Zombie Short Film Festival

The submissions are in, and they’re fantastic!  Now it’s time to introduce our esteemed jury members who will be watching each film and judging which one will be worthy of the coveted Z’omb D’or!

Rob Sacchetto

Rob Sacchetto been a freelance artist for almost 25 years. He is the Original Zombie Portraits artist behind www.zombieportraits.com. To date he has done over 640 paintings worldwide, since launching his site in Nov ‘06..He also has an online sketchbook, with a new illustration and painting posted daily: www.zombiedaily.com which includes podcasts and tutorials for zombie illustrations. The site now features over 400 original drawings.  Last year, he wrote and illustrated The Zombie Handbook: How to identify the living dead and survive the coming zombie apocalypse (pub. Ulysses Press, Berkely, CA)which features some 250 illustrations.  The book is being distributed throughout North America. He has recently signed a contract for a second zombie themed illustrated book due out next summer.

Mike “Nug” Nahrgang

Nug is very happy to be judging you all… the audience as well as the films.  Nug was most recently seen as “Good Ol’ Reliable Jake” in Evil Dead: The Musical, as well as in the horror films Cube:Zero and Men With Brooms. Currently, Nug hosts SHOWGAME!, a live game show which runs monthly at The Rivoli.  He hopes that these films don’t give him nightmares, but knows better.

Alyson Court

Alyson is a Canadian stage, screen, and voice actress living and working in Toronto.  She is the voice of Claire Redfield in the Resident Evil video game series, as well as the CG animation movie Resident Evil:  Degeneration. She will soon reprise her role as Claire Redfield in the upcoming Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles for the Nintendo Wii.

A huge thank you to our jury members for voluteering their time and energy to our festival.  Stay tuned!  Our finalists will be announced soon!