Horror fans and filmmakers united this past weekend at the Dead North Film Festival to watch and premiere 48 indie movies.
Filmmakers across the Canadian north (and beyond) converged on Yellowknife to showcase their hard work and dedication. The official program has films from Inuvik, Hay River, Fort Simpson, Yukon SA国际影视传媒� and of course in and around Yellowknife.
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As part of the festivities, the festival offered a zombie special effects makeup workshop hosted by Veronica Speers on Mar. 3.
Speers, a professional trained makeup Artist who has experience both beauty and special effects training, has been in the industry for 13 years. She also just opened up a home spa in Yellowknife.
She recites her background in make up while touching up Allistair McCreadieSA国际影视传媒檚 now zombified face. The class watches and then afterwards gets to work on trying their hand at shifting the lively into the seemingly dead and lively.
At the SA国际影视传媒淶ombearsSA国际影视传媒� filmmakers and VIP pass holders gathered at the Top Knight pub to watch as the films got the recognition they deserved. The awards themselves resembled a bloody bone fragment, and after the last one was handed out, guests got out of their seats for a dance party hosted by DJ Saylor Taracuse.
According to festival organizers, the amounts of entries have been doubling each year. With 48 submissions this year, Jay Bulckaert and Pablo Saravanja announced on live stream at the awards ceremony that next year, theySA国际影视传媒檙e hoping to break the 100 entry mark.
If you missed out on the opportunity to view the films, there will be a screening of ten specially selected films will be shown at the SnowkingSA国际影视传媒檚 Snow castle on Wednesday Mar. 8.
