The film was executive produced by Lucky McKee, Arrien Schiltkamp and Loren Semmens. Jug Face won the Slamdance Grand Prize Screenwriting Award in 2011 and debuted as a Special Screening selection at this years festival. The film is slated for a July Pre-Theatrical VOD premiere, followed by a national theatrical roll out.
Ada, her family and a small isolated backwoods community worship a mysterious pit. The pit has the power to heal and protect all who honor it but at a deadly price…it demands an occasional sacrifice. The pit communicates through the local potter who, while in a trance, crafts ceramic jugs that carry the face of a person to be sacrificed to the entity that lives within it. Ada has a secret about the latest jug face that she’s determined to keep hidden but the pit demands a sacrifice and unleashes an evil onto the community until it gets who it really wants.
Modernciné is proud to be pairing with Gravitas to release this incredibly original film by Chad Crawford Kinkle. Gravitas understands how to release into the digital marketplace better than most distributors in the business. We are confident that our theatrical release in conjunction with their heightened VOD release will give this unique film a chance to find a very large audience, said Moderncinés van den Houten.
“We are thrilled to be collaborating with the Modernciné team on the undeniably unique ‘Jug Face.’ As longtime fans of horror films that break the mold, we are happy to follow the Pit’s wishes and bring ‘Jug Face’ to a mass VOD audience,” said Gravitas’ Nolan Gallagher.
