NEWS UPDATE! - January 1, 2012 - Massachusetts-based Harvest Tide Productions first online and internationally self-distributed independent horror short film Microcinema written and directed by the company's co-founder Skip Shea, scores on several 2011 "best-of lists", continuing its run as a cult favorite and a hit with horror reviewers.

• Chris Conduit of The Conduit Speaks, www.theconduitspeaks.com put Microcinema as... "the best horror short of the year giving it his Conduit Award".
  
  
• Danielle Holman writing for Truly Disturbing Horror, www.trulydisturbing.com listed Microcinema as... "one of the five best horror films saying, "Skip Shea’s seven minute short film is deserving in the ranks of the big films as it’s able to accomplish more in less than ten minutes than an full length feature film".

Microcinema has quickly become a cult favorite and wowed critics and audiences alike last year at several established horror film festivals and screenings within the few short months of its release.

Screenings in 2011 included:

• 1st Annual Danish Horror Film Festival
• THE TURBINE at Spinderihallerne, Vejle, Denmark
• All Things Horror Shudder Fest at the Somerville Theater in Somerville, MA
• Short Horror Films at AS220 in Providence, RI
• The Massachusetts Independent Film Festival
• Fright Night Theater presents: ABSENTIA & Microcinema at the Staircase Cafe Theater in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Synopsis - Starring Alex Lewis and Aurora Grabill, Microcinema is the story of Peter Martell, a highly educated well-to-do young man with too much free time on his hands. He spends it watching snuff films. One day he makes the bold decision to cross the line from observer to participant, aspiring to bring a philosophical element to his own kind of snuff films. Ready to go to work, he tracks his first victim into a haunted New England wood, where the boundary between participant and observer takes a different turn.

Microcinema was originally a storyline for one of the episodes of Harvest Tide’s new horror web series Longreach, written by William DeCoff. Longreach follows the demise of Daniel Jedrek, the sergeant at arms for the Longreach Association, an ancient global charitable organization that takes charity to extremes. The Harvest Tide Production team comprised of: Mr. Shea, DeCoff, Will Smyth and Emily King agreed that Microcinema stood on its own accord in the burgeoning new online Horror entertainment and media arena and delivers a brutal and gruesome tale to horror film fans!

Microcinema is now available on:

www.watchmicrocinema.com for only .99 cents!

A fantastic horror film for under $1!

Microcinema writer & director Skip Shea produced, also wrote and directed 6 (six) short films Mail; Video Diary: Last Entry; They Serve Breakfast Here All Day Long; Putting On Its Shoes; Nostalgia; and Choices. Mail was selected for the invitation-only 11th annual Pawtucket Film Festival. Mr. Shea’s work took the runner-up award in the comedy short screenplay competition for his script The Bar at the 19th Annual Woods Hole Film Festival. The film is currently in pre-production. He also produced, wrote and performed the very successful one man show called Catholic (Surviving Abuse & Other Dead End Roads) which debuted in New York City in 2005.

The show went on to have a successful run at the Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater and toured the East Coast. Mr. Shea is also a published poet whose piece Songs of Mourning, a memorial to those killed in the 9/11 attacks in New York as well as to his daughter Shawna Shea, was selected by New York City jazz musician Jon Faddis to be performed at the 9/11 10th Anniversary Commemorative Concert performed at Symphony Space by the New York Chamber Music Festival.

Here's what the critics are saying about Microcinema...

• "The film is brave and unrelenting. It is a breath of fresh air to a lot of the common horror tricks that are being trotted out time and again." -Alexandra West, Scare Tactics Blog
  
  
• "Skip Shea is an adept director with equal ability to write, his short film gets more across than most full length films. 4 out of 5 Stars" - The Bleeding Dead Film Reviews
  
  
• "You will not be expecting to see the events that unfold in this shocking short film." - The Horror Spot
  
  
• "The script itself deserves kudos for completely drawing your attention to the one aspect we would expect every horror film to contain and then suddenly shocks you with an element you rarely see in this genre." The Scariest Movies Online
  
  
• "I figured I was in for one of three things: a really solid work, a bite size film that left me feeling nothing, or one of those that makes me want to substitute rat poison for the salt on my dinner table. Those are the three categories all art falls into for me, always. Yet, when it was all said and done, Shea's vignette carved a whole new icky slot out just for itself. 9 out of 10 Stars" - The Conduit Speaks
  
  
• "Brilliant. 8.5 out of 10 Stars" - The Gruesome Hurtzogg Horror Movie Review Podcast
  
  
• "4 out of 5 Stars" - Char Hardin
  
  
• "What I find particularly interesting about Microcinema is its plot and how it seems to blend together torture, voyeurism, and a lot of other really weird horrific topics like snuff films " - Horror Society
  
  
• "Microcinema Doesn't Disappoint" - Victor Infante, The Worcester Telergram & Gazette
  
  
• "The new indie horror romp Microcinema and it is a doozy" - Truly Disturbing Horror
  
  
• "Interesting short that starts as your usual slasher/serial killer fare before taking a wicked little turn" - Shaun Sjolin Cenobiteme Blog
  
  
• "Unicornsblud Horror Review Stamp of Majestic Approval" - Unicronsblud's Horror Reviews
  
  
• “Twisted and sick but with a new vision” - The Dr. Chris Radio of Horror

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Mr. Skip Shea
Harvest Tide Productions
skipshea@gmail.com
508-282-9847