THE BIG LIST OF HORROR FILM FESTIVALS
Description: Bleedfest was a monthly film festival featuring “edgy genre work†by women filmmakers. The Fies have not held a BleedFest event since November 2011. Content is from the site's 2010-2011 archived pages.
This was the official website for Bleedfest, a monthly film festival featuring “edgy genre work” by women filmmakers.Based on recommendations by industry experts, the Fies have not held a BleedFest event since November 2011. Content is from the site's 2010-2011 archived pages providing just a glimpse of what this site offered its followers. The current site for Bleedfest can be found at: https://bleedfest.wordpress.com/
Festival founders and directors Elisabeth Fies and Brenda Fies are a filmmaking duo whose critically acclaimed feature thriller THE COMMUNE was embraced by multiple genre communities (as well as The Huffington Post). They feel thrilled to fill a hole in the industry by providing access to fantastic genre-blenders by indie female filmmakers systematically excluded from the sausagefest that is top tier genre festivals.
BleedFest disproves the prevailing myth that there are no female filmmakers making indie genre movies. Explains Elisabeth Fies about the discrepancy between reality and Hollywood attention for genre female filmmakers, “It’s not even about being taken seriously. It’s about being discounted to the point that you’re invisible and told you don’t exist. BleedFest aims to prove to the world that hundreds of us ovary-challenged filmmakers are here, and we’re making bold, exciting movies film lovers need and don’t
THE BIG LIST OF HORROR FILM FESTIVALS