Broken Frontier review

Thanks to Andy Oliver from Broken Frontier for this great review.

"I was captivated by its tongue-in-cheek approach to its subject. It’s one that plays up the Jekyll and Hyde conceit at its heart to bleakly comedic effect while still proving informative and enlightening about Able’s creative process."   Click on the pic for full Broken Frontier review:

Ink Cocks London Premiere Dec 1st

It was a great evening at DeLane Lea where we showed Ink, Cocks & Rock'n'Roll to a London audience for the first time - and gave away far too many raffle prizes...including the 'Krent Takes San Francisco" original artwork! Thanks so much to Tony at DeLane Lea, and to Sunny, Lucy, Michelle and Neusa for helping out on the night...

"Great piece of work - really opened a hidden can of cultural worms to dip my head into.” Marc Munden (dir: Utopia/National Treasure)

“A visceral, tangible immersive gore - loved what you did with it. Outrageous fun." Corin Hardy (dir: The Hallow)

“Innovative, cleverly executed, psychologically chilling - one to look out for in 2017” Hayley’s Horror

Hayley's Horror Best of the Fest!

Thrilled that Ink Cocks featured in Hayley's Horror Celluloid Screams Best of the Fest selection, screaming in at no.5 - cheers Hayleys!

"Ink, Cocks & Rock ‘N’ Roll is an innovative, cleverly executed, documentary style short that presents the work of controversial comic book artist Steve Martin (no, not the bloke from Father of the Bride!) and his perverted alter ego Krent Able. It’s psychologically chilling as the film challenges the concept of spilt personality and questions whether there’s a thin line between Steve and the monstrous side to him. Is Krent just a fictional character stemmed from his imagination or something much worse? Fourth wall breaking and filled with edgy art work in it’s believable set up, Ink, Cocks & Rock and Roll is one to look out for in 2017.

Ink Cocks North American Prem at SF IndieFest

We are dead excited that SF IndieFest will be hosting the North American Premiere of Ink, Cocks & Rock'n'Roll at the notorious Another Hole in the Head Festival on 6th Nov. AHITH is the premiere genre festival on the West Coast...Krent takes San Francisco indeed!

Celluloid Screams UK Premiere

We were thrilled to be invited to screen at the premiere horror festival of the North, Celluloid Screams hosted by Robert Nevitt. We played 7pm Sunday night in front of Pet, a fucked up kidnap take starring Dominic Monaghan. Great reception from the crowd there, thnaks so much for having us...pics and audience reactions clip below...

Ink, Cocks teaser trailer released

The 60 second teaser trailer for Ink, Cocks & Rock'n'Roll out now - along with the release of our awesome poster which you can see the full horror of in the tab below...
Check out more of Steve's work at www.krentable.com

Halflife Directors reel 2016

Matt's new reel featuring all the work from 2016, including 3 films for Intel featured by the Guardian online, online spots for Sony Playstation's new VR headsets, plus personal projects The Monkey Cage and Ink, Cocks & Rock'n'Roll... 

Matt Harlock is an award-winning director whose drama and documentary films have been screened widely at festivals and on TV. In 2011, Matt completed directing and producing his first feature film, ‘American The Bill Hicks Story’. An animated documentary on the life of the legendary cult comedian, ‘American’ was the 2nd most successful documentary released in UK cinemas in 2010, played over 40 international festivals, was Grierson-nominated and won several Best Documentary prizes (Dallas, Little Rock, Downtown LA, Biografilm Bologna). It is 6th on iTunes UK All-Time Bestsellers Docs chart and no.4 on Rotten Tomatoes Best Films of 2011. Matt’s drama short films have been shown on Channel 4, Film4, HBO and Sky, winning awards from Manhattan SFF, TCM & Film London. Lollipop was commissioned by Channel 4, and Toll was shown at over 30 festivals, supported by the British Council and was bought by Film 4 & HBO. The Clouds won the National 48 Hour Film Challenge, and Kingsize was British Council supported, screening at Cinefeel UK’s Pompidou Centre show. He is currently developing feature projects The Monkey Cage and Aftermath, and was a Berlinale Talent in 2014. Matt has worked extensively in commercial and corporate, often as creative as well as directing, for clients such as Intel, Sony, Vodafone, Orange, Dixons & Motorola (3 prestigious Stevie Awards in the US) & Microsoft (2 IVCA’s 2014). Matt speaks at festivals internationally on marketing/VOD & distribution for independent producers. His masterclass has been presented at SXSW, SheffDoc, SPAA Melbourne, Raindance, EastEndFF, Directors UK & LOCO. He is the founder of No Direction Home, the director’s networking community. Reviews for American The Bill Hicks Story: “Fascinating” Variety “Utterly inspiring...flawless” Maxim “Fantastic....incredibly entertaining” Aint It Cool News “Nothing short of astounding” Time Out “Surely the most visually inventive bio-doc ever - a kinetic masterpiece” The Observer “Immersive, inventive...beautifully told” Empire

Sony VR Headsets online spots

Matt directed the shoot for Sony's new Playstation VR Headset, combining live action footage with game play to create an immersive gameplay experience, for Territory Studio. 300k+ views on YouTube.
Producer: Alice Creosole (Territory)
DoP: Marcus Domleo
1st AD: Jai Lusser
Creative Director: David Sheldon Hicks (Territory)
Sony Creative Director: Nigal Raymond

This piece for Sony's new Playstation VR Headset combines live action footage with game play to create an immersive gameplay experience. Currently has 300k+ views on YouTube. Director: Matt Harlock Producer: Alice Creosole (Territory) DoP: Marcus Domleo 1st AD: Jai Lusser Creative director: David Sheldon Hicks (Territory) Sony Creative Director: Nigal Raymond

Intel 'Connect' films

Matt wrote the scripts, storyboarded, directed and edit supervised for these 3 films for Intel for Territory Studios. Shot in Dublin, Leipzig and London, there were designed to showcase the power of Intel's processor chips for EE, Parcelive and the Intel FAB plant. All films were featured on the Guardian website.
Producer: Joy Whilby (Territory), Amy Goodman (Intel)
Creative director: David Sheldon Hicks (Territory)
Creative/graphics: Brady Baltezore (Intel)
Camera: Scott Openshaw (Intel)
Editor: Nicholas Ralph (Intel)

To see all three films, click here: http://www.halflifefilms.com/intel-connect