Film Festival Updates

Posted on by Jon Sewell

Hi Friends!

We wanted to take a few minutes to update you on how things are developing with our Film Festival submissions.

Madrid International Film Festival

September 1st – 5th, 2020

The Rite of Saturn is nominated for:

Best Costume

Best Hair, Makeup & Body Design

Best Original Score

Jury Award

People are invited to attend the festival on-line, with the following ticket options:

Screening Pass

Full Festival Pass

Awards Night Pass

The Rite of Saturn Pentagram
Lesser Pentagram Ritual – The Rite of Saturn

In addition we’ve received more details from:

First Hermetic Film Festival

The Festival date has yet to be announced

The Rite of Saturn is nominated for:

Best Picture – Mercure Award
Best Feature Film – Caduceus Award
Best Music Video – Kenneth Award
Best Music – Atalanta Award

The 2020 Hermetic Film Festival will be a virtual event. Tickets are not yet available, but we will post them here as soon as they are!

Musical Themes

Posted on by Jon Sewell

Hello Friends!

Today we’re dropping the final video in our series of seven short videos wherein we discuss our creative process and the lessons we learned along the way. In this video Jon talks about musical themes, mysteries hidden in the score, motivations foreshadowed in the music, and what the tones can tell you.


Seven Lessons – Lesson Seven, The Rite of Saturn: Musical Themes

In other exciting news, as of yesterday we are an official selection of the First Hermetic International Film Festival. We are awaiting some clarification on which categories we’ve been selected for, and will keep you in the loop as we find out.

As with the Festival in Madrid, this year this Festival in Venice, Italy will be taking place online. As we learn more details we share it here, in case any of you want to attend the gala event remotely!

Thanks again to everyone who has been watching The Rites of Eleusis, and sharing the videos with their friends. The outpouring of support has been moving, and we are so grateful to everyone who helped to make this work a reality!

Visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ritesofeleusis for streaming,
or order the DVDs or stream on Amazon.