The Spanish premiere of #TheBirdwatcherFilm will take place at @gfffestival.bsky.social in Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain on Tuesday 23rd September. It’s an honour to be a part of the amazing line-up at this powerhouse of a festival. For further information & tickets, visit the festival’s website.

An action packed weekend is about to happen for #TheBirdwatcherFilm in both the UK and USA. On Saturday (across timezones) we're at @dirtinthegate.bsky.social's #GRINDFEST in Dorset, UK and then @hplff.bsky.social in Porland, OR, USA. Amazing festivals supporting independent cinema! Thank you both.

Just realised that, brilliantly, my pinned tweet for ages has been for the exclusive edition of Pagans that sold out some time ago, so here's a link to the other one. www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

A new date has been added to @indiehorrorsoc.bsky.social's Indie Showcase Tour. #TheBirdwatcherFilm will screen in Birmingham at The Mockingbird Cinema on September 11th. Touch the void... Visit IHS's social page for further information. #CosmicHorror #FolkHorror #SciFi #ShortFilm

#TheBirdwatcherFilm is Screening in York on 12 July as part of the @indiehorrorsoc.bsky.social and #deadnorthern 2025 Showcase. Tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/deadn...

We’re pleased to announce that #TheBirdwatcherFilm will be showcased as a part of the @indiehorrorsoc.bsky.social indie film showcase on June 21st at the Genesis Cinema in London. More information can be found over on the society’s instagram page or head to ‘independenthorrorsociety.com’.

📢 The next IHS Indie Film Showcase line up is here — and it’s a banger! We’re back at Genesis Cinema on Sat 21 June with an evening packed with incredible indie horror and a buzzing crowd of filmmakers, fans, and creatives. Find out more & get your tix: independenthorrorsociety.com/ihs-indie-fi...

Homegrown Horror Shorts: NW England is coming to 53Two, Manchester on 28 May! Expect 2+ hours of indie horror brilliance from local filmmakers. 🎥 Trailer by Jack Berry 🎟️ Line-up + tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ihs-home-g...

#TheBirdwatcherFilm will have its London film festival premiere at the brand spanking new Offbeat Folk Film Festival on May 13th 2025 at The Garden Cinema. We're honoured to be a part of it! Tickets are on sale now: offbeat.film/festival-eve... #film #shortfilm #folkhorror #cosmichorror #folklore

We're pleased to announce that #TheBirdwatcherFilm will have its North American premiere at Chicago Horror Film Festival this May. Head to www.chicagohorrorfilmfest.com for further details and tickets. Become a part of the silence. vimeo.com/1072828598

#TheBirdwatcherFilm continues its journey around the world… We’re happy to announce that our Scandinavian premiere will be at the incredible #RavenheartFilmFest in Oslo, Norway, this June! A fitting festival for our avian tale. Further info: www.ravenheartfilmfestival.com vimeo.com/1075244872?s...

We're pleased to announce that #TheBirdwatcherFilm will have its North American premiere at Chicago Horror Film Festival this May! Head to www.chicagohorrorfilmfest.com for further details and tickets. Become a part of the silence. vimeo.com/1072828598

If you're a UK #documentary maker looking for funds, here's our guide to what's out there right now. Do feel free to chip in with your own suggestions!

Lovely first review for #TheBirdwatcherFilm from the brilliant @antbit.projectedfigures.com, dropping on the day of the premiere @frightfest.bsky.social - been reading Anton for years, and thrilled he's cast his eye over the film.

Both myself and @ryancrashburn.bsky.social are representing @myskatonic.bsky.social in Glasgow at the mighty @frightfest.bsky.social this weekend for the world premiere of #TheBirdwatcherFilm. We're both overjoyed to be here, and looking forward to meeting other frightfesters on Saturday

#TheBirdwatcherFilm is coming. World premiere Saturday March 8th at 1pm at the home of horror #FrightFest @frightfest.bsky.social Tickets/Info: frightfest.co.uk/2025Glasgow/... A @Myskatonic.bsky.social film. linktr.ee/myskatonic vimeo.com/1047145834?s...

The classic fairy tale like you’ve never seen it before. RUMPLESTILTSKIN on Saturday 8th March, 10.45 PM is our closing of FrightFest Glasgow. By director Andy Edwards (@eds209.bsky.social) starring Hannah Baxter-Eve, Adrian Bouchet, Jennifer Lim, and Joss Carter

The chilling true story that inspired ‘The Wicker Man’ is about to receive an unsettling re-examination as ‘The Last Sacrifice’ makes its UK premiere at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Glasgow 2025. lovehorror.co.uk/horror-news/... #frightfest #horror

Ebony & Ivory is a cinematic document of the first meeting Between Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. 🎸 Tomorrow, make sure you join us for the UK Premiere, with a post-screening Q&A with director Jim Hosking! An oddball cult classic in waiting! bit.ly/GFF25_ebonyandivory 🎟️

"an absurd take on the mysteries of the creative process, and the perfect disharmony that can exist between art and artist(s)": Jim Hosking's batshit biopic EBONY AND IVORY (2024) screens 6.15pm at @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/09/21/e...

Saturday March 8th is rolling up fast... Cannot wait to be in one of my favourite Scottish cities launching the world premiere of my new short. We're in good company at @frightfest.bsky.social!

