Interview With Filmmaker Ryan Blake George
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...