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We are Expanding
The Viscera Film Festival is hiring interns and expanding
our services, programs, and awesomeness.
Download the PDF below to find out more!
Viscera Intern Positions.pdf
Shannon Lark
Shannon Lark
Viscera Founder, Chair, Director of Operations
Have those burning questions on specific rules of the Festival or how to get started making your own movies? Lark welcomes all of your questions and will sound off practical filmmaking advice so you won't be deterred from your goal.
Contact Shannon at
shannon_viscerafilmfestival.com
Heidi Martinuzzi
Heidi Honeycutt
Director of Film Programming, Special Guests, Secretary
Heidi is an absolute vital link to Viscera's success. Not only does she wrangle awesome Special Guests for the events, but she secures the BEST modern horror films by women domestically and internationally.
She also assists in organizing, schedule implementation, and providing us with saracastic humor.
Contact Heidi at
heidi_viscerafilmfestival.com
Pippsta
Stacy "Pippsta" Hammon
Director of Sponsorship, Treasurer, and Director of Bubbles
Pippsta is the Wizard of all details with numbers. When it comes down to crunching the facts, she "makes things go" and can whip out a spreadsheet like nobody's business. Not only does she look fabulous in hats, Pippsta is also handles the Sponsoring companies whose contributions make Viscera possible.
Contact Pippsta at
stacy_viscerafilmfestival.com
Jamie Jenkins
Jamie Jenkins
Director of Marketing
Jamie is on top of it all when it comes to marketing and PR for the Festival. Press releases, social networking, and advertising is greatly needed to put on a well planned event. She's also written for Last Blog on the Left, The Chainsaw Mafia, and Horror-movies. ca.
In essence, she rocks.
Contact Jamie at
jamie_viscerafilmfestival.com
Maude Michaud
Maude Michaud
Film Club Director
Maude Michaud is a filmmaker who also moonlights as a photographer. She has produced, written and directed a dozen short films, most of them horror, and is currently in development for her first feature. She recently obtained her master’s degree from Concordia University for her documentary webseries about women horror filmmakers.
Contact Maude at
michaud.maude_gmail.com
http://quirkfilms.ca
Shersy Benson
Shersy Benson
Los Angeles Operations Manager
Shersy is incredibly skilled at nun chucks, bow staff, and drawing ligers.
She also has extensive experience in Operations Management for non profits, and she's here to whip us up into shape for the big annual event in Los Angeles.
Contact Shersy at
shersy_viscerafilmfestival.com
Andrew Shearer
Andrew Shearer
Creative Director of New Media
Andrew is in charge of revamping Viscera's current DVD's and designing /packaging the future DVD's menus.
In his spare time, he directs and does cinematography with the Gonzofriffic crew, helps out charities, and eats stickers.
Contact Andrew at
andrew_viscerafilmfestival.com
James Morgart
James Morgart
Director of Media and Distribution
James is Viscera's vehicle for getting the films screened in as many places as possible. Expect to see a lot more Viscera Film Screenings: Festivals, Conventions, Discussions, panels, and Q & A's.
He enjoys snorkeling, filmmaking, and kicking it G-style with his wife Jen.
Contact James at
james_viscerafilmfestival.com
Matt Orsman
Matt Orsman
Graphic Designer
Matt is the one who makes everything pretty. He;s our go-to guy when Viscera needs a professional and polished look on all posters, programs, flyers, and printed material.
You should hire him.
Contact Matt at
matt_mirthquake.net
www.mirthquake.net
Hannah Neurotica
Hannah Nuerotica
Women In Horror Month Chair, Director of Operations
Hannah Neurotica is the creator and current editor of the first critically acclaimed feminist horror print publication Ax Wound: Gender & The Horror Genre. In 2010 she founded award winning
Women in Horror Recongition Month
and currently is working on making her first film.
Contact Hannah at
womeninhorrormonth_gmail.com
Irene Langholm
Irene Langholm
Key Illustration Artist
Irene is a 33 year old passionate cover artist from Norway. She loves creating atmospheres and stories in Photoshop.
Her work mainly consists of photomontages/photomanipulations. She is particularly fond of the obscene, bizarre, provoking and anti-clich aspects of art. She plays with every genre from sci-fi and horror to political and humorous, but inserts a little danger into it all. Also, her work is phenomenal.
Contact Irene at
fraumachina_gmail.com
Deviant Art Gallery
Paula Duerksen
Paula Duerksen
Sponsorship Assistant
Paula, a former middle school English teacher turned blogger and filmmaker seeks the annihilation of arbitrary social constructs through her creation of both literary and visual art, i.e., dirty comics, blasphemous screenplays and essays, and truly fabulous knitted and crocheted leg and arm warmers. Research gives her the same rush Dahmer got from drilling holes in heads only without the mess and potential for being beaten to death with a broomstick handle.
Contact Paula at
paula_viscerafilmfestival.com
Kayley Viteo
Kayley Viteo
Viscera Programming Assistant
An ex-Catholic school girl with a black belt in karate, Kayley is currently a graduate student in Canada writing an MA thesis on rape-revenge films and feminism. When not watching or reading things in the horror genre, she's usually writing about it. In her spare time (rare as it is), this native Texan can usually be found in a record store or hanging out with her dog. She has experience working with film festivals and a passion for making sure great films get seen, so watch them ... or else.
Contact Kayley at
kaylee_viscerafilmfestival.com
Hannah Klevesahl
Hannah Klevesahl
Etheria Programming Assistant
Hannah Klevesahl is currently a freshman at the University of Georgia in Athens, and double-majoring in Theater and Broadcast Journalism. She hopes to one day perform on a cruise ship, although she admits that it is quite a long shot. In the meantime, she enjoys musicals, reading, cats, tea, a warm blanket, and the internet. Preferably all at the same time.
Contact Hannah at
hannah_viscerafilmfestival.com
Enrique Ochoa
Enrique Ochoa
Viscera Visual FX Artist
Enrique is a 2D compositor and visual effects artist. He creatively combines all the previously created material into the final image ensuring that the style of the project is maintained, He enjoys bringing fantasy into reality and creating stimulating stories with an endless amount of visual possibilities.
View his Demo Reel
Contact Enrique at
v_drums19_hotmail.com
Sage Hall
Sage Hall
Viscera Editor
Sage Hall has emerged as a quadruple threat to the entertainment world: producing, directing, editing and even starring in her distinguished artistic short films. When she's not flying to a film screening or in the theatre directing and acting, she runs StarFruit Productions - creating stunning, award-winning wedding films as well as an eclectic mix of commercial spots, ranging from baseball commercials to drag queen bingo promos.
www.starfruitproductions.com
Contact Sage at
Sage_starfruitproductions.com
Alan Kelly
Alan Kelly
Viscera United Kingdom Liaison
Alan Kelly is an author, freelance journalist and horror and alt.cult fiend. He is Viscera's European Liasion and plans on helping to organise screenings from fabulous Grrl filmmakers in both Ireland and the UK!
Contact Alan at
Alan_Viscerafilmfestival.com
