Madeline Lupi WINS Young Artist Award!
posted Nov 22, 2020
2020 Young Artist Academy Awards
WINNER!
Best Teen Actress in a Short Film
"The Ghost in the Darkness"
Role of Kayla
Madeline Lupi Nominated for a Young Entertainer's
Award
posted March 20, 2020
2020 Young Entertainer's Award
NOMINATED
Best Young Actress in a Short Film
"The Ghost in the Darkness"
Role of Kayla
Madeline Lupi Nominated for a Young Artist Award
posted March 2018
2018 Young Artist Academy Awards
NOMINATED
Best Teen Actress in a Digital TV Series or Film
"Messenger of Wrath"
Role of Three Ballantine
Madeline Lupi Nominated for a Young Artist Award
posted Jan 30, 2017
2017 Young Artist Awards
NOMINATED
Best Performance in a Digital TV Series or Film
Young Actress
"The Girl in the Cornfield"
Role of Tiffany
BEHIND THE CURTAIN WITH MADELINE LUPI
Madeline Lupi The Girl In the Cornfield
Recently we discovered that Madeline was to appear in a new horror flick, Where Demons Dwell. Check out the trailer here.
We caught up with Madeline and tried to learn a little more about this sprite that had captured our attention.
8 new movie trailers you need to watch this week
The Girl in the Cornfield This really isn’t your day if you’re not of a fan of dark horror movies. The Girl
in the Cornfield also happens to be a mystery movie that revolves around
some horrific secrets. Starring Briana Aceti, Madeline Lupi, Tina Duong,
and Mollie Sperduto, the movie comes out on May 13th.
VIDEO
See more:
http://bgr.com/2016/04/01/new-movie-trailers-apr-1-alice-mothers-day/
Horror Movie News
HORROR STALKS THE GIRL IN THE CORNFIELD
Posted: 12.22.2015
by: Cody Hamman
Friday, May 13th, 2016 will see the release of THE GIRL IN THE CORNFIELD, a horror tale from
director Ryan Callaway and prolific independent production company Shady Dawn Pictures, and a
trailer has been released online to give us a look at what they have in store for us.
Starring Briana Aceti, Tina Duong, and Madeline Lupi, the film has the following synopsis:
Three young women traveling along a dark country road encounter a mysterious girl in a white dress
who turns out to be far more than she seems.
The film was obviously shot on quite a small budget, but there is some nice atmosphere on display in
the trailer, and the story seems interesting. This is the first time I've come across a Shady Dawn
production, but I'm now intrigued to learn more about them. THE GIRL IN THE CORNFIELD will be
their twelfth project to be released in a span of six years.
See more:
http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/horror-stalks-the-girl-in-the-cornfield-688
Madeline Lupi NOMINATED for a Young Entertainer
Award
Posted: February 7, 2016
NOMINATED
Best Performance in a Short Film
Young Actress 10-12
Madeline Lupi
"Robots and Cowboys"
for role of Anne
Madeline Lupi NOMINATED for a
Young Artist Award
Posted: February 10, 2015
NOMINATED
Best Performance in a Short Film
Young Actress 10 and Under
Madeline Lupi
"Milkshake"
for role of Alice
"Milkshake" tells a Unique, Involving
Story
© Written by Richard Propes
The Independent Critic
Milkshake tells the story of interracial adopted siblings Jack (Vin Kridakorn) and
Alice (Madeline Lupi), who are left struggling to make ends meet after the death
of their parents. Jack, 18-years-old, is forced to drop out of school to provide for
six-year-old Alice. Sadly, the struggles don't stop there as Jack has trouble
balancing his sudden role as parent along with trying to hold a job. Before long,
he's deemed unfit to continue as Alice's guardian and is forced to deal with the
possibility of her being placed up for adoption.
Written and directed by Korean filmmaker SangJin Ko, Milkshake takes a unique,
even-keeled approach to an involving story. Oh sure, there are times that
Milkshake plays off a bit schmaltzy and one could argue its original music could
have used a bit of spark, but both Kridakorn and Lupi give low-key, yet winning
performances as the close siblings suddenly thrust into a most difficult situation.
