As the movement to recognize women horror director continues to grow (and women in film overall), festivals around the World are focusing some and all of their programming to women directors. The Scream Queen Filmfest Tokyo's focus is solely on women horror directors and they have announced their lineup for their third annual festival. On the home front there are some notable inclusions. For we Canadians we are allowed to be proud for Audrey Cummings and her debut feature film Berkshire County. Rising star Gigi Saul Guerrero's latest short El Gigante will also be at the festival with Kirsten Carthew's Fish Out Of Water, Ashley Fester's The Last Bastard and Patricia Chica's Serpent's Lullaby. Canadian women horror directors for the win!And for the Twitch family our own Izzy Lee...
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- 10/16/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Let's face it, Kier-La Janisse is a force to be reckoned with.
Over the past 15 years, she has created the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (Vancouver, BC, 1999–2005); founded the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies as well as the Blue Sunshine Psychotronic Film Center, Montreal's coolest micro-cinema (2010–2012); and programmed for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Austin, TX, 2003–2007). That's in addition to working for the Fantasia International Film Festival (Montreal, QC), being the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (Ashley Fester, 2004), writing A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (published by Fab Press) and contributing articles for Filmmaker magazine, Fangoria and Rue Morgue, among others. And this extensive list is only the tip of the iceberg that is this woman's achievements.
I first met Kier-La in 2009 when she generously agreed to contribute to my Bloody Breasts documentary webseries by letting me interview her amid the craziness that is the Fantasia Film Festival – she...
Over the past 15 years, she has created the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (Vancouver, BC, 1999–2005); founded the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies as well as the Blue Sunshine Psychotronic Film Center, Montreal's coolest micro-cinema (2010–2012); and programmed for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Austin, TX, 2003–2007). That's in addition to working for the Fantasia International Film Festival (Montreal, QC), being the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (Ashley Fester, 2004), writing A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (published by Fab Press) and contributing articles for Filmmaker magazine, Fangoria and Rue Morgue, among others. And this extensive list is only the tip of the iceberg that is this woman's achievements.
I first met Kier-La in 2009 when she generously agreed to contribute to my Bloody Breasts documentary webseries by letting me interview her amid the craziness that is the Fantasia Film Festival – she...
- 8/25/2012
- by MaudeM
- Planet Fury
A documentary by, for and about die-hard horror fans, Ashley Fester’s Celluloid Horror is now available on a limited-edition DVD that Fester is self-distributing. She has only pressed 1,000 copies, so anyone interested is advised to snap this one up quickly.
Celluloid Horror follows genre writer Kier-La Janisse (a contributor to Fangoria among others) and her struggles to mount and maintain Vancouver’s CineMuerte, the first Canadian international fright film festival, over a seven-year period. As it chronicles the highs and lows of her experiences, the documentary incorporates footage from some of screen history’s most shocking films, including Cannibal Holocaust, Who Could Kill A Child?, The Beyond, Pieces, Cutting Moments et al., and appearances by genre favorites like actor Udo Kier and directors Jeff Lieberman and Buddy Giovinazzo. The disc, available for $18.95 plus shipping from the official website of Fester’s Breed Productions, is also jam-packed with special features,...
Celluloid Horror follows genre writer Kier-La Janisse (a contributor to Fangoria among others) and her struggles to mount and maintain Vancouver’s CineMuerte, the first Canadian international fright film festival, over a seven-year period. As it chronicles the highs and lows of her experiences, the documentary incorporates footage from some of screen history’s most shocking films, including Cannibal Holocaust, Who Could Kill A Child?, The Beyond, Pieces, Cutting Moments et al., and appearances by genre favorites like actor Udo Kier and directors Jeff Lieberman and Buddy Giovinazzo. The disc, available for $18.95 plus shipping from the official website of Fester’s Breed Productions, is also jam-packed with special features,...
- 3/3/2009
- Fangoria
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