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Tasploitation 2016 competition with terror, a yellow moon and a touch of Bowie

Where better to have a horror filmmaking challenge than Tasmania, where you can run but you can never really hide?

27 Jan 2016 12:00

David Tiley

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Trophies for the Tasploitation Challenge 2016, designed by Bryony Geeves. Image by Lucy Parakhina.

I am writing this in an empty office. Night is falling. Thunder growls across the city. The roof creaks and hisses with rain and I am writing about horror films.

Last weekend, there were bushfires in Tasmania. In Hobart twenty-seven teams of filmmakers were deep in the third 48-Hour Tasploitation Challenge, to make a six minute horror short which would be screened on the Monday night.

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David Tiley

David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.