The Druid's Hand

05/28/2024

In case you missed it, there's a lot happening at this week with the Dark Bridges Film Festival! .oliver_ will be back in town this Friday for a screening of LOWLIFES -- a full length horror film directed by Mitch & that has been getting a ton of positive buzz. Super proud of Mitch for following his dreams and making things happen in the short period of time since we did The Druid's Hand in 2021. There will be a Q&A after the film with Mitch, Tesh and as well, so please consider coming out to show some support.

Thursday night you can also catch the premiere of , a new Sask-made short horror film directed by and made with love by several other people that were involved in TDH. It's fantastic to see everyone continue to work together and both of these films are incredibly fun projects. Check out The Broadway Theatre website for ticket info and let's pack the place this Thursday and Friday!

06/02/2023

The countdown is on! The Druid's Hand will have its official online release in just under 90 minutes EXCLUSIVELY on the Screamfest Horror Film Festival YouTube Channel.

Click the link below to catch the release! Mitch will be hanging around in the live chat for anyone who wants to ask any questions or leave any comments!

We hope you enjoy the film and thank you as always for your continued support!

The Druid's Hand premiered in Screamfest 2022. An ostracized town priest and his acolyte face the ramifications of their dark past. Guilt turns to paranoia a...

05/30/2023

The Druid’s Hand will officially be released for all to see this coming Friday, June 2nd on the Screamfest LA YouTube channel.

Follow and subscribe to their YouTube Channel to catch it when it drops.

05/01/2023

Last stop, TEXAS!

The Druid’s Hand was selected to play at this years Boomtown Film and Music Festival, which is happening May 12-13th at The Jefferson Theatre in Beaumont, Texas. The film will screen at 8p.m on May 13th as part of BOOMTOWN AFTER DARK.

04/22/2023

The Druid’s Hand will play today with the Chilling Encounters Short Film Block at the at 4:15 pm! Come out and get spooky with us, Calgary! 👻

03/30/2023

We are honoured to share that The Druid’s Hand has been selected to play at this years Calgary Underground Film Festival! The line up for this festival is insane and we couldn’t be happier to be a part of it. runs from April 20th-30th at the Globe Cinema in downtown Calgary.

02/26/2023

If you missed out on the VHS pre-orders, Collector's Edge Comics and Games in Saskatoon (244 1st Ave S) now has the last few remaining copies available at the front counter! Every VHS will also come with a free 11x17 poster when you buy in store. Get down there quick as stock is extremely limited and will be the last chance to grab a copy of these beauties produced by our friends at .

01/24/2023

The Druid’s Hand has been awarded BEST SHORT HORROR FILM at this seasons VANCOUVER INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL!

The physical event will be taking place this coming Saturday at the Kay Meek Arts Centre in West Vancouver!

Congratulations to all of the other award winners, nominees and every member of our crew who we share this achievement with.

Thank you

01/06/2023

We are thrilled to share that we have been awarded Best Special FX at the 2022 Portland Horror Film Festival!

We did not make it easy on ourselves from the jump in terms of special FX sequences. Within our 12-minute short film we managed to include a full body makeup, a day to night transition, 180-degree wrist snap, a face degloving, dozens of self igniting candles, a lobotomy, smoke, embers and a gigantic fire sequence at the climax of the film; 90% of which was done practically with assistance from our editor Jason Hamill and some additional VFX work by Benham Salimy. There aren’t enough things that could be said about our editor Jason who handled as much of this workload as he could, only passing off a few moments to other special FX artists.

There are a few other people to thank for this one as well, beginning first with our Key Make Up Artist Kseniah Pidskalny and our Make Up Assistant’s Taegen O’Bertos and Aaron Savas. It’s amazing how many people think that our creatures’ movements and bright glowing eyes were digital when in reality, it was just killer makeup and a stellar performance from Gabrielle Buchholz.

Laura Crossman led our art department and helped establish the beautiful and grim tone that we were going for, from wardrobe, props, set design and even special FX! Laura, Jeff Drake and Heather Adrian helped us build bodies for burning and hanging, and they helped us achieve the “coughing up ashes and embers effect” that seems to have left an impression on our audience!

We would also like to thank our stunt coordinator Ed Mendez, for supervising our fire stunts and providing us with various accelerants that gave our burning sequence the ferocity we were looking for.

Orchestrating these sequences took a lot of coordination and team work and we are so honoured to be able to share this award with everyone on our team who made this possible.

12/02/2022

Mitch & Jesse sat down with John Cody of The Sheaf a little while ago for an interview on the journey of The Druid's Hand. Check out the article here and grab a paper copy if you're around the Usask Campus!
https://thesheaf.com/2022/11/30/a-big-dream-a-passionate-community-and-one-damn-good-horror-film-how-the-druids-hand-took-on-screamfest-la/

https://thesheaf.com/2022/11/30/a-big-dream-a-passionate-community-and-one-damn-good-horror-film-how-the-druids-hand-took-on-screamfest-la/
https://thesheaf.com/2022/11/30/a-big-dream-a-passionate-community-and-one-damn-good-horror-film-how-the-druids-hand-took-on-screamfest-la/

When you say you want to pursue art in Saskatchewan, many people will push you down or try to convince you to pursue something else, something more viable. But, that hasn’t stopped artists from this province from pursuing their crafts with fervour and reaching amazing heights. 

11/29/2022

We would like to thank everyone who took the time to check out The Druid’s Hand over the weekend.

This film was made with ambition that exceeded our budget - which we ultimately pulled off thanks to the Village of Alvena and a committed crew; most of whom contributed their time and skill sets as favours to this project.

Our film was viewed over 1400 times on the Saskatchewan Film Pool YouTube channel in the 36 hours it was available. We received a ton of positive feedback and took home the BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT award for the cinematography created by Dylan Hryciuk () . Dylan’s work ethic, collaborative spirit, masterful attention to detail and lighting was instrumental in the success of this film. We are thrilled to have been able to be a part of Dylan’s ever-growing filmography and to honour him with this award.