The 2009 New York Horror Film Festival (November 18 thru 22) at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, USA has a great lineup of shorts and features directed and produced by women this year. The creepy spin on the Van Helsing tale Abraham's Boys (Dorothy Street), dark fairy-tale White Radishes (Christina Won), Together (Gigi Romero), award-winning short Death in Charge (Devi Snively) and claymation feminist horror short Barbee Butcher (Sophie Lagues) all follow feature film The Shadow Within by Silvana Zancolo.
Horror produced by women at the fest includes The Familiar (Jennifer Snick), Must Love Death (Anna Wendt), and Sweatshop (Katherine Banks, Kristi Boul and Laura Bryan.)...
Horror produced by women at the fest includes The Familiar (Jennifer Snick), Must Love Death (Anna Wendt), and Sweatshop (Katherine Banks, Kristi Boul and Laura Bryan.)...
- 11/6/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Void, a supernatural thriller written and directed by Meredith Berg through the AFI directing workshop for women, will make its festival debut at the Screamfest Film Festival in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct 19th at noon. Also screening is Dorothy Street's short Abraham's Boys on the 17th at noon.
Void follows FBI agent Liz Metera as she investigates a series of grisly murders in a small, desert town...
She suspects they are the work of a serial killer but discovers that whatever is responsible is far more monstrous. While uncovering clues, she befriends a boy who is hiding a powerful and chilling secret. Uncovering it costs the FBI agent everything she holds dear, changing her life, and the town, forever. The film stars Tim Guinee, Jennifer Christopher, Michael Len, and John West.
Watch the trailer:...
Void follows FBI agent Liz Metera as she investigates a series of grisly murders in a small, desert town...
She suspects they are the work of a serial killer but discovers that whatever is responsible is far more monstrous. While uncovering clues, she befriends a boy who is hiding a powerful and chilling secret. Uncovering it costs the FBI agent everything she holds dear, changing her life, and the town, forever. The film stars Tim Guinee, Jennifer Christopher, Michael Len, and John West.
Watch the trailer:...
- 9/25/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies (directed by Sherezada Kent) and Abraham's Boys (directed by Dorothy Street) are screening at the 2009 Chicago Horror Film Festival September 25th-27th, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies synopsis: When three co-workers (Jesse Mueller, Michael Carlisi, and Mary Webb) find themselves trapped in their office basement by shambling zombies, the unlikely trio attempts to devise a plan of escape...
With limited resources and no sign of the attack waning, Brian (Mueller) and Molly (Webb) try to put brains and brawn together to find a way out. However, it's Max's (Carlisi) store of useless movie trivia that truly holds the key to their escape, a harebrained scheme that just may be crazy enough to work.
Abraham's Boys synopsis: Abraham van Helsing - infamous, angry, brilliant - a man haunted by the darkest of secrets.
Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies synopsis: When three co-workers (Jesse Mueller, Michael Carlisi, and Mary Webb) find themselves trapped in their office basement by shambling zombies, the unlikely trio attempts to devise a plan of escape...
With limited resources and no sign of the attack waning, Brian (Mueller) and Molly (Webb) try to put brains and brawn together to find a way out. However, it's Max's (Carlisi) store of useless movie trivia that truly holds the key to their escape, a harebrained scheme that just may be crazy enough to work.
Abraham's Boys synopsis: Abraham van Helsing - infamous, angry, brilliant - a man haunted by the darkest of secrets.
- 9/15/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
The Terror Film Festival October 20-24th, 2009 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA will screen two new horror shorts by women!
Abraham's Boys, directed by Dorothy Street, is about Abraham van Helsing - infamous, angry, brilliant - a man haunted by the darkest of secrets... secrets that he will, one cold night just after the turn of the century, unfold at last to his two sons, Maximilian and Rudolph.
Heather Henderson's short Marcello and Sofia is a mock-cautionary tale about a young couple who fall prey to the seductive fetish fantasies of two dominatrix hell-bent on corrupting their innocence. Watch the trailer!...
enter>Trailer for Marcello and Sofia:...
Abraham's Boys, directed by Dorothy Street, is about Abraham van Helsing - infamous, angry, brilliant - a man haunted by the darkest of secrets... secrets that he will, one cold night just after the turn of the century, unfold at last to his two sons, Maximilian and Rudolph.
Heather Henderson's short Marcello and Sofia is a mock-cautionary tale about a young couple who fall prey to the seductive fetish fantasies of two dominatrix hell-bent on corrupting their innocence. Watch the trailer!...
enter>Trailer for Marcello and Sofia:...
- 9/15/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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