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breaking news

2 July 2009


  • My original screenplay, "SNOWMEN," has just won second place in the Crime Drama category of the screenplay competition at The Indie Gathering, to be held August 14 - 16, 2009, in Cleveland, Ohio. That makes two awards I'll be collecting there this year! Click the banner above for all the details. More information when I get it. Thanks, Ray!

    1 July 2009


  • THE UGLY FILE has just won first prize in the Horror Shorts category at The Indie Gathering, to be held August 14 - 16, 2009, in Cleveland, Ohio. This is especially exciting because PEEKERS won the exact same prize last year! Click the banner above for all the details. More information when I get it. Thanks, Ray!


  • THE UGLY FILE has just been invited to screen at Rue Morgue's Festival of Fear. This will be my third appearance at the annual convention in Toronto. Click the banner above to head over to Rue Morgue's site. More details when I get them. Thanks, Rodrigo!

    30 June 2009


  • Wow, what a birthday present! DEAD HARVEY, one of my favorite Web sites, interviewed me this morning. Here's what they had to say about THE UGLY FILE:

    "(A)n extremely well crafted 10 minute short...that jabs you, somewhat grotesquely, at the end. It's shot well, it's acted well and the minimal effects that they do use fit in seamlessly. It's a great, shining example of what a short horror film should be and it's something that other short form filmmakers can aspire to."

    Click the banner above for the rest of the story. Thanks, Ted!

    21 June 2009


  • THE UGLY FILE has been accepted into the 5th annual Fright Night Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. Click the banner above for all the details. Thanks, Ken!

    4 June 2009


  • THE UGLY FILE has been accepted into the 4th annual Abertoir Film Festival in Wales. I've been given advance word that we will be screening on 7 November 2009. Read more about Abertoir by clicking the banner above and be sure to come back here for updates as I get them. Thanks, Gaz!

    3 June 2009


  • THE UGLY FILE has been accepted into the FanTasia Film Festival, North America's largest genre film festival. I've been given advance word that we will be opening for Paul Solet's shocker GRACE, which apparently caused two people to faint at its screening in Sundance. Read more about Fantasia by clicking the banner above and be sure to come back here for updates as I get them. Thanks, Mitch!

    28 May 2009


  • I was interviewed by the ERIE TIMES-NEWS for an article about the ubiquity of video cameras and the YouTube phenomenon. You can read it by clicking the banner above. Thanks, Cody!

    25 May 2009


  • A big special shout out to Andy Rose and Parrish Randall for having me on their Horror Movie Fans show last night. I've archived my interview segment (as a 42 minute .mp3 file), which you can hear by clicking the poster above. Or CLICK HERE to visit their blogtalk home page. Thanks again Andy & Parrish!

    24 May 2009

  • I've just learned that UNDEAD BACKBRAIN has chosen PEEKERS as its Weekend Fright Film. Here's an excerpt from the site:

    "This week's short sharp shock is an innocuous-seeming film that creeps up on you and, without resorting to anything more than careful pacing, beautifully chosen music and an unsettling central image, leaves you feeling totally unnerved."

    Thanks, Robert!

    29 April 2009


  • The ANIMOSITY story got picked up by Bloody-Disgusting today. Click the banner to read the details. Thanks, Brad!

    28 April 2009

  • Found this review of PEEKERS over at the Dead By Dawn Shorts blog. Thanks, Nick! Hope you like THE UGLY FILE as much.

    "I don't really like to think about Peekers. It's the stuff of nightmares and it makes me afraid to interact with stairs and doorways. It's also funny, and it has a great initial hook, but its chief achievement is headmess. I'm not convinced that the latter half of the film lives up to the first (possibly more a failing of the original short story than the film), but it doesn't have to; by the time the pudding is over-egged, the damage is done. Director Mark Steensland's THE UGLY FILE is apparently showing at DbD 2009, and it sounds... unsettling."

    27 April 2009


  • THE UGLY FILE has a new fan. STEPHEN SUSCO, screenwriter of "The Grudge," "Red," and the upcoming "High School," has called the film "Creepy haunting stuff!!!" Thanks, Steve.

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