Viscera Film Festival Seeks Bone Marrow Donors

In association with Cella Art Gallery, Femme Fatale Art Show, and City of Hope, the Viscera Film Festival 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 their 2012 celebration of Women in Horror Recognition Month.

Many people have life-threatening illnesses that require a bone marrow transplant for a cure. Finding a matching marrow donor is not always easy, or even possible. There aren't enough viable donors registered. Currently, only two out of ten of those suffering from 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 their Registry of bone marrow donors 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 at viscerafilmfestival dot com.

There'll be 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.

Place:

Cella Art Gallery
1135 Weddington St
North Hollywood, CA 91601

Date: Saturday, Feb 25th

Time: 6 p.m. to (roughly) 10 p.m.

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Rondo Hatton Awards Nominee

My book, whose title is also the name of this blog -- Horror Film Festivals and Awards -- has been nominated for the 2012 Rondo Hatton Horror Classic Awards.

The nomination is for their (what else?) "Book of the Year" category.

The Rondos are a fan award. Anyone can vote for the winners online.

My previous book, Horror Film Aesthetics, was likewise nominated for a Rondo last year. It didn't win, and I don't expect to win this year. But as they say about every award, "It's just an honor to be nominated!"

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For a behind-the-scenes look at horror film festivals and the festival directors who manage them, see Horror Film Festivals and Awards. This book also includes a directory of over 200 horror film festivals, and a list of festival award winners from dozens of festivals over several decades.

Bryan Wolford Raising Funds for Myctophobia

Bryan Wolford, co-founder/co-director of the Drunken Zombie Film Festival, is raising money for his own short film project, Myctophobia.

In his email, Wolford tells me that Myctophobia will begin production in February, for the short film compilation, The Collective Volume 4.

The theme of all films in The Collective Volume 4 is "emotions".

Wolford was assigned fear as his film's emotion. After researching phobias, he settled on myctophobia -- fear of the dark. His script is about a myctophobia sufferer who's alone at home when the lights go out.

The Collective Volume 4 is to premiere at the Days of the Dead convention on July 6-8, 2012, in Indianapolis, Indiana.



Wolford is seeking funds through Indie Go Go so that "the cast and crew gets a little pocket change out of the experience and to help pay for some special effects for the film. All filming with be done over a weekend in late February to keep the costs low."

There are some perks for contributing, so check out the above link.

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For a behind-the-scenes look at horror film festivals and the festival directors who manage them, see Horror Film Festivals and Awards. This book also includes a directory of over 200 horror film festivals, and a list of festival award winners from dozens of festivals over several decades.

EndTimes Theater Seeks Horror and Sci-Fi Plays

If you're reading this blog, odds are that you're mostly interested in horror filmmaking. You write screenplays, not novels, much less stage plays. Yet if you've got a horror screenplay that can be adapted into a stage play, the EndTimes theater company may have an opportunity for you!

According to their website:


EndTimes is always looking for cutting edge, challenging scripts to produce. The material we select generally has a dark, satiric bent, or falls within the sci-fi/horror genre. We produce approximately 25 short plays (50 pages or less), and two full-length plays each season.


Endtimes is located in New York City, which is the best place to a play produced, if you write plays.

Details at their website.

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For a behind-the-scenes look at horror film festivals and the festival directors who manage them, see Horror Film Festivals and Awards. This book also includes a directory of over 200 horror film festivals, and a list of festival award winners from dozens of festivals over several decades.

2012 Dark Carnival Film Festival's Call for Entries

The Dark Carnival International Film Festival announces that their 2012 edition will run from October 19-21, 2012 in Bloomington, Indiana.

Founded in 2007, Dark Carnival seeks independent horror, sci-fi, and dark fantasy films -- short and feature length -- plus music videos and trailers. They'll be screening at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in downtown Bloomington, located a few blocks from Indiana University.

Submission deadline: July 28, 2012.

Details at: DarkCarnivalFilmFest.com.

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For a behind-the-scenes look at horror film festivals and the festival directors who manage them, see Horror Film Festivals and Awards. This book also includes a directory of over 200 horror film festivals, and a list of festival award winners from dozens of festivals over several decades.

2012 World Horror Convention to Hold a Horror Film Festival

Some years they have one, some years they don't. In 2012 the answer is...Yes!

The World Horror Convention, which will convene in Salt Lake City in 2012, is sponsoring a horror film festival for both short and feature films. Yes, there's an entry fee, but not too expensive as most film festivals go.

According to their website, the 2012 WHC's film festival "will run concurrently with World Horror. WHC attendees get in free. Anyone wishing to attend just the film festival can purchase a special membership.

Entry Fees:

Early deadline: December 1, 2011 -- 10.00.
Regular deadline: February 1, 2012 -- $15.00.
Late deadline: March 1, 2012 -- $25.00.

All entries must be postmarked by March 1, 2012.

Fill out the Application Form and send it with your film and entry fee. Send films on a non-returnable DVD (Region 1 encoded) to:

WHC2012 Film Festival
PO Box 521173
Salt Lake City, Utah, 84152-1173

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For a behind-the-scenes look at horror film festivals and the festival directors who manage them, see Horror Film Festivals and Awards. This book also includes a directory of over 200 horror film festivals, and a list of festival award winners from dozens of festivals over several decades.

Popcorn Horror App Distributes Short Horror Films

Felix Gilfedder emails me to say that his new company, Popcorn Horror, will distribute short horror films via a mobile phone app.

Since distribution opportunities for short films are hard to come by, Popcorn Horror, looks to be a welcome development.





Gilfedder says: "Popcorn Horror mobile phone app is a bite sized, horror, cinema experience in the palm of your hand. The ever mutating weekly content is user generated and includes the best short horror films from across the world, news, quotes, and much more. You can download the app for free on Android, i-Phone and i-Pad. We look to reward and encourage grassroots filmmaking and promote horror festivals and events."

Gilfedder, from Glasgow, Scotland, says that he's studied Digital Film at Sydney University, and has ten indie short films to his credit. Details at: Popcorn Horror.

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For a behind-the-scenes look at horror film festivals and the festival directors who manage them, see Horror Film Festivals and Awards. This book also includes a directory of over 200 horror film festivals, and a list of festival award winners from dozens of festivals over several decades.