Film And TV Now recently spoke with the film-making team behind the new indie horror film THE LOCKDOWN HAUNTINGS, director Howard J Ford and lead actress Angela Dixon.
Watch the interview here:
About Howard:
Howard is an award-winning director/writer of eight feature films and over 250 TV commercials.
Having begun making short films aged just 13, Howard directed his first feature film at 21, the gritty crime thriller ‘Mainline Run’ Starring Hugo Speer of ‘The Full Monty’ fame. Following his second feature film, the noir thriller ‘Distant Shadow’, Howard became a successful commercials director working worldwide for top brands such as Unilever, Nestle, Guinness (Diageo) Proctor and Gamble, for international agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Lowe Lintas, McCann’s & DDB, creating numerous successful and award-winning campaigns.
He then went on to direct and co-write The Ford Brother’s ‘The Dead’, shot in Africa, which became a global and critical success and in 2012 a number one selling horror movie in America following it’s theatrical releases. The continued fan base spawned a sequel, ‘The Dead 2: India’ (shot in Mumbai, Rajasthan and Delhi), which became the opening film at the UK’s biggest genre festival FrightFest at the 1450 seater Empire One, Leicester square.
Following on from this, Howard’s female driven thriller, ‘Never Let Go’, shot in Morocco/Spain/US was voted Best Independent Film of 2016 at The National Film Awards (Beating Multi Oscar Nominated ‘Carol’ and Sean Penn’s ‘The Gunman to the title). Released by Sony Pictures across North America, it has also been a successful title on Netflix, Amazon Prime and numerous other global platforms.
Howard took a detour to embark upon a very personal project to ‘get kids off devices and back outdoors’ : A family film, ‘Adventure Boyz‘, shot with not only actors from Harry Potter, World War Z and Tomb Raider, but also his own kids Rory and Felix Ford & himself as their on-screen Speedway racing father. Released in theatres(Limited) and global platforms.
Howard didn’t let the recent global pandemic stop him and during the first UK lock-down he shot a feature film ‘The Lockdown Hauntings’, shot with no crew whatsoever, but a lot of known actors including Tony Todd (from ‘Candyman / Final Destination / The Rock’) which has been released via both streaming and theatrical through UK distributor Altitude Films)
He has also directed the female led climbing thriller ‘The Ledge’ for GFM films & Evolution Pictures, hailed as a ‘female cliffhanger’, set in the Italian dolomites. One girl having to outwit four would-be killers on the side of a mountain several thousand feet up!
About Angela:
Angela Dixon is an award-winning actor best known for her leading role in Howard Ford’s action thriller ‘Never Let Go’ for which she won Best Actress at the Artemis Women In Action Film Awards in LA. She wowed audiences and critics alike with her “Oscar-worthy” “Powerhouse” performance of a single mother battling against the odds to rescue her kidnapped child.
She also won Best Actress for her role as the victim of domestic violence who’s young son runs away in Marc Zammit’s “Homeless Ashes”. Other recent leading roles include the head of a deportation unit in Tom Paton’s Sci-fi thriller “Black Site”, the speedway mom in Howard Ford’s “Adventure Boyz” and a teacher in “Missing A Note” a deeply moving film about dementia with Ian McElhinny and Elaine Paige.
Reviews: ‘Dixon is dazzling, a towering tour-de-force that has you hooked every second she is on screen’ (movieramblings) ‘Oscar-worthy’, ‘Electrifying central performance’ ‘Powerhouse performance’ ‘Superb lead turn from the totally committed Angela Dixon’ (thepeoplesmovies).
Check out the Official Trailer for THE LOCKDOWN HAUNTINGS, available now on Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms, here:
