November was a busy month here at The Circus as Sean travelled to North Carolina to screen his debut feature Meme at Cucalorus while Nicole headed up to Vermont for the world premiere of her horror short It’s Normal at Ax Wound Film Festival. Ax Wound was recently named one of MovieMaker’s 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests […]
This Women in Horror Month we’ve been sharing some of our favorite scary shorts and features made by other people. Here are some shorts we made ourselves that are both available streaming and frighteningly appropriate viewing for your February celebration of women in horror! Small Talk (Dir. Nicole Solomon) It’s just another day at the home […]
Big news over at the 4MileCircus: our horror short Small Talk is now streaming on Amazon Prime! In honor of this momentous occasion, we’re sharing some rare behind-the-scenes shots of the production, nearly five long years ago. Time flies when you’re shooting splatter. Enjoy this glimpse at the making of Small Talk, and please watch […]
Big news! Our short horror film Small Talk is now distributed by Seed & Spark! Seed & Spark is a crowdfunding and distribution platform dedicated to increasing representation of marginalized voices in film, supporting up-and-coming filmmakers, and making truly indie film financing, production, and distribution sustainable. You can stream Seed & Spark’s entire library of […]
Shawn “Other Shawn” Setaro is the host of acclaimed hip hop podcast The Cipher, a prolific journalist for Forbes and Complex among other publications, and a long-time musician. In the conclusion of our two part conversation, Sean and Nicole talk with him about using Patreon: from wtf it even is and how it works […]
Need some viewing suggestions for the eighth annual Women in Horror Month? Here are some of my (Nicole)’s faves. Most are available streaming online. The Invitation One of the best films I saw last year was Karen Kusama‘s super slow burn of a psychological thriller The Invitation. A man and his new girlfriend accept an […]
Hye Yun Park sits down with Nicole and Sean to talk about her work. Topics include crowdfunding failures and successes, responsibilities to and collaboration with funders of a project, her upcoming series BKPI with SuperDeluxe, casting toys in film and photography projects, her Grown Woman with Toys photo project, and selfies (they’re great!). […]
Earlier this month, Sean and I (this is Nicole writing. Hi.) drove up to Brattleboro VT to take part in the second annual Ax Wound Film Festival, which screens horror shorts (and this year, one feature) directed by women. 4MileCircus was an official sponsor, and we offered a social media and crowdfunding workshop at the […]