Label Showcase: Yellow Veil

Yellow Veil Pictures is a NY/LA based worldwide film sales and distribution company. Focusing on boundary pushing genre cinema, we seek to highlight emergent filmmakers who exist on the cusp of commercial, arthouse cinema.

Rats!

It’s 2007 in Pfresno, Texas. Raphael is in county jail following an arrest for graffiti. He’s a good kid. It’s just graffiti. So you can’t blame Raphael for the events that unfold after his arrest. He’s not responsible for the sting operation, Pflophaus’s new mixtape, Officer Williams and her delusional suspicions, the meth pipes, the FBI, the rich kids with nothing...Read More

She's Allergic to Cats

A lonely dog groomer in Hollywood searches for love, but his true passion is making weird video art that nobody understands. His menial routine spirals out of control when he meets the girl of his dreams, crossing boundaries between reality.

Ladyworld

After a catastrophic event, eight girls find themselves stranded in a house without electricity. As they run out of food and water, their sanity begins to crumble, and soon they regress to their baser instincts.

Without Name

Follows a land surveyor on an assignment to measure an ancient forest for a developer but soon loses his reason in a supernatural environment that has its own plans.

Knocking

After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly (Cecilia Milocco) moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night. Molly’s new life begins to unravel as the screams intensify and no one else in the building believes or is willing to help her.

We Kill for Love: The Lost World of the Erotic Thriller

We Kill for Love goes in search of the forgotten world of the direct-to-video erotic thriller, an American film genre that once dominated late night cable television and the shelves of neighborhood video stores. Through interviews with the many directors, writers, and actors who fanned the flames of this sexy subgenre, to academics and film historians whose books ha...Read More

Lux Æterna

Warning: This film contains extended sequences of flashing lights that may impact people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised. New French Extremity auteur Gaspar Noé’s Lux Æterna (2019) is a hypnotic, nerve-frying descent into meta-filmmaking chaos. As Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg prepare for a shoot, they discuss filmmaking war stor...Read More

The Book of Birdie

Birdie is a fragile and introverted teenager with a dark imagination. At an imposing, nearly-empty convent perched on the edge of a frozen lake, Birdie is unceremoniously placed into the care of the nuns where she develops unusual obsessions that will mark her as either a saint or a heretic.

Calvaire

In director Fabrice du Welz's Calvaire, a traveling entertainer is on his way home for Christmas when his van breaks down in the middle of a village, where he quickly falls victim to a dangerously unhinged innkeeper determined to keep him captive. This dark, unsettling film from the New French Extremity movement is available for the first in the US in high definitio...Read More

The Midnight Swim

Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom, though many have tried. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home to settle her affairs. But when the half sisters jokingly summon a local ghost, their relationship begins to unravel and they find themselves drawn deeper into the mysteries of the lake.

The Long Walk

An old scavenger living on the fringes of a near-future society exploits a ghostly companion’s ability to traverse time, hoping to prevent his mother’s suffering from a terminal illness. Laotian director Mattie Do’s sci-fi thriller premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019.

Dream Team

Dream Team is a postmodern, soft-core fever dream from directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, and produced by Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow). "Think Baywatch Nights directed by Maya Deren," says the film's label Yellow Veil.  In this absurdist homage to 90’s basic cable TV thrillers, two Interpol agents investigate a coral smuggler's mysterious death. The investi...Read More