Five Not-To-Be-Missed BIFF Flicks (Brisbane)

Baz McAlister in Time Off Magazine (Brisbane)
www.timeoff.com.au

ACOLYTES

Cult Aussie filmmaker Jon Hewitt spins this dark yarn about three teenagers who stumble upon a serial killer (Joel Edgerton, in a sublimely creepy performance) going about his dark and dodgy business and blackmail him to sort out a guy who’s been bullying them.

Wouldn’t we all like a serial killer at our beck and call? Shot locally in Queensland and making good use of the Glasshouse Mountains (you’ll never believe they could look this creepy and monolithic), Acolytes is a tense little homegrown shocker that you really ought to check out.

Acolytes – Meet the Screenwriters Q & A – August 7th (Brisbane)

Acolytes – Meet the Screenwriters Q & A
Thursday 7 August 6:00pm for 6:20-8:00pm FREE!
(come for a drink after).

AFTRS Training Room, 2nd Level, The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane

Meet the screenwriters behind the new local thriller, Acolytes showing at BIFF on Friday 8 August.

Raised on the Darling Downs, Shane Krause and Shayne Armstrong formed a lifelong bond based on a mutual fear of silence, wide open spaces and faces at the windows.

Find out how this project made it to the screen and about their unique collaborative partnership.

It’s free, but places are limited – to confirm your booking email eventsqld@aftrs.edu.au
with Acolytes as your Subject Header. Please include a contact phone number.

Festival Exposure for Queensland Films

PFTC Online

Four Queensland films have been selected for upcoming festivals in Australia and internationally.

Queensland feature film Acolytes has been selected for the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), 25 July – 10 August, as part of their Homegrown selection, as well as featuring in the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival.

http://www.pftc.com.au/pftc/news/content.asp?pageid=510&top=&menuparent=508

 

Acolytes trailer released – Dread Central

DREAD CENTRAL

http://www.dreadcentral.com/story/acolytes-bully-a-trailer

Acolytes

School bullies, who doesn’t remember them? Some people would get beaten up, their lunch money stolen or intimidated into doing the bully’s homework. They got off easy. The bullies in my home town pulled guns, cut ya or pushed you down stairs. If only the weaker kids had some kind of help to take care of the bastards…

Speaking of which, Twitch landed the first trailer for Jon Hewitt’s Australian horror film Acolytes. The Darklovestory director’s latest picture deals with three teenagers who enlist the aid of a serial killer (via blackmail, of course, probably due to shortage of funds) to take out a school bully. Oh, this won’t backfire on the kids at all!

Brand New Trailer For Aussie Horror ACOLYTES! – twitch

TWITCH

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1214128517/bctid1659795390

Fresh off the news that it will be part of the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival we have just been given the very first look at the official trailer for Jon Hewitt’s Australian horror picture Acolytes. This trailer is actually a little bit shorter than the MySpace teaser we posted up yesterday but it’s a tighter, more focused look into this violent world. The story? Three teens blackmail a killer into taking down the violent bully who has been making their life hell, a nasty little turn on normal teen-horror conventions.

Festival’s Midnight Madness to feature film – Variety

 
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989377.html?categoryId=36&cs=1

By JENNIE PUNTER

No longer a latenight ghetto, Midnight Madness has grown in the past few years to become the hot spot for the biz and one of the most prominent platforms to launch an adrenaline pic.

Jon Hewitt’s teen crime caper “Acolytes” gets its North American preem, as does Franck Vestiel’s manga and vidgame-inspired thriller “Eden Log,” Pascal Laugier’s vengeance saga “Martyrs” and “Chocolate,” from Thai helmer Prachya Pinkaew, whose “Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior” was a fest breakout in 2003.

The 33rd Toronto Film Festival runs Sept. 4-13.

Toronto Film Festival – schedule for Acolytes

 

Joel Edgerton in Acolytes

http://www.tiff08.ca/filmsandschedules/films/acolytes

ACOLYTES

Following the disappearance of a young female classmate, shy high-schooler Mark (Sebastian Gregory) stumbles upon a fresh grave in the woods of his peaceful suburb, and spies an SUV driving away from the scene.

TEN FILMS TO SEE AT BIFF – #2 Acolytes

TEN FILMS TO SEE AT BIFF (Brisbane International Film Festival).

2. ACOLYTES. A Brisbane-made thriller with new faces and a plot twist that works.

The Brisbane made teen-thriller Acolytes (with a plot twist) will feature in the “Shock Corridor” section.

Des Partridge – The Courier Mail Saturday 19 July

 [Acolytes screens Friday 8th August 2008 at BIFF - www.biff.com.au]

Acolytes Lands Toronto Film Fest Spot

Ben McEachen – Citysearch

Acolytes, which stars Joel Edgerton, has been invited to screen as part of the “Midnight Madness” program at the (Toronto) film festival in September.

Joel Edgerton as Ian Wright in 'Acolytes'

 

 

 

 

 

Audiences go to Hell in droves – REEL TIME: The Australian

REEL TIME: Michael Bodey

JON Hewitt’s Acolytes is the latest Aussie pic to be selected for screening at the Toronto Film Festival, joining another Australian film, Disgrace, which was shot primarily in South Africa. Acolytes, a thriller about the blackmail of a serial killer, stars Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman and Belinda McClory. It will have its premiere at the MIFF this month before heading to the Brisbane film festival. It will screen in the hype-inducing Midnight Madness section at Toronto.