For more information on the film, visit its website linked to in the credits.
Grade: B
3.0 Stars
See more at: http://theindependentcritic.com/milkshake
Watch: Creepy Short Film 'H7N3' Taps Into Our Worst Ebola Fears
Casey Cipriani Oct 31, 2014
This creepy
short film
from director Iris Shim taps into not only our growing Ebola epidemic
fears, but also hints at a
potential supernatural cause just in time for
Halloween.
"H7N3" focuses on a doctor who struggles with his professional
obligations as he attempts to diagnose a little girl’s
alarming symptoms
on the eve of a viral outbreak.
It stars C.S. Lee from the Showtime series "Dexter" and has screened at NBCUniversal Short Cuts, LA
Shorts Fest,
Check it out below: Then wash your hands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvp3ntvYGXI&feature=emb_title
See more at: http://www.indiewire.com/article/watch-creepy-short-film-h7n3-taps-into-our-worst-ebola-fears-20141031
‘MILKSHAKE’ TELLS THE STORY
OF ADOPTED INTERRACIAL
SIBLINGS
Pictured above: Jack (Vin Kridakorn) and his sister Alice (Madeline Lupi) in the short film Milkshake
by REERA YOO
While there have been several films about the Korean adoptee experience, very few have focused
on the relationship between adopted interracial siblings like the short film Milkshake .
Directed by SangJin Ko, Milkshake tells the story of a brother and sister struggling to make ends
meet after their parents’ deaths. Jack, 18, a Korean adoptee, is forced to drop out of school in order
to provide for his Caucasian younger sister Alice, 6, who is also adopted. When the harsh reality
settles in and Jack is deemed unfit to remain as guardian, he is forced to consider putting his sister
up for adoption.
The short film takes a unique perspective, as it addresses family and identity issues among interracial
adoptive siblings. At one point in the film, Jack asks his sister why she keeps getting into fights at
school, and she responds that her classmate bullies her and tells Jack he is not her brother because
he is of a different race.
Milkshake has already screened at multiple film festivals and was introduced at the Cannes’ 2013
Short Film Corner. Its next screenings will be at the NewFilmmakers New York Festival on Oct. 2 and the
Marbella International Film Festival in Spain on Oct. 5.
Ko, the 32-year-old director, studied law at Yonsei University and later studied filmmaking at the New
York Film Academy. He has worked on over 20 films as a director, producer and editor.
To learn more about the short film, check out its official website .
See more:
http://iamkoream.com/milkshake-tells-the-story-of-adopted-interracial-siblings/
The New York Film Academy is proud of its close ties with Korea and many of its student
craft. One of our more recent Korean students, SangJin Ko’s short film Milkshake has been
getting a lot of attention since its introduction at last year’s Cannes Film Festival Short Film
Corner. The film, which was shot in New York City, is a family drama in which an adopted
teenage boy struggles against a harsh reality to live with his adoptive younger sister.
Milkshake is a culturally rich story. At one point, the main character even teaches his sister
The Sun and the Moon , which a traditional Korean fairy tale surround a widow and her two
children. The essence of the story is to teach young children that if you want something badly
enough, you will be able to find a way to receive it, as long as your intentions are good, kind
and pure. Ko’s film will be screening at the NewFilmmakers New York 2014 on October 2nd, 2014
at the Deren Theater of Anthology Film Archives located at 32 Second Ave. in New York City.
From there, Ko will take his film to Spain, where it will screen at the Marbella International Film Festival
We wish SangJin Ko the best of luck on his festival tour and expect a bright future for this fine,
See more at https://www.nyfa.edu/film-school-blog/tag/sangjin-ko/
Pequannock girl realizing acting dream
9-year-old's role in short film gets Young Artist Award nod
The Daily Record
April 14, 2014
Written by
Paul Bonasera
Special to the Daily Record
For 9-year-old Madeline Lupi of Pequannock, becoming a Hollywood actress is a
dream beginning to come true.
performance in a short film by a young actress 10 and under for her role in
“American Autumn,” directed by Albert Moya. The film, a melodrama shot in New
Jersey last winter, depicts small everyday catastrophes that threaten upper middle
class families.
to California and (it’s) my first Hollywood nomination.”
