You thought the Harry Potter/Japanese fangirl video was heartwarming? This shit will melt your heart. It's a documentary on a young filmmaker named Emily Hagins, who is 12-years-old and directing a feature-length zombie film. She is awesome as she is adorable, and she's pretty goddamn adorable. The movie isn't screening too many places -- check out the site for where -- but it deserves to; watch the trailer and then tell me you don't feel like calling your local arthouse cinema and making a request.
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im weirdly reminded of a late 90's teen show on a frog network and a certain aspiring film maker... pardoning all the overindulgent teen angst ridden plot devices and what not lol
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@Karma Hey, man -- just because your life is an absolute failure, don't take it out on a little girl who's actually following her dreams and working hard to fulfill them. Go Emily!
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@karma Zombie Girl is a documentary about a 12 year old girl making a feature-length film. Pathogen is the movie she made, no one is suggesting it is a masterpiece, no one is even inviting you to watch it.
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Bitter much? @karma No artist/filmmaker starts off creating masterpieces. In a body of work, only 10% will be awesome. At least she's trying. Success only comes to those who try. Sure, it doesn't happen for everyone, but she's guaranteed to fail if she doesn't take any risks.
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This movie actually came out several years ago and is called "Pathogen." Made in Austin Texas. It's pretty good for an indie flick.
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EVERYONE STOP MAKING ZOMBIE MOVIES!!! THERE IS ONLY ONE MASTER AND HIS NAME IS GEORGE ROMERO. YOU WILL NEVER BE BETTER. Oh who am I kidding, someone probably making another zombie stripper movie, or return of the living dead part 8 or whatever it's up to now as we speak. I would personally like to see more crazy looking monster movies and less jason/michael myers/freddy/some random guy in a mask. For instance, the first Feast movie was amazing. Slither was a lot of fun. ORIGINAL THINKING WILL KEEP ME COMING TO THE THEATRE.
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Twelve? Are you kidding me? My sister's twelve and she's fucking useless.
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I saw this at Fantastic Fest last year and sat down with two of the three directors after wards. http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/zombie-girl-the-movie-a-conversation-with-aaron-marshall-and-justin-johnson/ http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/fantastic-fest-2008-zombie-girl-the-movie/ She's a bit older now. I wonder how her next film is going. Still shows up at the Alamo Drafthouse with her mom. Got a good head on her shoulders too. She held her own during the Fantastic Fued. She knows her stuff.
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Hat's off to th girl. I wish her the best, and I can forgive one so young for choosing such a tired, overdone subject matter. Zombies are like the Jonas Brothers for nerds: vapid, uninspired, derivative, heinously overexposed yet gratuitously popular.
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@Matt One day I will get my 17 minute tour-de-force digitized and post for all to see. I actually got GOOD performances out of my actors, and a genuinely creepy atmosphere. And I will cheerfully beat up as many 12 year old filmmakers as you want to throw at me. No more than ten of them.
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@Reverend Ender: I think she has the benefit of many friends and low standards. At the end of the day, it's really just a project. When I was ten we made a Power Rangers movie. It was horrid, but it kept us busy for a fortnight. P.S.: Power Rangers won.
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That's some ridiculous acting right there, but at least she put the effort in, and who knows, years later when we're all still sad nerds sitting at our comps, she'll actually be a accomplished director.
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And I totally would've done this if this sort of equipment, and/or budget was available for me when I was 12. I got a fucking degree in cinema, for christ's sake, and I could never get more than 10 people on board with a shooting schedule at any one time. I should've used the cute approach. Goddamnit. Anyone want to be in a movie?
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Ambition, and serious sweetness? Awwww.
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My biggest accomplishment at 12 was finally unlocking the mime job in final fantasy tactics. If I had done a movie of this caliber (age being a filter and cushion for my opinion) I would be making multi million dollar flicks by now.
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That sort of ambition is amazing...
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yeah, looks like she needs some better equipment. But still her camera is better than mine when I was 12.
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Emilys second movie. http://www.cheesynuggets.com/TRwt.html
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I bought and saw Pathogen some months ago...it is quite cheesy...has bad acting...crappy sound...and I just love it. And I received a sweet little thank you note from Emily when I bought the DVD. =)
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Pretentious quoting aside, I have the utmost respect for the young Miss Hagins. At 25, I'm only just beginning to work towards my creative goals. At 12, she's already accomplished it. I wish I'd had that kind of drive, and talent, at her age.
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Wait... Is this gonna be an actual movie or a documentary about the making? Personally, I'd rather watch the documentary.
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"I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita." I'm fairly certain Nabokov's "immortality" wasn't referring to the living dead...
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Looks like the film she made, not the documentary, can actually be bought at http://www.cheesynuggets.com/pathogen.html for only $8.00 + shipping. I don't normally buy dvds, but I think the $10.00 total is more than worth getting both a potentially fun little movie and encouraging a kid to actually excercize that level of initiative.
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As awesome as this is, it makes me sad that I never did anything like that when <i>I</i> was a twelve year old girl. But I'm just mean-spirited and jealous so that doesn't really matter--I still want to see the movie if possible.
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FYI this is playing at SDCC, this Friday at 7 PM. http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_iff_fri.shtml
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That's cool for a number of reasons. Partially the zombie angle. But as well for something that just bugs me in general, how horribly kids and young adults are written in most movies. For some reason adults just can't seem to get past an idea that kids around 12 aren't either amazing wisecracking comedians or total idiots constantly asking "Daddy, why is the sky blue!!!" A movie like this actually has the potential to move past that, which I like. At least in theory. I remember are you afraid of the dark being one of the very few shows that I felt actually spoke to me, at that age, on my own level. At least with the first few seasons. Here's to horror from kids.
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nope...no desire to see this.
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She's making a second movie now. Check out her movie, it's decent for extra low budget and impressive that a 12 year old shot it. Called Pathogen.
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One more mention of how adorable she is and we might have some non-zombie related legal issues :rollseyes: …
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I'm calling my locale art house as we speak ...on hold.
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Wow... Just... Wow... *calls local movie theater*
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