Interview:
Bears Rebecca Fonté,
writer/director,
"How Far Does the Dark Go?"
Film festival programmer Bears Rebecca Fonté returns to the director’s chair for her second feature-length film, the lesbian vampire melodrama How Far Does the Dark Go? Centuries-old vampire Evienne spends her nights prowling the streets of Philadelphia for young women to feed upon. Grace appears to be an ideal victim, but the nurse’s morphine addiction makes her blood too unpleasant for Evienne to consume. But Evienne does lure Grace to her underground hideout so she can administer medical assistance to her dying adult human son, Henry. Despite Henry’s warnings, Grace soon allows her intense attraction to Evienne to get the better of her. How Far Does the Dark Go? stars Chloe Carroll as Evienne, Anna Hindman as Grace, Star Trek: Voyager’s Robert Picardo as Henry, and Samantha Rothermel as Evienne’s antagonistic ex-lover and fellow vampire Tempest. Writer/director Bears Rebecca Fonté based How Far Does the Dark Go? on the 2021 short film Elysia, which was co-written by and starred Chloe Carroll. How Far Does the Dark Go? will screen at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Galaxy Theaters Austin during Prism 38: aGLIFF’s Annual LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Bears Rebecca Fonté, who relocated from Austin to Montreal earlier this year, has served since 2021 as the artistic director of Prism, aGLIFF’s annual LGBTQ+ film festival. She also founded Austin’s Other Worlds Film Festival. Bears Rebecca Fonté previously directed iCrime and the shorts Roadside Assistance, Prenatal, and Conversion Therapist.
Aired: Oct. 15, 2025. Web sites: https://www.bearsfonte.com/ https://www.agliff.org/prism-38 |
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