![]() Subconscious Reality won 2nd Prize in the Feature Sci-Fi category at the 2016 Indie Gathering Film Fest, 3rd Place in the 2017 Horror Hotel, and screened as an official selection at the 2017 Scares that Care Weekend Film Festival and 2018 Four State Punk Rock Flea Market. Our biggest film to date, covering 9 locations across 5 states, graduated us to mid-atlantic regional film production rather than just DC-based. The film features Bond girl Lana Wood from Diamonds are Forever and Conrad Brooks from Taste of Desperation and Plan 9 from Outer Space, along with indy film and TV actors Jim Toepper, JP Andrews, and Bill Olt. ![]() Subconscious Reality, an apocalyptic sci-fi about a post-Orwellian society trying to stop the final insurgence, would become APP’s third feature film. Two Many debuted at the inaugural Scares That Care Weekend Film Festival, and also screened as Official Selection at The Indie Gathering and Amazicon. With a cast of six and a running time of 18 minutes, it would be APP’s shortest release, concerning a man who finds trouble when spotting his exact twin. Our final short, Two Many, was released in 2014 and featured Nello DeBlasio. Small Fish Small Pond aired as the first new-release film at the initial Amazicon, a south Philadelphia Pop Culture Festival, and screened at the 2015 Mid Atlantic Nostalgia Convention. Small Fish Small Pond won 2nd Prize in the Feature Drama category at the 2013 Indie Gathering. Later the rest of the cast would join at a second bar for four more major shoots, plus another shoot at a third bar. Also featured are Sam Goodrich and Forbidden Room’s Julia Morrissey. Now the reworked SFSP shot with Out There stars Brian Dean and Peggy Kearns, and veteran film and stage actor Barry McEvoy. APP had long wanted to produce Byrne’s first feature length script, Small Fish Small Pond, which had been sitting on the shelf for a decade. With Forbidden Room only a couple scenes from wrapping shooting, the next cast was waiting. This idea grew to become Forbidden Room, featuring Mary Egan and winning Honorable Mention at the 2012 The Indie Gathering and screening as an Official Selection at the 2012 Horrorfind Film Festival and 2015 Scares That Care Film Festival.ĭuring the time when Forbidden Room filming was wrapping, opportunity came knocking. The original idea of a secret room hiding a body was to be a part of a series of stories, but was never scripted out. Out There won Honorable Mention at the 2011 The Indie Gathering and was screened as an Official Selection at the Horrorfind Film Festival, Horror Hotel Film Festival, Amazicon, and the Scares That Care Weekend Film Festival. As a short feature, the Out There DVD allowed a slew of deleted scenes and additional footage to be packaged as Taste of Desperation Volume 2 and added as a bonus feature.ĪPP continued producing shorts, this time a mystery about guests and a ominous room. Out There returned Donna Byrne and other players from Taste of Desperation, but most of the cast was new to APP, including B-Horror movie veteran Marvin Kennedy. ![]() Instead Out There had no interior shots, quick cuts, a small cast, lots of motion, and pacing that keeps the film moving quickly. While an unforgettable joy to create and perform, Taste of Desperation left APP to consider shorter pieces for the immediate future.Ī short vehicle led much more naturally to mystery and horror, an abrupt turn from the film noir and dark comedy previously produced. The film won 1st Place at the 2010 The Indie Gathering in the Feature Film Drama Crime Category, and screened at the 2014 Mid Atlantic Nostalgia Fest and the 2015 Amazicon. ![]() Veteran Ed Wood regular Conrad Brooks plays a lead role as the Landlord, and well known pop artist Clark Fox plays a Thug. Byrne wrote a new screenplay and Taste of Desperation was casted, shot, and edited over the next six years. Next for APP was a massive undertaking: a feature length film noir. Despite having produced several short fiction pieces and even a serial, The Worker Bees became APP’s first film separately packaged for release, as a limited release VHS. After shopping the feature screenplay and finding no takers, Byrne began work on filming The Worker Bees. APP produces genre-defying works of fiction with an independent slant.įounded by independent filmmaker Mark Byrne, Absurd Productions Pictures began with a feature length screenplay, Small Fish Small Pond, and a short screenplay, The Worker Bees. ![]()
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