Cast and creative team set for Will McIntosh's Followed
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| For Press Use: Erryn Arkin, Sylvia Boykin, Abigail de los Reyes, and Edith Ivey from JamesWorks Entertainment's Followed, based on the story from Hugo-award winning author Will McIntosh. |
SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 15, 2010 - JamesWorks Entertainment will begin principle photography on Followed, based on the short story from Hugo-award winning author Will McIntosh, on December 11th, 2010 in Macon, Ga.
Followed is the story of a socially-responsible college professor whose perfect world is threatened by the appearance of a tag-along zombie child.
From multi-award winning director James Kicklighter (The Car Wash, Di Passaggio), Followed features the American debut of actor Erryn Arkin ("Home and Away," "CIA: Crime Investigation Australia") as Peter, Edith Ivey (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) as Jackie, Sylvia Boykin (The Tenant) as Jenna, and it introduces San Francisco's Abigail de los Reyes as Asian Girl.
"When this story was brought to me nearly a year ago, I knew that this had to be my next film," said director James Kicklighter. "I am thankful for the opportunity to redefine the zombie genre with Will McIntosh's unique creative voice, along with our talented performers and crew."
JamesWorks Entertainment presents Followed, a Park Bench Pictures/Baby Dude Pictures production in association with Bright Blue Sky, starring Erryn Arkin, Edith Ivey, Sylvia Boykin and Abigail de los Reyes, directed by James Kicklighter, based on the short story by Will McIntosh, from a screenplay by Maureen Cooke and Mark Ezra Stokes, and produced by James Kicklighter, Kasey Ray-Stokes, Mark Ezra Stokes and Maureen Cooke. The executive producers are John C. Arnold, R. Lee Arnold and Alex Johnson, the director of photography is Jason Winn, with special makeup effects by Renonda Anderson and an original score from Bruce Kiesling.
About James Kicklighter
James Kicklighter is the 22-year-old founder of JamesWorks Entertainment, featured in the Examiner.com “CEOs Under 25? series. A film director and producer, recent titles include The Car Wash (with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s Edith Ivey), winner of the Audience Choice Award at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth; Theater of the Mind, created for the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas; and Di Passaggio, winner of The Accolade Award of Merit alongside ABC News, USA Today, and Discovery Kids. He was a screener for the 2009 International Documentary Association’s Distinguished Feature Award.
He recently completed work as Program Director for the National Student Leadership Conference on Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of California at Berkeley, and producer of Land of Higher Peace, a documentary observing the challenges Ethiopians face through the eyes of American visitors to the northern town of Gondar. It will be released in 2011.
James is currently producing "In True Fashion," a docudrama series for the web that observes impoverished students in urban Los Angeles. Partnering with JAMAH Handbags, Dermalogica, and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, they learn to be who they are through learning the fundamentals of free enterprise.
He is a 2010 graduate of Georgia Southern University, where he earned a B.S. in Public Relations.
About Will McIntosh
A 2003 Clarion graduate, Will McIntosh recently won the Hugo Award for best short story for “Bridesicle.” By day, he is a psychology professor at Georgia Southern University. His first novel, Soft Apocalypse, is scheduled to be published in April 2011 by Night Shade Books.
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