Media release: 2nd Annual 48-Hour Tasploitation Challenge Winners Announced!

Hobart – 22 August 2024 – Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival kicked off last night with the awards night and screening of the very popular 48-Hour Tasploitation Challenge, which returns for a second year (it’s the third year of the fest itself).

Teams were given 48 hours to make a short horror film (6mins or less) with three random prompts given to them at 8 pm on Friday night: an object, a line of dialogue and a horror sub-genre.

The result was 16 short films screened in competition (plus 4 screened out of competition – whose films didn’t quite make the deadline!). They were screened to a packed house at the Grand Poobah in Hobart last night, with a dress up theme and twin choc top sellers adding to the atmosphere.

The prize winners were:

Screen Tasmania Prize for Best Film ($500) – Bring The Cat In by RMH Films
Wide Angle Tasmania Audience Choice Prize – Living Things For Lively Youngsters by Tripe Productions
Cooper Screen Academy Prize for Best Performance – Rob Braslin in Toy Boy by The (Totally) Lost Boys
Monster Pictures Prize for the Sickest Film – Shithouse by The Decomposers
Special FX/Design Prize – Blood Gen by Play Nice
Tasmaniana Award – Lady Garden by Carrie McLean
MONA Award for the Most Original Film – Orange Lies by Special Patrol Group (filmmakers Sarah L. Badcock, Isabella J. von Lichtan and Matthew Taylor composer)

Teams included emerging filmmakers and experienced filmmakers and absolute beginners. Many teams, including the winners, RMH Films, involved children as collaborators and performers! As well as a prize from Screen Tasmania, the winning film will screen at the Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival later this year.

The judges of the awards were: