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Sarah Dobbs Oct 13, 2016

A selection of horror shorts and creepy web series to get you in the Halloween mood, wherever you are…

In need of some seasonal creepiness but haven’t got time for a whole movie? Looking for something to watch on your lunch break, or on your phone on the bus home from work? You’ll find just the thing on this list of horror shorts and web series, available on YouTube now…

He Dies At The End

The title’s kind of a spoiler here. But it’s also a clever hook, because it means you spend the entire four minutes and 29 seconds wondering how, exactly, he’s going to die. The 'he' here is an office worker, tapping away at his computer after hours, apparently alone - until someone starts asking him creepy questions via his computer screen.

It’s deceptively simple (after all, it’s...

Today is the final day for the $600 earlybird discount on the Mumbrella360 conference.

The event takes place on June 6 and 7 at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney.

Sessions announced so far include:

Nick Baker, Gm of marketing at Tourism Australia, unveiling the next stage of the There’s Nothing Like Australia campaign. The ChangeOneThing session, curated by Phd and aimed at achieving a single, major change for the media industry. A discussion on the relationship between journalism and Twitter featuring ABC chief political writer Annabel Crabb; Ten breakfast presenter Magdalena Roze; Stephen Brook, editor of The Australian’s Media section and Crikey’s First Dog On The Moon cartoonist Andrew Marlton; An attempt by Guy Gadney to shoot, edit and upload a viral video live on stage in just 45 minutes; A diatribe from marketer Matt Granfield on banks’ biggest marketing blunders; The ten steps brands need to take when telling stories...

Adland and industry’s biggest blunders will be the focus of a session on the seven deadly sins of advertising at Mumbrella360.

The presentation will be curated by Adrian Pritchard, executive creative director of Melbourne ad agency BoilerRoom.

Pritchard’s session will cover “monumental advertising cock ups” along with infamous events that have lessons for brands. He will also challenge some of the arguments put forward for digital and social media strategies.

The seven deadly sins of advertising session is one of 61 planned for the conference which takes place in Sydney on June 6 and 7 across five streams. The event consists of sessions proposed and curated by individuals, industry bodies and agencies and sessions organised by Mumbrella.

Other sessions already announced include:

A debate on the future of regulation of the media featuring editors, media inquiry participant Matthew Ricketson and the boss of the Australian Press Council; Olympic gold swimmer Duncan Armstrong...

'Savage' hits selected Irish cinemas with full force on Friday, September 17th. Written and directed by Brendan Muldowney (The Ten Steps) in his feature film debut, the harrowing film examines the far reaching effects of a violent attack on Paul Graynor, played by Darren Healy (Eamon). Iftn spoke with Brendan Muldowney about making the move from shorts to features and the unsettling areas of inspiration behind 'Savage'. Main protagonist Paul Graynor is an alienated press photographer who lives and works in an unfriendly and threatening Dublin. Falling victim to a random attack Paul finds himself the subject rather than the purveyor of an inner city tabloid story. He tries to come to terms with the attack but the physical and psychological scars refuse to heal.

Photo: Criterion Collection (2001 DVD edition) Tomorrow (7/20), Criterion will release Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus on Blu-ray and Special Edition DVD and I watched it over the weekend once again in preparation for my review of the Blu-ray and was enjoying every minute of it, but not only that, the shot I've included just to the right and the sound that accompanied it got me thinking. It reminded me of the fog horns blaring away in the trailer for Inception and with the free time I had I began tooling around trying to make an Inception inspired trailer of Black Narcissus using Zack Hemsey's "Mind Heist" which was used in the Inception trailer that has become familiar to us all.

My goal in this was to 1) have a little fun with a video and 2) try to show the doubters out there a film from 1947 can be just as...

The European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (Eave) have announced the participants for the Eave 2010 European Producers Workshop and the list includes Irish producers Connor Barry, Tamsin Lyons and Kevin McCann. in McCann (The Boys of St. Columb's) has been selected to participate without a project whilst Connor Barry will attend bearing his project 'The Ten Steps' and Tamsin Lyons (King of London) will come bearing in mind her project 'Hound'.