TASPLOITATION: Registrations close on 10 January so get in quick!

After sell-out events in 2013 and 2014 …

On the weekend of 22 to 24 January 2016 filmmakers from all walks of life, from pros to complete beginners with phone cameras in hand, will gather in the Hobart CBD.

At 7pm on the Friday 22 January registered teams will be given three items…a prop, a line of dialogue and a designated sub-genre of horror….And they’ll have 48 hours only to make a short horror film which must include all three of these elements.

The weird, wonderful and terrifying results will be screened in front of an enthusiastic crowd on Monday 25 January (the day before the Australia Day holiday). Anyone is welcome to enter! Successful teams in the past have consisted of anything from 15 people to a single person.

Awards will include the Screen Tasmania Grand Prize, which includes $1000 cash; the Tasmaniana Award (for a film that interprets the idea of “Tasploitation”, whether through use of location, style, dialogue or a general spirit) and the Award for a Young Filmmaker.

The jury 2016 consists of: award-winning filmmaker and renowned “Ozploitation” aficionado MARK HARTLEY (Not Quite Hollywood, Electric Boogaloo, Patrick); award-winning genre filmmaker SEAN BYRNE (The Loved Ones, The Devil’s Candy), a Tasmanian who has recently released his second feature film to acclaim on the festival circuit; writer, publisher and international genre festival programmer KIER-LA JANISSE (House of Psychotic Women); filmmaker FIONA McDONAGHY, whose recent credits include producing the webseries Noirhouse and as line producer on the upcoming Foxtel drama series The Kettering Incident; “Tasmanian Gothic” painter ELIZABETH BARSHAM.

These judges will attend the awards night in person on 25 January 2016 and will decide all awards – except the Grand Prize Winner, which will be chosen by special international judge JULIE CORMAN (producer of over 30 films in Hollywood, often in partnership with husband Roger Corman) from between the Jury Award and the Audience Choice Winner.

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE 10 JANUARY
Go to: strangerwithmyface.com/tasploitation-challenge-registration/

AWARDS NIGHT AND SCREENING:
25 January 2016
Briony Kidd Festival Director www.strangerwithmyface.com www.twitter.com/swmfiff www.facebook.com/swmfiff