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The Ties That Bind DVDs have been shipping, and most of them have been recieved so far!

Have you gotten yours? If so, let us know what you think! We’d love to hear from you!

If you haven’t bought one yet, what are you waiting for? Go get one now at www.thetiesthatbindmovie.com!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. You guys are awesome!

Today I recieved 6 huge boxes from UPS!

That’s right, The Ties That Bind DVDs have arrived at my house, safe and sound. And let me tell you, they look AWESOME!

They even had some left over cover labels, so they sent me those as well. Looks like we can use those for when we send the film out to festivals. Very cool!

In any event, Keene and I will be signing them shortly, and then they will be shipped out to you guys. If you ordered one already, look for an email from me next week when I ship them.

If you HAVEN’T ordered one yet, what the heck are you waiting for?!

Go to www.thetiesthatbindmovie.com and order one today!!

We’re happy to announce that The Ties That Bind DVD is now available to preorder, with an expected shipping date of August 2009. We worked long and hard on it, and I know you guys will love it.

From the product description page:

From director Jeff Heimbuch comes Brian Keene’s terrifying tale of love, loss… and zombies.

For ordering information, please go to www.thetiesthatbindmovie.com

After slacking for the past few months getting it up and running (I’ve just been using this site for all info on the film), The Ties That Bind finally has it’s own website up and running!

Check it out at www.thetiesthatbindmovie.com

I’ll be posting some information about the DVD there as well in the coming months. It’s all finished, minus the commentary, so as soon as we record that, expect an announcemnet!

The barrage of national and international film festivals that The Ties That Bind will be playing at has begun (we already have 5 acceptances, with more to come!)!

After a successful premiere screening at the Garden State Film Festival, Ties is now embarking on a world tour, and I’m pretty excited about that. I’m going to try to get to as many of these festivals as I can, but who knows!

In any event, the next festival is at the Lancaster Area Film Festival (or LAFF for short!) Along with The Ties That Bind, you can also check out some of friend’s work as well! Mike Lombardo of Reel Splatter Productions will be on hand to show Demonstration of the Dead (which has a cameo from Brian Keene!), Womb For Two, and Dr. Blood’s Cinema Dungeon. Pat Dougherty, filmmaker co-hort of Mike “Gorebeast” Antonio will be showing Elkton’s Undead and They’ll Never Get Me (both of which feature Gorebeast himself!).

Not only that, but there are over 25 MORE films that will be playing.

Also on hand to support to films and do signings will be Brian Keene and JF Gonzalez.

And finally, I’ll have a bunch of Bamfer Productions t-shirts and Ties posters to give away! How can you go wrong?!

For a full schedule of screenings and more, check www.lancasterareafilmfestival.com for more details!

Also, here’s a neat little poster that Pat Dougherty made up to promote our films!

Hope to see you there!

Howdy folks!

Another successful year at the Garden State Film Festival!

We came home with the “HOME GROWN HORROR” again! Go us!

Head over to The Ties That Bind page to see a video journal of our adventures from the entire weekend!

Got the poster back for Ties, and it looks AWESOME.

Painted by the fantastic Alex McVey and layout by the awesome Zach McCain!

Tickets for the Garden State Film Festival are now on sale!

Go to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/56875 to buy tickets for the screening of The Ties That Bind!

Yes folks, that’s right. We have a date and time!

Even though Ties IS screening the weekend before at a much smaller festival, the Garden State Film Festival will be our big premiere.

Luckily, we got a great time slot (Saturday night 8ish is always the best!). However, this does mean that we’ll be play directly against whatever “big” movie is playing at the festival at the Paramount this year. But whatevs. We tied for “audience choice” last year with the big film, so I’m confident we can do it again!

And we got a great venue, too. Though The Paramount Theater is the big one for this festival, The Berkeley is just as good, if not better, for this film. It’s a gorgeous, historic hotel that dates back to the glory days of Asbury Park. And it’s directly next to the hub of the film festival, The Paramount.

Not only that, but it seats 300 people! Which, compared to last year’s screening at The Wonder Bar (fit 150 people, and we squeezed in 200), is pretty good. We’ll be in the Continental Room (make sure you go to the right place, there’s another room with another screening block at 9PM!)

In any event, you are all welcome to come!

Let me give you a breakdown of how the screenings work, though. You buy a pass for a “block” of film screenings. Each block is about 2 hours long. Within that block, you usually get one “feature” (that’s a relative term, here, however) and a bunch of shorts. Usually the block is tied together by a common theme. The theme for this block seems to be “Free for all” though. Seriously. We got horror, animation, thriller, comedy…everything! If anything, the theme is Kevin Interdonato, as he is in TWO of the films (Ties and the feature for our block).

Anyway, the idea is to get there early to get a good seat. If you get there late, and the seats are filled, you probably won’t be let in (until after the screening starts, and then we’ll sneak you in).

Tickets are $10, and weekend passes are $45. Weekend passes are now on sale, but I’m sure you don’t want that. Give it a day or two, and regular tickets will go on sale.

Check out https://gsff09.withoutabox.com/ and click on PASSES to buy tickets. You have to find the screening you want, and then select the BUY TICKETS link right next to it!

Or, just visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/56875 to purchase tickets directly for this screening.

There’s an opening night party on Friday night, but it was lame as hell last year. If enough of you guys want to come out and actually do come out, I have no problem getting a couple of rooms at the Berkeley (or somewhere else) for the night, and partying with you guys into the wee hours of the morning to celebrate the film.

So, if you’re in the area April 4th, please, please, please, PLEASE! come out and support the film. I’d love to have you there!!