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

I love Wawa hoagies. I eat them at least once a week. And that is no lie.

Wawa is doing their Hoagiefest again this year, and they are asking for people to submit songs and videos for a chance to win a gigantic Hoagie party for their friends, and free hoagies for a year.

So, I wrote a stupid rap song about my love for Wawa hoagies and it’s now live on their site and ready to be voted on.
If you could be so kind to vote me for, I’d appreciate it.

Vote FIVE STARS and I promise, if I win, I will invite everyone to my winning hoagiefest. It’ll be a hoagie party of epic proportions.

You can vote every day, once a day, for as long as the contest goes for (end of July, I think). So please vote as much as you can. Id love you forever…and so will my stomach.

Oh yea, and enjoy my crappy rap song. It’s totally bad and totally awesome. Hell, if you like it enough, I’ll set you up with a link to download it.

http://www.hoagiefest.com/music.php?user=bamfer23&music_id=24

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!

I found a really great review from Dread Central about “Ties.” I’m pretty pumped about it! When one of the biggest horror websites gives you a good score, you just have to feel good about it!

A little except from it:

Heimbuch, who’s written and directed several shorts in various genres over the last couple of years, handles the visuals competently. There’s no flashy or gimmicky camera work here, which, in an age of shaky cam and over-stylization, is a breath of fresh air.

Heimbuch’s real strength, though, is in working with actors. When performers get what they need from their director, whether it’s comfort and understanding or to be challenged and pushed, they seem to give better performances. I think this tends to be a problem with a lot of low budget work; the directors are newer and not as sure of themselves so they aren’t able to provide their cast, who are also newer and not so sure of themselves, with the support they need, which ends up resulting in a bad performance. That is definitely not the case here.

The reviewer also says a lot of nice things about Kevin and Logan’s performances.

We wound up getting 4 out of 5 Knives! Go us!!!

You can read the entire review over at Dread Central by clicking here.

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!

As you may have already noticed, we have gone through a MASSIVE site redesign.

Hopefully everything will be much easier to navigate around now, and it looks a hell of a lot nicer, too!

There are still a few bugs, so bear with us as I try to fix everything. Thanks!

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!