A UK screening in Tunbridge Wells
For those in the UK who have been wanting another chance to catch Stranger Things, the film is playing on Saturday 7th September in Tunbridge Wells. The screening is at 4:15pm at the Trinity Theatre and Arts Centre, Church Road, Tunbridge Wells and it is part of the Electric Lantern Festival. Tunbridge Wells is the hometown of […]
Filmmaker Magazine’s VIDEO PICK OF THE MONTH
Stranger Things is Filmmaker Magazine’s VIDEO PICK OF THE MONTH for June! Filmmaker’s Brandon Harris says: Ron Eyal and Eleanor Burke’s elegant and evocative Stranger Things, which won Slamdance’s Narrative Competition Grand Jury Prize in 2011 is a moody and clear-eyed drama from a pair of our 25 New Faces in Independent Film, as tranquil and refreshing as […]
Closing night at reRun
Tonight is the last night of our Stranger Things NYC run at the reRun Theater in Brooklyn! Please come out – it’s going to be a fun couple of screenings. We have our editor Michael Taylor joining us for our Q&A at the 7:30pm screening, plus a video chat with one of our lead actors, Adeel Akhtar. He’s […]
Silly headline but worth a butchers
Adeel Akhtar talked about his favourite films in the Metro last week. The paper did an interesting job of twisting his words to create a sensationalised headline, but it’s a nice piece.
Popping off to Cork
We’re very happy to announce our Irish film festival Premiere at the 2011 Corona Cork Film Festival. Stranger Things screens on Wednesday, November 9 @ 2:00pm at the Cork Opera House. For more the festival program page and more information, click on the link below: http://www.corkfilmfest.org/2011/films/62/stranger-things
Come On With the Rain
Here’s some happy news for this drizzly day in both New York and London. It’s finally time for the UK premiere of Stranger Things! The film will be screening at the upcoming Raindance Film Festival in London this October, where it’s in competition for Best British Film. Ron and I will both be over in London for the premiere. I know it’s […]
The True North strong and free
Today as Ron makes his way up to the Toronto Film Festival Talent Lab, we have some more Canadian festival news to share: Stranger Things will be screening at the Edmonton International Film Festival later this month. It’s the western Canada premiere. Please tell all your Edmontonian friends to come!
Screening ON in Santiago
The SANFIC film festival in Santiago, Chile has announced that even with the protests and national strike, screenings will continue today, so our South American premiere at the 7th Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine is still on! If you know anyone in the city, please spread the word. We’ll also be playing on Saturday. The screening information is below:
Le Devoir Pick
The Canadian paper Le Devoir has picked Stranger Things as a must-see of the 35th Festival des films du monde (Montreal World Film Festival). Highlighting the “hidden pearls” outside the festival competition, François Lévesque writes: L’histoire d’une amitié inattendue qui se noue entre une jeune femme endeuillée et un sans-abri. Ce modeste pas de deux […]
Down and Out in Paris and London 2011
It’s not alway the case that BBC radio programmes hang around on the website, so I was glad to find that you can still catch the radio piece by Emma Jane Kirby in which she retraces George Orwell’s steps through the world of the ‘down and out’ in Paris and London. Orwell’s first full-length work, Down […]