BoulderLight Pictures, the company behind the Contracted franchise and the upcoming Dementia for IFC Films, announced today that they have formed a partnership with Hong Kong-based financiers Making Film Limited on a three-picture slate of films that Making Film will fully finance.
This joint venture will be a new international genre label dubbed ‘Making Horror,’ and will focus on horror and thriller films, primarily in the seven-figure budget range. Making Film is the production company of powerhouse Hong Kong director Pang Ho-Cheung, who will serve as Executive Producer on each film. The company will serve as investor and collaborator on each title.
The first project on tap for the label will be the thriller Dismissed, written by Brian McAuley, and produced by J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures, who are teaming up with Sev Ohanian (Fruitville STation).
The film will shoot this month in Los Angeles with a high-profile cast soon to be announced. It marks the feature directorial debut of Benjamin Arfmann, who previously directed the acclaimed SXSW short “Random Stop.”