screenwriters
Dan O'Bannon is the well-known screenwriter behind the classics Alien, Total Recall, Lifeforce, Heavy Metal (two segments), Dark Star (which he did the special effects for and starred in as well; this led to a stint on Star Wars as a special effects designer) and Return of the Living Dead (which he also directed).
Dan could not be here in person due to health reasons but we have captured his essential saltes on the crawling celluloid which is the next best thing for us Lurkers. Read more
The following six scripts are the finalists for the 2011 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® held in San Pedro:
Tesla & Lovecraft vs. Cthulhu by Anthony Todaro & Chris Keaton
Magick by Alan O'Brien
The Old Man and the Box by Bill Barnett
Death Wind by Travis Heermann and Jim Pinto
The Lurkers by Daniel Hartman, Jr.
The Dark Red Hills by Stephen Cedars
The winner wil be announced at the festival on Saturday night.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, the city which Lovecraft considered nearest to being America's literary capital, Nicholas T. Kubik's young imagination was nourished by the creations of Shelly, Stoker and Lovecraft. With a writer for a mother and an engineer for a father Nick's grown to appreciate the arts as much for their spirit and truth as precision and purpose. Nick has served from editor to cinematographer on his many gifted friends' films as well as writer, producer and director of his own films. His own screen major film debut was in the Chicago based film Bled White (2009). Currently Nick is in pre-production on his own complement of short films, including a present day adaption of "The Whisperer in Darkness", a screenplay finalist for the 2010 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, to be followed by a web serial to be finalized into a feature film. Read more
Raised in the Northeast on a steady diet of macabre and arcane fiction, Kurt Lustgarten owes much of his storytelling style (and neuroses) to the work of H.P. Lovecraft. His screenplay based on William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost-Finder was inspired by a love of supernatural horror and the detective/adventure genres. He is currently developing the sci-fi thriller Futures with writer Jesse Mittelstadt (Across the Hall), which Kurt is attached to direct. Read more
