Etheria Film Night at the Egyptian Theatre for the American Cinematheque screens an annual showcase of the best new short genre films (horror, sci-fi, fantasy, action, thriller) directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show-runners, and distributors. The festival’s goal is to connect industry professionals with untapped female directing talent for genre film and TV series. Etheria Film Night is open for rolling submissions all year long, but to be considered for the 2015 lineup, you must submit your film before March 31st, 2015. Filmmakers can submit online for free at etheriafilmnight.com/submissions. The lineup will be curated by the Etheria programmers and…
Author: Heidi Honeycutt
Heidi Honeycutt
Heidi Honeycutt is a film journalist and author. She writes primarily about women directors and programs the women’s genre film event Etheria Film Night (www.etheriafilmnight.com). Her most recent work can be seen in the anthology Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through from Supernova Press.
Or are they, like a career with benefits, a living wage, and paid vacation time, a relic of the past-times when women needed affirmative action-like policies to get a leg up in the entertainment industry? Since 2007, when I first became involved in holding film festivals for women directors, one of the most biting and possibly true critiques I have heard is that film festivals which single-out women directors actually draw attention to differences, in a negative way, rather than eliminate them. Gendered festivals, I have been told, not only handicap women by placing them in a sub-standard category of…