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» Monday October 11, 2010 - 11:01 am
The Captured Bird is a darkly poetic fable that begins with a little girl drawing figures of people with chalk on the cement of a playground. She takes notice of an unusual crack in the pavement that is seeping a mysterious black fluid, which she follows to an ominous building. Inside, she encounters several bizarre phenomena, including walls that bleed black and tentacles that emerge from the ceiling to touch her. She then witnesses the birth of five terrifying supernatural beings that threaten the existence of her world.
BACKGROUND
The Captured Bird is a short film written and directed by Jovanka Vuckovic. It is inspired in part by a childhood nightmare, by the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, the fables of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen as well as the paranormal phenomenon known as The Shadow People. They are supernatural beings depicted cross-culturally in art and literature. Regardless of culture or period, these beings appear in the waking nightmares of dreamers all over the world. For dream interpreters, they are notorious harbingers of doom.
SCREENINGS
The Captured Bird has already been accepted, even before being shot, to the prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Mexico's Morbido Film Fest, the UK's Sheffield Horror Film Festival, LA's Viscera Film Festival, The Boston Underground Film Festival, Edmonton's DEDfest and Colorado's Telluride Horror Show. Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas and the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, among others, have also already shown interest. Given Vuckovic and del Toro's pedigree in the horror industry, the film will no doubt play the majority of international genre film festivals.
Jovanka Vuckovic | Writer/Director
Jovanka Vuckovic is an award-winning writer, artist, film critic and cinema historian. She spent five years as a digital effects artist at CBC Television, where she earned a Gemini Award for Best Visual Effects. She became a noted horror genre expert during her tenure as Editor-in-Chief of Rue Morgue Magazine and was recently named one of the top thirteen most important women in the history of horror alongside Mary Shelley, Kathryn Bigelow and Vampira. Vuckovic is the author of Zombies! An Illustrated History of the Undead (due out February 2011 from St. Martin's Press/Ilex Press). The Captured Bird is her first film.
Jason Lapeyre | Producer
Jason Lapeyre is an award-winning filmmaker whose horror music video Crystal has played in 30 film festivals and won 8 awards for best music video. He is currently filmmaker-in-residence at the University of Toronto's psychiatric ward, where he is working on a documentary feature.
Guillermo del Toro | Executive Producer
Guillermo del Toro is the Oscar-nominated director of The Devil's Backbone, the Hellboy films and Pan's Labyrinth. He is currently developing The Haunted Mansion for Disney and H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness with James Cameron producing.
www.thecapturedbird.com
                    
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