𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔽𝕚𝕝𝕞𝕤

I went into this film with very little knowledge... like I enter all things, with very little knowledge... I only knew that it was a revenge tale, that the director had cashed in his wifes retirement to pay for it and Sundance who had initially rejected the film later went on to say that rejection was a mistake. Those scrappy underdog stories always capture my imagination but its seldom the films live up to the folklore that builds up around them. Blue Ruin not only lives up to the lore, it transcends it. You will forget about the stories surrounding the making of the film/release of the film and accept the movie for what it is, a masterpiece. This is an honest look at revenge. We all like to imagine if we set out on a path of revenge we would react and act like Liam Neeson in Taken but the truth is most of us would act like Dwight in Blue Ruin. We would make mistakes and hurt the wrong people, leave behind evidence and do countless other things that would never make the cut in a

Guardians of the Galaxy was a nice way to end the summer movie season. After 4 months of Robots, Monsters and Mutants its time for something with a little more depth. Blue Ruin has been my favorite film so far this year and if any film could knock that film from the top spot it would be this one...

A Prometheus sequel, The Martian and The Blade Runner Sequel... this is a great time for fans of Ridley Scotts science fiction. I didn't have the pure hatred for Prometheus that some people had so I'm personally excited for all these projects. And yes I've seen this

Born in Champaign Illinois but raised mostly among the southern United States, Christopher Tevebaugh is a narrative and documentary director living in Columbia, South Carolina. He is known for Honor the Father (2014), Runaway Runway: The Flower the Squid and the Apology (2013) and Sazerac (2012). He studied Architecture and Design at ULL and Media Arts at USC. (taken from IMDB) Thank you so much for taking your time to do this. I hope you don't mind if we just get right into it. Where was  Honor the Father was shot?  We shot in a barn location in The-Middle-of-Nowhere, South Carolina.  It took two and a half months of searching for us to find a location we were happy with.  The owner was incredibly accommodating it was a great location.  We had also locked down a 250 year old cabin atop a mountain, however three days before the shoot the movie lost its entire budget.  Although we got the mountain cabin pro bono we couldn't pay for the gas to get up there. 

Andy Dodd is a UK based film maker whose latest film is The Apostate: Call of the Revenant . Andy was kind enough to take time out of his busy day to answer some questions for Following Films.  How are you today? Not bad thanks - busy writing! Where are you from? Shropshire, England. When did you first discover film? Back in the days of Betamax 'top loading' VCR's - my parents used to hire movies, mainly horror, and one night I sneaked downstairs and watched the original 'Dawn of the Dead' - I wasn't scared, even at a young age, I just couldn't believe how great this film was and how much I wanted to make movies. I hired full size VHS video cameras and made my own zombie films with my mates - When I went to see the Goonies I was 9 years old and for some reason one of the trailers attached to the film was the trailer for Day of the Dead. It had that long shot from the dream sequence of the woman l

Douglas Gautraud has been making films since he was eight years old and his latest project is called My Mom's Motorcycle. The short film is about how the objects we accumulate during our lives can be artifacts that tell our personal stories long after we pass. The film is clearly influenced by Wes Anderson but this it is far more than just a style exercise. This short could have fit in perfectly with the Showtime version of This American Life. Captured beautifully on the Cannon 6d with a homemade lighting setup the film looks remarkable. When asked about his aesthetic influences he mentioned Charley Harper whose "minimal realism" style is both beautiful and straight-forward. He also said Richard Sweet who founded Marushuka a company whose handcrafted screen prints were so popular in the 1980s they operated five retail outlets. He went on to say "   to be a great film maker, you need to be a great thinker" and cited Sir Arthur Conan Doyl