The Kick-Off 2011 Event of the Viscera Film Festival will take place on Sunday, July 17th, at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles, Califonia, wherein Viscera pulls out all the stops with a carefully chosen selection of films by women from all over the world.
Special guests, press, and filmmakers will be present to celebrate. A Bloody Carpet Ceremony, award ceremony, Q and A, and after party are all included. Forget Carmageddon - get out and support female horror filmmakers, damnit! Hot chicks into horror - how much better can it get?!?
After the big event several of the films that screened in Los Angeles and many more innovative horror films by women will be featured on the on-going Viscera Tour and Viscera Film Festival DVD, which will be made available to the public in the latter half of 2011. The Viscera Tour will extend across America and in international regions,...
Special guests, press, and filmmakers will be present to celebrate. A Bloody Carpet Ceremony, award ceremony, Q and A, and after party are all included. Forget Carmageddon - get out and support female horror filmmakers, damnit! Hot chicks into horror - how much better can it get?!?
After the big event several of the films that screened in Los Angeles and many more innovative horror films by women will be featured on the on-going Viscera Tour and Viscera Film Festival DVD, which will be made available to the public in the latter half of 2011. The Viscera Tour will extend across America and in international regions,...
- 7/15/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
The Viscera Film Festival, featuring horror shorts made by femme directors, launches this weekend in Los Angeles. Running the gamut from hard-to-watch gross-out gore to slowly suspenseful, this festival proves that “women can be just as twisted, emotionally grinding, terror-inducing and splatter spewing as men," states the Viscera Fest. Viscera Fest opens at 5:00 Pm on Sunday, July 17, 2011 at La's Silent Movie Theatre; more details and a teaser-trailer of UK filmmaker Jennifer Eiss’s Short Lease are below: Advance tickets are $15, door price is $20. The full Viscera schedule, including list of attending directors and guests, is here.
- 7/13/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
We're co-running the Viscera Film Festival, showing the best new short horror films directed by women, just like we did last year. Here's our 2011 lineup.
It's been pretty cut-throat. Out of over 80 submissions, we struggled and wept and co-director Shannon Lark and I beat each other up over what our final lineup would be. In the end, we decided, only the best of the best could play, so we counted and recounted our judges tallies and agreed that again we'd show way too many films and have our fest run way too long.
These films are just too good to not screen. We couldn't eliminate any of them. I have to be honest: I love every film on this list. We're got some Us premieres that we're especially excited about! The 2011 Viscera Film Festival Films are:
The Party’S Over by Gigi Romero
Bon Apetit by Kate Shenton
Doll Parts...
It's been pretty cut-throat. Out of over 80 submissions, we struggled and wept and co-director Shannon Lark and I beat each other up over what our final lineup would be. In the end, we decided, only the best of the best could play, so we counted and recounted our judges tallies and agreed that again we'd show way too many films and have our fest run way too long.
These films are just too good to not screen. We couldn't eliminate any of them. I have to be honest: I love every film on this list. We're got some Us premieres that we're especially excited about! The 2011 Viscera Film Festival Films are:
The Party’S Over by Gigi Romero
Bon Apetit by Kate Shenton
Doll Parts...
- 4/26/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Start: 03/12/2011 Start: 03/12/2011
Bird's Eye View Film Fest in London, UK is showing a short section of horror all by women! From a fiercely feminist slashfest to a deadly defence of free speech, via some light cannibalism... Contemporary horror by the world's bloodiest women.
Short Lease
Dir. Prano Bailey-Bond & Jennifer Eiss, UK 2010, 13min
When a woman finds a man hanging in a country house, she re-experiences his death in nail-biting detail. British Horror Award-winner.
Daddy's Girl
Dir Helen Komini Olsen, Norway 2009, 8min
A girl needs to get rid of her father. This eerie, deadpan film won Best Short Fiction at the 2010 Minimalen Festival.
Nursery Crimes
Dir Laura Whyte, UK 2010, 4min
Little Bo Peep has slaughtered her sheep and doesn't know where to hide them... This gory stop-motion animation won the British Horror Festival Audience Award and Best Film at Village of the Damned.
I Spit on Eli Roth
Dir Devi Sniveley,...
Bird's Eye View Film Fest in London, UK is showing a short section of horror all by women! From a fiercely feminist slashfest to a deadly defence of free speech, via some light cannibalism... Contemporary horror by the world's bloodiest women.
Short Lease
Dir. Prano Bailey-Bond & Jennifer Eiss, UK 2010, 13min
When a woman finds a man hanging in a country house, she re-experiences his death in nail-biting detail. British Horror Award-winner.
Daddy's Girl
Dir Helen Komini Olsen, Norway 2009, 8min
A girl needs to get rid of her father. This eerie, deadpan film won Best Short Fiction at the 2010 Minimalen Festival.
