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Daily Recommendation: Zombie Girl

Available today, until next Thursday (August 20th) – SnagFilms SummerFest is presenting Zombie Girl. Without knowing anything about the film, you’d think this is a low budget horror film – but au contraire readers, this is a documentary film that follows the enthusiasm of 12 year-old Emily Hagins, who decides to write and direct her own feature length Zombie horror flick.

Eric Lavallée

Published on August 14, 2009

Available today, until next Thursday (August 20th) – SnagFilms SummerFest is presenting Zombie Girl. Without knowing anything about the film, you’d think this is a low budget horror film – but au contraire readers, this is a documentary film that follows the enthusiasm of 12 year-old Emily Hagins, who decides to write and direct her own feature length Zombie horror flick.

Just like how Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe followed Terry Gilliam and struck gold with Lost in La Mancha, here Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall and Erik Mauck followed a 12 year-old and the doc has a pretty outstanding film festival life – it was the Official Selection of AFI Dallas international film festival, winner of the spirit award in Slamdance and was the official selection in the HotDocs festival.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).