For our readers, please introduce yourself.
I’m Christopher Greenslate, writer, director and producer of BANANAHEAD as well as a few other projects. It’s a funny thing trying to introduce oneself in an interview, but I’m someone who grew up in the punk and hardcore music scene and I’ve done a bunch of stuff. Toured with bands, put out records, published some work as a writer, but I’ve been working in film and television ever since I graduated from the American Film Institute back in 2016, and it finally seems like I’m hitting my stride. But I’m hopelessly optimistic, so who knows if that’s true?
Tag Archives: Indie Film
The Night is Young (2024) [Popcorn Frights 2024]
It’s not many movies that begin feeling like some kind of goofy fun romantic comedy and transforms in to a war concerning vampires. Patrick Rea is up for the challenge of delivering on a movie with a firm tongue in cheek that’s mostly viewed through the lens of a modern video camera. I’m not too sure how vampires appear on screen but that’s for the artist to decide on terms when it comes to on screen vampires. “The Night Is Young” is a pretty good mixing of genres and sub-genres, centering itself on a woman who is on the hunt for a new girlfriend.
Bananahead (2024)
Selected to screen at the 2024 HollyShorts Film Festival, director Christopher Greenslate’s “Bananahead” is an unnerving and well told tale about legacy and impostor syndrome. It’s very much a horror movie, but it’s also a very stark movie about hitting a bar that someone previously left and a lot of what they can leave behind after they have gone. Sally Maersk is a stunner in the role as Andi Sanger, a young performer who gives herself the inherent pressure of taking on a role in the adaptation in her mom’s best selling book “Bananahead.”
The Darkside of Society (2024) [Popcorn Frights 2024]
There’s nothing I love more than a documentary about the conception of one of the most notorious cult classics ever made. Brian Yuzna’s 1989 horror satire is a gross, vile look at the amorality of the affluent. What I don’t like is a documentary that paints itself as a look at the making of a movie and is in reality conspiracy claptrap garbage sexual abuse, ritual child abuse, and sexual violence that has about two percent to do with Brian Yuzna’s movie.
American Daydream (2024)
Where is the American dream bred? In the heart or in the head? Director-Writer Ziyu Luo’s “American Daydream” is a classic ode to the idea of the American dream and our pursuit of it. Is the “American Dream” an unreachable goal, or something that we each have within us, personally? Recently having its world premiere at the HollyShorts Film Festival, “American Daydream” is a brilliant beautiful short drama comedy that explores ideas about immigration, assimilation and Americanization.
Rani DeMuth, Director of “And Now I Lay Me Down”
Now on the festival circuit, “And Now I Lay Me Down” is a stellar drama comedy starring Jane Kaczmarek of “Malcolm in the Middle” fame. The great short is directed by Rani DeMuth a charming and clever filmmaker and storyteller who took time out to discuss her process making the movie and what it was like working with an actress of Kaczmarek’s caliber. Look out for “And Now I Lay Me Down.”
Rory McHarg & Brett Miller Discuss Their Documentary “A Two Hearted Tale”
Now making its way through the festival circuit, the directors of “A Two Hearted Tale” took time out of their busy schedules to discuss their newest short subject documentary. The tale of the iconic beer label for one of America’s most popular IPA beers and how the creation of the logo proved quite tumultuous.
Disclaimer: This film was produced independently of Bell’s Brewery. All views and opinions are those of the filmmakers.