Butterfly and the Fear Fiesta

So we will be showing our dark, provocative film, BUTTERFLY, at the Fear Fiesta on Halloween at 2:00 in the afternoon.    (Casa 0101 Theater located at 2009 East First Street, LA 9003)
It will be interesting to see the response from an open audience. We thought we were going to be showing at SAG this week as part of the conservatory shows.  However, SAG declared the film too sexually provocative and said it was too salacious for their memebers. Crazy, given the night prior to when we were supposed to screen, the film Ashes (same writer as Butterfly) will show a people turned into murderous, flesh eating monsters. Which personally I find much more offensive than asking people to pose the question of morality and where responsiblity lies, and what if anything would You do, if you were the victim? But then again, if you look too closely, even an insect can be monsterous.

My brother, the writer

I know that I am really biased, he is after all my brother, but I think Edward E. Romero is going to become one of the most influential filmmakers of his time. A modern day Lynch (mixed with a little Polanski and a touch of Tarantino - the small part that is original) so to speak. His latest script, BUTTERFLY, won the Best Horror Feature award at Shreikfest, held at Raleigh Studios this weekend. Although I was not a fan of the style it was shot in, (way too much hand held that was nauseously shaky) I found the dialogue Edward wrote to be funny and pertinent. His script LULLABY which was optioned last year, is quite brilliant, and a finalist in a recent genre competition. And his latest film BUTTERFLY (his Directorial Debut), produced by Blank Page Entertainment, premieres this coming week at the Barnsdall Gallery Theater in Hollywood. Watch for him. I am telling you. He is going to be HUGE !