Trasharama A-Go-Go is an annual low-budget/no-budget

No budget film

A no budget film is a produced film made with very little, or no money.Young directors starting out in filmmaking commonly use this method because there are few other options available to them at that point. All the actors and technicians are employed without remuneration, and the films are largely...

 short film festival

Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...

 started in 1997 by Dick Dale of Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

 bands Gacy's Place and Kamikaze. Although it was started in Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

, South Australia

South Australia

South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

 the festival has gained local and national sponsorship allowing it to grow slightly in size and a lot in popularity and now tours Australia with screenings in most Australian states.
Trasharama A-Go-Go is promoted as "Australia's NASTIEST Short Film FESTERval". Although no festival was held in 2010, the festival will return in 2011

List of films screened sorted by year

1994 - A taste of what was to become the Trasharama festival, one-off screeening held at the Crown and Anchor Hotel.

• Blue Dog - Dir. Dick Dale. Followed by performances by local bands Blood Sucking Freaks and Taxed.

1997 - "Trash Film Night" - eleven films from Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

 and Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, followed by performances by the bands, Blood Sucking Freaks and The Ghouls, screening held at "Mad Love Bar" band venue.

Films screened included:

• Total Recession - Durand Greig
• No Smoking - Warren Mc Carthy & Julian Summers
• Cold Comfort - Kristian Moliere

1998 - "Trash Film Night 2" - Held in Producers Hotel beer garden. Screening of 11 Australian films followed by live performances by the bands Madonna's Armpits and Fear and Loathing.

Films screened included:

• The Creature from Outta Space- Sean Wessex Brown & Justin Peacock
• Attack of the Undead- Peter Spierig
• Vicious Mink- Timothy Spanos
  Timothy Spanos
  Timothy Spanos is an Australian film director.Spanos has made four feature films in Australia that have become cult movie hits in the USA and Europe. His first film, Prisoner Queen, was about an actress who is diagnosed with leukemia and her son who believes he is living in the television series...
  
   & Dean Keep.

1999 - Trasharama A-Go-Go is held at Mercury Cinema in Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

, Revolver Nightclub in Melbourne

Melbourne

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 and Side On Cafe in Sydney

Sydney

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Films screened included:

• Hot Crusty Death- Judd Tilyard
• Blood of a woman- Jonathan Sequeria
• Making a Death Mask- Mark Nichols

2000 - Trasharama A-Go-Go is held at Mercury Cinema in Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

, The Zoo in Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Side On Cafe in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 and Revolver in Melbourne

Melbourne

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Films screened included:

• Black Lindy/ White Lindy- Timothy Spanos
  Timothy Spanos
  Timothy Spanos is an Australian film director.Spanos has made four feature films in Australia that have become cult movie hits in the USA and Europe. His first film, Prisoner Queen, was about an actress who is diagnosed with leukemia and her son who believes he is living in the television series...
  
  
• The film John Lennon couldn't make- Rupert Da Costa E Silva
• Zombie Bride Blood Bath- Justin Case

2001

Films screened included:

• Mondo Excreta- Little Clarke May
• Westvale Road- Episode 1 Holy Crap- Dylan Perry
• Rampage of the Undead- Peter Spierig
• Nicholas Dickmuncher- Timothy Spanos
  Timothy Spanos
  Timothy Spanos is an Australian film director.Spanos has made four feature films in Australia that have become cult movie hits in the USA and Europe. His first film, Prisoner Queen, was about an actress who is diagnosed with leukemia and her son who believes he is living in the television series...
  
  

2002
Festival only held in South Australia

South Australia

South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

 in 2002, at Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

• Films shown comprised a "best of" selection from previous years.

2003
Screenings held in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.

Films screened included:

• The Denim Avenger VS The Undead Bogans - Andy Kite and Rebecca Bogert
• The Twilight Of Granitar - Warren Armstrong
• Arakned, Apex Of Zombies - Bonnie Hart
• Case #406 - Paul Nicholson
• Bad Company - Aaron Cartwright

2004
Screenings held in Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Caloundra, Geelong and Newcastle.

Films screened included:

• We Almost Got Shot - Tom Priestley and Bill Flowers
  Bill Flowers
  Bill Flowers an Australian painter, printmaker, cartoonist, animator & snake wrangler who lives in Ulverstone, Tasmania...
  
