Attention Aspiring Filmmakers!

Tamara Glynn was announced today as part of the judge panel for the upcoming Fantastic Cinema and Craft Beer Festival “Phantasmagoria presented by Crypt TV” 60-second fake trailer contest in April.

Fantastic Cinema and Craft Beer Festival Aims to Conjure Participants for “Fantastic Phantasmagoria presented by Crypt TV,” a 60-second fake trailer contest, to be exhibited during the festival’s run April 7-10 at the Riverdale 10 VIP Cinema. The contest is a first for the festival, opening up the spotlight to everyday film hobbyists and amateur filmmakers to display their talents for the strange and macabre.

A trailer is an all-too-important factor to initiate the mouth-watering taste that gets the audience hungering for more. A good trailer can cause people to line up in front of the theaters while a bad one can keep them away like the plague. When it comes to trailers, all the audience cares about is if it can get their pulse racing! Fantastic Cinema and Crypt TV challenge filmmakers to create a trailer that will get their adrenaline rushing in just 60 seconds.

“Genre filmmakers are some of the most creative filmmakers you will ever meet,” says Fantastic Cinema Festival Director Tony Taylor. “And most genre filmmakers have a million ideas in their head. Films they’d love to make. Films that could be the next huge genre films. We want to see these ideas, no matter how wild and crazy they may be, in the form of a 60-second trailer.”

Aside from the 60 second length, content for submissions must be an original idea–not based on anything currently in existence, a la fan-films–and aspire to adhere to Crypt TV’s “Weird is Good” motto but otherwise can be among varying genres, including horror, science fiction, fantasy, or thriller.

Submissions are due by February 29th, and then Fantastic Cinema’s Rising Filmmaker Award winners, Luchagore Productions–as well as others involved in the film business–will judge all submissions to select a winner.

Contest Judges

TAMARA GLYNN: Originally from Arkansas, Tamara made her way to Los Angeles to star in Halloween 5. Ms. Glynn television credits include: Knots Landing, Growing Pains, Miami Vice, Life on the Flipside, Brand New Life and Nightmare on Elm Street(the series) and Rags to Riches Tamara moved back to Arkansas in the 1990’s and has continued an active career in front of the camera as well as behind the camera working with Federal Express, Alltel, Back Yard Burger, Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, UAMS, Sears, Magic Springs and many more.

Tamara is the co-founder and host of the Hot Springs Horror Film Festival held yearly at the Central Theater in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Tamara is on the International Convention circuit representing her much loved character, Samantha Thomas from the movie Halloween 5 The Revenge of Michael Myers.

CHRIS ALEXANDER: Canadian-based, internationally published writer, composer, and filmmaker and has served as editor-in-chief of such notable film magazines as FANGORIA, GOREZONE, and DELIRIUM. Prior to this, he was a critic and columnist for RUE MORGUE magazine. As a filmmaker, he is the writer, director and composer of the award-winning vampire film BLOOD FOR IRINA, its follow-up/sequel, QUEEN OF BLOOD and the erotic surrealist drama FEMALE WEREWOLF. Alexander has also composed original music for films like Joseph O’Brien’s THE DEVIL’S MILE, Chris Walsh’s stop-motion horror film THE SHUTTERBUG MAN, featuring narration by film legend Barbara Steele (BLACK SUNDAY, 8 1/2). He has written thousands of feature articles in various publications and periodicals and has interviewed virtually every horror legend at least twice. He is currently the editor of horror film website SHOCK TILL YOU DROP.

JUSTIN BEAHM: Writer, producer, and director whose work appears in Fangoria, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and Horrorhound magazines. He has produced and directed for Anchor Bay Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Scream Factory, Trancas International, Prescribed Films, and Reverend Entertainment. He helmed the 2012 theatrical re-release of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN, appears on a number of video commentary tracks and is occasionally dragged in front of the camera by friends.

COURTNEY PLEDGER: Executive Director and Programming Director of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, the oldest all-documentary festival in North America and an Oscar®-qualifying festival in the category of Documentary Short Subject.She is executive producer of DreamWorks Animation’s B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations, and has recently served as a literary creative consultant to the U.K.’s award-winning Aardman Animation. She continues a partnership with Working Title Films co-founder Sarah Radclyffe, responsible for Universal’s The Vampire’s Assistant: Cirque du Freak, based on the best-selling book series The Saga of Darren Shan starring John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, and Josh Hutcherson.

