We’re thrilled to announce Tales from Black Manor just received award nominations for Best Web Series and Best Editing at the upcoming FilmQuest Film Festival!
The film festival will be held this October - November. For more information on FilmQuest, make sure to check out the official site. And if you haven’t already seen Tales from Black Manor, you can watch Episodes 1 & 2 right now. The the third and final episode arrives on Friday.
A brand new interview just went live about the making of Tales from Black Manor! We also discuss wanting to make a horror film set in the Harry Potter universe.
You can read it right here on Uphill Both Ways:
Tales from Black Manor is a 3 Episode Series. Episodes 1 & 2 are available now, with Episode 3 arriving in October!
You’ll also be able to see Tales from Black Manor on the big screen this fall at FilmQuest, the World Independant Cinema Awards, and the South American Premiere at the Festival Boca Do Inferno!
Here’s a sneak peak at the upcoming third and Final Episode of Tales from Black Manor, “How to Live Forever.”
Tales from Black Manor is a 3 Episode Series from directors Nick + Lexie. You can watch Episodes 1 & 2 (“Legend Has It,” and “The Book of Death”) online right now! Tales from Black Manor will also be making its way to the big screen at FilmQuest, as well as the World Independant Cinema Awards in New York, and the Festival Boca Do Inferno in Brazil.
Along with FilmQuest and the South American Premiere of Tales from Black Manor this fall, the series will also be featured at the World Independant Cinema Awards in New York!
The World Independant Cinema Awards is an annual International award ceremony created to honor the year's best Films, TV Shows, Advertising, Paintings, and Photos. We’re really thrilled to be a part of it this year!
Tales from Black Manor is a mini-series directed by Nick + Lexie. The first two episodes are available to watch now, with the final episode coming this October.
For more information on the Awards Ceremony check out the official site here:
We’re thrilled to announce that the South American Premiere for Tales from Black Manor will be held at the Festival Boca do Inferno!
The Film Festival will be held in Santo André, São Paulo just a few days after the FilmQuest Film Festival in Utah.
Tales from Black Manor is a Fantasy / Horror Series directed by Nick + Lexie with the talents of James Brinkley, Paul Haapaniemi, Donnla Hughes, Briony Rawle, and Holly Standbrook.
For More information on the Film Festival please visit the Official Site:
We are so exited to announce that Tales from Black Manor will be screening at the FilmQuest Film Festival!
The Film Festival will screen All 3 Episodes (Legend Has It, The Book of Death, and How to Live Forever) back to back on the big screen! We’re thrilled to be an Official Selection of both the 2020 and now 2021 Festival!
When 2020 happened, FilmQuest rallied with a May Edition this year and our feature film Danger! Danger! was an Official Selection, and with the 2021 Festival happening this fall - the festival is happening twice in one year. FilmQuest has been voted as one of the Top 50 Film Festivals in the world, and number 1 in Utah (looking at you Sundance :)
For more information make sure to check out the official FilmQuest site below:
Episode 2: “The Book of Death”
Grandma was friends with Death, hunting together in the tanglewood behind Black Manor. To show his affection, he gave her a book: One of the Seven Books of Death.
Return to Black Manor
As we return to the world of Black Manor in the second episode, we learn that Death has grown fond of the family so interested in learning his secrets. Directors Nick + Lexie had always planned Tales from Black Manor as a series and were delighted to return to the world and continue the story.
Happy Friday the 13th!
Here’s a sneak peak at the upcoming second episode of Tales from Black Manor, “The Book of Death.” Tales from Black Manor is a 3 Episode Series from directors Nick + Lexie.
Episode 1: “Legend Has It”
When “little” Ivy Black goes looking for Death, she finds him. She then learns the secret of how to trade one life for another.
Welcome to Black Manor
Filmmaking Duo, Nick + Lexie, welcome you to Black Manor. A world where one of the 7 Books of Death has gone missing - and handed down through the generations of a family, each searching for and learning its secrets.
