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Discounted Personalised Be My Cat Posters

Order a personalised signed poster of Be My Cat: A Film for Anne with your name instead of Anne (or the name of a friend you'd like to gift/surprise) in the title and in the tagline, and any 2020-12-16 19:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Your credits on IMDb, TMDb, Letterboxd, FilmFreeway & website

All my patrons' thanks & producer credits for "We Put the World to Sleep" are now listed on IMDb & the official site, the producer credits are also listed on TMDb & FilmFreeway, and the executive producer credits are listed on Letterboxd as well:

Website credits: 2020-12-12 20:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Exclusive early access: My selections for Best Horror Festivals for an upcoming article in a top publication

I'm sharing the private info below with you only, my patrons, please don't make it public till it goes public later this month. 

I've had the honour to be invited as a panelist for Dread Central's upcoming article of Best Horror Film Festivals! The list is going to be put together by t...

Upcoming Horror Short Film "Source of Evil"

I'm currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdfunder.co.uk/source-of-evil for a short film project I am very enthusiastic about called "Source of Evil"!

2020-12-07 23:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Latest News (to be detailed in upcoming posts)

Hi, everyone, I am so sorry for not posting new things on Patreon lately, this has been constantly on my mind, but I couldn't find the time due to all the developments in my professional life in the last couple of months.

Here's a summary of things that happened (with extra info compared to...

My Top Filmmaking Advices!

I'be been asked numerous times for advices on filmmaking or how to break into the film industry.

My first advice: make your own film, regardless if you have no experience at all, or you're just a screenwriter or actor. Don't wait for opportunities, make your own opportunities!

My seco...

Be My Cat: What's Behind the Curtain + Other Behind-the-Scenes Photos

I've been asked what happens behind the curtain in the torture scene. Well, in the movie you can guess what happens, but here's what happened in reality, in the first picture of this kind I have ever published, exclusively for Patrons! Plus other behind-the-scenes photos from the end of the shoot...

Latest news: Be My Cat called a CULT film + reviewed by popular YouTuber

I got happy these days when the director of an important horror film festival in Italy, and also of a cult distribution company, called Be My Cat a CULT film on Facebook. And many other horror geeks, including industry professionals, commented to the 2020-09-07 14:21:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Poster drafts for an upcoming limited DVD release

Check out the draft poster art made by Shin Nagai for Be My Cat's special limited DVD release coming soon from TetroVideo!

Check out also the unreleased draft they did before this, I've uploaded it privately to the post with all Be My Cat's posters for patrons only: 2020-08-29 19:17:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Two DVD releases of Be My Cat on the way!

Great news about Be My Cat's new DVD releases! Yes, there's going to be two of them, and quite different from each other:

- a self-release I am doing via Amazon, which will feature the current creepy poster by Terror Films (I'm grateful they allowed me to use it), improved sound compared to...

Be My Cat: A Film for Anne - EXTRA SCENES

Here's the premiere of the never-before-seen extra scenes from Be My Cat, exclusively for you, my patrons! 

Most of them are scenes not included in the final cut of the movie due to story or runtime concerns. The two interviews with Sonya and Flory are not between me and the actual act...

Film Festival Basics

I've realised that many of you who are not in the film industry might not understand much when I write about the struggles of indie filmmakers with film festivals. I'm writing as if you're all filmmakers, ha ha.

Here are the basics: if you somehow manage to make your first film (short, long...

Latest News (Turkey trip, Be My Cat's upcoming Blu-ray + Extra Scenes)

Hi, everyone,

After having my flights canceled again and again because of the pandemic, I decided to go by bus to Turkey to reunite with Duru (my wife and creative partner) after all these months of being stuck in different countries. A hell of a journey, changing multiple busses plus a loc...

Updates coming soon

Hi, everyone, so sorry for not publishing updates in a while, I was in an extremely intense period, lots of issues to solve on multiple levels, both professional and personal, but I’ll be a bit freer starting Tuesday and I’ll make a bigger post with everything that happened all this time. 2020-07-03 20:56:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Updated Film Festival Lists + Submission Tips for Indie Filmmakers

Hi, everyone, the last couple of weeks I've worked on major updates on my film festival lists, emphasising discovery festivals by also considering the number of feature world premieres they screen. For the world premiere of their movies, indie filmmakers have a higher chance of selection when sub...

We Put the World to Sleep listed in top 100 most anticipated films in Cannes

"We Put the World to Sleep" has been listed #52 in top 100 most anticipated films of the year that should be seen at the Cannes Film Festival: 2020-05-14 15:07:28 +0000 UTC View Post

We Put the World to Sleep public updates

The listing for "We Put the World to Sleep" in the official catalogue of upcoming Romanian films at page 45: CNC.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RomanianFilms_19_20_v.pdf 

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We Put the World to Sleep exclusive updates

Here's the plan for We Put the World to Sleep: 

1. Creating a fist rough cut of about 5 to 7 hours (out of the 90 hours of footage we shot for the movie, plus archive footage, both personal & from other sources). I'm currently working on this all by myself. 

2. I'll be s...

All Be My Cat Insights Made Public so Far

Hi, everyone, here's where you can find all the production insights for Be My Cat that I've published so far all these years:

- on my official site: https://adriantofei.com/be-my-cat-insights/

- on IMD...

Britney Spears influence in Be My Cat

Here's a weird one and probably unexpected for most of you. When I was a teenager I discovered Britney Spears, more exactly Baby One More Time & Oops I Did It Again, and that was a big WOW for me. That's when I started to be interested in music as a form of art (till then I was a lot into sci...

The ways other films influenced Be My Cat

Hi, everyone! I published a list on Letterboxd & IMDb with 25 films that influenced Be My Cat: A Film for Anne: https://letterboxd.com/adriantofei/list/films-that-influenced-m...

Be My Cat: A Film for Anne - Private Screener

Here's the private screener of my first movie Be My Cat: A Film for Anne for those of you who would like to watch or rewatch it: https://vimeo.com/104404081

Password: dontbemydog 

It inc...

More about my proposal to Brittany Ashworth

Back in 2013 I contacted actress Brittany Ashworth on Twitter (the star of Exhibit A) and proposed her to star in Be My Cat. She gave me the email of her agent. After I wrote a detailed proposal [read a fragment...