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"Hold Your Fire" L.A. screening and Juxtapoz By: Wes on Oct. 8, 2009
The short film will be screened at Screamfest Horror Film Festival in L.A. on October 17th as part of the "Shorts Program 1". Follow the link for ticket info and screen times.
I have a few new paintings and an interview in the Halloween issue of Juxtapoz magazine (Oct. 09) available now. It was edited by Pushead, and also has a short piece I wrote for a Beksinski tribute.
"Hold Your Fire" screening and award at Fantasia (UPDATED AGAIN) By: Wes on Aug. 1, 2009
My short film will be screened in glorious 35mm at Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on July 13th at 7:00 PM. Opening for the film "Book Of Blood".
UPDATE:
Here's a great review of the Fantasia screening from Dread Central:
"In the last three days the most impressive thing we’ve seen is actually an 8-minute short directed by artist Wes Benscoter. Titled Hold Your Fire, this grim anti-war film depicting the isolation and horror of a four-limb amputee is genuinely disconcerting and oddly beautiful. Here’s hoping some of the upcoming features are at least this good."
UPDATED AGAIN: We won the "Best Live-Action Short Film" Jury Prize award at Fantasia!
New CD cover art and "Hold
Your Fire" in Scotland By: Wes on Apr. 21, 2009
The cover art (detail at right) for the new Defiled album has been posted in the Gallery section. It's the first completely acrylic painting I've done for a CD cover since 2000. This is the original version. A slight variation will appear on the final CD cover.
The next screening of my short film will be at the Dead By Dawn Film Festival in Scotland. The festival runs from 4/30/09 to 5/3/09. They haven't posted a schedule yet, so I can't tell you when the exact screening will take place.
Australian screening... By: Wes on Mar. 25, 2009
Almost forgot to mention... the short film is playing at the A Night Of Horror Film Festival in Sydney, Australia on Fri., March 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM.
"Hold
Your Fire" next screening By: Wes on Mar. 12, 2009
