A Vancouver Film School grad's first feature film has been picked up by Ruthless Pictures. The film The Invoking is a "psychological horror thriller" (according to VFS) that was previously titled Sader Ridge.
The film was put together by VFS film production grad John Portanova, and completed by writer/director Jeremy Berg and writer/producer Matt Medisch.
Sader Ridge won the Audience Award at the 2013 Seattle True Independent Film Festival, and more awards at the Dark Carnival Film Festival.
"These guys are very talented and I'm thrilled to get behind their first feature, which I believe audiences are gonna be haunted and intrigued by," said Ruthless Pictures' Jesse Baget.
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The news around Portanova's flick is just the latest in an increasingly prolific recent past for VFS.
Almost exactly one year ago, Vancouver Film School released its first-ever feature film, 'Captive', which was produced by graduates Jordan Brown, Jonatan Burnett, and Matthew Sauer.
That film followed the most infamously VFS-linked film, which was 2009's Oscar-nominated District 9, written and directed by the film school grad Neill Blomkamp.
To a large degree, the film put VFS on the map for prospective and international students.
Blomkamp has just released his newest film, Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster.
