Vampariah trailer 2017

We had an amazing film run in California at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival 2016, The 1st inaugural LA Philippine International Film Festival, FACINE Film festival SF and the 13th Another Hole in The Head Film Festival (spotlighting indie horror, sci-fi and fantasy films). We close out the year in NYC for the Urban Action Film Festival. See you on the East Coast! http://www.urbanactionshowcase.com/official-selections.html The San Francisco Premiere at The Great Star Theater Courtesy of sfnewsfeed.us The Cast and crew at the LA Premiere at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival At Another Hole in the Head Film Festival 13 with the best Aswang family portrait!

Let's talk for one second about how awesome the Another Hole In The Head Film Festival in San Francisco is. We had the chance to screen here last week and it may be pretty safe to say this the most awesome San Francisco Film Festival ever! You may have missed our screening of Vampariah but go check out the rest of them. It's not too late! We plan to return every day we possibly can to hang out and check out the other films so stop us and say hi! And I think we are going to make a rally to get some friends to see a Black and Chrome version of the latest Mad Max: Fury Road complete with a live band accompaniment! This should be a once in a lifetime awesome experience and right down our alley! We have even talked about doing this same thing to our film with film composers Cynical Mass. Give it up for awesome talented musical scores, live or otherwise. Anyway whatever day you go down to Another Hole in the Head at The New People Cinema go say hello and thank you to festival organizers George Kaskanlian Jr and Doc Zee. We appreciate your hard work A LOT!

http://sfindie.com/festivals/another-hole-in-the-head-film-festival/

SF Sonic Review

Check out our first review of Vampariah on SF SONIC:

Hello Vampariahs It has been a long ways into post production and I couldn't be happier with the film we have to share with you. The goal is to have a good cut of the movie ready by this July (2015). There are too many awesome people to thank for their efforts in the post, but a special acknowledgment to Julius Sanchez of MyAniMotion Studio http://www.myanimotion.com/ who has been a major contributor to he post FX team. He has come up with an innovative way to perform complicated special animation effects with the use of a cumbersome MoCap Suit. A series of cool sneak peaks will be posted on the IDCP YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/idontcareproductions as well as our Facebook page and @vampariah twitter feed. Stay tuned in!

It has been a long and challenging journey and we finally made it the first milestone for finishing the film. We finally wrapped shooting major principal photography and will be moving to smaller unit shoots, pick-ups and fx shots. Thanks again Team Vampariah for being the most amazing team ever!! New Teaser Trailer Coming soon! See you in 2013

Wrapping up the major principal photography this week before the holidays begin. It has been a long amazing journey and I am looking forward to the post production stage and smaller unit photography. Again thanks to everyone who has supported this film as cast/crew or contributed to our kickstarter campaign. You truely made this film happen. The first official teaser trailer screened at the BCM Horror Film Festival as well as the FACINE Filipino Film Festival with positive responses. I look forward to sharing that online as soon as we can lock more effects shots and a sound mix. See you in 2013!

It's hard to believe that we are 7 month into production and shooting weekly like weekend warriors. An ambitious film of this nature would not have been possible with out the community support and the amazing team behind it. We are in the final stretch but still some challenging scenes to go. We finished like 80% of the principal photography and are seeking some new locations for some of the film epic scene. Been a rough ride but we're almost there.

Happy New Year

Happy new Years. Only 21 days to go til the start of the feature film production and we have been hard at work.

Here is the first opportunity to be part of this film:

The first shoot for Vampariah will be on January 21st at Temple www.templesf.com
For those who would like to be in this scene as an extra or a walk on, please contact the film's Assistant Director Ava Tong: miss_ava@yahoo.com to let her know.

What to expect. The shoot will start a 12:30noon and wrap before 8. We will be in the clubs basement room rightfully named “the Catacombs”. We will be entertained by some dark tracks during and between takes by DJ RON!N (DLVN), for those who would like to show off their moves.

How to dress for the scene: In your gothy best. Black is the color and feel free to glam it up with whatever is hiding in your 80s, Japanese Lolita, Victorian or post-apocalyptic closet space.

