00:00A nice sort of little link up between independent filmmakers,
00:03people who are just starting their journey,
00:06and that sort of wider thing that's happening in the North East.
00:09Yeah, especially because we're the only festival that I know
00:13that has a category at the festival,
00:15which is for the best North East horror short film.
00:18We have other categories, of course,
00:19but we have one that's specific to North East horror filmmakers.
00:23The most important thing to us was that we're going to try
00:25and really push the local aspect of things
00:27because that's what's important to us is giving local people a chance
00:30to show what they can do.
00:32For independent filmmakers,
00:33getting their work in front of an audience can be a challenge.
00:36In Newcastle, Terror on Tyne is creating a space
00:39where horror shorts can be seen on the big screen,
00:42discussed with fellow film fans and recognised through festival awards.
00:46The event is also widening its research beyond screenings
00:50with new opportunities for people to meet, learn and share their work.
00:54The festival takes place at the Star and Shadow Cinema,
00:57a 100-seat venue which organisers say sells out every year.
01:01Entries come from the North East and internationally,
01:03with categories for experienced professionals
01:06as well as first-time filmmakers and regional talent.
01:09Terror on Tyne Film Festival came out of a conversation
01:12I had with Paul a few years back
01:15where, as two independent filmmakers who generally make horror films
01:19and fans of horror films,
01:22we were a bit upset at the fact that
01:24if you want to go to a film festival, a horror festival,
01:27you've got to travel to, say, Manchester or Leeds, York, Glasgow.
01:31You've got to travel a fair way from the North East.
01:33And we're like, well, why hasn't the North East got a festival like this?
01:37Well, you know, no one else is doing it.
01:39We might as well do it.
01:41So we did.
01:41We're trying to keep a good balance between making the event
01:44cater to the filmmakers who are submitting their films
01:47and who want to see them on the big screen,
01:49making sure we can platform them and their voices.
01:51But we're also very conscious that we do have an audience
01:54that turns up that just wants to see the films
01:56that don't necessarily have any interest in filmmaking.
01:58They're just there because they like horror films.
02:01So the festival very much, it does cater to both of those slightly,
02:05I mean, there's an overlap with those crowds,
02:07but we want to cater to both.
02:08It's finding that balancing act, really,
02:10between making it an event that's great for the showcase
02:12of new independent filmmakers,
02:15but also just making sure that people who are there
02:17just have a good night to spend a few hours in a dark room
02:20on a big screen watching horror films, you know?
02:22The Terror on Time brand expands further with The Terrorcast,
02:26a new podcast which features 45-minute to 60-minute interviews
02:30with horror and genre film and television professionals,
02:33most of which are North East's very own talent.
02:37The guests, we're all making sure that the guests
02:39have some sort of connection to the North East,
02:41whether they were born or they work in the North East
02:43or they've moved up and they're living in the North East
02:45even if they're travelling elsewhere to make films
02:47because the North East aspect, I mean, it's in the name, you know,
02:50that's very, very crucial to the identity
02:52and to the brand of the festival.
02:54It's basically North East and horror are the two things
02:56that I think are the kind of crucial components of the festival.
