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The 2009 New York Horror Film Festival (November 18 thru 22) at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, USA has a great lineup of shorts and features directed and produced by women this year.

The 2009 New York Horror Film Festival (November 18 thru 22) at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, USA has a great lineup of shorts and features directed and produced by women this year. The creepy spin on the Van Helsing tale Abraham's Boys (Dorothy Street), dark fairy-tale White Radishes (Christina Won), Together (Gigi Romero), award-winning short Death in Charge (Devi Snively) and claymation feminist horror short Barbee Butcher (Sophie Lagues) all follow feature film The Shadow Within by Silvana Zancolo.

Horror produced by women at the fest includes The Familiar (Jennifer Snick), Must Love Death (Anna Wendt), and Sweatshop (Katherine Banks, Kristi Boul and Laura Bryan.)

The short horror film Death In Charge directed by Devi Snively, won this year's Pretty/Scary Award for excellence in female horror filmmaking at the 2009 Shriekfest Film Festival last night in Hollywood, California. The Pretty/Scary Award goes to the film that best exemplifies interesting, innovative, and awesome images of women in horror, both in front of and behind the camera. Previous year's winners include Side Effect (2008) and The Cellar Door (2007).

Horror zombie experiment Locke(ed) In (directed by high school teacher Lea McMahan, starring her students) won Best Under-18 film. Check out the trailers for both films below...

The 2009 Shriekfest Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, will premiere two feature horror films we're very excited about. Sutures, directed by Tammi Sutton, and Hurt, directed by Barbara Stepansky, will make their West Coast festival debuts at Shriekfest this year.

Also screening are the short horror films Death In Charge (directed by Devi Snively,) Fantasy (directed by Montreal's Izabel Grondin,) and Locke(ed) In (directed by high school teacher Lea McMahan, starring her students.)

The 2009 Shriekfest Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, will premiere two feature horror films we're very excited about. Sutures, directed by Tammi Sutton, and Hurt, directed by Barbara Stepansky, will make their West Coast festival debuts at Shriekfest this year.

Also screening are the short horror films Death In Charge (directed by Devi Snively,) Fantasy (directed by Montreal's Izabel Grondin,) and Locke(ed) In (directed by high school teacher Lea McMahan, starring her students.) Check out the trailers below...

On Sunday October 4th, 2009 the Madison Horror Film Festival will have a Women in Horror panel hosted by Elske McCain and Scarlet Salem, followed by screenings of short films Sisters (directed by Belinda Green-Smith), Death in Charge (directed by Devi Snively) and Taste of Flesh, Taste of Fear (directed by Stacie Ponder.)

The panel and shorts will happen 2-4:20 pm.

On Sunday October 4th, 2009 the Madison Horror Film Festival will have a Women in Horror panel hosted by Elske McCain and Scarlet Salem, followed by screenings of short films Sisters (directed by Belinda Green-Smith), Death in Charge (directed by Devi Snively) and Taste of Flesh, Taste of Fear

The panel and shorts will happen 2-4:20 pm.

Quirky Montrealean filmmaker Maude Michaud's new documentary project Bloody Breasts: Women, Feminism & Horror will ask questions like Is horror a genre that can only be enjoyed by men?. Does it still serve to reinforce desired gender roles/societal stereotypes? and Can a woman call herself a feminist AND still enjoy horror films? Fast on the heels of women-in-horror documentaries Pretty Bloody by Donna Davies and Welcome To My Darkside by Reyna Young, Bloody Breasts promises to fill in the gaps in the academic literature by providing a comprehensive outlook at female artists and consumers of horror...

Leading the pack of women-directed horror/thrillers at the 2009 Los Angeles Short Film Festival is Apparition, directed, written, and produced by Sabina Vajraca. Devi Snively's Death In Charge, Maya Anand's Iris, Christina Won's White Radishes plus the animated quirky horrors of Anna Solanas's Cabaret Kadne and Higher Education by Amber Holowaychuk round out the festival. Read on for screenings, trailers, and more info...

Women's website BellaOnline has an article about the career of Jamie Lee Curtis by the horror movies editor Steven Casey Murray. You can read his fun little piece here. Also in the news is an article about female directors from CNN.com called Chicks directing flicks. Mentioned are Pretty/Scary favorites Sophia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow, and Sarah Polley. Read the article here.