CAMP WEDDING

2019 : 97mins

Mia's wedding party is not too keen on transforming a dilapidated summer camp into the wedding venue of her dreams. When people begin disappearing, that doesn't help either...

Writer/Director: GREG EMETAZ
Story: GREG EMETAZ & CARA CONSILVIO
Producer: JOSH FOLAN
Executive Producer: CARA CONSILVIO
Associate Producer: FRITZ BREKELLER
Director of Photography: HIROSHI HARA
Production Design: KATE RANCE
Costume Design: ANTHONY PAUL-CAVARETTA
Original Score: ANDREW M. EDWARDS
Sound Design: DOUG JOHNSON

Cast:
KELLEY GATES
SEAN HANKINSON
CADDEN JONES
WENDY JUNG
MORGAN McGUIRE
CLIFF MILLER
JOHN PATRYN
DAVID PEGRAM
MELISSA ROTH
ADAM SANTOS-COY


AWARDS

Best Feature Audience Award - Nevermore

Funnybone Award - Eastern Oregon Film Fest

Best Comedy - Jim Thorpe Ind. Film Festival

Best Director - Canal De Panama Int'l Film Festival

Best Ensemble Cast - Revolution Me Film Festival

Best Writer - The Couch Film Festival

Deep Focus Film Fest
-Best Cinematography
-Best Supporting Actor

UNDO Divergent Film Awards
- Best Horror Feature
- Best Supporting Actress

Queen Palm Int. Film Festival
- Gold : Best Sound Design
- Silver : Best Original Score 
- Silver : Best Feature
- Honorable Mention : Best Writer

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

Nevermore Film Festival – Durham, NC

Queens World Film Festival – New York City

Julien Dubuque Intl. Film Festival– Dubuque, IA

Jim Thorpe Ind. Film Festival - Jim Thorpe, PA

Indy Film Fest -  Indianapolis, IN

Santa Cruz Int'l Film Festival – Argentina

Hoboken International Film Festival

Northeast Mountain Film Festival -  Dillard, Ga

Deep In The Heart – Summer Series - Waco, Tx

Queen Palm Int. Film Festival - Palm Springs, CA

Hong Kong Film Art Int'l Film Festival 

Canal De Panama Int'l Film Festival, Panama City

Manifesto Film Festival - Amsterdam, Netherlands

Revolution Me Film Festival - Brooklyn, NY

Bushwick Film Festival - Brooklyn, NY

Deep Focus Film Fest - Brooklyn, NY

Salto Independent Film Festival - Salto, Uruguay

Sanford Int'l Film Festival - Sanford, Maine

Adirondack Film Festival - Glens Falls, NY

Eastern Oregon Film Festival - La Grande, OR

Rome Film Festival - Rome, GA

Beloit Int’l Film Festival - Beloit, WI

The Couch Film Festival - Online

Chambal International Film Festival - India

Something Wicked Film Festival - Atlanta, GA


Camp Wedding is a compound genre movie exploring the fraying social fabric in a world of ubiquitous social media and text communication. It is a wedding comedy that stumbles into a summer camp horror movie and never quite realizes it since the two genres are communicating exclusively via text and social media so the tone doesn’t really get communicated.

These days many relationships are maintained exclusively via social media. Events like weddings often bring together old friends who have not actually communicated face to face in decades, even while living in the same city. This one-dimensional way of maintaining relationships often leads to great distortions, resentment, envy and even the termination of the friendship when a simple in person interaction could have produced a ‘frienaissance’.

I wanted to explore this phenomenon in a genre movie, because social commentary (especially anything that might seem like moral judgment) is an inherent aspect of the form. Horror movies punish their characters for sins and protect the pious. This often relies on dated definitions of sin, so I strove to create a more nuanced interpretation of the trope and force the characters to communicate honestly and openly in person...or die.