From glasseyepix.com
Recently, IFC has announced that they have acquired the rights to Larry Fessenden?s The Last Winter ,which is set to be released this winter. The Last Winter, will not only hit selective theaters, but will also go to DVD. Meaning, for those of us who don?t have the pleasure of viewing the film on the big screen, can have the choice to watch it in the privacy of our own homes.

According to glasseyepix.com, if this year?s Los Angeles Film Festival has an unofficial poster boy, it?s the New York?based writer-director Larry Fessenden, who may not be a household name (even in houses with a Fangoria subscription), but who is nevertheless the most gifted American horror auteur to emerge since the g(l)ory days of John Carpenter and George Romero. Fessenden?s specialty lies in putting a highly contemporary and sociopolitical spin on the most immortal horror-fantasy myths ...

...as usual in a Fessenden film, in The Last Winter mankind is its own worst enemy. Call it the first green horror picture ? punctuated by ample doses of red.

...In between directing his own films and acting in others (recently, he could be seen sucker-punching Bill Murray in a memorable scene from Broken Flowers), Fessenden has amassed a prolific career as an indie-film producer, including River of Grass (the 1994 debut feature of Old Joy director Kelly Reichardt) and two new works that screen alongside The Last Winter in LAFF. In the first, writer-director Ilya Chaiken?s sensitively drawn Liberty Kid, two food-service workers at New York?s Liberty Island ? fast-talking hustler Tico (Kareem Savinon) and wide-eyed dreamer Derrick (Al Thompson) ? find the job opportunities scarce after they?re laid off in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Recruiters of both the military and criminal-life variety soon appear, as the story ventures into that familiar territory of urban youths waylaid by ghetto realities. The strong performances and Chaiken?s vivid NYC locations, however, lend the film unexpected resonance...

...Old Joy reconceived as a horror movie is the simplest way to describe Trigger

Man, the stunning sophomore feature by 26-year-old writer-director Ti West, whose Fessenden-produced vampire-bat epic The Roost earned a brief local release back in 2005. ... West fashions an uncommonly naturalistic terror tale in which the emphasis on landscape and the gradual passage of time have less to do with cut-and-run splatter-cinema hallmarks like Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave than with the work of experimental filmmakers like Michael Snow and Chantal Akerman....