News & Updates
NOVEMBER 2023
PERFO Production has boarded Tim Garrick’s “Is Someone There?,” a psychological thriller based on the award winning short film of the same title, that will shoot in Slovenia. The company will unveil the project to buyers at the American Film Market.
Penned by Garrick, the film follows renowned entrepreneur and tech visionary, Dr. Mark Simmons, whose birthday plans with his girlfriend are shattered when an uninvited guest invades their secluded home. But how do you fight an adversary you don't know is there?
The film will also be directed by Garrick, whose last directing credit was from Andrew Lazar's “Behaving Badly,” starring Selena Gomez, Nat Wolff, Mary Louise Parker and Elisabeth Shue.
Producer, Ales Pavlin, is co-founder and co-owner of PERFO Production, one of the leading Slovenian independent film and TV production companies. He is also a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), European Producers Club (EPC) and The National Council for Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
Pavlin's credits include "Guardians of the Formula", "Bir Umut", "Produkty 24", and "Apples", the official submission of Greece for the 'Best International Feature Film' category at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021 with executive producer Cate Blanchett.
Pavlin, said he “immediately knew that it was a film that would have huge potential internationally” upon reading the script.
Garrick's company, Apostrophe S with long time collaborator, Brian Ralston, will partner. Garrick is represented by Independent Artist Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein.
October 2019
We are excited to announce that Is Someone there? will world premiere in competition at the 16th Annual Bahamas International Film Festival, December 9-15th, 2019 in Nassau, Bahamas.
The screening will be held Thursday, December 12th at 7:45pm at the The Current Art Gallery, Grand Hyatt in Baha Mar. A second screening of the film will occur later in the festival but that is not yet scheduled.
BIFF has attracted A-List celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Sir Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Grace Jones, Chaz Ebert, Debra Messing, Danny Glover, Heather Graham, Alan Arkin, Roger Corman, Daryl Hannah, Sophie Okonedo, Anna Faris, Naomie Harris, Zoe Kravitz, Lenny Kravitz, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Roger Guenveur Smith, Lee Daniels, Rae Dawn Chong, Michael K. Williams and many more.
From the BIFF website, “A quote from one of Hollywood's Best known Film Critic & Author of "The Stories My Father Told Me". Jeffrey Lyons . "The Bahamas International Film Festival is a shining light among a large field of film festivals. I know. I've been attending festivals in Cannes, New York, in Breckenridge,Colorado, and elsewhere. Bahamas has an astonishing intimacy about it. Young filmmakers, many of them talented Bahamians, get to rub shoulders with movie stars and established filmmakers; contacts they might otherwise not have. It also brings the world to the Bahamas. It helps put Bahamas on the map among international film festivals; movie stars, directors, writers and other filmmakers have come to the festival and have spread the word. Just ask Sir Sean Connery, Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne and other stars who've been honored or attended. It is a celebration of international artistic achievement in one of the most beautiful places on earth, and a vital part of The Bahamas' standing as a creative Mecca for all."