Nursery Crimes
Dir Laura Whyte, UK 2010, 4min
Little Bo Peep has slaughtered her sheep and doesn't know where to hide them... This gory stop-motion animation won the British Horror Festival Audience Award and Best Film at Village of the Damned.
I Spit on Eli Roth
Dir Devi Sniveley,...
- 1/26/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Women in Horror Month creator Hannah Nuerotica and Fgt editor Heidi get down and dirty about the new GoreZone Women in Horror Month Tribute Video in a no-holds-barred bikini-wrestling match of emotions.
Hannah: On January 8, 2011 Uk MagazineGoreZonelaunched a video called “Women in Horror” (in honor of February being Women in Horror Month). Despite my legitimate skepticism regarding how a magazine indistinguishable from Maxim on the rack would portray a movement rooted in the feminist ideal of equality, yet I remained open-minded. Maybe we would all be surprised and elated to see some true progress taking place.
Heidi: If you’re an artist, a filmmaker, a director, an editor, an actress who doesn’t happen to look like a model, or basically any woman who doesn’t cater to the sexuality of male horror fans, you may find yourself having a harder time getting your projects seen and heard, or getting jobs doing what you love.
Hannah: On January 8, 2011 Uk MagazineGoreZonelaunched a video called “Women in Horror” (in honor of February being Women in Horror Month). Despite my legitimate skepticism regarding how a magazine indistinguishable from Maxim on the rack would portray a movement rooted in the feminist ideal of equality, yet I remained open-minded. Maybe we would all be surprised and elated to see some true progress taking place.
Heidi: If you’re an artist, a filmmaker, a director, an editor, an actress who doesn’t happen to look like a model, or basically any woman who doesn’t cater to the sexuality of male horror fans, you may find yourself having a harder time getting your projects seen and heard, or getting jobs doing what you love.
- 1/12/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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Halloween sees a number of horror film festivals running in the UK: London has the Frightfest annual all-nighter, Manchester has Grimm Up North, and Nottingham has the Mayhem Horror Film Festival. Taking place in Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema from October 28th to October 31st, Mayhem packs in a number of preview screenings, combined with old classics, short films, and Qa sessions.
Day one could probably be classed as female retribution night: comprising Hong Kong Cat3 delight Dream Home followed by the recent Us remake of I Spit On Your Grave (review). I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of the Hong Kong feature – from the clever way its plot unravels, through to Josie Ho’s magnificent performance in the central role, and some inventive and deeply unpleasant kill effects. Perhaps then, the...
Halloween sees a number of horror film festivals running in the UK: London has the Frightfest annual all-nighter, Manchester has Grimm Up North, and Nottingham has the Mayhem Horror Film Festival. Taking place in Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema from October 28th to October 31st, Mayhem packs in a number of preview screenings, combined with old classics, short films, and Qa sessions.
Day one could probably be classed as female retribution night: comprising Hong Kong Cat3 delight Dream Home followed by the recent Us remake of I Spit On Your Grave (review). I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of the Hong Kong feature – from the clever way its plot unravels, through to Josie Ho’s magnificent performance in the central role, and some inventive and deeply unpleasant kill effects. Perhaps then, the...
- 10/30/2010
- by Dan
- Nerdly
Like, what's the deal, Neil?
Neil isn't a real person.
In the past 5 years I've seen women horror, sci-fi, and fantasy directors representing at least one third of all genre film festival screenings in the United States and in Europe. This year, not so. While there are a few features making the rounds, the same ones appear in all the fests and often they're the Only film directed by a woman in the entire lineup.
Check it out:
Horror/drama After.life, directed Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, already made a theatrical release in the USA and was recently screened in the United Kingdom at London Frightfest alongside only one other horror film by a woman (Hélène Cattet co-directed the awful giallo Amer with Bruno Forzani) and the violent action flick Isle of Dogs by Tammi Sutton and is now in the official lineup for Sitges, Spain. Unless there are films Sitges has not announced yet,...
Neil isn't a real person.
In the past 5 years I've seen women horror, sci-fi, and fantasy directors representing at least one third of all genre film festival screenings in the United States and in Europe. This year, not so. While there are a few features making the rounds, the same ones appear in all the fests and often they're the Only film directed by a woman in the entire lineup.
Check it out:
Horror/drama After.life, directed Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, already made a theatrical release in the USA and was recently screened in the United Kingdom at London Frightfest alongside only one other horror film by a woman (Hélène Cattet co-directed the awful giallo Amer with Bruno Forzani) and the violent action flick Isle of Dogs by Tammi Sutton and is now in the official lineup for Sitges, Spain. Unless there are films Sitges has not announced yet,...
- 9/19/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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