Stranger With My Face: this weekend!
February 16th, 2012 at 16:48
A reminder to Hobart residents about the exciting women in horror film festival happening over this weekend.
It will screen dark, subversive and entertaining films by women, from exploitation to art house, gore to ghost stories. It takes its name from the teen horror novel by Lois Duncan, inspired by archetypes like the ‘mad woman in the attic’ and the ‘evil twin.’
Stranger With My Face is the creation of award-winning Tasmanian filmmakers Briony Kidd and Rebecca Thomson and is an official ‘Women in Horror Recognition Month’ event.
It will feature two blocks of short horror films by women on 18 February, including a showcase of films from the Viscera Film Festival, a US-based festival which starts in LA and tours its ‘sick chick flicks’ around the world.
And here’s the info again about the talk I’m giving on the Sunday [note time change: it was 4pm, now 4:30]
TALK: Genre and gender in our own landscape
From Australian ‘dark weird’ to Tasmanian Gothic
Fantasy author Tansy Rayner Roberts talks about Australian writers who find the horror, fantasy and ‘dark weird’ in the Australian landscape, as well as her own experiences writing about magic, female protagonists and monsters in Tasmanian settings. Tansy’s talk will be followed by a Q & A about writing, grant applications and getting published in speculative fiction (horror, science fiction and fantasy).
TIME: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm, 19 February
LOCATION: Peacock Theatre – Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
COST: Gold coin donation
BOOKINGS: Not required but please RSVP on the Facebook events page and invite your friends.