Upcoming Screenings of OTIS
March 4, 2008 Add a comment below...
Otis will be screening at various festivals over the month of March. Please, check it out if you are in 
the area or pass along to those who may be located in these areas of Austin, Cleveland or Boston! Much appreciated…
The trailer is also available online.
Ways to see the film:
South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - Friday, March 7th and Wednesday, March 12th - http://2008.sxsw.com/film/screenings/film/F10116.html
Cleveland International Festival - Friday, March 14th and Saturday, March 15th - http://www.clevelandfilm.org/ciff_films_find-details.php?fid=2482
Boston Underground Film Festival - Sunday, March 23rd - http://bostonunderground.bside.com/?_view=_filmdetails&filmId=50532074
DVD is scheduled to come out on June 10th at this point. (Subject to Change).
I am headed to the SXSW Film Festival this weekend. I will be phone-casting and posting photos if folks want to follow along: http://www.bostinchristopher.com.
Description of the Film (From the SXSW Website):
OTIS is a story of suburban America gone haywire.In the midst of a serial abductor/killer’s rampage, a beautiful young teen, Riley Lawson (Ashley Johnson), goes missing. When her desperate parents, Will and Kate (Daniel Stern and Illeana Douglas), are contacted by her kidnapper, an insufferable FBI Special Agent (Jere Burns) takes charge of the case. But, from deep within the psychopathic subterranean world created by Otis (Bostin Christopher), Riley turns the tables on her tormentor, manages to escape and to contact her parents. And, fed up with the tragi-comic inability of the FBI to find their girl, Will, Kate, and Riley’s brother, Reed (Jared Kusnitz) decide to take matters - and justice - into their own hands. But when Otis’s brother, Elmo (Kevin Pollack), shows up unexpectedly, the Lawsons find themselves mired in one of the more unusual and macabre consequences of vigilantism. Such is the premise of OTIS, a bold satire of the teenager-in-peril- grindhouse horror genre, and the fourth film of the successful Raw Feed series of DTV movies for Warner Home Video. Far from proclaiming ‘Mission Accomplished,’ the backed-in-a-corner Lawsons will further complicate their already deadly predicament with a surprising, unfortunate and frankly hilarious final choice. In the black-comedy/absurdist tradition of Blood Simple, Fargo and A Simple Plan, OTIS represents a new and satirical twist on suburban horror, family values and the chaotic consequences of American homemade justice.
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Have a blast at SxSW, man… it’s supposed to be a crazy scene! I’ll look forward to following along on the Blog (and once the DVD becomes available, be sure to post the buy-it-now location - I’m there!)
I missed the screening today (dodgers game) I would love to know when the next screening is in Los Angeles!! I’m eager to see this.