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Anna Lin as Zelda Flowers in Livescreamers (2024, dir Michelle Iannantuono)

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Let's play Trivia Murder Party with the Livescreamers gals!

Join me, Sarah Callahan Black (Gwen) and Anna Lin (Zelda) in a round of Trivia Murder Party live on the Octopunk Media Twitch next week, Oct 15 @ 3PM ET.

Also remember all our Twitch income in October will be donated to Western NC Helene relief! 🙏

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LIVESCREAMERS CAST! 

In advance of our upcoming IndieGogo campaign for Livescreamers, I want to share the full new cast for the film!

Livescreamers is the next feature horror film from Octopunk Media and today I can announce the full cast! This ensemble of actors makes up the fictional "Janus Gaming" team, a group of gaming content creators who fight for their lives against a haunted video game. The film is a found footage adventure that combines live action performances with custom gameplay built in Unreal Engine.

CAST AND CHARACTER DETAILS UNDER THE CUT

Leading is Michael Smallwood from Halloween Kills as "Nemo," a reserved member of the group who struggles to reconcile his desire to be liked by the audience with the traumas his audience has weighed on him. Next we have

 Neoma Sanchez as "Lucy," a shy young fan who visits the studio for the day. Of course, she picks the day where everyone's lives are threatened by a murdering game...but what can you do?

Christopher Trindade & Evan Michael Pearce make up the dynamic duo of "Jon" and "Davey," two best friends who share a webcam. Davey, always a coward during horror games, commentates over Jon's gameplay. Their fame hinges on their relationship, for better or for worse.

Anna Lin is "Zelda," a bona fide gamer girl from birth with a bubbly, positive personality. The only thing that gets her miffed is when bros try to stump her with Nintendo trivia. 

I'm so excited to reunite with Jillian Geurts as "Gwen," especially since the Hell House LLC movies made her no stranger to found footage. Gwen is an ambitious and intelligent woman who is often reduced to being judged only on her looks. She is also married to her teammate, Taylor.

Next we have Maddox Julien Slide as "Dice," a queer powerhouse who dominates the team with raw skill. Although often misunderstood by their peers and audience alike, Dice is firm in their convictions and their self esteem.

Horror veteran Lukas Hassel is "Mitch," the founder of Janus Gaming who has grown reserved and cynical with the challenging decisions he's made to keep his team afloat. You might know Lukas from The Blacklist or the upcoming Shudder movie Slapface!

And finally there's Coby Oram as Gwen's husband "Taylor," the handsome and charismatic fangirl favorite, who is equal parts sweet and chaotic.

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ANNA LIN for ALESHA TAYLOR COSMETICS