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9-YEAR-OLD PEQUANNOCK GIRL GETS HOLLYWOOD
NOMINATION
35th Annual Young Artist Awards - Studio City, CA
April 7, 2014
Written by: Joe Kraus
STUDIO CITY, Cal. --- A fourth grade student in Pequannock, New Jersey, 9-year-old
Madeline Lupi, has received the attention of Hollywood. Her performance in a short film,
American Autumn, has gotten her a nomination as Best Performance in a Short Film,
Young Actress Under 10. The nomination was announced by The Young Artist Awards.
The awards ceremony will be held May 4 in Studio City, California in the shadow of
Universal City Studios and nearby Warner Brothers and Walt Disney Studios.
Madeline Lupi NOMINATED for a Young Artist Award
Posted: March 30, 2014
NOMINATED
Best Performance in a Short Film
Young Actress 10 and Under
Madeline Lupi
"American Autumn"
for role of Catherine
Merenda with Albert Moya and the Kids Alla Carta Magazine
by Erin Dixon
May 2014 issue
CH. 5 : IMAGINATION
MELANCHOLIA
ALBERT MOYA
ISSUE 28 MAGAZINE
ISSUE ONE: NOSTALGIA
BY A.S.
POSTED: MARCH 20, 2014
For 23-year old Catalan-born, New York-based filmmaker Albert Moya, it is the fiction of everyday life that inspires:
“I know more or less how real life works, but I need fiction in it, even if that fiction is telling a real life story with small
alterations to it. Life is less boring if we have stories to tell.”
In his critically acclaimed short film American Autumn (released last year), Moya looked to 1970s New York, re-imagining
the atmospheric dinner parties of our collective past: “My mind was full of images of people walking wrapped in big
trench coats through central park, surrounded by mustard, camel and maroon.”
Looking to portray the past in an imaginative way, Moya decided to work with an ensemble cast of children, aged seven
to twelve, instead of adults: “Reality feeds off of a magic or surrealist concept. This is what allows you to understand a
new point of view.”
In this exclusive video for Issue28, Moya worked with American Autumn actor Zeljko Tomic, capturing the moment
between awake and dreaming. For it is here, Moya believes, where we can catch a fleeting glimpse of our youth again.
“It’s that moment when the real and surreal are the same. And even though we know we can never go back because our
dreams and nightmares now mean something else entirely… there is still something in that moment. You feel both
melancholic of a time gone by and yet, super awake and alive.” ♥
By AS
Albert Moya is filmmaker based in New York City and his first feature short film is American Autumn .
See more at: http://www.issue28.com
GROWN-UP ANXIETIES ARTFULLY SATIRIZED BY
CHILDREN IN “AMERICAN AUTUMN”.
Dirty Magazine
by Ned Ehrber
Posted: January 2014
SPANISH FILMMAKER ALBERT MOYA TAKES A UNIQUE LOOK AT THE LIVES OF UPSCALE MANHATTANITES IN “AMERICAN AUTUMN,” IN WHICH A GROUP OF FORTY-SOMETHING FRIENDS’ TENSE, CONFESSION-FILLED DINNER PARTY IS PLAYED OUT BY CHILDREN. IT’S AN IMAGINATIVE AND WICKEDLY SMART DEBUT BY MOYA, WHO WASN’T DAUNTED BY AN ALL-KID CAST. IN FACT, AS WE DISCOVERED DURING OUR CHAT WITH THE WRITER-DIRECTOR, HE’D BE HAPPY TO ONLY WORK WITH KIDS IN HIS FILMS.
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Albert Moya’s many artistic forays have led him into a path as a director,
resulting in his noted and surreal short film melodrama “American Autumn”,
an introspective look on the bourgeois life of his protagonists. Referencing
Woody Allen and Luis Buñuel in this setting of a couples’ dinner of forty -
somethings tempered with tension, Albert’s film could’ve been a familiar feat,
had it not been for the novelty and boldness of using a cast of children.
