Many films have been shot in Indiana over the past few years. But few of them have received national recognition and distribution. Zack Parker’s ‘Quench’ has bucked the trend and gotten both. The modern gothic tragedy won Parker the Best Director award at the New York International Independent Film Festival.

It takes a lot of effort for a film without any known actors to get noticed by distributors. Zack worked every lead tirelessly. Those months of thankless work paid off when last month the film was released through Vanguard Cinema, vanguardcinema.com. The DVD is now available through Hollywood Video, Movie Gallery, Family Video, and Hastings locations across the country, as well as Amazon.com, Netflix, Blockbuster.com, and basically everywhere online where DVDs are sold.

Zack is doing his share of work promoting the film locally. I caught up with him during a recent signing event at the Landmark Theaters Keystones Arts. The local premiere of the film had been at this location during the Indianapolis International Film Festival. He’s very pleased with the national exposure Vanguard is providing his film. It was a featured new release in this month’s Family Video flyer. There’s a full review scheduled for next month’s edition of Fangoria magazine. This is a little unusual since ‘Quench’ is not a horror flick. Parker’s last film ‘Inexchange’ was a horror film and he developed some good contacts at the magazine. ‘Quench’ delves into parts of the Goth sub-culture and blood cults. For many viewers this film might be a little disturbing and dark. Zack had one distibutor who has been known to promote horror films, tell him it was too dark for their label. In the true spirit of Indie films ‘Quench’ defies being defined by the traditional genres. The film was shot entirely in Parker’s hometown of Richmond Indiana. Richmond is not the industiral urban setting you would typically expect for a film based on the Goth crowd. But it works really well in the film. It’s one of the things that makes the film unique.

The Richmond Art Museum will be screening ‘Quench’  November 21st at 7:00 PM in Richmond Indiana.

You can find out more information on ‘Quench’ at www.alongthetracks.com

Photos by Lynn Budreau

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Posted by admin on November 9th, 2008 :: Filed under DVD Signings
Tags :: Chuck Budreau, Quench, Vanguard, Zack Parker

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Lin, The daughter of King Arthur is the principal character of Debra Kemp’s series “The House of Pendragon”. The first book “The Firebrand” was released in 2003. The second book, “The Recruit” was recently published and Debra is out promoting it’s release. She is currently working on the third book of the series.

As part of the promotion of the book series Debra commissioned Kate Chaplin to shoot an interview explaining the concept behind the series and introduce the author to the world .

We had the great pleasure of shooting at the home of Dr. Chris Jones. His personal library could be a blog post in itself. Filled with Movie props, Medieval weapons, Tiny rocket ships, shrunken heads… and a great selection of books too! It was the perfect backdrop for an author interview…and with the castle feel of the place King Arthur would have felt right at home.

Kate Chaplin pulled together a small but capable crew, for what turned out to be a very straight forward shoot. Kate directed and prompted Debra with questions. Tom Johnson acted as grip. Brian Pearce was running the camera. Stacey Mayo did Debra’s hair and makeup. And I (chuck budreau) captured the audio.

It was great to hear Debra’s story of how the Arthurian bug had taken a hold of her life and thoughts. She’s been in love with the classic tale since the first time she saw the film “Camelot”. Though she confesses that it is not her favorite rendition of the Arthurian Romances… that would be “Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail”.

She traced down every version of the stories going back to Sir Thomas Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur” from the 15th century. She decided to take a different approach, based on the view of a young princess raised as a slave.  She really has a passion for this story and enjoys sharing it with others. Her own story is also fascinating as she describes living in England  and how that brought the story to life.

The books are available through Telltalepress.com and Amazon.com

–chuck

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Posted by admin on November 2nd, 2008 :: Filed under Film Shoots
Tags :: Brian Pearce, Chuck Budreau, Debra Kemp, Firebrand, Kate Chaplin, King Arthur, Recruit, Stacey Mayo, Tom Johnson

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