BleedFest Debuts I Hate LA & Bloody Breasts

As a lifelong east coaster, I don't have many great things to say about Los Angeles. Even during the wretched winters when snow has piled up to should level height, I'll remind myself that seasons are better than smog. I cut my punk rock teeth on the old This Is Boston Not LA compilation album. Kevin McHale nearly decapitating Kurt Rambis with a clothesline goes down as a good, hard aggressive basketball in my book. It's rare that I wished I lived on the West coast instead of here.

This is one of those rare moments.

This Sunday, April 3rd, Lis Fies' monthly film event BleedFest is a double whammy of awesomeness. First up is the world premiere of I Hate LA. This anthology film turns its eye to the seedy underbelly of the city of angels. Think Paris J'Taime with less cornball and more corn syrup.

As exciting as that news is, the real treat of the show is this month's director retrospective, which happens to be none other than Montreal's Maude Michaud. BleedFest will be screening a number of her short horror films. She'll also debut the first chapter of her web documentary Bloody Breasts*. Maude is the rare talent that can explore themes in horror from fan as well as academic perspective, and is a filmmaker on the rise.

Full details are listed below:

The lineup for the April 3, 2011 BleedFest event in Los Angeles from 11am-4pm has been announced. The theme is ThrillHer: Suspense films by women. For $10 and free street parking, attendees will view four hours of genre films by women, partake in the open bar, network with industry luminaries, and have three opportunities to be interviewed on the red carpet and have their photos featured on PRPhotos.com and Exposaay.com.

BleedFest Film Festival is a monthly screening and networking event in Los Angeles that fetes the women who love writing, producing, directing, and watching badass genre movies: action, thriller, sci-fi, horror, western, exploitation (of men or audience only), B-movie, and erotica. BleedFest Film Festival's Charity for the Month of April is the American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles-Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief Fund. A donation stand will be set up, and all donators get half off the $10 ticket price to BleedFest.

Canadian filmmaker Maude Michaud is flying in for a retrospective of her shorts and two new world premiers. The world premier of the anthology I HATE LA will be the feature film. The themed suspense feature includes work by Barbara Stepansky, Maude Michaud, Heidi Hornbacher, Marichelle Daywalt, Elisabeth Fies and Brenda Fies. Drew Daywalt will be receiving the Partnership Award. Filmmaker and festival programmer Lori Bowen of Hallowscreen will co-present the In Competition Shorts block of films. Filmmakers Natalia Provatas and Valerian Zamel will be interviewed by Bzzzline.com on the red carpet. STILL LIFE" Photography display by Tim Aldridge of TMA Photo, and April A. Taylor's dark art photography will be on sale. More information is available at http://www.BleedFest.com.

About I HATE LA: 

Big laughs mix with gory kills in this TWILIGHT ZONE-esqe suspenser when tension in Hollywood boils over and its inhabitants finally reveal the flawed monsters they really are. 

I HATE L.A. is a bold new feature film of eleven interlocking horror vignettes written and directed by seven lady directors. Like PARIS JE T'AIME, each filmmaker set her short story in a specific region of L.A. county. Unlike the beautiful city of light, love, and culture, Los Angeles is perhaps the most hated and berated metropolis in the world. From the gnarled traffic, pervading loneliness and narcissism of its residents to the constant loss, rejection, and cruelty of tinseltown...each area of Los Angeles proper has a figurative and sometimes literal monster lurking near its sidewalks paved with stars. Let these acclaimed Mistresses of Horror provide their uniquely devastating, no holds barred opinion of what makes the city of angels and hidden devils so profoundly effed up. Join us as we hate L.A. http://www.IHateLAMovie.com

FULL EVENT SCHEDULE:
TIME: 11am-4:00pm
Location: CAP Theatre
13752 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423

http://www.BleedFest.com

$10 cash at door for all day ticket and open bar

Schedule subject to change, appearances dependent on schedule. 

"STILL LIFE" Photography display by Tim Aldridge of TMA Photo.

 

*Fans that can't make it out to BleedFest can catch the debut of Bloody Breasts online on April 3rd at the official site