Red State to open Montreal's FanTasia

The latest film from writer-director Kevin Smith, Red State, has been selected to open the 2011 FanTasia Film Festival in Montreal. A long time in the making, Smith first talked of this project in 2006 and announced its title in 2007. Funding was announced in 2009, but filming didn't begin on the rumoured 4-million dollar project until late last year. Smith decided to edit the project as it was being shot and showed the first cut of Red State during the production's wrap party. The plot of the film is fairly straight forward if you lean your head over to an extreme angle and squint just a little bit with your left eye. It begins with three teenagers who come across an online personal advertisement from an older woman looking for kinky group sex. But what begins as a fantasy takes a dark turn as they come face-to-face with a terrifying fundamentalist religious force with a fatal agenda. (more)