Friends of Velvet Candy: BACK SOON

Hey Velvet Candy fans, check out the new film from our talented friends over at Guest House Films. BACK SOON is written and directed by Rob Williams and co-stars Matthew Montgomery (SOCKET) and Windham Beacham. Check it out at:
Back Soon

SOCKET: Behind the Music

People have been asking who is behind the great original score that we are using in SOCKET.
That woman would be Jennifer Kes Remington - a composer for film and TV as well as a filmmaker in her own right.
Along with being a classical pianist since the age of 7, she adds alto saxophone, guitar and voice to her repetoire. Jennifer attended the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and worked as a short stint as a radio deejay before attending the University of Michigan's Music School in Ann Arbor. Her numerous and diverse projects include music written for the TV series FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS, THE POWERPUFF GIRLS, the films SCARY MOVIE 4 and HAPPILITY N'EVER AFTER, many short films, commercials, and now our full-length feature, SOCKET. Jennifer has also directed and produced a documentary and is starting her next directorial project in the spring of 2007. Velvet Candy hopes to work with the multi-talented Ms. Remingtom again in the near future. Visit Jen on the web at www.myspace.com/jenniferkes. Hey Dogg and Jen on MySpace

SOCKET: The Cult is Growing!

In a little over a week, SOCKET has created quite a buzz on this here thing called the internet. With some great gay bloggers (see list to the right) catching wind of our unique film, we've had well over 5000 viewings of our trailer on sites like You Tube, Daily Motion, Google Video, and iFilm.
We've also already become a Wikipedia entry!!!
PLUS our MySpace page has been updated with tons of pictures, info on the film, the trailer, a slide show, etc. Us here at Velvet Candy and our co-producers at Dark Blue Films are very
excited as we prepare to bring SOCKET to the widest audience possible. Thank you to all our friends, old and new that have
helped us spread the word!!! We have a great feeling about this.

SOCKET: Sex, Plugs, Shock & Control

As word of SOCKET has spread throughout the internet, we've recieved a few inquiries about the gay content of the film.
People seem to want to know a) if the characters are "out" and b) is there sex & nudity in the film? Our answers are
"yes, yes & yes". Our lead characters of Dr. Bill Matthews and Dr. Craig Murphy are "out" in the sense that their sexuality is never questioned - like it should be in real life. Yes they are gay, yes they are doctors, yes they are involved in a storyline where their sexuality is inconsequential to the plot, yet prominent throughout the film. Our two female leads also happen to be lesbian and just to keep thing interesting we have transgendered actress Alexandra Billings playing a straight woman!
As for sex & nudity - we feel that it's a natural part of the storytelling. Don't you hate it when there's a hot love scene in a mainstream film and when they are finished, the characters roll over and they are wearing underwear? That totally ruins it for us. We believe that people are often naked in real life and therefore for a story to be told realistically, why shouldn't they be naked within the context of a film? After such recent indie films as BROWN BUNNY, SHORTBUS, 9 SONGS and KISSING ON THE MOUTH, there isn't much that we could do to shock our audience sexually...but none of those films used electricity as an erotic element. SOCKET does. Go ahead and plug in... :)

Technorati Profile

SOCKET on Fangoria.com

The press for SOCKET is just getting started, and where better to start than Fangoria.com ?

Fangoria.com Article

SOCKET - The Trailer

Special thanks to our director/writer/producing partner Sean Abley, our trailer editor Nicole Opyr and the lovely and talented Dave Cobb for making this trailer come together.

See Tara Devlin and laugh till it hurts...

One of Velvet Candy Entertainment's oldest and best friends is Tara Devlin (that's her with the brilliant Amy Sedaris) - an up-and-coming stand-up comedienne AND the designer of SOCKET's incredible opening & closing titles. You can see Tara performing LIVE ON STAGE in New York City Tuesday, April 17 @ Carolines on Broadway / 6:30pm seating, 7pm show / 1626 Broadway (at 50th St.) 212-757-4100 for reservations SAY "TARA DEVLIN" AND PAY $5 instead of $15
(+ 2 drink minimum)

SOCKET: It's getting closer...

SOCKET: Meet Allie Rivenbark

Allie Rivenbark adds some great comic relief to SOCKET as Olivia, the sassy, outspoken and hysterically funny girlfriend of Carol. Born in the South, but theater-trained in New York City, some of Allie's stage work includes TORN, OCTOBER-HOUSEWIFE the Musical, BURNING HABITS and an off-Broadway role-reversal of JULIUS CAESAR. Most recently she starred in JONI & GINA'S WEDDING. Allie's most recent films include THE GAY BED AND BREAKFAST OF TERROR, THIS WOMAN'S WORK and I HATE ALINA. Allie also is known to do some stand-up from time to time about her southern upbringing and life characters. Velvet Candy looks forward to a bright future for Allie in Hollywood!