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Spring Forward, yo.
March 20, 2008 by Superheidi
March 04, 2008 by Superheidi
- I am a full judge at the Shriekfest Film festival www.shriekfest.com and yes, we are handing out a Pretty/Scary award again this year. Submit! - What the fuck is up with IKEA? First of all, it is populated by the most obnoxious-looking model/actor types and fauxhawks and all of the furniture is totally gay and doesn't fit together when you try to assemble it. Seriously, today I tried to assemble two different coffee tables and they both didn't work. One had one leg shorter than the other and the second one had a deformed screw. IKEA also delivered a couch with a crooked shoulder. I called IKEA to explain the problem to them and was placed on hold twice for at least twenty minutes at a time by very rude customer service agents. I know the furniture is cheap, but all I could think the whole time I was in that fluorescent mega-nightmare that is the Ikea Warehouse is "I could get this couch for 50 bucks at a thrift store". Seriously. If I am going to have to deliver, move, assemble, and install my own furniture made out of plywood and plastic, shouldn't that furniture cost me 50 dollars, not 250 dollars? And by the way, who the fuck would buy frozen meatballs from the IKEA fast food area? sick. I totally hated Ikea. It may even be worse than Home Depot, which thus far has been the worst place I have ever been. For those about to go to Sundance, I salute you... January 16, 2008 by Superheidi - Check out the latest clips of me in the horror/western film A Fistful of Brains (www.fistulofbrains.com), directed by Christine Parker, on Youtube. We shot last November.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdZDLKzOKE yes, I'm supposed to look like a whore. - I have an article in the latest Dark Side Magazine, check it out here: http://www.ebony.co.uk/darkside/thismth.htm You can read all about my set visit to The Eye and how bad it's going to be. Oh, wait, I left that last part OUT of the article. - Looks like I'll be writing articles for upcoming issues of The City Slab www.cityslab.com and Girls and Corpses www.girlsandcorpses.com. Hm. It seems that other horror print magazines don't have that weird aversion to my pitches that Fangoria does. - You can now hear the audio podcasts by Movies By Women, in which I am a host, at http://www.moviesbywomen.com/podcasts.php. The first podcast involves myself, Tara Veneruso (Director of Movies By Women), Lucy R. Watson (Director of Love Ten To One), and Stephanie Young, the chair of the Alliance of Women Directors. We talk about all kinds of crap. Especially women directors we're watching! - Speaking of Women Directors We're Watching, here's a handy guide for those of you attending the Sundace Film festival Extravaganzmagoria this upcoming week on Chick Directors in Horror, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi. If you're at one of these fests, make sure you check out the following films and support women in genre filmmaking. Women to Watch at Sundance '08
Sundance has hundreds of films, so we sorted out the genre pieces by women you ought to be looking out for... Drift - By director Kelly Sears. Using animation and live-action, Sears's short sci-fi film about a mysterious disappearance on a 1960s space journey features psychedelic rock, wayward space transmission, the space race, high hopes, failed dreams, and bodily levitation all coming together. Link Fears of the Dark - Director Marie Caillou presents a segment in this feature-length animated and strange collection of horror stories that come from the artists' own phobias, so you can trust you'll get a loving exploration into the surreal atmosphere of your creepiest dreams. Link Mermaid - Anna Melikyan's modern-day fairy tale set in Moscow. Surreal and weird. Link Object - Leslie Ali's short film about a hunter who is struck by a flying object as it falls to Earth, setting off a chain reaction that reveals humanity's stupidity and greed. Link Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired - A documentary by Marina Zenovich about the director of The Tenant, Rosemary's Baby, and The Fearless Vampire Hunters. Link Welcome Home - Kirsten Dunst premieres her directorial debut about a family who moves into a house with a ghost. Link Women to Watch at Slamdance '08
Bloody, strange, and charming, I Hate You Don't Touch Me or Bat and Hat is a short animated flick by Becky James. Link Lucky Day is a tense black comedy about a woman getting prank phone calls by Lori Chodos. Link
Women to watch at Tromadance '08 Theresa Bennett co-directs a documentary about three indie filmmakers who take it upon themselves to self-distribute their gratuitous flicks in Indie. Valerie Reid has a weird pseudo-documentary into the look of an artist with Sand Dancer. Karen Black directs a short film called Help about the nature of acting and self-awareness. A New Year! December 27, 2007 by Superheidi - Sorry I haven't posted since October. There's been nothing new!