And the winners are…

Best Film
- The Tunnel (Carlo Ledesma)

Best Director
- Chris Sun (Come and Get Me)
- Josh Reed (Primal)

Best Actor
- Damian Walshe-Howling (The Reef)

Best Actress
- Kelsie McDonald (Come and Get Me)

Best Supporting Actor
- Michael Rooker (Penance)
- Steve Davis (The Tunnel)

Best Supporting Actress
- Kerry Ann Reid (Family Demons)

Best Screenplay
- Ursula Dabrowsky (Family Demons)

Best Editor
- Michael Gilbert (Come and Get Me)

Best Cinematography
- Shing Fung Cheung, Steve Davis (The Tunnel)

Best Special Effects and Make-Up
- Chris Sun (Come and Get Me)

Best Cult Film
- Starship Invasions

Best Short Film
- Meth to Madness (Chris Mitchell)

Best Short Film Director
- Chris Mitchell (Meth to Madness)

Best Short Film Actor
- Jeremy Kewley (Shepherd’s Hill)

Best Short Film Actress
- Jamie McDowell (Home)

Bloodfest Genre Innovation Award
- Someone’s Knocking at the Door (Chad Ferrin)

Special Jury Prize
- The Reef (Andrew Traucki)

Special Short Film Jury Prize
- Flow (Scott Dale)

Best Documentary
- Video Nasties (Jake West)

The Bloodfest Award Nominations are (and some Winners already announced!):

Best Film
- Come and Get Me (Chris Sun)
- The Tunnel (Carlo Ledesma)
- Primal (Josh Reed)
- The Reef (Andrew Traucki)

Best Director
- Chris Sun (Come and Get Me)
- Josh Reed (Primal)
- Chad Ferrin (Someone’s Knocking at the Door)
- Ursula Dabrowsky (Family Demons)

Best Actor
- Lindsay Farris (Primal)
- Alastair Kirton (Colin)
- Damian Walshe-Howling (The Reef)
- Christian Radford (Come and Get Me)

Best Actress
- Kelsie McDonald (Come and Get Me)
- Cassandra Kane (Family Demons)
- Marieh Delfino (Penance)
- Krew Boylan (Primal)

Best Supporting Actor
- Michael Rooker (Penance)
- Christopher Price (Come and Get Me)
- Gyton Grantley (The Reef)
- Steve Davis (The Tunnel)

Best Supporting Actress
- Jess Taylor (Come and Get Me)
- Kerry Ann Reid (Family Demons)
- Rikki Gagne (Dead Hooker in a Trunk)
- Katherine Randolph (Penance)

Best Screenplay
- Chris Sun (Come and Get Me)
- Josh Reed (Primal)
- Chad Ferrin, Roham Ghodsi, Rosie Roberts (Someone’s Knocking at the Door)
- Ursula Dabrowsky (Family Demons)

Best Editor (Winner)
- Michael Gilbert (Come and Get Me)

Best Cinematography (Winner)
- Shing Fung Cheung, Steve Davis (The Tunnel)

Best Special Effects and Make-Up (Winner)
- Chris Sun (Come and Get Me)

Best Cult Film (Winner)
- Starship Invasions

Best Short Film
- Meth to Madness (Chris Mitchell)
- Gorelesque Sequence II (Vesper White)
- Flow (Scott Dale)
- Shepherd’s Hill (Cadyn Binns, Tim Maslen)

Best Short Film Director
- Scott Dale (Flow)
- Cadyn Binns, Tim Maslen (Shepherd’s Hill)
- Vesper White (Gorelesque Sequence II)
- Chris Mitchell (Meth to Madness)

Best Short Film Actor (Winner)
- Jeremy Kewley (Shepherd’s Hill)

Best Short Film Actress (Winner)
- Jamie McDowell (Home)

Call for Entries for the 12th Melbourne Underground Film Festival close on Friday June 22nd!

Head to www.muff.com.au for your entry form!

Transformation and metamorphosis. Change and evolution. The transcendence. These things are at the heart of most horror and science fiction films. We are all just elements undergoing change to fuel the radiance of what we are becoming. And what we are becoming at present is Bloodfest Fantastique!

Welcome to Bloodfest Fantastique, an event we hope will become Australia’s first national festival of horror and science fiction cinema. From the creators of MUFF – The Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Festival dates are: June 10 to 18 at the amazing re-opened art deco cinema venue, Memo, at 88 Acland St, St Kilda (behind the RSL).

After the success of MUFF 11 I decided it would be a kick to start a new spin off festival that specifically dealt with two of my favorite cinema genres, horror and sci-fi. Bloodfest will be focused purely on these two wonderful genres and avoid the local film politics and other issues we deal with at MUFF. It will be a conduit of cinematic wonder and terror aimed at genre fans, cinephiles and movie geeks everywhere.

We have three great sections: Bloodfest Neu – presenting new Horror and Sci Fi Features, Bloodfest Bites – presenting new Horror and Sci Fi shorts and our themed cult retrospective Futurism and Barbarism.

Plus our gala Opening Night film Come and Get Me, a rape/horror shock fest to rival I Spit on Your Grave and the internet horror sensation The Tunnel on Closing Night, followed by the Bloodfest awards.

21 sessions, over 9 days, all at one venue. Streamlining is the name of the game. Just check out the smorgasbord of cinematic mayhem and trouble making to whet even the most depraved genre fan’s appetite.