Acolytes

During 2008 The Post Lounge worked on the Jon Hewitt directed feature film "Acolytes", which has recently been released in cinemas nationwide.  It has done extremely well on the festival circuit including these achievements:

WINNER Best Film MUFF 2008 / Best Horror Film (Runner Up) FantasticFest 2008

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Toronto Midnight Madness, Screamfest LA, Sitges Spain, FantasticFest Austin, Raindance London, FantasyFest Germany, MUFF.

The Post Lounge completed Australia's first ever DI conform and grade on the Acolytes which was shot on the Thompson Viper HD camera. It was also one of our first feature films to be graded in our Nucoda suite. Congratulations to Jon and all at Stewart & Wall Entertainment. The film is released through Palace/ Darclight films.

Here's what the critics have to say:

Admirable is the use of locations - a suburban area on the edge of a menacing forest (all filmed in southern Queensland) - all of which benefits from Mark Pugh's fine HD camerawork. - David Stratton (At The Movies)

I must say that I loved the opening of this film and it's such a comfort to sit down and realise that you're in the hands of a director who knows how to direct a film. He knows where to put a camera; how to use it very effectively; and the elements that are set up are so interesting to begin with; and the performances are great. Margaret (At The Movies)

Well-paced and packed with incident, this great-looking thriller (shot on high-end digital video) sports some terrific twists as the kids try to tighten the screws on their quarry. - Jim Schembri - The Age

Images are the essence of cinema and Hewitt's cinematographer Mark Pugh, delivers some exceptional material, which is sometimes manipulated for extra effect. The sound scape is well worked into the fibre of the film and the end result is a superior piece of genre filmmaking. - Andrew L Urban Urban Cinefile

Directed and partly scripted by Jon Hewitt, it has a menacing mood and some authentic jolts, as well as a wonderfully creepy turn from Joel Edgerton as a McMansion dwelling everyman with a very dark side. Jason Di Rosso (ABC Radio National)