Fright Club Live: My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To (2021)
- Fri, Mar 13
Director: Jonathan Cuartas Run Time: 90 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2020
Starring: Ingrid Sophie Schram, Moises L. Tovar, Owen Campbell, Patrick Fugit
Country: United States
Language: English
Join us each month for Fright Club Live, the big screen extension of the award-winning podcast, hosted by Hope Madden and George Wolf of Maddwolf.
Meet up with fellow horror movie lovers in The Torpedo Room at 7:30PM and then in the Screening Room at 9PM for the live recording. Tickets are $5, or included with myGFC membership.
About the film:
Winner of a Special Jury Mention at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and the New Direction Competition at CIFF 2021.
Dwight and Jessie are at odds over caring for their frail and sickly younger brother Thomas, who can only live on human blood. The increasingly dangerous task of keeping him alive weighs heavy on Dwight, but Jessie will stop at nothing to keep her family together.
About the filmmaker:
Jonathan Cuartas is a Colombian-American filmmaker from Miami. He began storytelling through homemade comics before pursuing a degree in film. He screened his thesis film Kuru at Palm Springs International Shortfest, and his next, The Horse and the Stag, won Best After Dark Short at Indie Memphis. Jonathan is a 2019 Sundance Knight Fellow.
Crafted with his brothers Michael as cinematographer and Rodrigo as production designer, My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To is Jonathan’s debut feature.
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