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For their 4th annual edition, the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival is pulling out all the stops, spotlighting great local and international filmmaking talent over the course of three days, Dec. 2-4, on two screens at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (McAd).

The fest opens with an ambitious Minneapolis-based move: Tyler Jensen’s 30 Films 30 Days. Working with hundreds of local participants, Jensen and his team completed a short film a day over the course of one month and this feature compiles all of them into one package. Plus, also screening on the same night is the groovy grindhouse horror flick The Disco Exorcist by Richard Griffin.

Over the course of the next two full days and nights, two of the best highlights of this year’s Muff include Usama Alshaibi‘s masterful mix of sex and religion Profane, Stuart Simpson‘s retro-sleazetastic monster flick El Monstro Del Mar!, neither of which are to be missed!

Indie film darlings Rachel Grubb and Brooke Lemke have a twisted new project planned, but this time they're taking it to the Internet.

Lemke and Grubb are producing a 12-episode webseries called Safe Word. Lemke will be directing this "dark and revealing taboo-laden story about a man with a secret, and the lengths he will go to come to terms with it." [Editor's note: This is just conjecture, but I'm willing to bet the secret has something to do with sex…at least, it better.] Written by Grubb, the project began life as a feature but morphed into a webseries along the way.

The ladies have a locked a pretty solid cast for Safe Word, including Grubb (Why Am I in a Box?), Ryan Kiser (the upcoming Potpourri), Anne Westcott (Third Party '08), Devanny Pinn (Piranha) and Scott McClure (The Joker Blogs).

The series will be produced under the aegis of Silent-But-Deadly Productions, Grubb and Lemke's Minneapolis-based production company. I know that Grubb made the big move to Los Angeles a while back,...

Indie film darlings Rachel Grubb and Brooke Lemke have a twisted new project planned, but this time they're taking it to the Internet.

Lemke and Grubb are producing a 12-episode webseries called Safe Word. Lemke will be directing this "dark and revealing taboo-laden story about a man with a secret, and the lengths he will go to come to terms with it." [Editor's note: This is just conjecture, but I'm willing to bet the secret has something to do with sex…at least, it better.] Written by Grubb, the project began life as a feature but morphed into a webseries along the way.

The ladies have a locked a pretty solid cast for Safe Word, including Grubb (Why Am I in a Box?), Ryan Kiser (the upcoming Potpourri), Anne Westcott (Third Party '08), Devanny Pinn (Piranha) and Scott McClure (The Joker Blogs).

The series will be produced under the aegis of Silent-But-Deadly Productions, Grubb and Lemke's Minneapolis-based production company. I know that Grubb made the big move to Los Angeles a while back,...

Drugs. Drugs are bad. Especially manufactured drugs. If it's not grown directly out of the Earth, you probably shouldn't be messing with it. However, if it's made in a lab and causes an undead epidemic, screw it, dude - toke up!

The new indie flick Potpourri is having its world premiere Thursday, October 6th, at the Riverview Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Starring Ryan Kiser, Mike Borka, Shannon McDonough, and Scarlet Salem, the flick is written and directed by Elliot Diviney, who has been making films since he was seven years old. Elliot brought his daring and ambitious script to producer/actor Brandon Van Vliet from Restraining Hollywood in November 2009, and together they set out to make something truly fun, daring and unique:

"An experimental, drug-induced time travel, holiday, fantasy musical comedy with zombies!" Um ... sign us up? For more info on the premiere and more, check out the official Potpourri website.

Minnesota's insanely sexy model and indie actress Scarlet Salem (below) is one heck of a busy lady. Today we have news of not one, but two great new projects Miss Salem is involved in. First up is Elliot Diviney's 'Potpourri' which is being billed as 'an Experimental, Drug induced, Time-travel, Holiday, Fantasy, Musical, Comedy with Zombies!' - you don't get more intriguing than that! Secondly she'll be taking on new crime thriller 'In Harm's Way', co-written and helmed by John Karsko. You can check out the trailer's and more plot details for both project below. Scarlet Salem herself is currently shooting 'Scream Queen Campfire', a horror anthology which also stars horror hotties Devanny Pinn ('Nude Nuns with Big Guns') and Monique Dupree ('Bikini Bloodbath Christmas'). There's also a bonus slew of hot Salem pics below to enjoy....

Some news on a couple of films coming out in 2011 from Minnesota. Indie horror Scream Queen Scarlet Salem, the very woman who has the pleasure of seeing famous horror author Joe Knetter's wonderful ass tattoo each and every day (lucky girl), has a role in each film. Let's take a quick look at both!

First up - Potpourri.

The flick is written and directed by Elliot Diviney, who has been making films since he was seven years old. Elliot brought his daring and ambitious script to producer/actor Brandon Van Vliet from Restraining Hollywood in November 2009, and together they set out to make something truly fun, daring and unique:

"An experimental, drug-induced time travel, holiday, fantasy musical comedy with zombies!" Um ... sign us up? For more info check out the official Potpourri website.

Synopsis

A group of students at a liberal arts college in Minneapolis are faced with expulsion...

Hey peeps! Check out the cool teaser trailer for the upcoming comedic-horror film 'Potpourri'. This indie offering by director/screenwriter Elliot Diviney looks really fast paced and has many cool people involved with it. We'll have a lot more on this film soon but for now check out the synopsis and the teaser after the jump Synopsis: "Potpourri" is an Experimental-Comedic-Horror Film by Diviney Pictures & Restraining Hollywood - A group of students at a liberal arts college in Minneapolis are faced with expulsion if their final philosophy papers are not satisfactory. As a result, the inept group of friends decides to experiment with a series of illicit drugs, in an effort to expand their cognitive horizons and help them better understand some of the mind-bending concepts of the course. Each is taken on a different adventure as the students begin to realize how severely they've underestimated the effects of the drugs.

Sarah French aka Scarlet Salem burst onto the horror scene only four years ago diving in head first. She also models, she even hangs out at the conventions when she can and is a really grounded and cool girl, oh and really pretty; which you're fixing to find out! Check out what we talked about below, everything from her past and present projects and modeling , to the Comic Book Divas project we are involved in together, to her putting me in my place with my pretend alter ego Captain Awesome. Brian S- Hi Sarah, first off can you tell me where your alter-ego Scarlet Salem came from? You know I have one too, I'm Captain Awesome! Scarlet- Oh, cool! I think your friend, Lieutenant Lame has hit on me a few times, haha! My very first photographer told me I needed a ‘stage name’ so I could stand out and be on the safe side.