2012
Etheria Film Festival
Celebrates
Women Filmmakers of Science Fiction & Fantasy
Strap on your blasters, fire up your TARDIS , and run, Runner!
It’s not Carousel but this September will bring you the very first
Etheria Film Festival. Etheria is the brainchild of film journalist and
programmer, Heidi Honeycutt, as well as an imprint of the Viscera Organization,
a not-for-profit that is dedicated to increasing the visibility of female genre
filmmakers. The Viscera Film Festival has been showcasing the best in
emerging female horror film talent since 2007. But why stop with horror?
There are talented women filmmakers across every genre. The Etheria
Film Festival is the only film festival in the world that screens, exclusively,
the best new short science fiction and fantasy films directed by women from
around the globe.
There
will be a reception for the filmmakers as well as an After Party so don’t run
off too soon. It’s guaranteed Reaver Free!
Date:
September 15th, 2012
Start
Time: 4 pm
End
Time: 10:30 pm
Somerville
Theatre
55
Davis Square
Somerville,
MA 02144-2908
(617)
625-5700
For
More Information:
Visit
Our Website: www.etheriafilmfestival.com or
Contact:
heidi@viscerafilmfestival.com
Etheria
is Copresented by www.AllThingsHorrorOnline.net
Now
that you have the nitty-gritty important details, let’s talk about the fun
stuff. Etheria’s amazing judging panel (listed below) worked harder than
Atreyu in the Swamp of Sadness to find and pull together for you a lineup of
films that are out of this world. Take a look below to see what’s in
store.
Film
Lineup:
Fantasy
Category
Seamstress - Gracie Otto
(Australia)
An
ailing bird watcher becomes obsessed with a seamstress living next door when he
observes her luring birds into her home. He discovers that she needs the birds
to survive, and that he may hold the key to furthering the species.
Oowie
Wanna
- Bridget Palardy (USA)
While
doing laundry, a misfit 7-year-old girl tumbles into an alluring other-world,
where she must decide the fate of her birthmark.
Prita
Noire -
Sofia Carrillo (Mexico)
A
fantastical animated story of two sisters in a strange place, and their strange
relationship.
She
Wolf -
Francesca Reverdito (Italy)
Little
Red Riding Hood turns the table on the wolf.
The
Maiden and the Princess - Ali Scher (USA)
A
fairy tale about a young girl who loves the princess instead of the prince.
The
Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting - Emily Carmichael (USA)
A
Brooklyn couple have dinner with a hunter and his girlfriend, a magical swan
woman. It doesn't go well.
The
Stolen
- Karen Lam (Canada)
A
dark fairytale about an imaginative little girl who saves a bullied boy and is
granted a secret wish.
The
Red Hood
- Danishka Esterhazy (Canada)
A
dark re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood set in the Canadian prairies during
the Great Depression.
Sci
Fi Category
The
Provider
- Brianne Nord-Stewart (Canada)
In
an alternate-history 1940s small town America, after Japan retaliates over
Hiroshima with biological warfare, the local doctor’s home is the safest place
to seek refuge. Or is it?
Undetected - Kristen Anderson
(USA)
A
blown engine on a remote road forces two sisters to look for help in a
ghost-town from a couple that closely resembles the living dead.
Laura
Keller
- Maureen Perkins (USA)
With
global population at an extreme high, federal fertility lotteries now determine
who can and can’t reproduce. When one woman learns that she will be permanently
sterilized, her faith in the system is shaken.
Imminent
Danger -
Alana McNair (USA)
Whoops!
After an unintentional button pressing incident alerting Earth of its impending
demise, Gail must find a way to reverse this misunderstanding and save the
world!
Kaboomtown - Jakqui Schuler (USA)
As
the human race keeps on exploding around her, Jane struggles to fill out a
stack of application forms to stay alive.
Slashed
-
Rebecca Thomson (Australia)
Worlds
will collide when Renata and Frieda's erotic fantasies cross the digital
frontier.
Volcano
Girl -
Ashley Maria (USA)
Fighting
super villains is easy. Losing your superhero job, moving back home and sharing
a bathroom with your little sister? Now that’s hard.
Feature
Program
We
Are All Cylons
- Ilana Rein (USA)
We
Are All Cylons
investigates our very human enthusiasm for technology and myth by examining the
metaphysical resonances of the television series “Battlestar Galactica.”
Special
Guest Judges:
Rachel
Talalay (director, Nightmare on Elm Street 6, Tank Girl)
Suzi
Yoonessi (director, Dear Lemon Lima)
Stacie
Ponder (artist/writer “Womanthology”, “RPG”)
Andre
Dumas (journalist, TheHorrorDigest)
Chris
Hallock (AllThingsHorrorOnline.net)
Mike
Snoonian (AllThingsHorrorOnline.net)
Lynn
Hershman Leeson (director, Teknolust”)
Christopher
Golden (author, The Ferryman)
Jennifer
M. Kroot (director, It Came From Kuchar)
Nicole
McConvery (Program Director, Boston Underground Film Festival)
Richard
Griffin (director, Exhumed, Disco Exorcist, Nun of That)
Liz
Coffey (Film Preserver, Harvard Film Archive)
Lisa
Hammer (director, Pox, The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch)
This
stellar showcase is made possible by the generosity of Etheria’s Sponsors:
AllThingsHorrorOnline.net,
PlanetFury.com, PlanetEtheria.com, TheHorrorDigest, Women
In Horror Month, The Viscera Organization, Carly Lyn, Chris Hallock
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