LAST BROADCAST DIRECTOR HAUNTS CANNES WITH GHOSTS LOS ANGELES, CA -- Writer/Director Stefan Avalos follows up the success of his internationally acclaimed feature, The Last Broadcast, with a haunting supernatural thriller about the horrors of making it in Hollywood. The anticipated Ghosts of Edendale is off to a strong start with New Select snatching up rights to Japan. Now haunting the Cannes Film Festival, The Ghosts are available through world sales agent, Atlas International. Wired Magazine named Avalos as one of the "people helping to reinvent entertainment" when The Last Broadcast received international acclaim as the first "desktop feature film". The movie went on to screen throughout the world, winning accolades for its innovative approach to horror and becoming one of the most profitable feature films ever made. "When fans of The Last Broadcast started asking me to make another horror movie, I found the best idea in my own backyard - literally!" says Avalos. The Ghosts of Edendale is inspired by the ghost story of the hill where Avalos lives - in a neighborhood of Los Angeles once known as Edendale. "It was here that the silent movie studios were born. Before there ever was a Hollywood, there was Edendale. I combined that history with the nagging question of every newcomer to Hollywood: Will I have to sell my soul to follow my dreams?" In The Ghosts of Edendale, a young couple moves to Los Angeles determined to make it in the movies. They can't believe their luck when they find the perfect house on a hill "right next door to Hollywood". Here, all the neighbors are in the business, and they have high hopes for Kevin and Rachel. But when something sinister and strange takes hold of Kevin, Rachel begins to realize that Edendale has drawn them here for its own dark purpose. "Old movies are like ghosts," says Avalos. "I wanted to explore that idea. People long since dead still live on screen -- laughing, crying, walking through the same moments over and over. Ghosts are like old movies -- flickering through time and space, there and then gone, like no one's told them their time on screen has come to an end." Hollywood newcomers Stephen Wastell and Paula Ficara deliver riveting performances as Kevin and Rachel. Visual Effects Designer Scott Hale creates ghosts with a creepy sense of poignant decay. Director of Photography Lukas Ettlin (ASC Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, 2001) and composer Vincent Gillioz (Sundance Institute, 2002) evoke the foreboding of a relentless nightmare. Writer/director Avalos delivers a ghost story with all the paranoia of Rosemary's Baby and the Hollywood cynicism of The Player. To view the trailer and learn more about the movie, visit the website at www.ghostsofedendale.com. For press kit, e-mail Marianne Connor at marianne@ghostsofedendale.com.