: 'Deal Travis In' Heads to the Twisted Celluloid Film Festival in Ireland

For the first time, one of my films is traveling overseas! We've been selected to screen at the Twisted Celluloid Film Festival, a cool genre fest that screens in a restored 18th Century church in Cork city, Ireland.

While I won't be able to attend this fest in person (darn!), it is very exciting to have our first screening outside of North America!

May 18, 2014 – 4:15pm
Triskel Church (Cork city, Ireland)
> Opening for feature film Torment.

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