Jen, Sylv, & Katie Talk Mary to eFilmCritic

Brand new interview with Jen, me, and Katharine Isabelle from eFilmCritic's Jason Whyte?! - well, shit the bed, I'm reading this now ;)

What is the single, greatest movie that you've ever seen at a film festival?
Sylvia: Isabel Peppard's BUTTERFLIES was masterfully created and really touched me. All the crying people who fell under the spell of the beautiful stop motion piece will attest to that. I saw her in the bathroom afterwards and started to cry like a bitch, it was so emotionally accurate and honest, I found it hard to even tell her what it meant to me. One of my favourite new directors that I have discovered at a film festival.
Jen: That's a tough one. MANBORG introduced me to Canadian treasures, filmmakers "Astron-6". I laughed, I "aww~ed", I cheered. It came out of nowhere and we both fell madly in love with the filmmakers, who also appear in the film and the love they have for what they do that just drips off the screen. It was, in all ways, superb. If you don't know Astron-6, check them out and you're welcome.
Katharine: AMERICAN MARY. Seriously. I’m not just saying that. AMERICAN MARY.

Read the whole rad interview HERE!

-Sylv

Whistler WalkOuts, You Don't Say!

Whistler walkouts have Soskas smiling ... Vancouver’s terror twins, the Soska Sisters, were laughing as they told The Sun about their new movie, American Mary receiving the ultimate compliment for a Midnight Madness feature: walkouts. Dressed in clingy naughty nurse type outfits with matching black butcher’s aprons, the twisted sisters told The Sun there were lots of walkouts and horrified gasps. Said Jen, “I don’t think they knew what they were walking into.” Then she grinned. “It’s kind of a thrill for me. One of the coolest things that ever happened to me when I went to the movies is I was seeing House on Haunted Hill and a birthday party was in the row in front of me —”

Adds Sylvia, “And they were a chatty, annoying birthday party.”

Jen continues, “And as soon as the pencils went through a doctor’s neck in the first scene all of them got up and ran out screaming and I was like, ‘One day I’m going to do that. I’m going to make something and people are going to run out screaming and I’m going to be so proud.’ ”

Said Sylvia, “We were the first film in the late night program that they did and you just feel super special like, ‘Oh my God they picked me!’ Like at school we were nerds, no one picked us for anything except being beaten up and thrown in lockers.”

One of the film’s stars, Tristan Risk, a blue-haired burlesque performer who attended the debut of Mountain Midnight Madness in a barely-there pink leotard and strategically placed pastie, told The Sun, “everybody should go see the movie immediately. Take your grandmother and make sure she’s got life insurance.”

Read the whole piece here!!

-Sylv

The Whistler Film Fest Is No Time For A Coat!

"Vancouver filmmaking twin terrors Jen and Sylvia Soska won’t be on the slopes. 

“I’m more a professional hot-tubber,” says Jen, who with her twin wrote and directed American Mary, which stars local fave Katharine Isabelle as a disillusioned med student who finds a cringe-inducing new career in the underground body-modification scene.
The twins have been a hit on the global genre festival circuit, storming stages from the U.S. to Europe and Australia, in their matching PVC outfits. American Mary opens the festival’s late night terror fest program. 

“It’s a bit of an American Mary reunion,” Sylvia says. The pair filmed the movie in a speedy 15 days just over a year ago. “Most of the cast and crew are coming up there ... when you have 15 days to shoot everything, you get extremely close — I really miss those guys.” 

Sylvia says American Mary costume designer Enigma Arcana whipped them up a closet full of eye-catching gear starting with an earlier festival appearance alongside horror icon Elvira. 

“She said she had to give us something a little low cut and sexy, otherwise no one was going to pay attention to us next to Elvira,” Sylvia says.
The twins are both nursing head colds after all that travelling, but they say that won’t affect their wardrobe choices. 

“I have some nice thigh-high boots,” Sylvia says. “I don’t think anyone’s coming to see us in coats. We’re already sick so I don’t see it getting much worse.”
Which sounds more like work than play, poor gals."

Read more HERE!!

-Sylv

American Mary Hits CTV, then the Whistler Slopes!

Hey Vancouver, we're going to be on TV! That's right. With American Mary's Whistler Film Festival screening fast approaching November 28th, what better way to talk up this amazing occurrence than pop by the CTV News studio with Jen and Paul Gratton (WFF's rad programmer) and not cuss on live TV?