It's the World Premiere of THE BIRDWATCHER by director Ryan Mackfall on our Short Film Showcase. Where investigators visit the site of a strange disappearance deep in the forest Starring Craig Russell, Mary Woodvine, Rimca Karmakar, Kevin Horsham @ryancrashburn.bsky.social @myskatonic.bsky.social

This year we have a Short Film Showcase for you at FrightFest Glasgow. Screening at 1pm on Saturday 8th, this is how it shapes up: CANARY BONES MULCH THE PEARL COMB BY THE LIGHT OF THE FIRE CONVEYANCE THE BIRDWATCHER PUMPKIN GUTS We'll be highlighting these individually next!

The Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Glasgow digital guide is ready. Be prepared for Mayhem, Menace, and Monstrosity. Click the link below to read. frightfest.co.uk

We’re 4 weeks away exactly from the WORLD PREMIERE of #TheBirdwatchFilm at @frightfest.bsky.social which this March grows even stronger as a segment of @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social! To mark the occasion we’ve got an exclusive new special edition poster for the film. See you at 1pm on March 8th!

My interview with @kierlajanisse.bsky.social is up on @cinapse.bsky.social. We discuss not only her latest @severinfilms.bsky.social Box Set ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS VOL. 2, but her holiday Shudder series and her new doc that was just announced.Lots of great discussion here! cinapse.co/2024/12/digg...

HORROR 101: ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS, VOL 2 - IN CONVERSATION WITH @kierlajanisse.bsky.social youtu.be/qf69btwYlcE

It's time for more Horror for the Holidays, check out the latest episode of Hellbent For Horror! Episode 130: All the Haunted Seasons Be Ours: Folk Horror and Ghost Stories with @kierlajanisse.bsky.social and Sean Hogan directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

Starting as we mean to go on! Give @myskatonic.bsky.social a follow on here if you're interested in hearing more on my film & TV company I've setup with @kingsleymarshall.bsky.social. Thanks for the props @creativeuk.bsky.social!

Attention Cornish BlueSky! Our debut doc SCALA!!! (and Jane and I) will be appearing at the beautiful Newlyn Filmhouse in Penzance on Fri 7 Feb, in conversation with @kermodemovie.bsky.social about the world's most infamous, influential cinema. Link for details: newlynfilmhouse.com/NewlynFilmho...

The Sonic Legacy of David Lynch: The Sound of Twin Peaks & beyond: https://www.asoundeffect.com/david-lynch-sound/ #sounddesign #soundeffects #filmsound #filmmaking #audiopost #postproduction #davidlynch #twinpeaks

#TheBirdwatcherFilm is coming. World premiere Saturday March 8th at 1pm at the home of horror #FrightFest @frightfest.bsky.social Tickets/Info: frightfest.co.uk/2025Glasgow/... A @Myskatonic.bsky.social film. linktr.ee/myskatonic vimeo.com/1047145834?s...

Check out my #13CornishGhostStories co-conspirator, @mariemacneill.bsky.social’s, latest #ghoststory, Longshore Drift, on #BBCSounds. Read by John Macneil www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#TheBirdwatcherFilm is coming. Be the first to see it at the world premiere, taking place at the home of horror… the mighty @frightfest.bsky.social ! Saturday March 8th at 1pm as a part of @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social. Directed by @ryancrashburn.bsky.social. vimeo.com/1047145834?s...

Are you ready for the fright of your life? 👻 FrightFest is back for GFF25 from Thursday 6 March to Saturday 8 March, bringing you mayhem, menace and monstrosity! FrightFest passes go on sale this Friday at 10:00! Find the programme details here: bit.ly/GFF25_Fright...

Be prepared for mayhem, menace and monstrosity as FrightFest returns to the renowned @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social for its 20th year from 6-8 March 2025 #FrightFest #GFF25 @glasgowfilm.bsky.social Film info here: frightfest.co.uk/2025Glasgow/ Ticket info here: frightfest.co.uk/tickets/

If you’re a creator or work in the creative industries or otherwise have a heart, then please add your voice to this UK Gov consultation on AI and Copyright. I said ‘freelance’ for company and ‘unsure’ for super-granular legal stuff but made my voice heard. You can too. www.gov.uk/government/c...

WHY THE GHOST STORY AT CHRISTMAS? I talk to scholar Derek Johnston, who wrote the book HAUNTED SEASONS: TELEVISION GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS AND HORROR FOR HALLOWEEN (2015) about how this grew out of an old oral tradition + the different ways it's being kept alive today. vimeo.com/1039434942/c...

Fancy a spooky #Christmas? #13CornishGhostStories is coming to #ClemoBooks in #Newquay on the 19th December! Come and hear me, Derek Hayes, Nicola K Smith, and Roz Watkins getting ghostly!

Pagans hardback now available for pre-order. It will include MAPS, which I couldn't be more excited about. www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

The ‘Made in England’ Powell and Pressburger doc with Scorsese is now on iPlayer, as are several great P&P films, although you’ll have to go elsewhere to find the weirdest and, to my mind, most wonderful, A Canterbury Tale (1944). All pair nicely with this Screenshot ep www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Hark, do I hear "eldritch gurgling"? Or a "wet squelch"? The Soundtrack's latest has essays on how sound & screenplay blend together in ENYS MEN + the sound captioning in STRANGER THINGS & THE LAST OF US. @kingsleymarshall.bsky.social James Deaville #horror intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...