What is Bloodfest?
Bloodfest is an International Kids Horror Film Festival. Films are judged by kids, teens, as well as Industry Professionals.
There are 3 Categories
• Individual Entry - Kids or Teens
• School class Entry
• Holiday Program Entry
Bloodfest is a safe space for young people to explore the taboo, in what they find frightening and to artfully confront those fears. There is precedent within the Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales where all manner of horrors eventuate.
NOW open 2018
Submissions closes Sept 20
Red Carpet Gala and Finalists Screening week of Halloween.
Filmmakers Start here
Bloodfest International Kids Horror Film Festival has the Australian Board of Classification Excemption 2018
#watchyourback
There are 3 Categories
• Individual Entry - Kids or Teens
• School class Entry
• Holiday Program Entry
Bloodfest is a safe space for young people to explore the taboo, in what they find frightening and to artfully confront those fears. There is precedent within the Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales where all manner of horrors eventuate.
NOW open 2018
Submissions closes Sept 20
Red Carpet Gala and Finalists Screening week of Halloween.
Filmmakers Start here
Bloodfest International Kids Horror Film Festival has the Australian Board of Classification Excemption 2018
#watchyourback
Why a horror film making festival for kids?
Originally conceived and launched in 2017, Bloodfest 2018 has officially launched. Bloodfest International Kids Short Film Competition is a celebration of empowerment of youth, to self lead imaging their own youthful unique stories and to collaborate equally with adults.
Horror is a safe place to confront fears, secure in the world of make believe. A place one can achieve great catharsis (transition from high tension to relief), or triumph - depending on whether or not the hero overcomes their foe.
Horror characters are thrilling in that they do the absurd, the unimaginable, the terrifying, the things we ourselves would shy from doing. And most thrilling of all, Horror uncovers the possibility that there is so much more to the world than what we sense or understand. Infinite possibility...
Why should kids make horror? A lot is demanded of young people, and there is push for them to be creative. What about being creative in the taboo? Can a young person's interest in playing dead, playing thrilling situations, or playing horror themes be of value to their experience? We believe so.
Combining scary stories and children is not a new idea at all. The infamous Brothers Grimm first published their dark tales in 1812 and are ever popular with kids that are thrilled rather than scared when the wolf finally appears… The Grimm fairytales were didactic in nature at a time when discipline relied on fear, and many of their tales such as ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Hansel and Gretel’ were written to be ‘warning tales’ for children.
Bloodfest allows children to be the creators of their own scary stories and characters giving them freer licence, as we their audience, get a glimpse into what young people find confronting and frightening.
We have gathered young people and industry professionals to create and take part in the festival, down to young people website testing, proof reading and curation of images. This is done alongside with artists and us as producers.
Bloodfest - watch your back, the children are coming for you!
Boo!
Horror is a safe place to confront fears, secure in the world of make believe. A place one can achieve great catharsis (transition from high tension to relief), or triumph - depending on whether or not the hero overcomes their foe.
Horror characters are thrilling in that they do the absurd, the unimaginable, the terrifying, the things we ourselves would shy from doing. And most thrilling of all, Horror uncovers the possibility that there is so much more to the world than what we sense or understand. Infinite possibility...
Why should kids make horror? A lot is demanded of young people, and there is push for them to be creative. What about being creative in the taboo? Can a young person's interest in playing dead, playing thrilling situations, or playing horror themes be of value to their experience? We believe so.
Combining scary stories and children is not a new idea at all. The infamous Brothers Grimm first published their dark tales in 1812 and are ever popular with kids that are thrilled rather than scared when the wolf finally appears… The Grimm fairytales were didactic in nature at a time when discipline relied on fear, and many of their tales such as ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Hansel and Gretel’ were written to be ‘warning tales’ for children.
Bloodfest allows children to be the creators of their own scary stories and characters giving them freer licence, as we their audience, get a glimpse into what young people find confronting and frightening.
We have gathered young people and industry professionals to create and take part in the festival, down to young people website testing, proof reading and curation of images. This is done alongside with artists and us as producers.
Bloodfest - watch your back, the children are coming for you!
Boo!
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Regarding Carpenter: We all talk about inequalities in film. We can add up a huge one: Genre Inequality. Horror will always be punk rock!
