Rondo Awards News!
The annual nominations for the prestigious Rondo Awards were announced earlier this week and I wanted to mention a couple of projects I worked on. I posted this on my social media, so it might be a rerun, but just in case…
I was nominated under the Favorite Commentator category, along with my friends Heath Holland, Dan Budnik and Justin Kerswell for our commentary for Kino Lorber's release of The Martian Chronicles! Very excited about this. Martian Chronicles is also up for Best Blu Ray as well!
Another Kino Lorber TV project I contributed to was nominated as well. Under Best Blu Ray Collection you'll find the Classic Ghosts release, which features five ultra rare Wide World Mystery Movies. The set was nominated again under Best Extras, which includes a featurette with myself and some of the fabulous staff at the UCLA Film and Television Archive!
In TV movie adjacent news, also nominated under Best Blu Ray Collection is Kier-la Janisse's wonderful All the Haunts Be Ours 2, which I worked on extensively. But, for our TV movie loving purposes, I provided a commentary for Who Fears the Devil (aka Legend of Hillbilly John) which was directed by John Newland (Don't Be Afraid of the Dark), and it's a Newland-specific track, which is why I was brought on. And, along with my friend Chris O'Neill, we put together a video essay for the City of the Dead which was directed by John Llewellyn Moxey. Our essay covers a bit but is mostly centered on Moxey's work in the telefilm and it relates to City of the Dead.
You can find the full list of nominees at the link below, and voting stays open until April 20th.
https://rondoaward.com/rondoaward.com/blog/
I was so thrilled to be asked to be a part of all of these releases, and it's great to see the telefilm getting the love it deserves! Go vote!
