Elza Kephart

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Elza Kephart (born May 27, 1976 in Montreal , Canada ) is a Canadian screenwriter , film director and film producer of horror films .

Life and accomplishments

Kephart graduated in 1998 a degree in communication studies at Emerson College in Boston with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), then returned and in their home city of Montreal founded in 2000 together with her friends Andrea Stark and Patricia Gomez production company Bastard Amber Productions , which since then mainly focused on genre reproductions.

Her first work, the television series Naughty Soxxx , which she directed , was specially produced for CBC's Canadian television program Zed TV , a platform that has since been discontinued and used the Internet as a submission medium to include films in its program. The four-part mini-series was first broadcast in the spring of 2002 and then ran at smaller film festivals. With her first full-length feature film, Graveyard Alive , an “Art Soap Opera in a zombie environment with a feminist touch”, she won a prize for best camera work at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2004 .

Since then she has been working as a director or production assistant, often also for US productions, in order to realize her film ideas.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2002: Naughty Soxxx (TV series, screenplay, director, production)
  • 2003: Graveyard Alive
  • 2006: Beyond the Pearly Gates of Ill-Repute
  • 2013: Go in the Wilderness
  • 2020: Slaxx

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. http://www.bastardamber.com/about/about.html
  2. ↑ cf. Daniela Sannwald in Time for Talents ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Retrieved September 15, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.magazine-deutschland.de
personal data
SURNAME Kephart, Elza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian screenwriter, film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Canada