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VHSh*tfest, in conjunction with Horror Boobs and Lunchmeat, are excited to announce the June 17th Special Edition DVD release of Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector. The acclaimed documentary from co-directors Dan Kinem and Levi Peretic dispels the myth that the original home video format is dead and buried and has received audience and critical praise around the world since its premiere at Days of the Dead in Los Angeles.

Fangoria hailed the film as a “fascinating look into a burgeoning underground scene of cinephiles” while Pittsburgh City Paper called it “loads of fun for fans of VHS, not-quite-dead formats and films about hard-core collectors.”

Some see VHS as worthless plastic, but Adjust Your Tracking shows a vibrant world of collectors and movie fans who are keeping the format, and the movies, alive. Over 100 collectors, filmmakers, producers, and video store owners express how VHS changed their lives. Travel back to the days of video rental stores with those who still buy, sell, rent and trade the format that will not die – VHS.

The Special Edition 2 Disc DVD release of Adjust Your Tracking (SRP $19.95) will include hours of bonus features: a feature length commentary with co-directors Dan Kinem and Levi Peretic, a feature length commentary with producers Josh Schafer and Matt Desiderio, extended interviews with industry veterans including Lloyd Kaufman, a behind the scenes documentary, three short films by the directors, deleted scenes, festival Q&A footage, trailers and Easter eggs for eagle-eyed fans.

For the collectors, Kinem and Peretic have released a DVD/VHS combo pack available exclusively on www.adjustyourtracking.com.

Branko Tomovic and Francesca Fowler are starring in “Schism”, a psychological thriller which Steve Stone will be directing from his own script. “A consultant psychiatrist attempts to break through to a disturbed young woman who has not spoken since she was found in a wheat field days earlier. The two men who discovered her gave statements that she was not alone in that field. There were also the dead bodies of four young children with her. The police can find no trace of the children. Together, in her secure hospital room, patient and doctor begin a devastating journey into the abyss of what has happened to her, the mystery of who she is and the staggering revelation of what she might be.”

This will mark the second collaboration of Steve Stone and Branko Tomovic who already starred in Stone’s first feature, the supernatural chiller “Entity” alongside Dervla Kirwan and Charlotte Riley. Entity had a very successful festival run and found distribution in the US, UK and Australia. It won the main award at the London Independent Film Festival and also Best Film at the British Horror Film Festival, including nominations for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Leading Actor (Branko Tomovic) and Best Leading Actress (Charlotte Riley).

Branko Tomovic can currently be seen as Jack Bauer’s right hand man Belcheck in 24: Live Another Day. Other recent credits include David Ayer’s Fury with Brad Pitt and he is also set to play Nikola Tesla in Michael Anton’s biopic Tesla. Francesca Fowler’s credits include Dr Who, Rome and she also starred alongside Gillian Anderson in Closure.

Schism will start shooting this summer on location in Northern England.

Here’s the trailer for Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner, which is released in UK cinemas on October 31. This biopic of the British painter JMW Turner, stars Timothy Spall in the title role, as well as Lesley Manville, Marion Bailey, Dorothy Atkinson and Paul Jesson.

Mr Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851).

Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.

Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.