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
Dark Matter DVD, a new distribution company putting out short independent sc-fi films, is distributing Lamia, directed by Katerina Slantcheva, and Void, directed by Meredith Berg, on the first edition of the Dark Matter DVD collection!
These two short sci-/fi horror films haven't been seen much, either in the festival circuit or anywhere else, so we're super-stoked to see them getting distribution! Dark Matter's films all have a very Twilight Zone/Outer Limits kind-of-feel, so we're looking forward to all the content they put out on their compilations. Their next collection will include Tanja Mairitsch's short Fueling the Fire...
An artist obsessively painting over his portraits and his apartment's walls with white paint has his reality peeled apart when a hauntingly beautiful model arrives for a sitting in Lamia.
Follow an FBI agent into the Void as she enters a small town where a mysterious killer roams and strange phenomena abound.
These two short sci-/fi horror films haven't been seen much, either in the festival circuit or anywhere else, so we're super-stoked to see them getting distribution! Dark Matter's films all have a very Twilight Zone/Outer Limits kind-of-feel, so we're looking forward to all the content they put out on their compilations. Their next collection will include Tanja Mairitsch's short Fueling the Fire...
An artist obsessively painting over his portraits and his apartment's walls with white paint has his reality peeled apart when a hauntingly beautiful model arrives for a sitting in Lamia.
Follow an FBI agent into the Void as she enters a small town where a mysterious killer roams and strange phenomena abound.
- 3/12/2010
- 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
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