THE VISCERA
2013 FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES
WINNERS OF THE 4th ANNUAL CELEBRATION
OF WOMEN FILMMAKERS
CO-PRESENTED BY THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE
Los Angeles,
CA – July 24, 2013 -- The Viscera
Organization is thrilled to announce the winners from the fourth
annual Viscera Film Festival
which showcased 13 incredible short horror films to a packed house at the historic Egyptian
Theatre in Hollywood. The 2013 VFF was co-presented by the American
Cinematheque and celebrated emerging female filmmakers from several continents spanning across the globe. During
an awards ceremony on July 13th directly following
the short films program, the Viscera Film Festival
winners were revealed.
BEST FILM
Karen Lam, “The Meeting”
“The Meeting”
director Karen Lam
photo by Shannon Lark
BEST DIRECTOR
Jen Moss, “My Brother’s Keeper”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mai Nakanishi and Christine Joy (producers), Nicholas Humphries
(director), “No Place Like Home”
“No
Place Like Home” director Nicholas Humphries and producer Christine Joy with
their award, which was created by Vincent Damyanovich at Soul F/X Studio.
FRESH BLOOD (under 18)
Maddison Lopez, “Outbreak”
“Outbreak” director Maddison
Lopez with her award,
which was created by Vincent Damyanovich at Soul F/X Studio.
Filmmakers whose films play the annual
Los Angeles event receive statues denoting their acceptance.
From left: Christine Joy with “No Place Like Home”, Lark Arrowood with “Phantom Limb”, Helen Truong with “In the Dark”, Kate Rhamey and Ashton Kennedy with “Eternal
Springs”, Jenn Wexler with “Halloween
Bash” and “Slumber Party”, and Maddison Lopez with “Outbreak”.
Photo by Shersy Benson
Director Jennifer Lynch was also at the Viscera Film Festival this past weekend where she accepted the Inspiration Award in honor of her
pioneering filmmaking career starting with 1993's BOXING
HELENA; Lynch has continued to establish her legacy of powerful storytelling through various other projects
including SURVEILLANCE, CHAINED and the controversial HISSS.
Director
Jennifer Lynch receiving the Inspiration award from Viscera Organization
Director of Programming Heidi Honeycutt.
Photo by Shannon Lark
Director
Jennifer Lynch on the bloody carpet at the 2013 Viscera Film Festival.
Photo
by Shannon Lark
This year's
festival kicked off with a bloody
carpet ceremony featuring many familiar faces from the independent horror world and wrapped up at the legendary landmark,
the Cat & Fiddle, afterwards where festival-goers
partied until late into the evening.
The Viscera Film Festival will also be kicking off an international tour
shortly for the selected short films as well as a handful
of tour selections that aren’t screening
at the premiere event. This past year, the Viscera
Tour landed at over 20 venues around
the world ranging
from independent movie
houses to universities, screening
an eclectic program
of shorts that have been curated
by the Viscera Organization since 2007. The tour provides
an outlet for up-
and-coming female filmmakers around the world
to have their
work shown on the big screen
and to industry professionals. For more news on the upcoming Viscera Tour, please visit www.viscerafilmfestival.com.
Sponsors for the 2013 Viscera
Film Festival include
include American Cinematheque, Cat & Fiddle, The Redbury, ARRI, Final Draft, SoulFX Studio, FEARnet, OKC
& Norman Vapes, Fast Custom
Shirts, Fangoria Magazine, Western Digital, Spider Energy Drinks, Wooden Nickel
Lighting, Evil Supply Company, Jungle Software, Sony Creative Suites, Scream
Sirens Magazine, Too Fast Brand Alternative Apparel, Mago’s Magic Shoppe,
Horribly Eclectic, The House of Mirthquake, Joshua Hoffine, Irene Langholm, The
Homicidal Homemaker, Undead FX, Laughinhg Vixen Lounge, Deep Midnight Perfumes,
Fangtastic Cards, Evil Episodes, The Art of Kamille Freske, Solocosmo: Art by
Jessica Grundy, NikytaGaia Photography, Dolled up or Dead, The Shoggoth
Assembly Special Effects, From the Vomit, SoCal Death Militia, Epic Leather,
Lycan it!, and The Poisoned Apple.
About the Viscera
Film Festival and Viscera Organization:
The Viscera Film Festival was created in 2007 by Shannon Lark to encourage and promote the work of female horror filmmakers. The fest has grown each year, morphing
into a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with an ever-expanding, dynamic
staff of men and women who eat, sleep and breathe
genre cinema. Beginning
as a touring festival, Viscera has now become
a highly anticipated genre event every
summer in Los Angeles, complete with a carpet
ceremony (what we affectionately refer to as the “Bloody Carpet”), celebrity guests, and a raucous
after party. 2012 marked
the third annual Bloody
Carpet event in Los Angeles
at the Egyptian Theatre and Viscera’s tentacles
continue to encircle the globe, programming films at festivals
and theaters throughout the world. http://www.viscerafilmfestival.com
About the American Cinematheque:
Established in 1981, the American
Cinematheque is a 501 C 3 non-profit viewer- supported film exhibition and cultural organization dedicated to the celebration of the Moving Picture
in all of its forms.
At the Egyptian Theatre, the Cinematheque presents daily film and video programming which
ranges from the classics of American and international cinema to new independent films
and digital work.
Exhibition of rare works,
special and rare prints, etc.,
combined with fascinating post-screening discussions with the
filmmakers who created
the work, are a Cinematheque tradition that keep audiences
coming back for once-in-a-lifetime cinema
experiences. The American Cinematheque renovated and reopened (on Dec. 4, 1998) the historic 1922 Hollywood Egyptian
Theatre. This includes a state-of-the-art 616-seat
theatre housed within
Sid Grauman's first
grand movie palace on Hollywood Boulevard. The exotic courtyard
is fully restored
to its 1922 grandeur. The Egyptian was the home of the very first Hollywood movie premiere in 1922.
In January 2005 the American
Cinematheque expanded its programming to the 1940 Aero Theatre
on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica.
About Viscera’s other festivals and organizations:
Etheria Film Festival: Viscera’s sci-fi/fantasy festival
premiered in Boston,
MA on September 15, 2012 to a nearly
sold-out crowd or ravenous sci-fi
fans. This sister
fest was created because of the enormous
amount of high-quality fantasy and sci-fi
films that are submitted to Viscera’s horror
festival each year;
the Organization created a festival just for these films. http://www.etheriafilmfestival.com
Full Throttle Film Festival: Viscera’s brand new film festival
specializing in action
and thriller films directed
by women. Full Throttle will be launched
in 2013 in Austin, Texas.
The selected films will be screened in venues domestically and internationally via tour
coordinators through Partner
festivals and locally-hosted events and screenings.
Women In Horror Month: Women
In
Horror
Month
is
under
Viscera
’s
bloody
umbrella,
as
Viscera
and
WIHM,
founded
and
executed
by
Hannah
Forman,
shares
the
same
positive
mission:
To
educate
the
public
about
women
’s
roles
(via
the
horror
genre)
and how
equality
can
be
attained.
The
WIHM
Board
of
Directors
approves
WIHM-created content.
Wherever
you
see
the
WIHM
seal,
you’ll
know
that
it
’s
“WIHM
Approved”.
http://womeninhorrormonth.com
