B.S. NEWS
December, 2003

SOON TO BE A FEATURE FILM - CURRENTLY IN PRE-PRODUCTION

BLOOD SHOT
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Blood Shot played December 6th, 2003 at The Saints & Sinners IV Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida.
"Blood Shot" turned out to be a Sinner...it won 3 awards.

A member of the audience sent an email to Dietrich Johnston after seeing Blood Shot:

"I was in attendance at the Saints and Sinners Film Festival last night and viewed Blood Shot.

Of all the films of the evening, yours was the only one that severely blew me away.

Your sense of humor is fantastic, and you had the entire audience glued for the entire movie. You also got a huge round of applause.

The actors were phenomenal, the quality was beyond professional, it was perfect down to every last detail.

I make low budget movies and found myself thinking maybe I should quit after seeing your movie. It was just that good.

I looked at your site, and see it will be made soon into a feature! Congratulations, and I can’t wait to see it.

Thank you for your movie, it alone would have been worth the three hour drive to the festival.

I’ve honestly never been so impressed by a movie…Independent or Hollywood."

This was obviously great to hear , especially because none of us could attend the festival. We asked how many were in attendence:

"There were 400 people there throughout the festival, which ran from 3 pm until 1:30 am. During Blood Shot, I’d guess there were at least 200. It was funny, during other movies sometimes I heard people talking to each other, or some got up to go to the bathroom, but during yours…silence, and nobody moved. To say they enjoyed it was an understatement."

After the awards were posted:

"Congratulations! OK, now I may be biased because I loved your movie, but how can a movie get three awards out of four possible (having no actress), but not get best director or best film? I’ve heard before that directors get all the blame and none of the credit. You, my dear, are the best director."

"...I really can’t see how a movie could have been better than yours."

Awe, shucks. Ya flatter me.

Although we will continue to send the film out to festivals that request it, we are no longer actively pushing the festival angle now that our ultimate goal has been achieved.

We are focusing our energy and resources on the new feature film, which is turning out to be such an amazing victory; it is exceeding our wildest hopes and dreams for this project.

The new feature is going to blow people away. This web site will become the new site for the feature length movie...

LOOK WHO GOT BEAT WITH THE UGLY STICK!

Kids, let this be a lesson for ya. Prostitution just doesn't pay.

As he crawled out of his hole, Saddam is reported to have said, "My name is Saddam Hussien. I am the president of Iraq and I want to negotiate." Yeah, he's used to saying that.

No takers from the 4th Infantry Division.

      
There's no telling what he's had in his mouth...

NO PROFIT IN "SEXY"

Saddam made more money as a prostitute looking like a homeless bum. His loyalist troops thought he looked too much like a woman, and they were not attracted to him "that way."

- REVIEWS -

Horror Bob of The Horror Review is obviously a genius. He says, "Blood Shot is possibly one of the best short films I've seen this year." Later, he says, "Overall this film was great, I just wish it was a feature film..." Thanks, Horror Bob! (We're working on that last part...)

The Jekyll & Hyde Review Team Corpse at Horror-Web broke it down and gave Blood Shot some very nice compliments. They too wanted "MORE MORE MORE!" We hear ya...and thank you for the review!

Daniel Wible of Film Threat gave Blood Shot a fantastic review! Lot's of details, but that's part of what makes it so fun to read. Imagine how much more fun it would be to SEE... They didn't spoil the ending - of the *story* - but it's a great read. Thanks to Daniel Wible for the review! "Wickedly Funny... Impossible not to laugh." "It's funny and terrorist's die, what more do you want?" Visit FilmThreat.com to read the review.

Eric Campos, also of Film Threat says, "Just trust me when I say it’s loud, angry and fucking awesome!" He saw it at Fright-Fest and his re-cap is here.

CineGeek reviewed Blood Shot. "Blood Shot is a balls to the wall action comedy that kicks you right where it hurts and makes you like it."

Check out the September, 2003 BS News page for more reviews from The São Paulo International Short Film Festival and comments from the OC Weekly.

      - AWARDS -

Blood Shot wins 3 awards on Dec. 6th, 2003 at the Saints & Sinners IV Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Best Actor: Michael Bailey Smith
Best Cinematography: Marie Chao
Best Sound: Dietrich Johnston

Blood Shot and Michael Bailey Smith won two awards at Fright-Fest in Gainesville, Georgia on October 13th. Best Actor in a Short Film, and Best Actor in a Comedy Horror Short.

Blood Shot won it's second award at Dragon*Con 2003 on September 1st, in the largest horror, science fiction and fantasy film festival in North America.

Our first award was a Remi Award from WorldFest 2003, announced in May, 2003.

Internet Movie Database
Check out Blood Shot on imdb.com.

Updated: Monday, December 15th, 2003

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