It's no secret around here that we love the Viscera Film Festival and it's administration. Our very own Maven works closely with the organization and my favorite podcast guest of all time, the redoubtable Shannon Lark, started the thing, so, you know, big fan here. Get the details below and you could actually help someone in need, in addition to courting the horrifically lovely.
DO IT FOR VISCERA. DO IT FOR WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH
(13 February 2012) Women Filmmakers: The Viscera Film Festival submission phase will come to a close at the end of February, coinciding with the completion of this year’s Women in Horror Recognition Month. You do not want to be left out of the excitement. It’s time to finalize those flicks and get them in for judging.
Wait, you don’t know how to do that? It’s as easy as cherry pie. All you have to do is go to the website (www.viscerafilmfestival.com) and it will tell you everything you need to know about getting your film in the running for the 2012 festival. If you haven’t heard about Viscera, then read this:
Viscera Film festival screens only the best new short horror films directed by women. Every July, Viscera Film Festival selections (and their filmmakers) are treated to a one-evening event in Los Angeles featuring a bloody carpet ceremony, an awards show, a guest speaker, Q & A, and an after party loaded with attendees, the Viscera staff and tons of supportive celebrities who dig what Viscera is all about.
But that’s not all by a long shot. The chosen films will also be given the opportunity to take part in the Viscera International Tour. That means your film could be screened all over the world by audiences from every corner of the planet.
And here’s the kicker: it’s completely free to the filmmaker.
Women in Horror Recognition Month
Viscera joined forces with Women in Horror Month (WiHM) in 2012. When Hannah Neurotica began WiHM in 2010, she dreamed of designating a month (February) for horror fans to commemorate the achievements of underrepresented women in all aspects of the horror industry. Viscera and WiHM share the same goals of assisting women in reaching equality in the film industry. This year, WiHM is bigger and better than ever with an all new Board of Directors and an official WiHM seal of approval for events and content that are specifically for charitable purposes. So if you see a WiHM seal, you can be sure that it is WiHM approved.
Marrow: Viscera’s Bone Drive
In association with Cella Art Gallery, Femme Fatale Art Show, and City of Hope, the Viscera organization will be rolling out the bloody carpet in North Hollywood, California on February 25th to host a charity bone marrow swab registration to cap off our 2012 celebration of Women in Horror Recognition Month. Come out to support and help raise awareness about bone marrow donation through the City of Hope organization.
Right now, someone in your own organization or community may have a life-threatening illness that is so critical the only hope for a cure is a bone marrow transplant.
Finding a matching marrow donor is not always easy, or even possible. There simply aren’t enough viable donors registered. Currently, only 2 out of 10 of those suffering from diseases like leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases ever get the treatment that could save their lives.
You can help change that.
The Be The Match Registry at City of Hope is working diligently to diversify our Registry of bone marrow donors in order to help more patients find lifesaving bone marrow matches. When you join the Be The Match Marrow Registry, you can save a life. Every day thousands of patients need a life-saving transplant and are in search of a donor. With only 30% finding a suitable donor within their family, the remaining 70% must reach out to unrelated donors whose tissue type matches. Even with the Registry of millions there are still patients waiting and hoping to find that match. That’s where you can help. Come to the Viscera Marrow Event and be swabbed and registered by City of Hope. You could save a life.
This event is FREE but please RSVP to either the facebook event page or stacy@viscerafilmfestival.com. It will include a very special screening of “Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest”. This was the last project Hammer horror icon Ingrid Pitt made, narrating her own story for a short animated film by an 11 year old boy, Perry Chen, under the mentorship of cartoonist Bill Plympton.
Marrow will also provide a carpet walk, food, open bar, femme fatale-inspired art, and a screening of horror films by women. Do it for charity. Do it for Women in Horror Month.
This event is sponsored by the new horror series Holliston, premiering on FEARnet April 3rd, 2012.
MARROW: Viscera’s Bone Drive
Cella Art Gallery
1135 Weddington St
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Saturday, Feb 25th
6pm to (roughly) 10PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/180775158694848/
MARROW Event Sponsors
City of Hope
Cella Art Gallery
Femme Fatale Art Show
FEARnet
Kaci Hansen
Lyz Arts
Irene Langholm
Matt Orsman
PlanetEtheria.com
Viscera Film Festival 2012 Sponsors
FEARnet, Curio-Media, Inc., Rotten Cotton, Irene Langholm, Matt Orsman, Desert Pinups, Kc SoapsNmore, StarFruit Productions, Lyz Arts, Blood Curdling Baubles, Jessica Grundy, Laughing Vixen Lounge, PlanetEtheria.com
For More Information:
Viscera, org Founder/Director of Operations Shannon Lark
Viscera, org Director of Programming Heidi Honeycutt
Viscera, org Director of Sponsorship Stacy Pippi Hammon
Viscera, org Director of Marketing Jamie Jenkins
Founder Women in Horror Recognition Month Hannah Neurotica
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