If you don’t have anything to wear, we’ll help.

For more information check out our website: www.vampariah.com

Feel free to email us questions and I look forward to seeing you there.
Matt

Happy New Year

Happy new Years. Only 21 days to go til the start of the feature film production and we have been hard at work.

Here is the first opportunity to be part of this film:

The first shoot for Vampariah will be on January 21st at Temple www.templesf.com
For those who would like to be in this scene as an extra or a walk on, please contact the film's Assistant Director Ava Tong: miss_ava@yahoo.com to let her know.

What to expect. The shoot will start a 9:30am and wrap before 6. We will be in the clubs basement room rightfully named “the Catacombs”. We will be entertained by some dark tracks during and between takes by DJ RON!N (DLVN), for those who would like to show off their moves.

How to dress for the scene: In your gothy best. Black is the color and feel free to glam it up with whatever is hiding in your 80s, Japanese Lolita, Victorian or post-apocalyptic closet space.

If you don’t have anything to wear, we’ll help.

Feel free to email us questions and I look forward to seeing you there.
Matt

Call for Cast and Crew

A partial list of call for auditions posted to the Vampariah website:

http://www.bampinay.com/casting.html

The time and date for the auditions is to be announced. We welcome head shots and online media kits. We will contact you as soon as the audition date is confirmed.

If you are interested in audition or participating in the crew or want to learn film production, please contact: Bampinay@aol.com

Look forward to seeing you soon.

Matt

Kickstarter fundraiser/casting calls

A special thanks to all my family, friends and community supporters who made the Kickstarter fundraiser a sucess. In less then 30 days, we were able to raise the seedling funds of 5k to get this film started. I posted a very spcial "thank you" video on the Kickstarter Blog

Whats is to be expected next? Shortly, we will be sending out a call for cast and crew. For those who want to learn about film production or visual effects, we will be offering some internship workshops. Keep checking in for updates or contacts us at bampinay@aol.com

thanks,
Matt

Three days into the fundraiser

I am extremely humbled by the support from family and friends on the fundraiser for Vampariah. It is so nice to see many help a filmmaker like myself with a dream. So far we have reached the 35% mark. Still a ways to go, but slowly Getting there! 27 more days to go to reach the goal. Looking forward to finally getting this film underway.

Film Fundraiser and Teaser

I finally got the films official Kickstarter Page rolling. We only have 29 days to raise the funds for the film, so if you believe in the project and want to see it made, we need your support to get the project started.

Thanks,
Matthew Abaya

Bampinay - flash back/the future

In 2004, I made the short film "Bampinay" as a personal response to a story shared to me by friend and poet Barbara Jane Reyes (http://www.barbarajanereyes.com). In her story, she vented about an experience where a man in a passing car had made rude comments and "disgusting" gestures towards her. Needless to say, it frustrated us both. Being that we are both artist and had a flare for the macabre and gothic, I shared a darkly imagined scenario where she took the form of the aswang, a type of vampire of Filipino folklore, and used her long tongue to evisceration him. Just then I realized that I had laid down the foundation for a horror film with an underlining theme of self empowerment.

Bampinay - Short film 2003



the future of Bampinay

The film ran for a several years screening at VC's LA Asian Film Festival, San Francisco Asian Film Festival and the Hawaiian International Film Festival. It even opened for Takashi Miike's film "Audition" in Ohio, which was a big honor. Since the film ended its festival run in 2007 at DisOriented Film Fest in Eugene, Oregon, many have expressed to me how they would like to see more of Bampinay. With many unanswered questions posed by the short, I made the decision to expand the short film to a feature length film. After a year of writing several drafts of the screenplay with the help of film school friend Lawrence Yaghmour and shooting new conceptual footage, I felt we were finally ready to make this film. Now I need to begin the fundraiser. It wont cost what a Hollywood film would need, but it will take something to get started. We have a long way to go, but I am confident it can be done. More details coming soon...

http://www.vampariah.com

Vampariah Feature length film

First blog post for I Don't Care Productions! Getting ready to begin the fundraiser for our feature length action horror film "Vampariah". More details soon! 

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