- Except the following things. - I completed my scenes for the horror/western A Fistful of Brains (coming out through Brain Damage Films in 2008) directed by Christine Parker. You can check out the official website at www.fistfulofbrains.com. My character is Daisy, the saloon whore. - Pretty-Scary.net is joining forces with fearwerx.com, and as of Feb 14 2008, They'll be handling a Pretty-Scary store on our site. We'll be selling horror merchandise we think our members would enjoy, as well as Pretty/Scary brand merchandise they'll be developing. ! - Speaking of stuff we'll be selling, Pretty-Scary is putting out a horror fiction anthology sometime around June 2008. It will feature stories in the horror/dark fiction genre written and illustrated by women only. Submission deadline is Dec 30th, if you have a story you'd like to submit. Yeah it pays. - I had a birthday. Check out this picture of Staci Layne Wilson and Myself celebrating:  - Check out the Pretty/Scary Top 20 Most Influential Women in Horror. Do you agree or disagree with our choices??? It's another one of those year-end list things everyone does: The List - And while you're at it, remember to vote for Scary Stud of The Year 2007. You can check out all of our scary studs and pick your fave if you don't remember which one you like best here: Vote for Scary Stud of the Year - I'm featured in the latest issue of the online women's 'zine Della Donna. Check out Issue #9 - I've been working on some new podcasts with the Movies By Women team, and I'll be sending out a link to the Mary Lambert interview I directed as well as some of our new audio podcasts as soon as I'm allowed. - I'm totally addicted to World of Warcraft. If you're on WOW, my name there is "Superheidi", so look me up! I Hope everyone is happy and has a great New Year's Eve. Don't throw up on anyone. Two New Interviews! October 11, 2007 by Superheidi Hey folks,this is just a mid-month update. Check out two new interviews I recently did. Here's me with my co-director Leslie Delano being interviewed by IndieExpress about our short film WRETCHED www.wretchedmovie.com www.indieexpress.com/news.html it's a flash interview. Look on the right hand side of the page and you'll see a link to mine! click it and Enjoy!!! And her'es also an interview I did Thursday the 4th with DarkerSide Radio. You can listen to my whole rambling talk, if you want! It's free! http://darkersideradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=293&Itemid=88888890 Festival Screenings! October 04, 2007 by Superheidi - My short film www.wretched.com is screening this weekend on Oct 6th in Los Angeles at the Shriekfest Film Festival www.shriekfest.com at 3:00pm. If you're around, please come check it out.It is also screening in Chicago as part of the Chicago Horror Film festival on October 7th at 7:30 PM www.chicagohorrorfest.com. There will be a screening of several short films on October 27th in New York, along with Wretched. I'll be sending out more information on that later in the month. You can also read the newest review of my film at http://www.fatally-yours.com/horror-reviews/wretched/ - My website www.pretty-scary.net is an official Sponsor of Shriekfest and we'll be handing out the Pretty/Scary award to the film that best represents women in horror, either from behind the screen of in front of it. - Pretty/Scary has also just recently undergone a restalyne-and-botox facelift with a new server and new software, and we'll be having some cool interviews this month. Upcoming are articles on the new vagina dentata film TEETH, as well as interviews with Illeana Douglas, Elvira, and studio executive Chela Johnson from Lionsgate. The SCREAM awards and the Eyegores (presented by Universal)are coming up as well, so don't forget we'll be covering those. We've also got some live coverage of the Miss Horrorfest contest coming your way next week (including my simply awful audition). To recieve the Pretty/Scary newsletter, which is a monthly letter about current events concerning women in the horror industry, you can create an account on www.pretty-scary.net by registering. To subscribe to the newsletter, you need to go to Your Account and click on the Your Info icon and make sure that "receive newsletters" option is clicked. So, bye bye to our Yahoo Group's newsletter. It's Just That Simple! - Tonight, at 7 PM Pacific Time, I have a radio interview with Becky Ray and Laura Moon of Darker Side of the Moon Radio http://darkersideradio.com. Tune in to the website to hear it! We'll be talking about stuff and things, I bet! - I was recently interviewed by Shane from www.indieexpress.com for his podcast about filmmakers. My co-directer, Leslie Delano, joined me. Our interview should be up soon and will be posted with the next newsletter. Like I am sure you cared. - Listen, any chicks!!! Please submit your film screenings, convention appearances, book signings, release dates for books and DVD;s, etc., to the Pretty-Scary calendar so we know when you're doing stuff and can report on it. Here's the link: http://www.pretty-scary.net/modules.php?name=GCalendar&file=submit&y=2007&m=10 Please, chicks and chick-related info only. Like you haven't heard THAT before. - All I have to say is that Britney Spears is not fat. Anyone who says she is just saying that because they head it somewhere else. Think of all the chicks you know. Now think of Britney. Now realize that Britney (unless you live in Los Angeles) is still so much hotter than any chick you know. |
This year's Sundance Film Festival , Jan 17-27th, has a few interesting genre films by some of the most unexpected female directors. For instance, 
Slamdance, which takes place in Park City, Utah directly opposite Sundace, Jan 17-25th, features a ton of films and panels. We've sorted out the women-directed genre films you ought to be checking out if you're headed down that way...
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Wretched is a short film I wrote, produced, and co-directed, along with Leslie Delano and Jessica Gallant. Check out the festivals it's playing at at the main website
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