Behind the Couch

Penny Vozniak’s documentary follows filmmaker Jennifer Lynch as she spends 8 months in India navigating culture clashes, overbearing studio execs and personal demons while directing "creature feature-love story-comedy-musical" Hisss (2010). Despite the Gods was initially planned as a behind the scenes 'making of' feature to appear on the DVD release of Hisss , several weeks into production, however, Vozniak asked Lynch if she could stay and continue to film as she felt there was more going on and could see a whole other story emerging from the production. The resulting film is as fascinating as it is compelling.  Lynch is such an interesting individual. As an artist and storyteller, she is concerned with the darker side of human nature, her work is full of serial killers and psychologically scarred individuals. After working as a production assistant on her father David’s film Blue Velvet (1986), she authored The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (1990) in her early twen...

Ryan Blake George and Heather Horton in 'Edge' Currently making a name for himself on the indie film festival circuit, writer/director/actor/producer Ryan Blake George is a maverick filmmaker on the rise. His films are dark, provocative, unflinching. As the director of a couple of slow-burning, atmospheric shorts, he offers us brief glimpses into intense worlds peopled by unhinged, damaged individuals intent on revenge. His first short, Edge , charts the psychological breakdown of a woman (Heather Horton) in a relationship with a manipulative man (George). Troubling mind-games culminate in a bloodbath. His second short, Mississippi Sound, won Best Short Film at the second Yellow Fever Film Festival in Belfast last August. It tells of a pair of cousins whose past misdeeds surface during a fishing trip on the titular river. George kindly took time out from setting up the New Orleans Horror Film Festival  to chat about his work, the challenges of indie filmmaking, Alfred H...