LAFF 2017: Serpent Wins Nightfall Award; The Housemaid Gets Special Mention
Jonathan Barkan
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The annual Los Angeles Film Festival ends its run tonight and they’ve announced the winners across various categories. Of interest to us in the horror community are the Nightfall Award, which was taken by Serpent, and the Special Mention for Acting, which went to Kate Nhung of The Housemaid.
Says Festival Director Jennifer Cochis, “This year the LA Film Festival stretched all across our city, from downtown to the beach. We’re so grateful to the film lovers who packed our theaters in support of our storytellers. Today we celebrate the winners of the LA Film Festival Awards!”
We send our congratulations to the filmmakers, cast, and crew of these two films for such prestigious accomplishments!
In Serpent, a young couple take a getaway aimed at reviving their romance only to find themselves trapped in a tent with a venomous snake and a backlog of secrets. They come to realize that only one of them can make it out alive. The film made its world premiere at the festival.
In The Housemaid, an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina and she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner, awakening the vengeful ghost of his dead wife. It was the film’s North American premiere.
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