Logan Thomas (film director)

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Director Logan Thomas. Academy Awards, 2023.

Logan Thomas (born 1973) is an American film director. [1]

He made his first narrative short film, Demon Quest, at the age of 14. [2] He told staff writer, Rick Reynolds, "Once I held that camera in my hand, I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life." Demon Quest was shot on film for $40. Previously, at the Milford Middle School Science fair, he made Tyrannosaurs Dinosaur, and won the grand prize for his animated 3 minute film. [3] In 2011, he created and ran The Los Angeles Fear and Fantasy Film Festival with Aric Cushing. [4] [5]

Between 2011 and 2012, his first feature film was released, entitled, The Yellow Wallpaper , starring Michael Moriarty, Veronica Cartwright, Aric Cushing, and Dale Dickey. [6] [7] [8] The film traces the mental breakdown of a country doctor's wife in a remote farmhouse. [9] [10]

In 2020, his second feature film, There's No Such Thing as Vampires , was released and played at the Dances with Films, NOHO Cinefest Film Festival, and Frightfest London Film Festival. At the NOHO Cinefest Film Festival, he was nominated for Best Director. [11] For the same film, 2021, he was nominated for Best Composer at the Filmquest Film Festival. [12] The film, suggested by Aric Cushing, is about 'a couple people in the desert, basically being stalked by a nosferatu or vampire'. The film is a horror/road movie set in the American desert. Thomas wanted to do something closer to Mad Max or The Terminator to bring that level of myth to the vampire genre. [13]

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  2. ↑ Reynolds, Rick (1987). "Filmmaker is 14: He has an eye on Hollywood". Middlesex News. Massachusetts.
  3. ↑ Lehto, Paul (1985). "Science Fair Dinosaurs". Milford Daily News.
  4. ↑ Dennis, Justin. "Zombie Flick Creates Buzz". The Tribune-Democrat. pp. Front page. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ Barron, Margie (May 8, 2013). "Ultra-Creative LA Fear & Fantasy Film Festival". The Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
  6. ↑ Cushing, Aric (2014). Lost Essays. United States: Grand & Archer. pp. i. ISBN   978-1-929730-00-1.
  7. ↑ Glenn, Cheryl (2013). Gray, Loretta (ed.). The Hodges Harbrace Handbook (18 ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. p. 620.
  8. ↑ Glenn, Cheryl (2014). Gray, Loretta (ed.). The Writer's Harbrace Handbook (5 ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. p. 239.
  9. ↑ Chartrand, Harvey (2007). Louras, Nick (ed.). "The Yellow Wallpaper: A Horror Movie for Grownups". Pennyblood Magazine (7). New York, NY: 4–5.
  10. ↑ Rodriguez, Sal (April 24, 2019). "A Look Back at 2012's Spooky Suspense Thriller 'The Yellow Wallpaper'". Tolucan Times. p. 10. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  11. ↑ Sampaio, Gustavo. "Noho Fest Nominations". www.nohocinefest.com. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  12. ↑ Martin, Jonathan (5 May 2021). "Nominations". FilmQuestFest. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  13. ↑ Hughes, Kat. "Interview: Director Logan Thomas on There's No Such Thing as Vampires[FrightFest 2020]". The Hollywood News. Retrieved August 26, 2020.


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