Rue Morgue Cinema & Toronto Film Festival

Rod Gudino is a really nice guy and I always enjoy reading his magainze Rue Morgue and hanging out with him. So its with great pride we get to tell you Rue Morgue Cinemas first film has been selected for the Toronto Film Festival. Rue Morgue Cinema opens its doors at the 31st Annual Toronto International Film Festival (September 7-16, 2006) with the Official Selection THE EYES OF EDWARD JAMES, a short film written and directed by Rue Morgue’s publisher and founding editor Rodrigo Gudiño.

"Obviously this is a huge honour," commented Gudiño. "THE EYES OF EDWARD JAMES was supposed to mark nothing more than my crash course in filmmaking so to have it accepted into this year’s TIFF has really exceeded my greatest expectations."

The fifteen-minute suspense horror film is one of 38 shorts chosen from 560+ submissions at this year’s TIFF and marks Gudiño’s directorial debut. Shot in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, THE EYES OF EDWARD JAMES tells the story of Edward, a patient regressed into the traumatic memory of the evening that his wife, Sarah, is brutally murdered. As his memory unfolds, however, it becomes apparent that Edward is not being completely honest with his doctor, just as his wife, Sarah, was not being entirely honest with him on the night of her murder.

"I’ve wanted to make films for years but it has taken me this long to delegate all the duties of the magazine to my staff so that I could actually do so," said Gudiño.

The film stars Richard Underhill (Blue Murder), Tal Zimmerman (Black Belts: Tommy Nitro)  and newcomers Shahla Kareen-Palmer and Robert C. Fidler and is produced by Brenton Bentz (Pink, Road Scholars) and Marco Pecota (Pink, Dying Like Ophelia). Gudiño will be shooting his second film The Demonology of Desire later this year in anticipation for his first feature film in 2007.  Rodrigo Gudiño is the president and publisher of Rue Morgue Magazine, one of the leading genre magazines in the world. He is the Senior Coordinator of the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear, Canada’s national horror expo, co-producer of Rue Morgue Radio, a weekly horror music broadcast, and programmer of Rue Morgue Presents CineMacabre, a monthly screening of new, rare, classic and cult horror films in Toronto’s legendary Bloor Cinema.