Audience participation will be taken to the next level at this year’s festival as fields full of revellers get a Zombie makeover – and transported to the year 2018 – to take part in the shooting of I Spit On Your Rave.

The Big Chill Festival: Thursday 6th – Sunday 9th August 2009

Fast forward nine years; mankind is extinct after a virus is released at the 2012 Olympics and Zombies have takenover the world but, like their human ancestors, they are partial to a party – especially a Summer festival. From Warp Films and Film4 comes I Spit on Your Rave, a ‘mockumentary’ by director Chris Boyle about the first post-apocalyptic festival, created and curated by fun loving un-dead citizens looking to re-stage events from the ‘golden age’ of the early 21st century.

Filming begins on Thursday 6th August at this year’s Big Chill – giving festival-goers an additional day of festivities. The co-production will use thousands of Zombie costumed ticket holders, not to mention vats of make-up, to swell the cast numbers and enter the Guinness Book of World Records for of the “Most Amount of Zombies Captured on Camera”.

A short promo of the film will then be shown at the end of the festival before being released online, giving people the chance to see whether they made it to the silver screen, or the cutting room floor.

How to take part:
Just before the festival starts, further instructions will be through The Big Chill website and newsletter, letting the undead- extras-to-be know where to gather, what the audio and visual cues will be, how to move and in which direction.

All that those interested in taking part in The Big Chill’s moment on the Big Screen need to do for the moment is keep an eye on www.bigchill.net/festival – and take the Thursday off work as filming will get underway in the afternoon.Ghastly make up and dressing will be prepared on site but the festival is appealing for as many people to arrive in costume as possible, with filming beginning the moment people arrive at the box office, and continuing all over the
site through the weekend.

Check out the I Spit On Your Rave 'Zombie Roadtrip' viral for a taster of what's to come.

Links:
I Spit On Your Rave Website
Film4 Website
Big Chill Website