Cirrus@Austlit

'At the intersection of theory and practice, Mapping Global Horror: Australia, Japan and Beyond put horror scholars in dialogue with filmmakers and festival producers. This enabled audiences to understand new dimensions of a medium that’s constantly fluctuating in form. The roundtable transcribed here was chaired by Adam Daniel, an academic and filmmaker from the Australian Film Television and Radio School and Western Sydney University. He was joined by Isabel Peppard: a director, animator and visual artist. Her animated short Butterflies (2012) won the Dendy Award at The Sydney Film Festival and was nominated for an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award (AACTA). Caitlin Koller is an award-winning Australian filmmaker, featured in 1000 Women In Horror: 1895-2018 and Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre. Natalie Erika James’ feature length debut, Relic (2020), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received nominations for Best Film at the 2020 Gotham Awards as well as Best Film, Best Direction and Best Screenplay at the 2020 AACTA Awards. Asakura Kayoko was born and raised in Japan, her film My Girlfriend Is a Serial Killer (Hitsuji to ôkami no koi to satsujin, Asakura Kayoko, 2019) screened at the conference, alongside Relic.' (Introduction)