Stranger Things

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Help us get buzz at Slamdance

Even if you’re not sure if you can make it, please help get our film noticed at the Slamdance Film Festival. There are two simple ways you can help us:

1) The boldest and best way you can help us is to join b-side (just click here to register) and then, as a b-side member, click here to visit the Stranger Things program page, scroll down to where it says screenings and add our screenings to your calendar. You can also be doubly amazing by sharing the page with your friends or clicking “like” it or “tweet” it from links that you’ll find there. If we can get just 15 calendar adds, we’ll be at the top of the list!

2) Just by visiting the Stranger Things program page you’ll give us a boost, so please click here to check it out.

Activity and buzz on our page will help get Stranger Things onto the main page of the website and encourage more people to find out about the film. Please help get things buzzing for the film!


Slamdance Schedule is online

We hope to see you at one of the two screenings of Stranger Things at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City this January. Stranger Things will be in competition at the festival and will be screened with the short film Mam. Here are our screening times:

  • January 21, 2011 @ 12:30PM
  • January 25, 2011 @ 2:30PM

Both screenings are at the Treasure Mountain Inn Main Screening Room (255 Main Street, Park City, UT 84060)

Click here to check out the Stranger Things program page for more info.


Happy New Year and Happy New Newsletter

A huge THANK YOU to our supporters, fans, cast and crew for your support over the last year. It’s been a very exciting period for us with the film and we’re looking forward to continuing the adventure in the new year. There’s much more to come.

Our first act of 2011 is to improve our mailing list. Please join the special Stranger Things Newsletter using the form below. We’ll keep you posted with fresh developments as they happen.

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Our second act is to discard of the props and costumes we’ve been storing in my family home since the shoot. Adeel can finally have his trousers back! Most of the rest is off to the charity shop.

Happy New Year everyone!

Slamdance here we come

Great news! Stranger Things will be screening in competition at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival.

You may remember that our short Ruth & Maggie (which also starred Bridget Collins and Victoria Jeffrey) premiered at Slamdance in 2006. We had an amazing time there and are delighted to return with our feature.

The festival takes place January 21-27 in snowy Park City, Utah. Stranger Things is one of ten narrative features in competition at the festival. This year Slamdance received a record breaking 5,000 submissions, of which fewer than 100 films were selected to screen.

Here’s the official IndieWIRE press release. For more information go to www.slamdance.com. We will post our screening times as soon as we have them.

Filmmaker Magazine on Woodstock Win

Scott Macaulay has posted a mention of our Woodstock Best Feature Award on the Filmmaker Magazine blog. Scott picked us for the 25 New Faces of Independent Film list in 2009 after seeing a cut at the IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab.

He writes about “Stranger Things”:

This is a beautiful, delicate, and extremely well directed and acted film.

Read the rest here:  www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2010/10/stranger-things-marwencol-win-woodstock/

“Stranger Things” wins top prize at Woodstock!

Stranger Things has won the Best Feature Narrative Award at the 11th Woodstock Film Festival. Last night at the Maverick Award Ceremony at the BSP Studios, Kingston, the film was honoured alongside documentary Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg). Bruce Beresford received the 2010 Honorary Maverick Award, Keanu Reeves the Excellence in Acting Award and the Trailblazer Award went to Bob Berney. Our NYU classmate, Luke Matheney won Best Student Short Film for God of Love.


We were up against such outstanding competition in the narrative picture category and we’re gobsmacked to have won. Big thanks to all of our friends, family and supporters who helped make this film possible. Congrats to our cast and crew, with whom we share the award. Thanks also to Meira Blaustein, Laurent Retjo and everyone else at the Woodstock Film Festival. We’ve had a fantastic time here.

Our final screening at WFF takes place this afternoon at 1:30pm at Upstate Films Woodstock on Tinker Street. There will be a Q&A after the screening.

Read about all the winners and honorable mentions in the indieWIRE Press Release.

“Stranger Things” is a “Mesmerizing Piece of Cinema”

Greg Olear lists Stranger Things as one of the highlights of this year’s Woodstock Film Festival in his article Groovy Movie, Take Two: The Woodstock Film Festival Shines On. Olear says:

You’ve probably never heard of Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal, the British filmmaking team who made this mesmerizing piece of cinema, but you will. This is a chance to watch their much-buzzed-about debut on a big screen before they “go Hollywood.”

For tickets to the Woodstock screenings of Stranger Things on Oct 1 and Oct 3, go to: www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/festival2010/details.php?id=21697

Tickets For Sale

You can get your ticket for the Woodstock screenings of Stranger Things online today and read about our film in the official Woodstock 2010 program, which is now online on the WFF website: www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/festival2010/details.php?id=21697

“Stranger Things” Woodstock Premiere!

We are proud to announce that Stranger Things will be premiering in competition at the 2010 Woodstock Film Festival.

The “fiercely independent” Woodstock Film Festival takes place September 29-October 3 in the beautiful Hudson Valley. Stranger Things will have two screenings at the festival:

  • October 1, 2010 / 2:00PM / Upstate Films RHINEBECK – 6415 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, NY 12572
  • October 3, 2010 / 1:30PM / Upstate Films WOODSTOCK – 132 Tinker St, Woodstock, NY 12498

Here’s the Indiewire press release. For more information go to woodstockfilmfestival.com.  More news coming soon!


Commandments for Ultra-Independent Filmmaking

Ted Hope posted a list of “No-Budget Commandments” on Truly Free Film yesterday, which he put together with his colleagues when his production company, The Good Machine, was starting out. It’s interesting to see how many of these we abided by when making Stranger Things without ever having encountered the list or even many people who think along these lines.

Adeel Akhtar (Mani) between takes, STRANGER THINGS

Bridget Collins (Oona) on location, STRANGER THINGS

Some of the principles we followed included writing to direct and writing for what we knew and what we could obtain. Writing for our location and for our actors also helped us enormously with co-directing, as we hadn’t imagined up vastly different versions of the characters or locations from each other. We knew we had to be flexible filmmakers and we always wanted to make an intimate film, so that one came easily. For anyone planning to make an independent film without a huge amount of money behind them, I would definitely recommend checking out the full list of commandments.

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