See more at: http://www.c-print.se/#!archive/c4ba/kids-on-the-verge-of-nervous-breakdown
EXCERPT FROM AMERICAN AUTUMN BY ALBERT MOYA Purple fashion magazine
Posted: november 27, 2013
Purple TV presents an exclusive excerpt from American Autumn. Over an intimate
dinner, two couples in their forties unexpectedly welcome the visit of a friend
that will turn their lives upside down. American Autumn is a surreal melodrama
that depicts small everyday catastrophes that threaten the gentle way of
life of the bourgeoisie. This Manhattan society dinner party parodied by
a cast of children, is currently doing the circuit at Film Festivals around
the world. Merely 22 years old director Albert Moya states that "I remember
family reunions where conversations ranged around various topics, and my only
concern was to not miss a thing and observe how it affected each one of them.
Those days, surrounded by adults and troubles that were beyond my comprehension,
triggered my interest in conflicts between grownups. I would dissect it as
something basic: feelings." Influenced by the frenzy of Kristin Griffith and
Diane Keaton in Interiors or Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh in
Margot and the Wedding, Moya's distinct style is also reminiscent of the
work of Noah Baumbach and early Woody Allen. " My mind was full of images of
people walking wrapped in big trench coats through Central Park, surrounded
by mustard, camel and maroon colors… What I feel as the American Autumn."
See More at: http://purple.fr/television/art/excerpt-from-american-autumn
Colorado Springs' Indie Spirit Film Festival opens Thursday
The Gazette
Posted: October 4, 2013
Just what happens when a person is denied sleep?After a restless night of bad dreams, New
York filmmaker Lucille Hansen was inspired.
"I was being chased by a shadow figure, and I couldn't sleep," she said. "When I closed my
eyes, the figure was there, too. I became really intrigued by the idea of not being able to sleep.
If sleep was critical to a human's existence, could we survive without it?"
She researched insomnia, and found Fatal Familial Insomnia, a genetic disease. It became
the basis of her first film, a 20-minute psychological thriller called "Awake." It will be shown at
the 6th Annual Indie Spirit Film Festival on Saturday. The festival starts Thursday and runs
through Sunday at varying locations.
Read more at: http://gazette.com/colorado-springs-indie-spirit-film-festival-opens-thursday/article/1506978#LodE9OQoKbE751ox.99
American Autumn
Adult Life Hypocrisies Are Parodied by a Cast of Elementary School ActorsPosted: September 17, 2013
An ensemble cast of children tackles the travails of grownup society around a New York dining table
in this excerpt of comedic drama American Autumn . Echoing the grand mood of such 1970s New
York-set classics as Annie Hall and Kramer Vs. Kramer , as well as the late period films of surrealist
Luis Buñuel, the 20-minute short was shot over four days by 23-year-old Catalan émigré Albert Moya.
Though ruminating on the foibles of metropolitan dinner parties, and the varying shades of Manhattan
in the fall, the film is as much influenced by Moya’s growing up among a large family in Tarragona,
Spain, where he would study the various conversations and hang-ups of his aunts and uncles at big
gatherings. “Working with kids really makes me feel super awake,” he says. “There is something in
their innocence and that magic moment of discovering something for the first time that really catches
me.” The actors were aged between seven and 12, and the director remembers such antics as one
cast member daubing their name on an expensive leather sofa during rehearsal, and the blossoming
of a first romance between two of the young stars. “They really felt in love,” reminisces Moya. “It
couldn’t have been cuter.”
See more at: http://www.nowness.com/home/2013/9/17/3336/american-autumn
Interview: American Autumn
KID-IN
by Larissa Zaharuk
Posted May 13, 2013
At a bourgeois-posh foodie inspired dinner party with high-art direction to match, seven and
eight year old actors wrap their minds around alarmingly sophisticated themes and their
mouths around some scathing one-liners. For the viewer, the result is unique; a bemused
state of amusement that is difficult to name but is no less satiating.
The devices – of unreal stylization and a cast composed of innocents – establish equally the
chimera realm that is American Autumn, access to which requires a stroll down the razor’s
edge between adult ‘society’ and child’s play. However, the parallel – between a debut film as impossibly polished as this and its young
director’s precocious choice to skew age-appropriate roles – is the real take away.
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