Filmed in Exile

This comes to you from our good friends at Scorpio Film Releasing…

Here it is! The WORLD PREMIERE of Scorpio Film Releasing’s newest feature ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION!

It’s 1957 and evil aliens have landed in the quaint New England town of New Shoreham! What could they possibly want from our precious planet? Will our plucky teenage heroes be able to stop them?

ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION is a good, old-fashioned sci-fi horror film. No tricks, no gimmicks. Just 90 minutes of fun that will bring you back to the thrilling days of the drive-in!

ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION stars such acclaimed actors as
Sarah Nicklin
David Lavallee, Jr.
Michael Reed
Rich Tretheway
Alexandra Cipolla
David Erin Wilson
Daniel Lee White
Ruth Sullivan
Colin Carlton
Alexander Lewis
Alex Aponte
Andre Boudreau
Mark Fogarty
Gregory Barbon
Gio Castellano
Christopher Ferreira
Jennifer Scharf
Cat Hainfeld
Aurora Grabill
Sarah Lewis
Peter Morse
Jason McCormick
Kenneth Koury
Eric Eastman
and Brandon Luis Aponte as “Elvis Presley”
… as well as many, many more!

ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION was produced by Ted Marr, directed by Richard Griffin and written by Guy Benoit and Richard Griffin.

ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION will be playing at the historic Orpheum Foxboro theater in Foxborough, MA on September 10th and 11th at 7pm and 9pm daily. Tickets are $9.00 at the door.

ATOMIC BRIAN INVASION is not rated, but contains no nudity, graphic violence or profanity and would be considered acceptable for audience members 12 years old and up!

ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION will be preceded by a brief Spookshow on opening night. Before your very eyes, horror hostess Penny Dreadful will bring Elvis Presley back from the dead On-Stage and In-Person!

The Rhode Island Film Collaborative (RIFC) is an organization brought about to help bring democracy to filmmaking.  The organization is a non-profit started by a group of filmmakers who decided they could help other filmmakers by pooling resources and building the film community in Rhode Island.  It was co-founded by myself and Broto Chakrabarti, director of Sleep: A Novel.  At the time we started RIFC a few years ago, this was a relatively new idea, and is probably still in the idea stage.  We have two-thousand people on our e-mail list and a group of a few hundred that we all know by name, but we have yet to truly fulfill the promise of what we started.

The idea was to build the film community, share equipment, connections, actors and everything else in order to overcome the need for money.  Almost everything needed to make a movie costs money, however, with a community that comes together to donate and share resources and work on the movies for experience, the cost of filmmaking can be reduced down to videotape (or hard drive space) and food.  Most importantly, once we acquired the resources we opened them up to everyone, and resulted in helping dozens of films get produced.  

I am sure there are other organizations doing the same thing all over the country.  I am not sure if we were the first, probably not, and I know we’re not the last.  Since we sprouted up several other groups have shown up with similar concepts, such as the Boston-based Beanywood and the Connecticut based SECT.  Ideas like the RIFC, SECT & Beanywood can help usher in the digital revolution by cutting down costs and encouraging collaboration.  Check out these organizations and let me know if you know of one I have missed.  And if there is not one in your neighborhood, maybe you should start it.  I’ll talk you through it.

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