Anhedenia Films News 3/2012

I have been late with many of my monthly posts so I decided to do this one slightly early.

Here is a trailer for my documentary ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER. This film is a unique look at the Orange County, CA punk/hardcore music scene from 1990-1997. You can watch the trailer here.

Click here to check out the Facebook page.


You can purchase the DVD/Blu-ray of KNOCKOUT. This is the boxing film that I co-wrote and it stars "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. For the best price I would go to BestBuy.com.


Also, you can order all of my available films via Amazon.com by clicking here. 

Finally, if you want to order a copy of my first young adult novel, MY SUMMER OF HATE, you can do so by clicking this link. If you live in Orange County, CA you can also check it out of the library!

In Anhedenia Films Writing News…

I am presently writing another screenplay for NGN Productions. It is going well. I should have my first draft turned in within the next two weeks.

I am in the process of researching another boxing movie. Once I do a rewrite on a script called RIDE ALONG, I am planning to get to work on this. I have a fairly solid outline of the script and the research I am doing is only making that outline better.

Well, after 5, 12 hour days, I completed directing work on a micro-budget movie for NGN Productions. It is titled SHADOW. It is a thriller about a man who receives a phone call that changes his night and his life. It was an incredible experience. All of my films before this were no-budget ventures. However they prepared me for being able to make SHADOW. I had to answer a lot of questions, approve a lot of set details, defend my choices in the script but what truly won out was the collaborative spirit on the set. Everybody worked extremely hard and I cannot thank them enough. I think this film is going to be something special.

Here is a picture from the production:


 












 (I am consulting with the DP Patrice Cochet)


I am back to work on the final edit of ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER. At the end of March I should have this thing fairly wrapped up. I wish I was a little further along but that's how things go sometimes.

After that is done, I am going to resume work on my next animated film titled INSECT. This movie is a cross between PHANTASM and THE GATE. It deals with loss of a parent, growing up, and a huge creature-like insect that the main character (a 14 year old boy named Reggie) must confront. I will have a separate post telling more about this project next month!

The work continues!

Evan Jacobs
anhedenia@hotmail.com

Anhedenia Films Unlimited Distribution

 

Anhedenia Films Unlimited offers worldwide physical media and digital distribution. We’ve been around since 1995 with our first film WALKING BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS and have had our micro-budget films distributed physically and digitally all over the world. 

Our rollout for most the films we release is as follows:
- Worldwide Digital release through our VOD platform Anhedenia Films On Demand on Vimeo
- Potential DVD release via SRS Cinema depending on subject matter/genre (For example if you’ve made a dramatic film it will probably just be available to stream and download. If you’ve made a horror movie it will probably be available on DVD as well.)
- Promotions on various social media platforms

Anhedenia Films Unlimited doesn’t offer contracts, nor do we ask you to make your film exclusive to us.
You can terminate your agreement at any time and so can we. 

Anhedenia Films Unlimited just wants to work with passionate filmmakers and help promote films that we enjoy. We assume that you are promoting the films on your end as well.

You will set the price of your film digitally and on DVD. Anhedenia Films Unlimited’s distribution fee will be postal costs (we send things out media mail) plus $.50 for every unit sold. The rest of the money goes back to the filmmaker. 

We can create the artwork for your title but ideally (as that is not our strong suit) that is something the filmmaker provides. Also, it is helpful if you can provide a trailer. 

Please email anhedenia@hotmail.com if you have any questions, seek additional info, or would like to submit your work for distribution. Thank you.

The New Anhedenia Films!

Hello,

My name is Evan Jacobs. I have been doing a website called Anhedenia Films since 2004 (I have been doing Anhedenia Films since 1995). Recently my hosting company decided to raise their prices and in an effort to simplify things I decided to stop doing my site and turn it into a blog.


This new version will be a monthly post about all the goings on at Anhedenia Films. It will all be in this centralized place and it will all be easy to follow (I hope).


Right now Anhedenia Films (me) is the busiest we've ever been. 


I am working on some commercial editing projects, I have a bevy of screenplays going, I just directed a microbudget feature called SHADOW in 5 days, and I am finishing up a documentary titled ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER. Among other things...


I would write more but this change from website to blog is recent and I am too swamped at present. Starting in March this blog will be updated as often as is necessary (most likely not more than once or twice a month).

So... I am going to leave you with the final Anhedenia Films post... Thank you for caring about Anhedenia Films.

Evan Jacobs
anhedenia@hotmail.com

Anhedenia Films News February 2012



I am very sorry this is late. I am up to my ears in projects and that is a good thing.

Here is a trailer for my documentary ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER. This film is a unique look at the Orange County, CA punk/hardcore music scene from 1990-1997. You can watch the trailer here.

Click here to check out the Facebook page.



You can purchase the DVD/Blu-ray of KNOCKOUT. This is the boxing film that I co-wrote and it stars "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. For the best price I would go to BestBuy.com. Just click that link and you will be even closer to cinematic happiness. 



Also, you can order my animated film 1985-1986 by clicking here.  

If you want to watch my newest film Audience you can do so by clicking here.



Click here to order the first film in the Anhedenia Films canon, WALKING BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS. Click here to get Brimstone Productions version which is titled WALKING BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS: REVISITED.



Finally, if you want to order a copy of my first young adult novel, MY SUMMER OF HATE, you can do so by clicking this link. If you live in Orange County, CA you can also check it out of the library!

In the Writer's Corner…

I have turned in my first draft of RIDE ALONG to NGN Productions and I've been given notes on it. Basically, I need to make the characters and the needs of the characters stronger. I look forward to doing this as the script is basically where it needs to be plotwise.



I am about to direct a microbudget feature for NGN Productions called SHADOW. I have made 10 no budget movies. Even though this film is going to be made very inexpensively, it is by far the biggest movie I have ever directed. I am working with producers, casting directors, wardrobe people, set designers, etc. I am very excited about this and I am looking forward to seeing what I bring to the whole thing. I wrote the script, I am working with the actors… this should be very interesting. And we're shooting it in 5 days over 2 weekends.



In addition to this, I also have another movie with NGN going into production in the middle of this month. That is a movie that they hired me to write. It is a Christmas themed movie.

 

Due to me wanting to get ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER done, I am putting INSECT on hold until May.



Speaking of ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER… The hack edit is almost done. The plan now is to watch it a bunch of times and then re-edit it. That should be done in April. At that point, I am going to spend May-July clearing all the music, video and pictures in the film. Then in August, I am going to do a final tweak re-edit (if need be) and then it looks like MVD is going to release the movie on DVD, VOD, streaming, and anything else.



In addition to this I am getting swamped with possible job offers to edit or even write scripts. Some seem legitimate… others might not be… whatever the case this is the busiest I have ever been. This situation isn't ideal but is it ever?



Best,


Evan Jacobs
anhedenia@hotmail.com