Stranger with my Face

Stranger With My Face is run by Australian filmmakers Briony Kidd and Rebecca Thomson and will take place in Hobart, Tasmania, from 17-19 February 2012.
Deriving its name from the novel by Lois Duncan, the festival explores themes of the the shadow self, tapping into archetypes like the evil twin and the mad woman in the attic.
Mainstream film continues to present its female monsters as exotic, the ‘other’ (the ‘monstrous-feminine’ as Barbara Creed would have it), failing to recognise that this doesn’t represent the perspective of at least half of the audience. Where are the stories for women about the monster within? Where are the stories about dangerous women that are not ‘mysterious’ and ‘unknowable’… because they’re us? For that matter, where are the female Freddy Kruegers, Jasons and Candymans? Yes, slasher films have been known to feature strong female protagonists, but this is just one subgenre…and it’s not enough.
By contrast, female novelists have been delving into the dark side of their own natures for centuries… from Mary Shelley to the Brontës, to Daphne du Maurier and Shirley Jackson. Stranger With My Face looks to literary as well as cinematic traditions, understanding that one enriches the other.

The program and more info can be found here.