Category Archives: Tender as Hellfire

  1. Tender As Hellfire: Film Festival Schedule

    This week sees the premier of the film festival circuit for Tender as Hellfire, the short film created here in Porterville this past year by director Jason Stone. Follow here at PortervillNerd.com or TenderAsHellfire.com for updates and additions to this schedule and other Tender as Hellfire news. VAIL FILM FESTIVAL (April 2-6) Screening on April [...]

  2. Tender as Hellfire – Poster and DVD Information

    At Thursday’s opening, Director Jason Stone announced the availability of Posters at the Sheltered Workers Print Shop on Olive. In the interest of keeping the cost of the posters down and getting everyone a wonderful souvenir of this special event as quickly as possible, I am negotiating a special deal Details after the jump.

  3. Tender as Hellfire – The Grand Opening

    Despite little more than a week’s word-of-mouth marketing, this past Thursday’s first public showing of Jason Stone’s short film “Tender as Hellfire” was a resounding success. Filmed in Porterville last summer, the film drew solid support for the last year from Porterville’s citizens. On this night, 500 of them turned out for the viewing, filling [...]

  4. Introducing Producer Barry Caplan and Location Porterville/Tulare County, California

    “Tender as Hellfire” a short thesis film by USC grad student Jason Stone, makes its silver screen debut in Porterville, CA on March 5 at 7PM at the Galaxy 9 Theater. Filmed last summer in Porterville ((trailer is www.tenderashellfire.com ), and based on the novel by Joe Meno, TaH tells the story of a 2 [...]

  5. 10 / 40 / 70 Movie Review – How does Porterville Stack Up?

    Just in time for Porterville’s silver screen debut next week comes this new and clever movie reviewing technique. Take 3 still frames at arbitrary times, 10 minutes in, then 40 and 70 minutes in exactly, and review the film based on those three framse. See how it goes with  10 / 40 / 70 Ocean’s [...]

  6. Tender as Hellfire First-Ever Public “Friends and Family” Viewing March 5th

    As many of you may know, this past summer I worked as an Associate Producer on a film called Tender as Hellfire, filmed right here in Porterville. The short film is about 20 minutes long, made by USC Film School graduate student Jason Stone as his thesis film to complete his Master’s Degree. The film [...]