Viscera Film Festival All Horror by Women!

If you are not familiar with the Viscera Film Festival let me get you up to date.

Shannon Lark

The Viscera Film Festival was started by founder Actress/Writer/Director Shannon Lark (Lipstick, Psychic Experiment) 5 years ago.  She wanted to see a festival where women in horror were treated equally and were given a fair chance to showcase their work.
Lark runs the Festival and the yearly charity drives with her board members Heidi Honeycutt and Stacy Pippi Hammon.  These three ladies know how to entertain and how to raise awareness.

Since starting the festival it has grown exponentially and in it's 5th year has become a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.  For the first time VFF will be held at the world famous Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, CA on July 7, 2012.

This is the first year Viscera FF is presenting a Feature Film and it is the Feature Directorial Debut of Danielle Harris (Halloween 4, Rob Zombie's Halloween) and produced by Jennifer Blanc (Dark Angel, The Victim)


Festival Line-up:
Feature Presentation 3:30pm
Among Friends (US)- Danielle Harris

Shorts Program 7:30pm
Baby Face (UK)- Kate Shenton
Barbie Girls (France)- Vinciane Millereau
Bloodtraffick (Hong Kong)- Jen Thym
Escape From Hellview (Israel)- Hadas Brandes
How to Rid Your Lover of a Negative Emotion Caused By You (USA)- Nadia Litz
Jump (UK)- Louisa Fielden
Nice Guys Finish Last (USA)- Kimberly McCollough
Sybling Rivalry (Under 18) (USA) - Tara-Nicole Azarian
The Dump (USA)- Rebekah McKendry
The Halloween Kid (UK)- Axelle Carolyn
The Morning After (UK)- Jen Moss
The Night Caller (USA)- Donna Thorland and Peter Podgursky
The Third Eye (France) - Caroline du Potet

Jennifer Blanc & Danielle Harris (Among Friends)

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Actress Danielle Harris on Directing?

I came across an interview Danielle Harris (Halloween 4 & 5, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Hatchet II) did with MTV GEEK and I found this quote quite interesting.

Danielle Harris
(Halloween, Hatchet 2)

"...I know that it’s short-lived. That’s actually why I applied to the AFI to the Women’s Directing Program because that’s the next step for me. There’s no female directors in the genre, but all these leads and it’s mostly written by men, so what the f***? Why are there not more women doing this?
That’s kind of where I want to start in sort of making that transition. I’ll always be an actor and I will always do these movies, but they may just be few and far between. But like I said in the beginning, I only like taking things that I’m excited about, and even if some people don’t understand why I do it, a lot of stuff I do, I do for no money because I just want to be a part of it. ... "

 Could this be the next step for many female leads in the horror genre?  I think it's interesting.  I am a huge supporter of more female directors.  As you've seen, I have worked with Actress/Director Sage Hall twice this year.  And both short films have turned out to be great successes.
  Tara Cardinal had a big hand in making her film The Legend of the Red Reaper look the way it does,  then there is the new short film from Devanny Pinn titled CatARTic and Shannon Lark has directed the short Lip Stick and many others.

Tara Cardinal
(Legend of the Red Reaper)

 I think that Harris has the right idea.  Make your own films women.  You know what you want to see, you know what you want to play.  If you're not seeing it on screen, then step behind the camera and make it happen.  There are tons of industry people that will help and want this shift!

Sage Hall
(Director: Candy., The Couch)

 It does seem like the Independent, outside the studio system actress' are the ones doing this though.  It's very rare to see a female horror genre A-lister get behind the camera.

I welcome more of it!

Devanny Pinn
(Director: CatARTic)

Shannon Lark
(Director: Lip Stick)

Read the entire Danielle Harris Interview on MTV GEEK