Events

The incredibly inane, but nevertheless mainstream representative, People's Choice Awards have nominated some impressive women and films in their categories this year;
Abbie Cornish, of Bright Star, for fave breakout star; Christine Jeffs' Sunshine Cleaning, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker and Jane Campion's Bright Star for fave independent films; Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight as fave film; and the Barrymore-directed Whip It's Ellen Page, Eve and Kristen Wiig as best onscreen pairing. Not to mention the Charlaine Harris-created True Blood, the Eliza Dushku-produced Dollhouse, and female-watched Ghost Whisperer as fave sci-fi/fantasy shows. True Blood, not surprisingly, appears in the TV Obsession category.

Did you know YOU can vote right here? You're people, and you can choose stuff.

Sponsor the Horror Starlets bowling team as they raise money for Breast Cancer Survivors in Los Angeles on October 27th in Universal Studios, California! Bowling for Boobies is a non-profit fundraiser which provides monetary assistance to Los Angeles women who are experiencing financial challenges as the result of fighting and living with breast cancer. The money BFB generates goes directly to someone struggling with this deadly disease.

The Go-Go’s Jane Wiedlin will be on hand to knock down some pins with The Horror Starlets bowling team, which is comprised of Carlee Baker (Wicked Lake and Alluvial), Heather Snell (The Poughkeepsie Tapes), Tracy Coogan (Dark Woods and Zombie Honeymoon ), Brooke Lewis (iMurder and Slime City Massacre), and Eve Mauro (Penance and The Steam Experiment). So, how can you help?...

Julianne Moore will be honored with the "Hollywood Supporting Actress Award" at the 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards. An actress of great versatility, Julianne Moore has been nominated four times for Academy Awards for her work. She was FBI agent Clarisse Starling in Hannibal, a grieving mother in The Forgotten, Lila Crane in the Psycho remake, Susan in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, and the lead in the sci-fi Children of Men.

She just completed work on Atom Egoyan's noirish-b-movie parody Chloe, which also stars Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried...

Katee Sackhoff, best known as Kara Thrace (Starbuck) on the sci-fi series revival Battlestar Galactica, is taking part in the AIDS walk in Los Angeles on October 18th, 2009, and she's reaching out to her fans to sponsor her!

Katee's walking team, The Frak Ups, are asking you to go to the Aids Walk website and sponsor her, donating whatever you can afford, even a few bucks. Katee will be matching all donations up to $5000 and, as added incentive, one philanthropic fan will receive an autographed photo and season 4.5 DVD set. Help this gal do something good!

Women in Horror Month is a new thing born of the feministy-horrory mind of Hannah Neurotica (AxWoundZine) to bring recognition to women's contributions to horror. How could we NOT be on board?

"Why can’t we be recognized as 'Scream Queens' who scream out with our artistic and creative abilities; qualities other then how we look?" - Hannah Neurotica

The website includes the amazing manifesto and a list of things YOU can do this February 2010 to help bring awareness to women's contributions to the horror industry. Pretty/Scary will be hosting a series of film screenings in Los Angeles (more on that to come). Let Hannah know what you think and how you plan to get involved.

We love horror when its combined with charity, and Vampire-Con is the latest one of which we wholeheartedly approve. In partnership with The American Red Cross, Vampire-Con is hosting a blood drive on Sunday, August 16th from 10 am – 4 pm in Los Angeles, California. A limited edition t-shirt “Blood is the Drug” will be given to the first 40 attendees who donate a pint of blood...

So, there's even more crap going on Saturday and Sunday July 25th and 26th at the San Diego ComicCon that doesn't humiliate women. Cartoon voice legend June Foray gets her own panel, as do Women in Manga and the Women of Marvel, plus Emily The Strange creators, including writer Jessica Gruner, talk about the little girl goth cult phenomenon...

More stuff happening at the 2009 San Diego ComicCon on Friday July 24th that has women of interest (and by interest I mean, 'do something other than just look hot') include writer/producer Jane Espensen talking about the Battlestar Galactica/Caprica connection and DVD release; producer Eliza Dushku talking with Joss Whedon about the second season of her series Dollhouse; Felicia Day's panel about the future of her award-winning comedy/fantasy web series The Guild; and Zoe Bell discussing the upcoming Angel of Death feature length DVD. Read on for details...

Thursday, July 23rd at the San Diego Comic-Con offers up two panels in which you can delight in how awesome women are.

Entertainment Weekly's Wonder Women: Female Power Icons and a panel on comic book writer Gail Simone highlight a day of boring crap marred especially by a 'Masters of the Web' panel that ignore the dozens of females who edit film sites (Jen Yamato of Rotten Tomatoes, why are you not on that panel?) Anyway, read on for the cool stuff...