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Young Yet Wise

“PHONGG :) ♥ WASS GUUD ANGEL! :DD ugh LOL i gotta go study, but just wanna say heyy ♥ :D thanks fo always bein herre ♥ yu mean alot to me, and that post was also menat fo youu :) ♥ BETSIEE YO ♥! :D smile & always & forever ya ?” If you find that hard to understand, it’s just the way of checking up on me that my best friend uses. Her name? Anna Lin. You can see it in the message already. She’s busy, but always there for me. Most people, when asked to write up a narrative about a wise “teacher” would pick an elder, or in the least, someone older. Anna? She’s only sixteen, making her a year younger than I am, but she is one of the wisest and most understanding people you will ever meet in your life. She’s sixteen years old, Chinese, Catholic, five foot one inch, and an awesome breakdancer. I would love to tell you everything, but I really don’t want to make you sit here too long. I’ll tell you as much as I can in the limited space and time that I have. I’m a high school student, so I don’t have the opportunity to sit around for hours and work on this, otherwise this would be a much longer read. Before I can tell you our story, I need to let you know how we met, and I assure you, we met in a way that most people don’t. I’m breaking a really big rule of the site, but it’s necessary if I’m going to tell you about her. It’s a blogging website by the name of tumblr. I made mine in the summer of 2009, by forceful “request” of another friend, and sister, named Maria. The site is simple enough to understand; you can type up your own posts, read others, and use a feature called “reblogging.” With that feature, the post shows up onto your blog, with the source and credits visible of course. It works similar to twitter; you follow people you find interesting, and they can follow you back. That’s how I met Anna back in May of this year, 2011. She followed me, I liked her blog, and I followed back. We started talking to each other through tumblr, then we started calling each other. It was the only way we could communicate, since I live in Brooklyn Park, MN, and she lives in Brooklyn, New York. After awhile, we added each other on facebook, making it even easier to communicate. It was a fairly normal friendship, until my family’s annual road trip in July. I’d begun to feel depressed, and I had no idea why; I just felt like it was all over. I never self-harmed. Cutting just didn’t seem appealing, no matter what mood I was in. I confided in my closest friends, and even they couldn’t find an answer...or a solution. Finally, in Sanibel Island, Fort Meyers, Florida, I gave up. I’d decided to commit suicide. I’ve never really told anyone I didn’t trust about this, but since I’m telling you about Anna, you need to know everything. It seemed like it was me against the world, like no one cared. I felt so weak, so frail, and so alone. I figured, “No one’s going to care if I’m gone. They’ll cry and go to the funeral, but then what? They’ll just forget about me, I’ll be another box six feet under the ground; another tombstone growing weeds...” And so, as a final goodbye, I logged onto tumblr for what I thought would be my last time, and I posted, “I give up. Goodbye, everyone...” Anna had apparently been on at the time as well. She’d read it and right away jumped into my inbox and messaged me, asking me what’s wrong. I told her everything, saying, “I’m done. No one cares about me or notices my pain. What’s the point of living for nothing? I’m alone. I’ll always be alone, Anna.” She couldn’t take no for an answer, and because of that, she saved my life. She sent a plethora of messages to me, but I can’t really put them all in here. Too much “plagiarism” by definition. One of the most touching messages I received from her that night was this: “Beautiful. Yes i will. Im so scared. I cant lose you seriously. And what happened?! Why are you giving up ? Remember whatever you are feeling i’m feeling too. I’m so scared. I cant sleep. I’m going to stay up all night right here by your side on itouch. I cant go on without you man. Don’t do this to me;(((((((.” She had to log off of tumblr, but she decided to message me on facebook instead. We stayed up the entire night talking, and by morning, I was back to the way I was when I’d first met her. I ended up calling her to say thank you and good morning, and she had the brightest, happiest tone in the world, I swear she could have melted the coldest of hearts. I called and said, “Good morning, Anna.” The moment I finished my greeting, my ear was bombarded with, “GOOD MORNING! I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE FEELING BETTER. GOTTA ALWAYS STAY STRONG, YO! I LOVE YOU!” I couldn’t stop smiling for that entire day. I was just so full of warmth, just from having her with me all night and hearing how happy she was the next morning; the feeling was incredible. After that event, we talked often. Whether it was through tumblr, facebook, or phone, you could hear the happiness in our voices. Of course, you can’t hear anything on messages from tumblr and facebook, but you could still feel the radiating warmth from each and every message. Most of our messages are always something along the lines of a greeting, a short inspiring and/or uplifting message, and then something like, “have an awesome day!” A favorite message that I reread now and again is a message I received in about the middle of August. “Ayy hanks fo always bejg here again(: yu make me smike! Hanks sommchh(: and soryy i cant call or anythigg. Yu awlays her in my heart tho(: dont ever feel lonely God is with us im here kn the a ellnaet bestir. Planet(: so late but i wanred to erite toyouu(: i dont take yu for granted bro. Sorry i reply late alot. Im madd lazy and just i dk . But llease be happy;) yur happjness is mine. I thank God for you and i ray for your happiness. You kean alot to mebro. (: always homies legitt(: I’m going to have to translate that so you can better understand it. What she said was, “Ayy thanks for always being here again (: You make me smile! Thanks so much (: and sorry i can’t call or anything. You’re always here in my heart though (: Don’t ever feel lonely God is with us i’m here bestie. so late but i wanted to write to you (: I don’t take you for granted bro. sorry i reply late a lot. I’m mad lazy and just I don’t know. But please be happy ;) your happiness is mine. I thank God for you and I pray for your happiness. You mean a lot to me bro. (: always homies legit (:" I don’t believe that I’ve ever deleted any of the messages she’s sent me. Every time I feel down, I read those messages again, and just that makes me smile and feel better. It’s my alternative for when I can’t call or text her, which is pretty often. We’re an hour apart in time zones, and because she attends a Technical facility, and I’m a senior high student, it makes it difficult for us to talk to each other whenever we want. Weekends aren’t any different. By the time she’s out of class and able to call me, I’m at my church’s Youth Group and can’t pick up. However, she makes up for it with adorable voicemails. Just like her tumblr messages, they’re extremely uplifting and warming, no matter how bad my day was. I actually just called her the other night to leave her a late night voicemail, but to my surprise, she picked up. It wasn’t a very long conversation, but just hearing her voice made my night and made me forget how bad of a day I’d had. That day just didn’t seem right. I’d been distracted, and couldn’t focus on anything; not even editing my music tracks in my favorite class. I drove back to the school to pick up my brother feeling pretty empty and disappointed with myself. I spent the rest of the day going through a normal routine, getting home, doing homework, wandering around on facebook, blogging on tumblr, and texting people with a false smile. Before I went to bed, I figured I’d leave Anna a voicemail saying goodnight. I never thought that she’d be awake to pick up, but just like that, in a half a second, everything bad about that day disappeared, and I found myself smiling helplessly while we talked for what was probably two minutes. Not two hours, or twenty minutes, but just two minutes. I’m sitting in a chair right now, in my family’s dining room, on a laptop typing this essay about my best friend and greatest teacher. Is anyone ever going to read this other than me, my peer editors, and Ms. Rieck? I highly doubt it, but there’s always that off chance that she likes it and shows it to somebody else. I’m not Le Ly Hayslip, or Elie Wiesel. I can’t turn one experience into a full novel. Then again, I’m not their age and my story doesn’t span for as many years. Then again, my experiences with death and loved ones can probably match theirs. We’ve all had our share of losing and gaining loved ones, staring death in the face, and finally realizing what life is all about and why we’re here. You see, it’s not about money, having the latest gadgets, having the best paying job, or anything like that. In actuality, life is about living it for others, not yourself. Don’t frown on others, but rather, reach out to them and care for them. God put us all here for a reason, and we shouldn’t waste the life he’s given us. That is the greatest lesson Anna has taught me so far, and I’m pretty sure it won’t be the last. She’s an amazing person, with the wisdom of an elder. She may be younger, but I do admire and look up to her. Thanks to her, I was able to come up with my own way to live. "Live strong, laugh often, and love deeply. You never know when your last day is going to be. So why not live each one to it’s fullest? And I don’t mean that you should live on the edge. Take a step back and look at the entire mountain for you to discover.” - Phong Do Anna, if you read this, I just hope you know that I still and always will love you. You've done so much for me that I'll probably never be able to return. We don't talk like at all anymore, but I thought seeing this might remind you about how we started off <3