Current Project
Goals for 2011 and 2012
Diffusion Films’ mission is to continue meeting other filmmakers who share a similar passion for films as its team members do. With these members Diffusion Films looks to produce films which push the known limits of independent filmmaking and to produce as many as three films a year that will be shot on high definition digital video for budgets of up to $10,000. These films are intended for theatrical release both on the World Wide Web and through various film and video festivals throughout the world.
a Diffusion Films and WetWork Media Production
The Locals (2011) Excepted Length: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
In Production Now
The Locals is a "found footage movie" that takes place in 1987. It depicts a group of low budget filmmakers (Matthew Landon, Devanny Pinn and Angelina Armani) who head to the mountains to film a slasher movie called "Splatter Mountain."
Accompanying them are three of their actors, including an aging, coke addicted former centerfold (Tawny Amber Young), a bubbly, ditzy porn queen who is out of work due to the Traci Lords scandal (Angie Savage) and a pretentious, Julliard trained actor mortified by his co-stars and the conditions he is working under (Brandon Slagle). An uptight reporter (David Carter) joins the group at the last minute to cover the production for a nationally famous horror magazine.
As the group heads deep in the mountains, they are unaware that they are being stalked by a feral family of cannibals (Larry Laverty, Erik Preston, Rachel Grubb and Daniel Murawka) who have been picking off passersby unfortunate enough to have wandered into their territory for decades.
The story is told through the lenses of two video cameras and three VHS cassette tapes that are found years later. The film takes the modern framework of the found footage genre and places it firmly into the 80s, capturing the distinct look, style and vibe of that era. The first half the movie is a fun, hilarious, raunchy comedy where inept filmmakers and actors take to the woods to shoot a "shot-on-video" splatter movie. But it shifts gears and becomes a dark, horrific roller-coaster ride as the group finds itself systematically butchered by a cannibal family who also reside in those woods. The special effects by Jacob Gilman and Angie Johnson are extreme and explicit in the film’s portrayal of human dismemberment and cannibalism.
Danny Lopes, Bree Essrig, Kelly Marchand and Caroline Posada also star in the film as an all-girl rock band (and their manager) who accidentally find themselves caught up in the unfolding carnage.
a Diffusion Films and SD Filmmakers Productions
SDAFF Project (2012) Excepted Length: TBA Minutes
Shooting set for Summer (2012)
Diffusion Films is looking to team up with other filmmakers in the San Diego area to produces a short film for the up coming 11th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) this year. At this point we are in the early stages of writing a script for this project so it's Untitled.
a Blurry Vision Productions Film
Anyway Out (2013) Excepted Length: TBA Minutes
Shooting set for Summer (2013)
Jason is a guy who is always looking for a way to make a quick buck. He tries to live the champagne life on a beer budget and likes to believe that he is some big player. Thinking that his life is under control, he hides under a veil of illusion. Jason’s girlfriend Stephanie is one who likes money, and enjoys spending any that she can get her hands on. When the time comes that old debts are due, Griffin, Jason’s bookie, sends a message that he wants his money and he’s not playing any games. But Jason is broke and tension mounts. Jason calls on his long time friend Tyler to help bail him out. But the situation has more twists and turns than Jason may be able to handle. How far is Tyler willing to go to help out an old friend, and who does Stephanie really love? Jason, or his money? Seemingly stuck in a web of love and money, follow these four as they try to make things work out for the better or just find Anyway Out.
a Diffusion Films & Shave Stone Productions Film
Envy For The Dead Excepted Length: 42:00 Minutes
Project on Hold
Envy For The Dead is not Diffusion Films’ first horror productions, but it's the first film written and will be completely shot for the World Wide Web in a three part web-episodes.
Synopsis: Camille is a popular dancer at the Zombie Lounge. Her dancing has brought her fame and adoration and yet she is still unsatisfied. One night a horrible automobile accident claims her life. Shortly after she returns from the grave, mangled and rotting. Camille soon becomes obsessed with revitalizing her beauty at any cost, including devouring human flesh...
In addition to Envy For The Dead, the company is in pre-production on several new scripts and a two hour feature film with titles to be announced later this year...