Minggu, 05 September 2010

Grimm Up North Film Festival, horror sci-fi movie fest, Manchester, UK



Date: Oct 28-31
Venue: The Dancehouse, Manchester, UK

FILMS:
This year's films include: Aliens vs Ninjas, Reel Zombies, Evil: In the Time of Heroes (aka To Tako 2) and Slice.

GUESTS:
Special guests this year include Ramsey Campbell, David Moody, Christopher Priest, Grenville Charles, Scott MacIntyre, Conrad Williams and Richard Evans.

EVENTS:
This year's events include seminars on adapting a novel into a movie, making monsters, exploring how artificial intelligence has been portrayed in movies, and a comedy stage adaptation "How to Survive A Zombie Apocalypse."

ABOUT:
It�s grim up north, as the saying goes. But now every Halloween in Manchester � it�s GRIMM UP NORTH!

Tales of mystery, terror and the supernatural have always been with us, since the first cavemen crowded around the campfire. Forming the basis of our legends and fairytales, they are how we deal with our fears and make sense of our world. At Grimm Up North, we want you to celebrate those fears and challenge those perceptions, by offering a boundary-pushing, perception-challenging experience of the unknown and the fantastic.

Launched in 2009, Grimm Up North started as it means to go on. The inaugural festival screened 25 features, including 15 premieres, many featuring Q&As and seminars with directors, cast and crew. Last year we screened movies from Japan, Finland, Germany, Romania, Canada and Australia. Many of the award-winning international movies were UK premieres and for some will have been their only UK outing on a big screen � indeed some may never get a UK release at all.

We screened films as diverse as the Tarkovsky-influenced SAUNA from Finland and Romanian art house vampire movie STRIGOI. Supporting our homegrown talent, we covered the new wave of UK horror from the micro-budgeted COLIN, to gritty social-realist psycho drama TONY. But we never lost sight of our hardcore genre audience, with sold-out screenings of genre classics DAWN OF THE DEAD and HALLOWEEN, as well as a gala premi�re of THE DESCENT 2 that also featured a Q&A with the cave chiller sequel�s director and cast. Other guests included HELLRAISER�s very own Cenobites and author of The Prestige Ramsey Campbell. We also had an exhibition of work by SFX legend Bob Keen; props, storyboards and production stills from locally-produced shocker SPLINTERED; and a special game room set up by CAPCOM where punters could try out the new RESIDENT EVIL: DARKSIDE CHRONICLES game before its release.

All in all, even if we do say so ourselves, Grimm Up North 2009 was a Hell of a festival. It created impact at a national and international level, and in its very first year was being reviewed favourably. We intend to build on this � to truly put Manchester on the festival map with film distributors and movie fans alike.

And we�re not limiting ourselves to cinema, either. We want to spread a little GRIMMness across all of the arts and sciences. This year we are partnering with other festivals and organisations such as the Manchester Science Festival and The Manchester Literary Festival to bring more diverse, interactive events. These will include films with live musical accompaniment, a look at book to screen adaptations, and explorations of the scientific truths behind horror, fantasy and SF. There will be seminars, workshops and more. We�ll even be doing a couple of scary movies matinees in association with the Family Friendly Film Festival � we want to hook in your kids while they�re young and impressionable!

Grimm Up North: A festival of horror and fantasy, taking place on the last week of October in Manchester UK.

http://www.grimmfest.com/

Jumat, 03 September 2010

Salty Horror Film Festival, Nov 4-7



The Salty Horror Film Festival is Utah�s first ever film festival for horror and sci-fi/horror submissions.

The categories are:

Traditional Horror
Science Fiction Horror
Comedic Horror

Submissions can include

Feature Length Films
Short Films
Feature Length Screenplays
Short Screenplays
Horror Film Documentary
Horror Film Music
Trailers
Music Videos

http://www.saltyhorrorfilmfestival.com/


Fantastic Fest 2010 - horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action movie festival



Fantastic Fest is the largest genre film festival in the U.S., specializing in horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world. In years past we have presented the world premieres of THERE WILL BE BLOOD, APOCALYPTO, CITY OF EMBER, ZOMBIELAND, and GENTLEMEN BRONCOS, while our guest roster has included such talent as Mel Gibson, Bill Murray, Dolph Lundgren, Jemaine Clement, Paul Rudd, Bill Pullman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kevin Smith, Jon Favreau, George Romero, Darren Aronofsky and Mike Judge. We also feature world, national and regional premieres of new, up-and-coming genre films.

Fantastic Fest is held each year at the Paramount Theater and the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on South Lamar in Austin, Texas. The Alamo Drafthouse was named the best cinema in America by Entertainment Weekly and features food and drink served to your seat without any disruption of the movie experience.



http://www.fantasticfest.com/

How to create a unique skull tattoo...? by David Wesenburg

skull tattoo designs, girl tattooThere is literally a limitless amount of tattoo designs out there, but one of the coolest and yet rarely seen ones is skull tattoo designs. The reason we like these tattoo's so much is because you can take them and make them mean so many different things and no matter what you do to them they will always to cool. In this article you will learn how to design the perfect skull tattoo for yourself.

a. The location of the tattoo
One of the first things that you need to think of when getting a tattoo is where you are going to put it. With Skulls, you can put them just about anywhere and they will look cool, but the truth is these kinds of tattoo's always look better on the persons back or on the back of their calves. Don't get me wrong though, just about anywhere will work

b. Choosing the color
Let's think about this one for a second, when was the last time you saw someone get a tattoo of a skull and they actually added color to it? Probably never right? When most people get one of these tattoo's, they always make them black and white. Adding your favorite color is one of the best ways to personalize them.

c. The actual design
There is nothing wrong with wanting to get just a skull, but a lot of people want to spice it up a bit and add to the skull. If you want to add to the skull, one of the best ways to do that is to have fire coming out of it or maybe have some snakes coming out of the eyes.

How to create a unique skull tattoo...? by David Wesenburg

skull tattoo designs, girl tattooThere is literally a limitless amount of tattoo designs out there, but one of the coolest and yet rarely seen ones is skull tattoo designs. The reason we like these tattoo's so much is because you can take them and make them mean so many different things and no matter what you do to them they will always to cool. In this article you will learn how to design the perfect skull tattoo for yourself.

a. The location of the tattoo
One of the first things that you need to think of when getting a tattoo is where you are going to put it. With Skulls, you can put them just about anywhere and they will look cool, but the truth is these kinds of tattoo's always look better on the persons back or on the back of their calves. Don't get me wrong though, just about anywhere will work

b. Choosing the color
Let's think about this one for a second, when was the last time you saw someone get a tattoo of a skull and they actually added color to it? Probably never right? When most people get one of these tattoo's, they always make them black and white. Adding your favorite color is one of the best ways to personalize them.

c. The actual design
There is nothing wrong with wanting to get just a skull, but a lot of people want to spice it up a bit and add to the skull. If you want to add to the skull, one of the best ways to do that is to have fire coming out of it or maybe have some snakes coming out of the eyes.