Trial Pit Cinema/“Nightmares Before Christmas” presents
Yowie and the Magpie
A short film by Dylan White and Tim Telling

A special edition of Trial Pit cinema on Friday December 12 puts the creatures into Christmas with a screening of Yowie and The Magpie, an animated short film about monsters and madmen in the Outback

Yowie and the Magpie is the animated tale of crazed hunter Magpie McShane‘s obsession with the ultimate trophy - the Yowie, the mythical man-beast of the Australian Outback. Like a yeti with personal hygiene issues, the Yowie is big, mean and stinky. Magpie has been tracking it for year, and is finally closing in. Will he get his trophy? Or will it get him?

Created by Dylan White and Tim Telling, both of whom grew up in Stroud, The Yowie… debuted at the London Film Festival earlier this year. This will be only its second screening before it launches onto the festival circuit proper.
Yowie and the Magpie will be presented alongside two other fear-filled monster shorts (details TBC) - a smorgasbord of terror that’s the perfect antidote to the tiresome compulsory niceness of the festive season!

'Films will be followed by music courtesy of DJ Ross Lilley and friends, playing funk, balearic and charity shop disco.'

Friday December 12
Doors 8.30pm
Admission £3.50