Hungerford
19-year-old director of new British Horror Sci-Fi film gets World Premiere at the 2014 SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival
A new British Horror Sci-Fi film, directed by 19-year-old Drew Casson who has made films on YouTube since he was 12, will get its World Premiere at the National Film Theatre in London on 3 May as part of this year’s SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival.
Produced by talent incubator Wildseed Studios and shot in a vlog style, Hungerford paints a thrilling and visceral portrait of a small English town taken over by aliens, which descends into violence and carnage.
Hungerford’s teen protagonist is Cowen Rosewell, a media student whose first assignment is to record everything in a week of his life. The random acts of violence he films go largely unnoticed, dismissed as the type of trouble to take place in small English towns. However, when one of his best friends is savagely attacked by a stranger a more disturbing reality emerges.
As events escalate, Cowen and his friends discover that the town has come under a mysterious evil influence which is somehow controlling organised gangs to round people up and take them to a nearby disused factory. The friends hide, hoping to escape, but their sanctuary is discovered. As Cowen makes his way alone to the abandoned factory in search of his loved ones, the malicious force that awaits him there threatens not Cowen, but the entire world.
Hungerford trailer
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Jesse Cleverly, co-founder of Wildseed Studios said: “Drew is typical of the next-generation of film makers we’re investing in – a generation who have grown up on genre movies, who operate outside the institutions of the British Film Industry, and who are utterly fearless and highly proficient with the tools of production and post-production in the pursuit of excitement, scale and an audience. We’re thrilled to have produced Hungerford and thanks to the ingenuity of Drew, the crew and excellent special effects this micro-feature achieves a sense of scale more fitting for a film with 100 times the budget.”
Hungerford (78 mins) gets its world premiere at the London Sci-Fi Film Festival at the National Film Theatre on 3 May 2014 at 6pm. Buy tickets here: https://ow.ly/vALhh
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About Wildseed Studios www.wildseedstudios.com
Wildseed Studios is a next-generation content and talent incubator which will commission, create, own and distribute Intellectual Property; a new kind of Entertainment Company designed to attract audiences looking for fresh content and creators looking for funding and expertise to get them out of their bedrooms and give them a sustainable career.
The company has been set up by two experienced media executives: Miles Bullough, and Jesse Cleverly. Miles most recently ran Aardman Animations’ TV, Digital, Advertising and Distribution businesses and has executive produced multi-million dollar Intellectual property brands including Shaun the Sheep, the Armstrong and Miller Show, Trigger Happy TV, Angry Kid, Creature Comforts and Stressed Eric.
As creative executive Jesse has exec-ed award-winning series for the BBC, worked for Director Stephen Daldry as Marketing Director at the Royal Court Theatre has sold feature scripts to Hollywood and has run his own Creative Services company for the past five years working for clients such as Disney, France Televisions, ABC Australia and Aardman Animations.
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About Drew Casson
19 year old director actor and VFX whiz Drew Casson loves films; especially action, sci-fi, horror and fantasy films and has been making You Tube videos since he was twelve.
Having painted his mother’s shed green for a green screen, and borrowed his Dad’s handy cam, Drew set about making Hollywood special effects epics from his house in a small English town.
120 videos, including tributes to War of The Worlds and more Harry Potter fan films, Drew was introduced to Wildseed Studios to discuss a micro-budget feature.
Drew was recently offered a place at film school, but chose instead to continue making his films – working with a tightly knit group of friends and acting as creator, director, actor, editor, special effects supervisor
