Familiar Stranger

25/01/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdMrogY07R4

Teaser trailer for The Mire now out!

Get ready to meet your Faker.

First trailer for The Mire. The new feature film from Apple Park Films and Familiar Stranger Studios. Starring Antony Knight, Holly McLachlan, and Joseph Ade...

21/12/2021

https://engdre.substack.com/p/thesinkingsolstice

A Festive Fable for the Longest Night.

Happy Winter Solstice, Acolytes.

11/12/2021

https://engdre.substack.com/p/introducing-the-sinking-solstice

Some freaky festiveness in time for Christmas!

Familiar Stranger Studios announces the first instalment in the England's Dreaming Cosmic Horror Cycle.

16/11/2021

Two years since we ran the first Pastel Wasteland Film Festival at the No.6 Cinema! Who was there?

Submissions for our second event in February are open now:

https://filmfreeway.com/PWFF

15/11/2021

New page name, New Focus.

More to come soon.

12/01/2021

The answers are waiting. Realignment is the only way forwards. Join the Canon.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-mire--4/x/25360928 #/

11/01/2021

The London Screenwriters Festival has had a real impact on the origins of this project.

"Films don’t have to be made in London, there are other settings, with other stories, and these deserve to be heard."

On the 31st of May last year, during the London Screenwriters Festival 365, I had the pleasure of watching Clive Frayne’s DIY Script Doctor session and subsequent script chat. I found that Clive’s thoughts about regional filmmaking chimed very close…

08/01/2021

The day of reckoning is coming. Please check for the goodness in your hearts and donate to - it might just be your salvation.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-mire--4 #/

08/01/2021

It's prophet, with a "f".

06/01/2021

The Mire is a film about a charismatic cult leader trapped in his own web of lies with two of his most devoted followers. We've managed to spread a very small budget very far, but we're still looking for that bit of help to get us closer to our goal.

A psychological drama feature film to be shot in Portsmouth, UK. | Check out 'The Mire' on Indiegogo.

01/01/2021

Praying to the Mentors that 2021 is better than whatever THAT just was

11/12/2020

https://igg.me/at/themirefilm/x/25360928 #/

Have you ever wanted to join a cult?

Don't bother, it's a scam. Donate to our new film instead.

A psychological drama feature film to be shot in Portsmouth, UK. | Check out 'The Mire' on Indiegogo.