Electric Sheep podcast: Bloody Women – Female Horror Directors

March 14, 2011 — Masters of Horror

Electric Sheep podcast:

Bloody Women – Female Horror Directors
Also broadcast 08/03/11 on Resonance FM

Still from Switch by Melanie Light

In the third Electric Sheep Podcast of 2011, to coincide with the Birds Eye View Film Festival’s focus on women in horror, Electric Sheep editor Virginie Sélavy leads a discussion with three women filmmakers working in this traditionally male-dominated genre. Her guests are: Melanie Light, director of Switch, Kate Shenton, director of Bon Appetit, and Jennifer Eiss, co-director of Short Lease. All three shorts screened as part of the Horror Shorts programme of B.E.V. on Saturday 12 March at the ICA.

More info: www.birds-eye-view.co.uk

Read Eleanor McKeown’s Article about new female horror directors.

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