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.