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Regarding Carpenter: We all talk about inequalities in film. We can add up a huge one: Genre Inequality. Horror will always be punk rock!
2:53 AM - May 23, 2016
The Horror Genre
Horror is a genre which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror is frequently supernatural, though it can be non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society. Bloodfest is asking kids and teens to 'actively patriciate' in the arts as opposed to 'passive observation.'
Horror films also have portrayals of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, LGBTI and Disability which are inclusive and diverse going against the main blockbuster cinema trends.
Some sub-genres of horror film include action horror, comedy horror, body horror, disaster horror, holiday horror, horror drama, psychological horror, science fiction horror, slasher horror, supernatural horror, gothic horror, natural horror, zombie horror, first-person horror and teen horror.
Horror films also have portrayals of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, LGBTI and Disability which are inclusive and diverse going against the main blockbuster cinema trends.
Some sub-genres of horror film include action horror, comedy horror, body horror, disaster horror, holiday horror, horror drama, psychological horror, science fiction horror, slasher horror, supernatural horror, gothic horror, natural horror, zombie horror, first-person horror and teen horror.
The Competition
To be part of Deadly Bloodfest all you have to do is make a short film in your version of the horror genre. This can range from seeing a cockroach to a grisly story. See Past Frights for Inspiration. The rest is easy! Entries are open now and close September 10, 2018 at the stroke of midnight.
1. Make your Film
2. Sign your Release Form and Submit
1. Make your Film
2. Sign your Release Form and Submit
Red Carpet Event and Prizes
Bloodfest will have a Deadly Gala during its Festival Week during Halloween - October 2018, with 2 events including schools (Including Drama Schools)
Finalists will be treated to a Red Carpet Extravaganza, live TV Interviews and screening. Here we will announce all the winners, and hand out trophies and prizes.
Individual Prizes here. School Prizes here
Awards Categories for Individual Entry 2018
Best Film
Runner Up Film
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Death
Awards Category for Schools Entry 2018
Best Film
Awards Category for Drama Holiday Program 2018
Best Film
Finalists will be treated to a Red Carpet Extravaganza, live TV Interviews and screening. Here we will announce all the winners, and hand out trophies and prizes.
Individual Prizes here. School Prizes here
Awards Categories for Individual Entry 2018
Best Film
Runner Up Film
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Death
Awards Category for Schools Entry 2018
Best Film
Awards Category for Drama Holiday Program 2018
Best Film
The Human Brain and Horror - John. P. Hesse FIQ School
Horror Films are a safe place to practice survival skills.
Horror Films require us to face the unknown, to understand it, to make it less scary, they allow us see our fears and put them into context to play what if ? And in doing so they shape our belief system how we see each other, and how we see ourselves. They are a safe place to explore and for some a good bit of fun.
The fact is we are just getting to understand how our brains work, but scary stories that’s something that won’t go away.
In the words of Arthur Conan Doyle
"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror."
There’s something about horror that speaks directly and instinctively to the human animal. Millions of years of evolutionary psychology have ingrained in our minds certain fear triggers - a survival instinct - Fear of the Dark where predatory animals might be laying in wait - Fear of animals with large sharp teeth who would make a quick meal of us. Fear of Poisonous Spiders who can kill with one bite. So ingrained into our developmental psychology that research done by Nobuo Masataka show that children as young as three have an easier time spotting snakes on a computer screen than they do spotting flowers. Research by Christof Koch show that the right amygydala, the portion of the brain associated with fear learning, responds more vigorously to images of animals than to images of people, landmarks or objects even though those are much more dangerous in our civilized world.
This may explain the shape of our movie monsters: creatures with sharp teeth or snake like appearance. The fear of being eaten alive also explains the cannabilistic traits of human monsters like Dracula and Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
But brain scan research in 2010 by Thomas Straube at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena show that scary movies don’t actually activate fear responses in the amygdala at all. Instead, it was other parts of the brain that were firing - the visual cortex - the part of the brain responsible for processing visual information, the insular cortex- self awareness, the thalamus -the relay switch between brain hemispheres, and the dorsal-medial prefrontal cortex - the part of the brain associated with planning, attention, and problem solving.
