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Tag Archives: Award
The Romford Experience
Audience Award for Best Performance Goes to Danny Ashkenasi in “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” at Romford Film Festival Above is a selfie I took right before the Q&A after the late night screening of my musical … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged Alain Cooper, Alan Friswell, audience, Award, Best Performance, Claudia, Clement Jochem, Deadly Display, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Westrop, festival, film, It's Not About Fear, Kyle Borg, musicabre, Q&A, Ray Harryhausen, Romford, short film, Spencer Hawken, Steven Sibley, surround sound, The Pit and the Pendulum
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PODCAST INTERVIEW LIVE!
Karl Kaefer from the Deviant Legion Network interviewed me about “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” This Thursday at 4pm EST I was interviewed live on Blog Talk Radio. The interview is now be archived at this link: … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged Award, blog, Deviant, Edgar Allan Poe, interview, Karl Kaefer, Legion, live, musicabre, Network, NYSFFF, podcast, Rachel Elaine, radio, short film, Talk, The Pit and the Pendulum
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P&P’s AMERICAN FILMATIC ARTS AWARD
“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” was awarded Best Experimental Short by the American Filmatic Arts Awards
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged American, arts, Award, best, Experimental, Filmatic, musicabre, short, short film, The Pit and the Pendulum
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TRIBOROUGH AWARDS
“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” wins awards for Production Design Wardrobe Sound Design at the Triborough Film Festival Triborough Film festival director Phil Cappadora wore a snazzy sparkly suit as host of the awards ceremony February 11 … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged Amazing Amy, Anthony Paul-Cavaretta, Award, Chian Federation Ballroom, Costume Designer, Film Festival, Mariana Soares da Silva, musicabre, Phil Cappadora, Production Design, Sound Design, The Pit and the Pendulum, Todd Maki, Triborough, Wardrobe, Yoda Yoga
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P&P’s ART is ALIVE & ALIBAG WEEKEND
TWO CHANCES TO CATCH “THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM – A MUSICABRE” ON LINE and in INDIA FEB 4 & FEB 5 1st Chance! “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” will screen on-line – in other words accessible … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged Action Adventure, adaptation, Alibag, Art is Alive, Award, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Elder, Film Festival, Henry Borriello, India, International, musicabre, musical, Nominations, Q&A, short film, Stolis Hadjicharalambous, The Pit and the Pendulum
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P&P’s PIGEON D’OR NOMINATION
The PIGEON D’OR AWARDS have nominated “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” for Best Film Score / Soundtrack The Pigeon D’or awards are the yearly culmination of the Luis Bunuel Memorial Awards, which last Spring awarded “The Pit … Continue reading
P&P’s SPOTLIGHT GOLD AWARD
SPOTLIGHT FILM AWARDS gives “THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM – A MUSICABRE” the SPOTLIGHT GOLD AWARD Spotlight Film Awards just announced the winners of its 2022 awards. My musical short film Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, “The Pit and the Pendulum … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged a musicabre, adaptation, Award, Awards, bio, certificate, Edgar Allan Poe, excellence, film, Filmmaker, gold, short story, Spotlight, The Pit and the Pendulum
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P&P ART IS ALIVE NOMINATIONS
ART IS ALIVE FILM FESTIVAL announced 4 nominations for THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM – A MUSICABRE Best Action/Adventure Short Film Best Male Actor in a Short Film Best Director – Action/Adventure Short Film Best Cinematography – Action/Adventure Short Film … Continue reading
Honor the Editor!
Stolis Hadjicharalambous won Best Editor at The NEXT International Short Film Festival for his work on The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre Congratulations, Stolis!
SYTYCA DIRECTING AWARD for P&P
“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” won the OUTSTANDING EXCELLENCE Award for Directing from SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DIRECT OR ACT (which is especially nice because my first musical Poe adaptation “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” … Continue reading
Up the Hudson to Albany and NYSIFF
“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” wins Best Horror at the New York State International Film Festival Yes, my musical Poe adaptation was awarded Best Horror at the New York State International Film Festival, and I will report … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Poe Musicabres, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Albany, Award, Capitol, Carl Kinlin, Corning, Dragon Poets of Boston, Edward Elder, Empire State Plaza, festival, Film Festival, Greg Aidala, Hamilton, horror, Hudson Guild Theatre, Lark Street, Lincoln Park, Linda Performing Arts Studio, Mark O'Toole, Martin Luther King Jr, Metube, musicabre, New York, New York State International Film Festival, Nico Altekin, NYSIFF, Outside In, Philip Henry Sheridan, photography, river, Rockefeller, State, SUNY, The Pit and the Pendulum, train, Washington Park
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AFRAID. ONLINE FILM AWARD for P&P
Update (9/9/22): Afraid. Online film awards gives “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” the award for Best Horror Film (over 25 minutes). Click here for full awards listing UPDATE 11/22/2023 – The certificate card from Afraid.Online Filk awards … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged Afraid, Award, ear buds, Edgar Allan Poe, film, horror, musicabre, musical, Online, short film, The Pit and the Pendulum, YouTube
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BEST HORROR MUSICAL IN CYPRUS
3 AWARDS for THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM – a musicabre from THE CYPRUS HORROR SOCIETY The Cyprus Horror Society will screen an award-winning selection of short films this Saturday, including yours truly’s “The Pit and the Pendulum – a … Continue reading
The FILM FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE at INDIE GATHERING, CHAIN NYC and NYACK
Over the course of five days this past week “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” screened in film festivals in Cleveland, New York City and Nyack. This blog post is about all three. I was in New York … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Award, Chain NYC, cinematography, Cleveland, Covid, Craig Bettendorf, Edgar Allan Poe, Editing, Edward Elder, Eric William, Experimental Short, Film Festival, Independent Film, Indie Gathering, International, Jackie Chin, Jason Chua, John Boswell, Kai Morgan, L. E. Salas, Munenori Kishi, musicabre, Not a Tame Lion, Nyack, NYC, Richard Quinn, Ruan Szuch, Saturday Night Theater, short film, Stolis Hadjicharalambous, tailgating party, The Pit and the Pendulum, Zombiepalooza
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P&P SILVER MASK AWARD
“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” received the award for Best Horror Short from Silver Mask Live Festival Silver Mask Live Festival requested that I send them selfies with my award certificates, so I obliged:
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Tagged 2022, Award, best, certificate, Congratulations, excellence, festival, Fifteen, Film Festival, horror, live, Los Angeles, season, selfie, short, short film, Silver Mask, The Pit and the Pendulum
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