Awesome new interview with Jennifer Cooper

a.k.a Morleysaurus, a.k.a. head honcho of the wicked Jennifer's Bodies film festival (an official Women in Horror Month event) in Scotland!

She will be screening my two latest shorts, Red and T is for Toothpick during the upcoming event on Feb. 26th.

You can check out the interview HERE to learn more about these two shorts, my fav horror film of the year and who I'd absolutely LOVE to work with!  :)

Upcoming screenings!!!

Or how I wish I could clone myself to be at three different places during the same weekend!


So, it looks like Feb. 25th-26th will be a very busy weekend! Here's why:

HOLLYWOOD SKIN is part of the Stiletto Film Festival selection and will screen on Sat. Feb. 25th in Boston, MA - more info here


RED and T IS FOR TOOTHPICK will have their Scotland premiere as part of the Jennifer's Bodies Film Festival (an official Women in Horror month event) on Sunday, Feb. 26th at the University of Dundee, Dundee, U.K.  - more info here

And last but not least,

RED will finally have it's premiere here, in Montreal, during the RVCQ (Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois) on Sat. Feb. 25th - more info here


I wish I could attend all three events, but alas, teleportation is yet a possibility. Unless anyone has a few trick up its sleeve?

If you can make it to any of those screenings, please do and let me know how it went! :)

P.S.: Mea culpa as I forgot to mention that HOLLYWOOD SKIN also played on Feb. 4th as part of the Viscera Tour during its special presentation at Penn State University and during Bad Granny's Bazaar in Oklahoma City on Jan. 26th.  Mega huge thank you to Heidi Martinuzzi and Shannon Lark! :)

It's February 1st, so...

Happy Women in Horror Month everyone!!! 

Get bloody, give blood and support kickass chicks making badass films!

For the hell of it, here's a behind the scene pic from the RED shoot with the gore-geous Olga. Enjoy! :)

French premiere of RED this week!

Yup, Red will have it's French premiere (in Grenoble, France) this coming Wednesday, January 18th at 2PM at the salle Juliet Berto. There will be a second screening on Saturday, January 21st at 4:30PM. 

Those who have a good memory will remember that I flew in last year for the 2011 edition of the same festival where I presented a special selection of shorts directed by women, including Hollywood Skin and Snuff.

For more information, check out the festival's page for the film HERE.

Thank you to Sabine Garcia and Karel Quistrebert from the awesome festival des Maudits Films and go check it out if you can! :)

Kicking in the new year

For off, I want to wish everyone a happy new year! May 2012 be the filled with love, joy, prosperity, and anything else you want!

I feel this is going to be a very good year for Quirk Films; I already have two upcoming festival screenings for RED (to be announced soon) and I'll get to make my first feature film. Exciting!

As a way to kick things off, here's my latest article which I wrote for the Spectacular Optical web-magazine about cinephilia and my thoughts on the death of film (as in celluloid).

Read it HERE

Read it in FRENCH

Any thoughts? Comments?

Fundraiser night for my first feature!

As some of you already know, the next BIG project I'm tackling is my first feature film for which production will began in 2012. Awesome, no?

But, just like with any massive project, funding is essential. This is why the Mascara & Popcorn will festival graciously offered me a fundraiser night, which will be this coming Sunday, Nov. 20th at the Centre St-Ambroise (yes, the McAuslan brewery, so see nice beer! Now you can't say I'm inconsiderate!)

Centre St-Ambroise: 5080 St-Ambroise (corner St-Rémi), Montreal

During the evening, a retrospective of selected shorts will play and people, let me tell you, I had fun picking the shorts! Let's just say that for those who were intrigued by my non-horror work, it'll be a good occasion to check them out! 

Here's the schedule:
COMPLEX MODEL – 12 minutes
J'TE VEUX, MOI NON PLUS – 8 minutes
ELIZABETH – 4 minutes 
THE PORTRAIT – 10 minutes 
SNUFF – 4 minutes
REFLECTION – 12 minutes
Two surprise shorts including a very special cast&crew premiere! *hint, hint*
Q&A

Tickets are $5 and all proceeds will go to the production.  Doors open at 6PM, showtime is 6:30PM, so be there on time!

DVD compilations of my work will also be available for those wanting to donate a little extra.

And here's the Facebook event! :) See you there!

I need your VOTE!

Some of you might already know, but I entered the ABCs of Death 26th Filmmaker contest. The concept is simple, I had to shoot a 4-minutes short featuring a death caused by something that begins with the letter 'T'. All the shorts were then uploaded on the website where people vote for their favorites and the winner will be featured in the anthology project!

The contest end on October 31st, so if you haven't done, please vote! :)

Here's the link to VOTE and here's the video:



In other news, tomorrow night, HOLLYWOOD SKIN will play as part of the Viscera lineup at the Ann Arbor Horror Film Festival. For more info, click here.  Thanks Shannon, Heidi and everyone at Viscera! :D