Tom Felton’s “White Other” to screen in London, New York and Providence

For those of coming off the end of an era high that is the release of the last Harry Potter film, don’t forget that Tom has another film screening across the globe this summer. His short film White Other, directed by Dan Hartley will be playing at the Zero Film Festival in London, the New York City International Film Festival in New York City, and as previously reported, FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

The Zero Film Festival is an independent not-for-profit festival devoted entirely to promoting the works of independent filmmakers who completely self finance their films. Based out of New York, the festival has been holding screenings not only there, but in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is the first year the festival has branched out across the pond. White Other will be shown as part of the three day festival that started yesterday tomorrow, July 16th as part of their 8:30 pm GMT shorts program. Tickets are £8 at the door, and the screening is to be held at the Shortwave Cinema in London.

In August, the film will come back across the pond to the U.S. for screenings on the East Coast. First up is FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival from August 9th – 14th. White Other will be taking part in its Oscar qualifying shorts competition. The final program has not been released to the public, but there is a Feltbeats.com contingency planning to attend so they may once again see Tom on the big screen. Please contact myself or fellow Feltbeats Administrator Gidge if you would like to join us.

To end the summer, the film will be shown at the New York City International Film Festival between August 11th and 21st. After the festival completes its run at the Hudson Theatre, the film will then be shown free in Times Square August 22nd – 28th. The screenings will be mixed up daily and shown between 1pm and 10pm with a feature film from the festival presented every night at 8pm EST. If you happen to be in the area and possibly wandering through, let us know if you are able to catch the film screened free to the masses.

If you have any questions regarding the screenings or what’s up next for the film, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Disclaimer: I, Feltbeats admin Lily, am a paid employee of Rogue Runner Ltd, owner of short “White Other”, and am completely biased in my representation of said film. Not that I wouldn’t be anyway, just attempting to keep this post legal.

Tom Felton looks like Jason Isaacs’ dad

MTV.com released a video of Tom Felton and Rupert Grint where they tell how they felt in the final “Harry Potter” scene.

Though the story of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2” ends with Harry’s battle against Voldemort, the real goodbye to the franchise comes through an epilogue sequence at the end of the movie.

It’s a scene MTV has been talking to the cast of the “Harry Potter” films about for many years, especially after the creative heads decided to age the stars using makeup instead of cast a new set of actors. Now that the film is less than 24 hours away from being released, the stars were ready to open up about how they felt about the final “Harry Potter” scene.

“With the way it ends, it definitely got balanced right, it was believable, but it was a weird scene to film,” Rupert Grint told MTV News.

The actor better known as Ron Weasley had to shoot the epilogue sequence twice after director David Yates decided that the first attempt didn’t work as well. In the scene that is used in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,” Ron has gained a pot belly and some stubble, but the first version also featured a serious receding hairline and some unflattering jowls.

“The images of me still haunt me,” Grint admitted with a traumatized look on his face. “It was like this monster Donald Trump kind of mixture. It was scary.”

His co-star Tom Felton agreed that Grint had not looked particularly attractive the first time, but he wasn’t entirely happy with how his character, Draco Malfoy, turned out either. His real-life girlfriend, Jade Olivia, played his onscreen wife in the sequence and he got to wear a muscle suit — “It was quite cool, I felt quite ripped” — but despite his “lovely goatee” and longer hairstyle, Felton wasn’t entirely satisfied with the results.

Unfortunately for the “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” star, he and Olivia “nailed it” the first time, and thus weren’t called back for reshoots. “They were pretty cruel, don’t you think?” Felton asked. “Nineteen years, they were supposed to base it on Jason Isaacs! I look like Jason Isaacs’ dad! I mean, come on.”