Welcome to Big Smash!
The Big Smash! Film Collective Inc. is a non-profit film organization active in Winnipeg and Montreal, Canada. Organizational activities include Plastic Paper: Winnipeg's Festival of Animated, Illustrated + Puppet Film, The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, the ongoing Big Smash! Music Scene
series of music documentaries, and the CineMuerte Film Festival of horror + psychotronic film, as well as various freelance film programming
and event presentations. Kier-La Janisse's involvement with original film productions
(either as director, producer or casting consultant) is documented on
the Big Smash! Film Production page.
SITE NEWS:
24/08/2010 09:34 by Kier-La Janisse
2010 GRAND PRIZE JUDGE: NEIL MARSHALL (director of CENTURION, THE DESCENT + DOG SOLDIERS)! GRAND PRIZE $1000!
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01/08/2010 17:04 by Kier-La Janisse
The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies will be offering weekly classes at Blue Sunshine in Montreal starting this fall.
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
28/09/2010
The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is a series of horror history, theory and criticism courses for youth aged 14-29. Come on down for a quick overview of what to expect from the 2010/2011 curriculum!
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05/10/2010 - 12/10/2010
Miskatonic director and longtime horror writer/film programmer Kier-La Janisse kicks off the Miskatonic season with this 2-evening course on horror film criticism for teens aged 14+.
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19/10/2010 - 02/11/2010
This course looks at a popular sub-genre of horror films that blend a documentary aesthetic with traditional horror conventions to produce a hybrid form of horror cinema.
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09/11/2010 - 23/11/2010
Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare leads this course examining Britain's Hammer horror films through their most distinctive feature: the centrality of the monster.
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30/11/2010 - 14/12/2010
Over the past 30 years Italian director Mario Bava has gone from relative obscurity to being acknowledged as perhaps the most significant and influential Post World War 2 European horror director. Offscreen's Donato Totaro examines Bava’s enduring legacy with close analysis of some of his key films, to arrive at an understanding of his unique stylistic and thematic contributions to the horror genre.
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