THE MOTHRA STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL - Sep 27th to Oct 3rd
Grab a camera, grab an idea, grab some friends with a bit of talent and make a short movie. The Mothra student film festival will be into its 19th consecutive year in 2008 and has spread like gorse throughout New Zealand - it is now is firmly entrenched at most Universities throughout New Zealand. The Mothra was a C-grade Japanese movie about a giant moth that destroyed Tokyo and some movie director’s career. Now of course, ‘the best Mothra’ epitomizes the creativity and humor of Otago students.
The Mothras of today are an eclectic mix of the more traditional really bad student films as well as some really quite good ones, but every kind has a place. Last year fifty Mothras were received, judged and given shiny 'Fred' awards at 'The Mothra Awards” ceremony - a convincing excuse to dress up fancy and pretend you're really famous.
The Videos are then screened over four nights to audiences. It's a great chance to watch your movie in the presence of your peers.
OUSA will even go so far as to lend equipment and have free digital editing tutorials for all you aspiring directors so really there’s no excuse! (Although you must book into use the equipment that we have because as you can imagine it’s a very busy time for our cameras).
Call into OUSA Events to sign up or for more details contact us on 479 5334 or email jen.events@ousa.org.nz
SCREENINGS FOR MOTHRA 2008 - 6.30pm Red Theatre, Med School
Tuesday 30th September:
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Cellular Phones
- The Tui Deal
- Colour
- Sharp and Savage
- Mr Epic & the Electric Funk Brigade
- Dunedin x572
- Shiticane
- The Unknown
- One Zombie short of an epidemic
- Deflation
- Dunsterdamage
- Eight Seventeen
- Smuggle Plug Bang
- Confessions of a Nice Guy
Wednesday 1st October:
- Rewf Cops
- Sharp and Savage 2: Destiny’s fate
- Under Your Skin
- Extreme Measures
- Tens Seconds of Fame
- Feedback
- Lake of Mystery
- Sidekick
- Bonded By Blood
- An Inconvenient Penguin
- Nice Meetin’ You
Friday 3rd October:
- Silhouette of Strings
- Shades of Evil
- No Exit/Video Blog
- Stroke of Love
- Scissor me Sophie
- Get Sharp: The Knives at Noon Story
- I’ll come for you
- The University Conspiracy
- Cause & Effect
- Knights of the Silver Spade
- The 70’s Sofar
- An Interview with Brent Davidson
- Hermit Diary 2: Out of the Closet
- The Dfenders: (I want to) Do it tonight
AWARDS FOR MOTHRA 2008
Best Video, Best Mothra, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Art Film, Best Documentary, Best Drama, Best Action, Best Horror, Best Comedy, Best Animation, Best Script, Best Music Video, Best Score (original), Best Stunts, Best Director, Best Camera Operator, Best Editor , Best Stunts, Best (fake) Death, Best Erotic Scene, Best Mocumentary, Best Turkey (Best Flop), Best Newcomer
DETAILS
- Videos must have one OUSA student involved in the project
- Videos must not be racist, homophobic or sexist in nature (use common sense)
- The maximum length of a video is 10 minutes
- Videos must be submitted as a mini DV tape only (Preferably low def). We cannot accept DVDs, CDs or tapes. For information on how to do this please contact the office.
IMPORTANT MOTHRA DATES
-Mothras handed in: 5th September
-Mothra Awards Night: 27th September
-Screenings: 30th September – 3rd October in The Red Theatre, Med School
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