We'll be on the noon news this Wednesday - the footage will be posted online at CTV.ca later that day. So, be sure to tune in to CTV between 12:15pm-12:45pm on Wednesday!!! 

Here are the WFF social media links - tweet that shit!!
Twitter: @whisfilmfest
2012 Twitter hashtag: #WFF12
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/Whistlerfilmfestival

TELL YOUR FRIENDS, or just leave the channel on all day. See you on the snowy slopes (I'll be the girl in stilettos no where near the snow part).

-Sylv

American Mary Hits the Slopes at Whistler!

It's only days before American Mary hits the province where she was born at the Whistler Film Festival on November 28th!! Jen, me, Katie, and a bunch of the cast and crew are going up for the fabulousness. Have you got your ticket yet?

"Ms. 45 meets The Human Centipede in this very slick and very sick story of revenge, directed by Vancouver’s own Soska Sisters. Katharine Isabelle is outstanding as a young surgery student who drops out of school after being raped by one of he

r teachers. To make ends meet, she starts performing illegal surgeries on body modification fanatics, honing her skills until she is ready to meet her teacher again. Gore fans will love it; weaker stomachs should stay far away."

GET YOUR TICKETS AND INFO HERE!

-Sylv

Twisted Twins To Raise Hell At Whistler

Making the front page of our local paper is pretty fucking cool. Hey, you, yeah, you reading this status update, thank you for supporting Jen and me and American Mary, so that people are talking about us in the news. 

You've made a pair of horror nerds very happy. We promise to keep making cool, unique stuff for you to watch as a thank you for making it possible by watching it!

CLICK HERE FOR THE ONLINE VERSION OF THE ARTICLE.

-Sylv

The Twisted Twins Bring Horror Home

 "At age 29, Vancouver’s twin filmmakers, the Soska Sisters have written, directed and produced two acclaimed horror movies — but their most brilliant creation to date is their own double-act persona. 

Vamping at festivals in the type of skin-tight sexy outfits made to fuel the fantasies of Comic Con fanboys and fangirls, Jen and Sylvia Soska are more famous than their movies. That could change with American Mary — which kicks off an all-new Midnight Madness Program at the 12th annual Whistler Film Festival on Nov. 28. Their newest feature about pushing body modification to classic Cronenbergian limits stars Canada’s 21st-century big screen scream queen, Vancouver’s Katharine Isabelle — who became a homegrown horror icon in the Ginger Snaps series — and it’s already picking up buzz and buzzsaws on the cult horror circuit."

Read the whole Vancouver Sun piece HERE!

-Sylv 

Whistler Film Festival Can't Be Missed

'The movies will be out at midnight this year at the 12th annual Whistler Film Festival. At a private media luncheon at Cin Cin, the festival’s new director of programming, Paul Gratton, announced the creation of a late-night screening series that kicks off with American Mary — the latest horror hit by Jen and Sylvia Soska, the twin Vancouver chiller phenoms behind Dead Hooker in a Trunk, The series also screens some scariness from Toronto — The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh. 

Gratton, who has over thirty years of industry experience ranging from programming rep cinemas to programming for TV networks, says his goal is to make the festival a must-attend event for B.C. filmmakers and to create an event with, “a hip, cool vibe.”'

Read the whole rad Vancouver Sun piece HERE!

-Sylv

American Mary Comes Home to British Columbia's Own Whistler Film Festival

"With apologies to Rocky Horror, the year’s Whistler Film festival has its own late-night double feature.
Vancouver-based twin sisters and writing-directing partners Jen and Sylvia Soska are opening the festival’s midnight madness program Nov. 28 with their new horror movie American Mary. 

I visited the self-styled Twisted Twins onset more than a year ago when they filmed the movie, which stars local cult-indie fave Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps, Insomnia) as a disillusioned med student who finds work in a bizarre underground fetish scene, doing body-modification surgeries. 

Also in the movie’s corner is B.C. make-up wizard Todd Masters (True Blood, Twilight: New Moon), so there will be blood and strange prostheses. 

Since they wrapped, the movie has drawn raves at genre festivals in the U.S. and around the world, but Whistler will mark the movie’s home-province debut."

THAT'S RIGHT, WEST COAST!! American Mary makes her home Province debut - 11pm opening night at the Whistler Film Festival!!

Read the whole rad piece by Glen Schaefer HERE!

-Sylv