After the 2020 Pandemic put plans for their third Feature Film on hold, the directors went to work crafting this new world. One full of dark legends. Their daughter Azalea even coming up with the titles. The 3 Episodes of Tales from Black Manor were created entirely using pre existing Footage and Stock to weave together the tales.
We had so much fun giving some insight as to how we came up with Tales From Black Manor we decided to do a full interview about it! The article is up today on When it Was Cool!
When it Was Cool is a wonderful site that features amazing articles on the Beatles, Star Wars, DC, Marvel, and now Tales from Black Manor!
You can read the full article here:
Here’s a sneak peak at the upcoming first episode of Tales from Black Manor, “Legend Has It,” which comes next week!
Tales from Black Manor is 3 Episode Series from directors Nick + Lexie. Episode 2 will be released in September with the final episode being released in October.
THREE BLOODCURDLING “TALES FROM BLACK MANOR” COMING THIS FALL
It’s always exciting to click on one of your favorite websites and see an article about your upcoming project. Today, when we clicked on the wonderful horror website/magazine Rue Morgue, they had just posted an article about Tales from Black Manor!
Read the full article here:
It’s always exciting when a project lands on IMDb! Tales from Black Manor has just joined the ranks of our other films.
Very cool to see the posters all lined up too! Check it out!
Check out this New Article on the Raindance site about the making of Tales from Black Manor. We go into depth about how we came up with the idea during the strangeness that was 2020 and how we created the series.
We are really excited that we had the chance to write an article for Raindance, they’ve long been a hero of ours in the filmmaking world!
Check out the brand new trailer for Tales from Black Manor!
The upcoming series will consist of 3 Episodes and we’re thrilled to share this first sneak peak!
The first episode will be released this August. Followed by a second in September. The third and final episode will be released in October.
A brand new article on Tales from Black Manor on Horror Fuel just landed! We talk about how we made the series during the pandemic as well as some of the inspiration for the film! We also do a little interview about how we’d love to make a horror film set in the Harry Potter Universe.
We are SO excited to announce our next project! A Brand New Series called TALES FROM BLACK MANOR. It’s a world we’ve been excited about for a while now and we’re so thrilled to finally start to share it!
After the 2020 Pandemic put our plans on hold for our third Feature Film, we went to work on this instead. It’s a new world full of dark legends.
Tales from Black Manor allowed us to work with a few of our favorite collaborators again including James Brinkley who we previously worked with on our award winning shorts: The Umbrella Factory, Jack the Ripper, and Around the World in 80 Days.
We’re also thrilled to work with Paul Happanemi again! Paul brought the characters of Francisco Winchester and Jungle Jim to life in our feature films, The West and the Ruthless and Danger! Danger!
We also had a chance to work with some incredibly talented new voice actors as well, including Donnla Hughes, Briony Rawle and Holly Standbrook.
FilmQuest 2020/2021 kicks off today! The festival was originally supposed to take place in 2020 but was postponed because of you-know-what.
We’d like to send out a congratulations to all of the other filmmakers whose films are Official Selections this year! Also, a big congrats to Jonathan Martin, the festival runner, for making it through these crazy times!
For more information on FilmQuest, make sure to check out the Official Site:
Join Co-Director Lexie Trivundza tomorrow (April 15) in a virtual Q&A as part of the South American Premiere for Danger! Danger!
The event is part of the Fantaspoa International Fantastic Fest and will be available to everyone via streaming in Brazil that wants to join in. For more information check out the Official Fantaspoa website!
We just received our Official Laurels for the upcoming Fantaspoa Film Festival! Our film, Danger! Danger! will be making its South American Debut at the Film Festival in Brazil.
Danger! Danger! is the second feature film from Nick + Lexie and is a love letter to the Spielberg movies of the 1980s like Indiana Jones, The Goonies, and Back to the Future, the very films that made them want to be filmmakers in the first place. The film stars Benedict Mazurek, Paul Haapaniemi, Angela Smeraldi, Alexandra Keller, with Matt Boone and Alexander Harris.
For more information on the Fantaspoa Film Festival, and all of the great films playing there, check out this article on Deadline.
