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’13 Minutes’ to Seek Shelter From a Tornado in Latest Disaster Film
As a sucker for disaster films and a huge fan of Twister, this sounds right up my alley.
Lindsay Gossling’s feature directorial debut 13 Minutes takes place in a small American town where residents begin a day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives.
Highland Film Group announced ahead of the AFM that Trace Adkins (Deepwater Horizon, The Lincoln Lawyer), Golden Globe-nominated Thora Birch (pictured in “The Walking Dead”, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Hocus Pocus), Peter Facinelli (Twilight saga, Countdown) Tony Award-nominated and Emmy award winner Anne Heche (The Best of Enemies, “Chicago PD”), Will Peltz (“Euphoria,” Unfriended), and Paz Vega (Rambo: Last Blood, “The OA”) have signed on to star.
The story was developed by Travis Farncombe and Gossling. Gossling will also produce under her production shingle Involving Pictures alongside Travis Farncombe and Karen Harnisch. Cassian Elwes and Jere Hausfater for Elevated Films will executive produce, in association with ImpactWX. Highland Film Group is handling international sales beginning at the AFM next week. Cassian Elwes through Elevated Films is handling the US sale in collaboration with Highland Film Group.
Principal photography will start November 11th on location in Tornado Alley.
The buried origins of the cinema zombie will be explored in upcoming documentary Black Zombie, and Deadline reports that Kino Lorber has picked up the doc for U.S. release.
Kino Lorber will release Black Zombie in theaters later this year.
From writer and director Maya Annik Bedward, Black Zombie digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to uncover the zombie’s buried and unsettling origins.
Long before it became associated with flesh-eating ghouls, the zombie was a living metaphor for slavery: not a monster, but the ultimate victim of colonial power.
Deadline further details, “Director Maya Annik Bedward traces the evolution of the zombie from colonial Haiti to contemporary Hollywood, reconsidering iconic films like White Zombie, Night of the Living Dead, and The Serpent and the Rainbow alongside archival footage, vérité scenes, and interviews with cultural historians, artists, and genre legends including Yves-Grégory Francois, Mambo Labelle Déesse, Slash, Tom Savini, and Zandashé Brown. Part cultural reckoning, part horror remix, Black Zombie exposes how a figure born from enslavement, spiritual belief, and resistance was transformed into one of pop culture’s most profitable monsters.”
“I’m thrilled to partner with Kino Lorber on the release of Black Zombie,” said Maya Annik Bedward. “The film explores the power of images to shape our understanding of history, culture, and race, making it especially meaningful to work with a distributor so deeply engaged with cinema’s past and present. Their passion for films that challenge, illuminate, and expand our understanding of the world makes them an ideal partner for bringing this story to audiences across the U.S.”
Kino Lorber’s Karoliina Dwyer adds, “The zombie is one of the most iconic images in cinema, and you’ll never look at them the same after watching Black Zombie. Maya Annik Bedward has crafted a fascinating, deeply researched documentary that unearths the long-buried Haitian origins of the genre, interrogating colonial, political, and Hollywood history to powerful and illuminating effect. We’re so proud to bring this documentary to U.S. audiences this fall.”
Executive producers for the documentary include music legend Slash.
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