  
• ZZZZ - James Findley
• Laser Beetles From Venus - Dario Russo
• Head - Peter Duggan
• The Offering - John Anthony Silvestro
• Drop Bears -Brendon Dee
• The Scent Of A Man - Shaun Mccarthy
• Pencil Dick - Joe Villanti

2005
Travelled widely around Australia.

Films screened included:

• Best Of 3 - Drew Thompson
• Hair Removal - Troy Gillett
• Return Of The Killer Bikini Vampire Girls - John Anthony Silvestro
• Dracenstein - Tom Priestley and Bill Flowers
  Bill Flowers
  Bill Flowers an Australian painter, printmaker, cartoonist, animator & snake wrangler who lives in Ulverstone, Tasmania...
  
  
• Still Born - Emma Mitchell
• A Story, A Song And A Dream - Matt Penney

2006
Travelled widely around Australia.

Films screened included:

• Final Faeces - Frank Daft
• Wok - Mark Alston
• Remake - Kit McDee
• Killer Bikini Vampire Girls Strike Back - John Anthony Silvestro
• The Patrolman - Anthony Marriott
  Anthony Marriott
  Anthony Marriott is an actor and playwright notable for being joint author, with Alistair Foot of the comedy No Sex Please, We're British which opened at the Strand Theatre, London, in 1971. It has been performed in 52 countries and which on 21 February 1979 became the longest running comedy in...
  
  & Marc Jager
• The Morning After - Daniel Knight
• Sickie - Stuart Simpson

2007
Travelled widely around Australia.

Films screened included:

• Greedy Guts - Stu Simpson
• Dog Meat - Mat Govoni
• Numb Skulls - Kelly Sheeran
• Foetal Decision - Mitchell Bowker
• Off The Beaten Track - Josh Long
• Killer Bikini Vampire Girls 3: A New Hope - John Anthony Silvestro
• Road Kill - Sam Curtain
• I Piss In Your Eye - Trent Saunders
• The Physique Of The Christ - Bill Flowers
  Bill Flowers
  Bill Flowers an Australian painter, printmaker, cartoonist, animator & snake wrangler who lives in Ulverstone, Tasmania...
  
   & Tom Priestley
• Bad Timing - James Teh
• Cheerleader Swapmeat - Steve Kruetzmann & Qtim Broad
• Betty Burgers - Summer DeRoche
• Dan The Dogman - James MacDonald

2008
Travelled widely around Australia.

Films screened included:

• Rabbit Rage (First place)
• Look to the skies - Liam Jennings & Ben Nichols (Second place)
• Money Shot
• Mooney Street
• The Good Ship Morning Dew
• Death Of The Killer Bikini Vampire Girls
• The Life Of Piglet
• Look To The Skies
• Stop The Barbies
• Killin' Flies
• Heartbreak Motel
• Do You Have Protection
• Garden Of Earthly Delights
• Dr. Poo
• The Day I Got Sacked
• The Box Monster & The Death Bag Of Death
• The Love Of Victoria Anus
• The Dog Sex Killer
• Danny (The Dog Who Farts Fire)
• Family Bizness

2009

• Monster Mash - Timothy Stewart, SA
• The Golden Rule - David Wade, SA
• Dirtbike Dero's - Macho Lama, SA
• Cereal Killer - Daniel Vink, SA
• The Decayed - Josef J Weber, SA
• Vengence wears a Tampon - Frank Daft, SA
• The Tramp - Max Miller, Vic
• Gumbys new Tit - Alex Machin, Vic
• Potential Employee - Andrew Dunstan, Vic
• The Body Watchers - Adam Spellicy, Vic
• Hanging at Picnic Rock- Clint Cure, Vic
• The Fish that Eat People - Ross Radiation, NSW
• Attack of the killer bananas - Karina Libbey, NSW
• The Bagman Genisus - Kade Ruckman, NSW
• Have sex and die! - James Peniata, NSW
• Violet is Dead - Thomas Cruikshank, QLD
• Cravings - Jonathon Jahnke, QLD
• Bound - Marcus Ditzel, QLD
• A dark beginning - Aston Wenham, Simon Gill, Stephen Cass, QLD
• Duncan Cunningham's Nightmare - Duncan Cunningham, QLD
• Revenge of the Gnomes - Phillip Nelson, WA
• Trapped - Matt Penny WA
• Granny Basher Stinkweed and the Vic Bitter Bandits - Griff Broham, WA
• Blood Shed - Jason Shipley, Canada
• Mammoth Mammoth - Mat Govoni, Vic
• Botched eyeball operation - Clint Enns, Canada