Cannes Market Entry 'The Fall of Night' Crowned Best Sci-Fi/Horror at London Indie & Bare Bones Film Festivals

Cannes Market Entry 'The Fall of Night' Crowned Best Sci-Fi/Horror at London Indie & Bare Bones Film Festivals

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CANNES, France, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- "The Fall of Night," first-time feature director and USC grad Derrick Warfel's "Twilight Zone"-like offering about a tarnished rock star's horrific, desert run-in with a rogue prophet and his mysterious female sidekick, collected two awards in as many weeks last month when it was named Best Sci-Fi/Horror Film at the London Independent Film Festival (Apr. 14-19) and Best Sci-Fantasy/Horror Feature at the Bare Bones International Film Festival (Apr. 17-27) in Muskogee, Okla., it was announced today by Warfel's Winter Star Prods.

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Branded "a taut, edge-of-your-seat nail-biter" by Bare Bones director Oscar Ray, the time-twisting 86-min. drama/thriller -- starring CW's "Girlfriends" lead Persia White as the driven disciple, Tony Longo ("The Cooler") as her doomsday preacher and Bruce Michael Hall ("One Life to Live") as a musician on the lam who hitches a late-night ride from the calculating couple -- will screen twice here during the Cannes Film Market (May 14-25): Mon. May 19 at Gray 4 at 11:30 a.m. and Thu. May 22 at Palais D at 3:30 p.m.

Seizing headlines in Oklahoma's daily Tulsa World, which touted its "noted cast" and "suspenseful storyline," "The Fall of Night" logged its U.S. premiere at Bare Bones, following its world premiere at last fall's Montreal World Film Festival.

Film next competes in the Central Florida Film Festival (Aug. 28-31).

Bare Bones-winning picture -- one of 149 overall entries made for the fest's under-$1 mil budget requirement -- was nominated for Best Ensemble for the cast rounded out by Australian TV personality Grant Bowler, "Hawaii Five-O" veteran Al Harrington, and indie comers Sera Bastian and Burke Roberts.

Oklahoma stand also saw Warfel -- mentor of the speed filmmaking 168 Film Project in Burbank, CA -- teach his "How to Make a Short Film in a Short Time on a Short Budget" seminar (based on his upcoming book) and participate in the fest-wrapping "Indie Producers Panel of Speakers."

The USC film school and Dallas Theological Seminary grad explained he wanted to make "Fall" a "visceral yet thinking person's thriller, in the vein of Rod Serling's great TV series."

For more info, visit fallofnight.com, londonindependent.org or barebonesfilmfestivals.org.

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CONTACT: Scotty Dugan, +1-818-360-1107, scotty@duganstory.com, for
Winter Star Productions; or Winter Star Prods.,
fallofnight@winterstarproductions.com

Web site:

http://fallofnight.com/
http://www.londonindependent.org/
http://barebonesfilmfestivals.org/

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