Monthly Archives: February 2013

MEDIA RELEASE: Stranger With My Face announces special international guest Jennifer Lynch

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Tickets are now on sale for the niche genre festival, 7-10 March in Hobart

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Jennifer Lynch directing Hisss in Mumbai

Hobart – 27 February— Highly regarded filmmaker Jennifer Lynch (daughter of iconic filmmaker David Lynch) will be a special guest at the Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival in Hobart next week.

Lynch will be present for the opening night film Despite the Gods, a documentary which details her difficult experiences while directing the feature film Hissss in India.

The film’s director, Australian Penny Vozniak, will also be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

“This is the ideal film to open the festival,” says Stranger With My Face’s Briony Kidd, “It’s not only a hugely entertaining doco, but it concerns the struggle of a female director making genre cinema, so will be of particular interest to our audience and the other visiting filmmakers.”

“We’re excited to have Jennifer at the festival, because she’s had a fascinating career to date and her work is so strong and original.”

The Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival focuses on female perspectives in the horror genre and highlights the work of women specifically, in an area of the film industry where they are greatly underrepresented behind the camera. Continue reading →

Little gems at SWMF 2013

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TheStolen200X200There may be one or two extra films sneaking into the festival, but for the moment….We are pleased to be able to announce the short film line-up for 2013…

These films are unique and potent contributions to the program, each reflecting on the idea of ‘the darkness within’ in some sense.

(With the exception of Destri Martino’s The Director, it has to be said, but you’ll understand why that’s screening when you see it.)

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What’s the collective noun for screenwriters? A murder?

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There’s just over 12 hours left for our 10 By 10 Challengers to submit their scripts!

This year we have over 100 participating writers from all over Tasmania, from across Australia and from as far afield as England, Wales, Canada, USA, New Zealand and Mexico!

(That’s more than twice as many writers as last year, by the way).

Havisham

One of the prizes to be given is the Miss Havisham Award, for the best script that portrays gender in an innovative, balanced or original way.

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She’s on DVD & Blu-Ray… but watch her in Hobart first!

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American Mary hits DVD and Blu-Ray in Australia today, via the excellent Monster Pictures.

American Mary poster

So grab yourself a copy, horror fans… and fans of kick-ass Canadian twin-sister filmmaking duos! (who isn’t?)

But if you’re the kind of cinephile who reveres the big screen above all, you now have one more chance to see Bloody Mary on the big screen. Get to Stranger With My Face in Hobart on the official opening night of the festival, 8 March, and see the film with your fellow fans, the way God (and Soskas) intended!

American Mary has picked picked up over 15 international awards including Best Picture at Screamfest, Toronto After Dark and Shudder Fest.

Jen and Sylvia’s first feature, Dead Hooker in a Trunk, screened at Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival 2012.

FX wiz Steve Boyle to visit Hobart for Stranger With My Face

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FX wiz Steve Boyle to visit Hobart

to present a two-hour masterclass called Anatomy of a Monster: From Script to Screen

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Hobart – 18 February— Steve Boyle, Australia’s leading effects and special makeup artist, will be in Hobart to present a workshop entitled Anatomy of a Monster: From Script to Screen on 9 March, 2013, as part of the Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival (SWMF).

Boyle recently worked on Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit and King Kong, as well as creating creature effects for Aussie horror flicks Undead, Daybreakers and Bait 3D.

He is currently in Melbourne working on pre-production for the science fiction film Predestination, which stars Ethan Hawke.

“This will be my first time to Tasmania,” says Steve, “And I’m really excited to be part of Stranger With My Face. I hear there’s quite a film scene down there now and looking forward to meeting some of Tassie’s local filmmakers.”

Boyle will take participants through the process of working from the script, designing and building creature effects, to the final sequences in the film. Audience members will also be given the opportunity to ask questions and gain insights into working on big budget horror and fantasy films.

“The fact that Steve has a background in indie film but has also worked on massive Hollywood productions is a plus for us,” says Festival Director Briony Kidd. “We’re about inspiring and empowering creative artists who might be just starting out, and Steve’s career is proof how far talent and hard work can take them.”

This year’s SWMF features emerging special effects makeup artist Mel Cooper as ‘artist in residence’. “Mel will be transforming festival staff into horror creations to add some ghoulish glamour to proceedings. Having Steve in town is a unique opportunity for her and other Tasmanian artists who are passionate about this kind of work.”

“It’s going to provide a fascinating insight for the general public as well.”

Steve Boyle masterclass: Anatomy of a Monster: From Script to Screen

Peacock Theatre, Hobart

4 pm, 9 March 2024

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