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Having been awarded ‘Scariest Film’ at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, as well as the ‘Scariest Movie Award’ from Total Film at this year’s Film4 FrightFest, the newly formed Intense Distribution and fast rising indie label 101 Films are delighted to announce they have acquired all UK rights to ‘Banshee Chapter’ for distribution in early 2014.

Written and directed by Blair Erickson, produced by Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) and starring Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs), Katia Winter (Dexter, Sleepy Hollow) and Michael McMillian (True Blood), ‘Banshee Chapter’ focuses on a young journalist with an appetite for controversy, as she follows the trail of a strange government research chemical that might have caused the death of her close friend. The events in this film are based on real documents, actual testimony, and evidence researched and uncovered from decades of a terrifying secret program run by the CIA.

On Thursday 21^st November 2013, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will launch a unique projected art exhibition to celebrate the upcoming release of his new film KILL YOUR DARLINGS in cinemas on 6^th December.

The ‘KYD (Kill Your Darlings) Cut-Up Exhibition’ will take the form of projections that will travel around the Capital over three days, being seen by thousands of Londoners in key locations.

The ‘Cut-Up’ technique, where a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new original text, was popularized in the late 1950s by writer William S. Burroughs and has since been used in a variety of creative contexts. Along with Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Lucian Carr (Dane DeHaan) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), William S. Burroughs, played by Ben Foster also features in Kill Your Darlings, a true crime-thriller based on the previously untold story of a murder that implicated the men who went on to become the great poets of the Beat Generation.

For the ‘KYD Cut-Up Exhibition’ the concept of ‘Cut-Ups’ is being broadened to include a wider range of artistic disciplines such as design, fashion, illustration, photography, art and literature.

The technique has been used creatively by artists, designers and musicians such as David Bowie, Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain and Thom Yorke.

The exhibition will be projected at sites around London on Thursday 21^st, Friday 22^nd and Saturday 23^rd November. This first of a kind exhibition will feature a selection of original ‘Cut Up’ artworks submitted by artists and designers via Facebook.

For the chance to have their work included in the ‘KYD Cut Up Exhibition’ and to attend the launch with Daniel Radcliffe on Thursday 21^st November, participants are being asked to upload an image of their cut up artwork to the KILL YOUR DARLINGS official UK Facebook page no later than Sunday 17^th November. More information can be found on the Facebook page or on Twitter #KYDcutUP

Mr Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan invite you to take part in the KYD Cut-Up Exhibition. Watch the video here.

Here is the UK trailer of the upcoming release of Dallas Buyers Club, which is released in UK cinemas on 7^th February 2014.

Starring Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner, Dallas Buyers Club is based on the incredible true story of Texan rodeo cowboy Ron Woodroof and his battle with the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies after being diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1986.

Wild Futures’ Monkey Sanctuary is proud to be showcased in this year’s Cornwall Film Festival thanks to top film maker Chris Jones.

Chris visited The Monkey Sanctuary earlier this year and interviewed primate keeper, Hollie Lewis. In the film, Hollie articulately tells the story of The Monkey Sanctuary and how it has evolved over the past 49 years into leading primate welfare charity, Wild Futures.

Hayley Dann, Head of Income Generation and PR at Wild Futures states: “It was an absolute pleasure to work with the highly professional Chris Jones this year. We are thrilled with his finished piece of work and have been proudly showing it at events across the south west and through our social networks. As a charity, we do not have a budget for films, yet we recognise it is an important communication medium in today’s world. We are therefore very grateful to Chris for producing such a quality piece of film.”

Chris Jones stated: “I am very pleased to be featured at the film festival again this year. The film was made to highlight the important work that The Monkey Sanctuary carries out on a daily basis and without which many primates would continue to suffer tremendous neglect.”

The film will shortly be embedded on The Monkey Sanctuary and Wild Futures websites and will be shown at The Monkey Sanctuary throughout its open season in 2014.

Cornwall Film Festival is now in its twelfth year and is developing a year round programme of activity to promote Cornish, international, independent and specialised cinema to new audiences and to support a diverse range of filmmaking and media production.

The Festival will again take place at Lighthouse Cinema in Newquay this year, from 7th – 10th November and will include Screen Actions young person’s film festival.

Here’s the film by Chris Jones.