While Womyns Gym, Kids Club and our yoga programs run at PHS Life Skills Centre, Beauty Night Makeover Facilitator, Tiffany Telford brings some Halloween cheer to the Celluloid Social Club tonight. (Doors open at 7:30pm at the ANZA Club #3 West 8th Ave at Ontario St). Tiffany will be offering Halloween makeup for minimum $10 donation, proceeds to Beauty Night Society.
Here are the details for tonight’s event:
Big Smash! Productions + The Celluloid Social Club present
BLOODSHOTS CANADA 2009 The 48-Hour Horror Filmmaking Challenge!
GRAND PRIZE $1000 as determined by DAN O’BANNON
(writer, ALIEN and TOTAL RECALL, writer/director of punk-horror classic RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD)
SHOOTING: Friday October 23 – 7:00pm – Sunday October 25 – 7:00pm
SCREENING: Wednesday October 28 – 8:00pm at the Anza Club (3 W. 8th, Vancouver) Doors 7:30 pm / $5 cash at door
Prize for Best Hallowe’en Costume at Screening
BNS (Beauty Night Society) makeup artists doing zombie makeup for a minimum $10 donation per person. Proceeds to BNS that teaches women and youth living with violence and poverty tools to heal their lives and our communities. Beauty Night… because dignity is beautiful
The 2009 Local Jury at the screening consists of past Bloodshots winner Scott Belyea (TEN MINUTES BEFORE SHOWTIME), director Matt O’Mahoney (ELECTRIC FENCE) and genre cinema bad-boy Uwe Boll (STOIC, POSTAL)!
All details and registration info at http://www.myspace.com/bloodshotscanada
As hundreds of DV filmmakers the world over have already learned, making a short film in one weekend can be terrifying. Lack of sleep is just the beginning of your problems when you are trying to corral actors into repeating their performance with more energy at 5 in the morning and you know you have only got another 6 hours to get a final edit of your masterpiece put together.
Well, start brewing your coffee now, because the people who brought you Vancouver’s CINEMUERTE FILM FESTIVAL (1999-2005) are getting set to bring you the 6th annual BloodShots 48-Hour Horror Filmmaking Contest – 25 Teams of filmmakers all fighting against the clock to make the best horror film they possibly can. There will be celebrity judges, fabulous prizes and several tons of fake blood!
At 7:00pm on Friday October 23, registered participants are given envelopes containing a horror subgenre (in past years this has included haunted house, giallo, backwoods horror, necrophilia film and more!), a weapon, a prop and a line of dialogue. They then have 48 hours to return their finished 2-7 minute film on DVD!
Every year, there is a BLOODSHOTS screening hosted by The Celluloid Social Club, where the films are voted on by both the audience, and an in-person jury. This year’s local jury consists of past Bloodshots winner Scott Belyea (TEN MINUTES BEFORE SHOWTIME), filmmaker Matt O’Mahoney (ELECTRIC FENCE) and genre cinema bad-boy Uwe Boll (STOIC, POSTAL)!
In-person jury prizes (from Rue Morgue, Maple Pictures, Happy Bats, Mondo Macabro DVD, Videomatica, The Rio Theatre and more) will be awarded on site immediately following the screenings and a short period of deliberation by the jury. Ballots will be handed out to the audience and collected after the screening. The results of these ballots will be combined with the online voting results to give us the overall Audience Winner.
These results will be posted online at www.myspace.com/bloodshotscanada on Monday Nov. 2. The jury winner and the overall audience winner are the two finalists that go on to the final round, being sent to the Grand Prize Juror for their shot at winning $1000!
This year’s Grand Prize Juror is DAN O’BANNON (writer of ALIEN and TOTAL RECALL, writer/director of punk-horror classic RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD). We will be sending the top jury-winning film and the audience-winning film to Dan, he will NOT be at the screening in person.
The 2009 contest is open to entrants throughout British Columbia. More details on rules, registration, jury, voting, and prizes are available at http://www.myspace.com/bloodshotscanada.
If you have any questions, email Kier-La Janisse at bigsmashproductions@gmail.com or call 204-998-5578.
