Monster Fest
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| Status | Active |
| Genre | Film festival |
| Location(s) | Melbourne |
| Country | Australia |
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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,”. 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.”
Monster Fest was established by Neil Foley and Grant Hardie in 2011 as the exhibition arm of Monster Pictures. 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. 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. The festival lineup consisted of 20 features including Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Helldriver, 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. Special guests of the 2011 festival included director Yoshihiro Nishimura and Marc Walkow, then-co-director of the New York Asian Film Festival.
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