Excerpted from John P Hesse Lesson The Psychology of Scary Movies
Horror Films require us to face the unknown, to understand it, to make it less scary, they allow us see our fears and put them into context to play what if ? And in doing so they shape our belief system how we see each other, and how we see ourselves. They are a safe place to explore and for some a good bit of fun.
The fact is we are just getting to understand how our brains work, but scary stories that’s something that won’t go away.
In the words of Arthur Conan Doyle
"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror."
There’s something about horror that speaks directly and instinctively to the human animal. Millions of years of evolutionary psychology have ingrained in our minds certain fear triggers - a survival instinct - Fear of the Dark where predatory animals might be laying in wait - Fear of animals with large sharp teeth who would make a quick meal of us. Fear of Poisonous Spiders who can kill with one bite. So ingrained into our developmental psychology that research done by Nobuo Masataka show that children as young as three have an easier time spotting snakes on a computer screen than they do spotting flowers. Research by Christof Koch show that the right amygydala, the portion of the brain associated with fear learning, responds more vigorously to images of animals than to images of people, landmarks or objects even though those are much more dangerous in our civilized world.
This may explain the shape of our movie monsters: creatures with sharp teeth or snake like appearance. The fear of being eaten alive also explains the cannabilistic traits of human monsters like Dracula and Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
But brain scan research in 2010 by Thomas Straube at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena show that scary movies don’t actually activate fear responses in the amygdala at all. Instead, it was other parts of the brain that were firing - the visual cortex - the part of the brain responsible for processing visual information, the insular cortex- self awareness, the thalamus -the relay switch between brain hemispheres, and the dorsal-medial prefrontal cortex - the part of the brain associated with planning, attention, and problem solving.
Excerpted from John P Hesse Lesson The Psychology of Scary Movies
Deadly Stuff
Our Jury is made up of Industry Professionals, kids and teens. See here
FAQ's are here
INDIVIDUAL Entry Prices
• Undead Friday 6 July $55
• Zombie Friday 20 Sept $65
SCHOOL CLASS Prices see Schools in Navigation Menu
DRAMA SCHOOLS or HOLIDAY CAMPS and PROGRAMS heress
• Undead Friday 6 July $55
• Zombie Friday 20 Sept $65
SCHOOL CLASS Prices see Schools in Navigation Menu
DRAMA SCHOOLS or HOLIDAY CAMPS and PROGRAMS heress
Privacy policy here
Contact us bloodfestfilmfest@gmail.com
Festival Directors
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Natalie Richards created MIDNIGHT THEATRE to conjure the experience of the 1920's Parisian theatre; Le Theatre du Grand-Guignol (The French Theatre of Horror). Her shows are reminiscent of a typical evening at the Grand-Guignol, where the staple was the Horror play, which inevitably featured eye-gouging, throat slashing or some other equally grisly climax.
As a Homegrown Producer, Midnight Theatre credits include successful horrors - translated from French- The Final Kiss, I want to go home and The Torture Garden (Le Baiser dans la nuit, Rentrez chez Toi, et Le Jardin des Suplices). As well as The Little Mermaid - Not Suitable for Children, and the highly acclaimed sell-out season of a new work Tender Young Creatures. Which is a dark interactive performance work based on Little Red Riding Hood interwoven with the modern theme of girls walking alone at night. Midnight Theatre also has an education branch with the Eastern suburbs. This is within the private school system. Nat cv here |
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Team Fernandez Pty Ltd is lead by Curly (Curtis) Fernandez. Team Fernandez is an company that contracts for Australian Theatre for Young People, Sydney Opera House, (including the Reconciliation Action Plan working group), The Department of Education, The Aboriginal Education and Engagement Team, The Humour Foundation; as a Clown Doctor, Poetry In Action, The Arts Unit, Bell Shakespeare, Newtown Performing Arts Highschool, and Artistic leads the Leftovers Collective.
The work is primarily with young people, concerned with freeing their creative thinking and empowering themselves to confidently penetrate the world, regardless of societal norms and views. Team Fernandez Pty. Ltd at its heart encourages each young person's liberation through confidence, with their own unique signature. The projects cross visual art, literacy, leadership and performance simultaneously. Company programs are social, with outreach to young people in disadvantaged communities. It also manages Indigenous youth vocational programs, including a language art program in the Northern Territory. Curly cv here |