Death In Charge

Award-winning genre filmmaker Devi Snively's next film will be a neo-noir called Last Seen on Dolores Street. Snively's previous work includes Raven Gets a Life, Death in Charge, Teenage Bikini Vampire, Trippin', Meat is Murder, and Confederate Zombie Massacre.

Last Seen on Dolores Street will be "a 2-minute horror noir film that will hopefully actually be disturbing and scary as opposed to our usual whimsical lighthearted approach to horror," says Snively. "I'm both very excited and very nervous - this is a whole new territory for me."

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.) Check out the trailers below...