Monster Fest
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Monster Fest is an annual genre film festival in Melbourne, Australia. Called “Australia's foremost celebration of international cult and horror cinema,”[1] as of 2017 it is the only genre film festival in Australia to be supported by the federal screen agency, Screen Australia.
2016 Keynote speaker Ted Kotcheff said of Monster Fest: “I loved the creative energy of Monster Fest, the great programming, the enthusiastic audiences. In the course of over half a century of filmmaking, I have attended almost every film festival there is and Monster Fest is one of the most interesting and enjoyable that I’ve experienced.”[2]
History
Monster Fest was established by Neil Foley and Grant Hardie in 2011 as the exhibition arm of Monster Pictures.[3] It was originally called the Fantastic Asia Film Festival (FAFF), as a vehicle for showcasing a selection of Asian films acquired by parent company Monster Pictures.[4] The original Fantastic Asia Film Festival took place November 10-13, 2011 at the Cinema Nova in the Carlton neighborhood of Melbourne, and was sponsored in part by online entertainment retailer YesAsia.[5] The festival lineup consisted of 20 features including Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Hell Driver, Takashi Miike’s Ninja Kids!, Na Hong-jin’s The Yellow Sea, Noboru Iguchi’s Karate-Robo Zaborgar, Kim Jee Won’s I Saw the Devil, Shinji Imaoka’s Underwater Love, Sion Sono’s Guilty of Romance and Jiang Wen’s Let the Bullets Fly.[6] Special guests of the 2011 festival included director Yoshihiro Nishimura and Marc Walkow, then-co-director of the New York Asian Film Festival.[7]
In 2012, the festival was renamed Monster Fest and expanded to an international festival with both premieres and repertory offerings. The 2012 festival took place from October 31-November 9, 2012 at the Nova Cinema in Carlton. Special guests of the 2012 festival included The Soska Sisters[8], Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and Laurene Landon 9 . Films screened at the 2012 festival included the Soska Sisters’ American Mary, anthology film The ABCs of Death, Jon Wright’s Grabbers, Mikkel Nørgaard’s Klown, Franck Khalfoun’s Maniac, Daniel Krige’s Redd Inc., Astron 6’s Manborg and Tanzeal Rahim’s Muirhouse, among others. 10 Astron 6’s Father’s Day was refused classification (RC) by the obligatory Australian Classification Board two days before it was meant to screen at the festival, and had to be replaced by The Soska Sisters’ Dead Hooker in a Trunk. 1112 The 2012 festival concept trailer was directed by animator/visual artist Isabel Peppard 13 and the key art was created by Tom Hodge. 14
References
- ^ Wray, Tyson. "Monster Fest Reveal 2014 Program | Beat Magazine". www.beat.com.au. BEAT.
- ^ Kennedy, Meg. "Monster Fest announces 2017 dates after successful run in Melbourne | The Iris". iris.theaureview.com. The Iris. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ Karlovsky, Brian. "Monster Fest names Canadian Kier-La Janisse as festival director". if.com.au. IF Magazine. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
- ^ Hubble, Felix (20 November 2014). "Monster Fest – An Interview with Festival Director Neil Foley". 4:3. 4:3. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ^ http://jcc.jingsu.me/news/12896/yesasia-sponsors-the-fantastic-asia-film-festival-in-australia#.WHxOgX04J3w.
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- ^ "The Fantastic Asia Film Festival comes to Melbourne". Heroic Cinema. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ "Soska Sisters To Crash Monster Fest 2012!". Screen Anarchy. Retrieved 24 September 2012.