A selection of movies based on works by Stephen King will be available to stream for the first time ever as part of the Stephen King Rules Dollar Baby Film Festival, which is being hosted by Canadian film production company Barker Street Cinema.
As part of the online festival, Barker Street will screen 25 submissions by filmmakers from around the world, many of which have never been seen by an international audience. The films were created as part of King's Dollar Baby Deal, which has allowed up-and-coming filmmakers to adapt his previously-unproduced short stories for the big screen since 1977.
The Stephen King Rules festival will be co-hosted by Barker Street Cinema partners James Douglas and Norm Coyne, who made their own Dollar Baby adaptation of King's Sherlock Holmes mystery The Doctor's Case three years ago. That film has won 15 awards at more than 40 international festivals and will also screen during the festival.
"I can personally attest to the impact the Dollar Baby initiative has had on my career as a filmmaker," Douglas said. "Being able to share these stories with the world in this manner is unbelievably profound."
Coyne added, "As storytellers, we were looking for ways to do our part to help provide an escape for people that wouldn’t cost them anything. The fact that James got the approval for an entire festival of stories from Stephen King himself is a total mind-bender."
Other films streaming during the event include One for the Road (Quarterly Entertainment LLC), The Boogeyman (Evil Panda Films), The Last Rung on the Ladder (Talisman Films), My Pretty Pony (12 Media), and The Passenger (Grunerfilms). The full schedule is available now at BarkerStreetCinema.com.
The Stephen King Rules Dollar Baby Film Festival will be held April 23-25 on Barker Street Cinema's private Vimeo channel and will also include interviews and panel discussions with the filmmakers themselves. Viewers can also interact with the festival by following on Twitter at @stephenkingrlz or by following the hashtag #StephenKingRules.
The three-day event will also feature author and King aficionado Anthony Northrup, who wrote Stephen King Dollar Baby: The Book and media and design personality Leah Coghlan, as well as longtime King collaborator Bev Vincent (Flight or Fright, The Dark Tower Companion).
Directed by James Douglas and Norm Coyne, The Doctor's Case stars Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pet Sematary), Michael Coleman (ABC’s Once Upon a Time) and William B. Davis (The X-Files’ Cigarette Smoking Man).
Source: Barker Street Cinema