Pledger was Senior VP of production for Los Angeles-based Radical Pictures/Radical Studios where she helped build the company’s graphic novel publishing and film brands and was instrumental in the development of the underlying properties for Universal’s Oblivion with Tom Cruise, and MGM’s Hercules with Dwayne Johnson. Prior to Radical, Pledger was a producer with Illumination Entertainment/Universal Studios.

Pledger has served as an executive at Hearst Entertainment and was Vice President of Production at Raystar/ Indieprod for Hollywood legends Ray Stark and Dan Melnick. For television, she has produced series pilots starring actors Anthony Perkins and Ian McShane, as well as series A Fine Romance, an international co-production from ABC/London Weekend Television/Television France. She was nominated for an Emmy and won the Women in Film Lillian Gish Producing Award for CBS’ Evidence of Love (aka A Killing in a Small Town) and a Christopher Award for ABC mini-series The Challenger.

RAYNOR SHIMA

Producer and Productions Designer at LuchaGore Productions. Based in Vancouver B.C., Raynor Shima attended Vancouver Film School, in the film production program, and also gained his experience in commercial film as a young emerging producer. He started his transition into short films, teaming up with partners Gigi Saul Guerrero and Luke Bramley, creating LuchaGore Productions as an outlet for their work. Working with limited resources, Raynor has proven to get projects made under budget and on time. On the side note, he has also acted as the Production Designer on his teams projects. Giving that unique aesthetic look, that make up a Luchagore film. Two of his most successful produced short films, “Dia De Los Muertos”, and “El Matador” have gotten picked up to be featured in upcoming horror Anthology’s, “Mexico Barbaro” and “ABC’S of Death 2.5”. Currently, he is working on producing and adapting his first feature-­length filmMuerte Con Carne. He successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign with his team to shoot a proof of concept for the feature, called El Gigante. Which is currently running the festival circuit and has gone on to receive many international awards around the world.

LUKE BRAMLEY

Cinematographer, Co-Editor, and Co-Director at LuchaGore Productions. Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Luke Bramley developed a passion for horror at a young age during the days of VHS rental houses when his older sister and him would rent scary movies and freak themselves out late at night. His passion turned from being scared to scaring people when he developed an interest in filmmaking, and after a stint as a cook, he decided to follow his passion and pursue motion pictures. It was during this time that he met fellow like-minded filmmakers, and shortly after graduation they formed their own company Luchagore Productions, which specializes in blood, guts, and gore!

Luke is especially interested in the visual aspects of filmmaking and enjoys exploring and conveying the darker side of humanity in films using light and shadows as well as camera position and focal length. Some of his biggest inspirations are filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, and cinematographers Emmanuel Lubezki and Roger Deakins. His goal is to continue to horrify and gross out audience members as well as make them think about current global situations and crises.

GIGI SAUL GUERRERO

Director, Co-Writer, and Co-Editor at Luchagore Productions. Born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico, Gigi moved to Vancouver B.C., where she graduated with honors her B.A. in Motion Picture Production at Capilano University’s “Bosa Centre for Film and Animation”. Guerrero is now commonly known for her gritty “Tex-Mex” style with a touch of grindhouse gore in her filmmaking.

Now in her early 20’s Guerrero is one of the co-founders of Horror company Luchagore Productions. Her recent successes include the short film Dia De Los Muertos, which is part of Mexican Horror Anthology “Mexico Barbaro”, now out on DVD/VOD. She also directed M is for Matador, which is officially a part of the ABC’s of Death 2.5, and has been screened in festivals from the USA to Mexico to Japan! Guerrero is working with horror novelist Shane McKenzie on a new Horror feature “El Gigante”, which is her most successful short yet. Fans from all over the world are waiting for this feature to happen! Guerrero made a stamp in the horror community by recreating the original Evil Dead into 60 Seconds for a local contest and was featured on sites such as Bloody Disgusting, Buzzfeed, and JoBlo.com. Gigi also had a hand at redefining the horror genre by co-creating the audience-interactive Web Series Choose Your Victim while still in film school.

For full contest details and rules, visit: http://www.fantasticphantasmagoria.com