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https://deadline.com/2024/07/maria-gabriela-de-faria-to-star-romanticizing-monsters-1236019670/

I was so excited about this project for so long, and put my heart into making it happen. But for every project that gets made, seems like there are a dozen on the docket that either crash-and-burn or just fade away. I learn so much on each one, and the lesson is always the same; work with people I care about and who care about me. While it doesn’t look like this one’s happening for me, I had the absolute pleasure of getting to know Gaby (and writer Ryan Andrews, and actor Josh Close…the list goes on!). These are people I can’t speak more highly of, and I am bringing them onto other projects the second it’s a fit. I also can’t wait to see the new Superman movie, and know she’s going to knock it out of the park. xx

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Dark Nature Reviews

But Why Tho Podcast

The first horror feature for Berkley Brady, Dark Nature feels like standing in a pool with your toes barely touching the bottom, knowing that you can’t swim. I can’t find a better way to explain this raw and dark exploration of trauma and violence, a horror in more ways than one…Dark Nature is a visceral experience in the best and worst ways. A labor to get through if you’ve experienced trauma in a similar way, the way that Berkley Brady has written and captured episodes of PTSD on screen, and how the actresses perform them feels too real. It’s raw and unsettling, with a shifting perspective of reality that adds chaos to the trauma. If there is a movie this year that has made me want to crawl out of my skin, it’s this one. A true testament to Brady’s understanding that horror is sometimes a real experience, and fruitful ground for cultivating a larger narrative. Not to mention a twisting final act that is better left unspoiled.

Film School Rejects

Trauma is a starting point for numerous horror films for a few reasons, and highest among them is that it creates stakes with a survivor who’s about to face some new nightmare. The best use it as more than just a jumping off point and instead integrate the experience into the fight for survival that’s yet to come. Dark Nature succeeds on that front and more, and while it hits a few snags the end result is still an engrossing and exciting horror film.

Variety

Admitting that one of “Dark Nature’s” genres is melodrama, Brady also wanted to explore the complexities of a friendship on the verge of a breakdown.

“I know that people sometimes perceive melodrama as a dirty word, but I love Douglas Sirk, ‘Beaches.’ I love to be moved,” she says.

“Thinking of my own experiences and traumas, which are woven into this too. I was such a bad friend [when I was dealing with them]. But my friends still got me through it.”

“What a paradox – you become this drag and a bummer, and they still put up with you, even though it hurts everybody. Care can also drag you down, but these women choose each other. I love that.”

Dark Nature Going to Cannes!

Cannes Marché du Film

WE DID IT

Cannes Marché du Film WE DID IT

Link to CBC article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-horror-film-cannes-festival-1.6436476

https://www.marchedufilm.com/programs/fantastic-7/projects/?fbclid=IwAR0Ys4bi5DcPCMLJFdZiJJjYzizTypzmNTY_U-WVLI3G0Xqs8exi6lWthqc


Dark Woods Part of Frontiers this Year

We are so happy that Dark Woods is one of 5 selected projects for #FODS2021 !

THE APARTMENT Sarah Gignac

DARK WOODS Berkley Brady

MID LIFE Alyson Richards

RED WINGS Dana Hammer

TRANSVENGEANCE Kaye Adelaide

Projects will participate in development sessions during next month's Vancouver International Women in Film Festival - VIWFF, and leading up to the next Frontières International Co-Production Market where they will pitch in August!

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TBT - Interview w/Director Christina Choe

What a difference a day makes. Or a year…which is how long ago Christina and I did this interview at her place in LA. Since then she’s gone on to direct episodes for Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar and Jordan Peele’s new take on The Twilight Zone. Can’t wait to see what she does next; we love you CC!

Nancy, directed by Christina Choe (2018). Still by Cinematographer Zoe White.

Nancy, directed by Christina Choe (2018). Still by Cinematographer Zoe White.

https://lumaquarterly.com/issues/volume-three/012-spring/maybe-we-should-have-made-that-doc/