Jennifer's Bodies 2017 - Official Short Film Selection!

Below is the list of short films that shall be screening at Jennifer's Bodies in on the 19th of February 2017 at Blackfriars in Glasgow in association with Popcorn Horror.  

Jo Osborne - Requital

Katie Bonham - Mindless

Jill Sixx Gevargizian - The Stylist

Gigi Saul Guerrero - Madre De Dios

Julie Robinson - Were

Karen Lam - Chiral

Izzy Lee - Innsmouth

Aviv Rubinstien - With Whip 

Venita Ozols-Graham - Used Body Parts

On top of these films, due to knowing I have a large audience that won't have seen a whole load of films, I am going to be doing "Blasts from the Past" section, where I screen a few films that I have previously shown over the years, but that I love so much, and that I think fit in so perfectly in today's climate, that I believe them to be truly important pieces of work!  Anyone who has watched these films before, I am sure will be psyched to get the chance to check them out again.  

I am still confirming the feature, but I am going for something really awesome and will let you know as soon as possible.  

Keep your eyes peeled for the list of films getting a sneak peek at the festival, some of these are exclusive sneak peeks as well, with some of the filmmakers in attendance to introduce them! :) xo

Jennifer's Bodies Official Selection 2017 - Karen Lam's Chiral!

I am so happy to announce that Jennifer's Bodies favourite crazy cat lady and knitting obsessive, Karen Lam, is back!  Yay!  Over the years I have screened two of the Lam'ster's features, Evangeline and Stained, as well as shorts Doll Parts, The Meeting, Stalled and The Stolen.

Karen creates such visually stunning films with a very twisted and macabre heart making this Canadian most definitely a woman after my own heart, haha.

This year I shall be screening her short film Chiral, which sees an art dealer confronting a would-be thief, only to come face to face with a horrifying experience.  

(Nelson Leis) 

Starring Nelson Leis (who has worked on two of my favourite ever shows, Bates Motel and The Killing, as well as Arrow, The Flash, Supernatural, The 4400 and a whole heap of cool stuff, including Lam's Evangeline!!), Vanessa Walsh (Supernatural, Olympus, Almost Human) and Ingrid Nilson (the voice of Raspberry Torte in the Strawberry Shortcake animated series, voice of Maud Pie in My Little Pony....like basically doing cartoons that were two of my favourites as a kid - how totally cool is that!?  She was also in Supernatural as well.   Ingrid is also a professional dancer, burlesque performer, song writer, theatre creator....an all round talented chickaroo!)

(Karen Lam and Vanessa Walsh)

(Ingrid Nilson)

Alongside Lam, Leis and Walsh, the film was also produced by Karen Wong.  Creepily enough (you wouldn't expect anything less from me, haha!!), I have just discovered that one of the films I was talking about yesterday in work, was actually the first film she worked on.  The utterly gore~geous Kissed!  Yes, I was talking about necrophilia to my customers at work, haha.  Wong has also worked on a bunch of Little Miss Lam's films, including producing the incredible Evangeline.

Ooh, Karen is also currently working as a staff writer on Neil Labute's Syfy series Van Helsing which I totally need to check out!  

You can check out the Official Facebook Page for Chiral here.  

Jennifer's Bodies 2014 Special Feature - A Look into the Work of Karen Lam, Featuring her New Feature Evangeline and a Number of Her Shorts as Well.

So it is with great pleasure that I can announce a rather bad ass addition into Jennifer's Bodies 2014.  Not only will I be showing a number of shorts from Vancouver native Karen Lam, I shall also be giving her feature Evangeline its UK premier, or more importantly, as I'm a patriotic Scot...its SCOTTISH premier!! :)

“IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE…”

Evangeline (Kat de Lieva) has left her sheltered upbringing to reinvent herself in college. As she begins to break out of her shell, she attracts the attention of a sociopathic fraternity leader (Richard Harmon) and his two cohorts.

“Beaten and left for dead, Evangeline finds herself trapped in a supernatural nightmare, where she is caught between salvation and vengeance. But to save herself, Evangeline discovers she must make the most horrifying choice of all…

The feature version of Karen's previous Jennifer's Bodies submission Doll Parts, for Evangeline, Karen has gotten herself a fucking amazing cast, including actors who have been in some of my favourite shows of all time!!  For example, Lam regular David Lewis, whom you will also see in The Meeting and Stalled, and who featured in Doll Parts and is way too fucking good at playing a creep, haha.  Citing himself as Madam Lam's "bloody boy toy", I think they have an excellent collaboration going on here, moooahahaha.  Oh yeah, and he was in The X Files!!  BWAH!!  :)  

Not only does she have an X Files boy in Evangline however, she also has Richard Harmon from both The Killing (pictured below with my beloved Holder...the closest I've ever came to finding Mulder again), and Bates Motel in it!!  This is going to be a very different type of killer than what Harmon's seen in both of those shows though.  Bwahahahaha.  

The boys might be awesome, however, it's Kat de Lieva as Evangeline who we really need to look out for!!  That's all I'm gonna say.  Heehee. :)  She is fucking awesome in this, and I can't wait to see more from her as well.  In casting both Harmon and de Lieva, Karen has definitely picked two names that I'd actually recommend going out of your way to check out their work.  And if like Harmon, de Lieva keeps popping up in my favourite shows, it's just going to all the cooler to watch them grow as actors! 

Before Evangeline though, I'll be showing a number of Karen's shorts, to show her versatility as a filmmaker, and one who is based in my favourite non Scottish place....the place where ALL the good TV shows are filmed.  I am of course talking about Vancouver!!  Yay!  :)

First up is The Meeting -

In a weekly meet-up, four serial killers confess their sins and hope for redemption. But all hell breaks loose when a newcomer pops in, and threatens to join the group...

Stalled -

Alex Macey is getting divorced. In an underground parking garage an emotional call to his wife cuts out. Returning to his car he confronts a would be car jacker. With violent results.

The Stolen - 

A dark fairytale about an imaginative little girl who saves a bullied boy, and is granted a secret wish.

Official Evangeline Website

Official Karen Lam Website

Jennifer's Bodies - Official Line Up - Friday 21st February!

UK PREMIER

Evangeline

by Karen Lam

Before the screening of Karen Lam's second feature Evangeline, will be a chance to check out some of her prior shorts, including The Meeting, Stalled, The Stolen....and Doll Parts - the short that Evangeline spawned from. 

Truth or Dare
by Jessica Cameron

Jennifer Campbell - Bruised

Gigi Saul Guerrero - M is for Matador

Gigi Saul Guerrero - Dia De Los Muertos (Part of Mexico Barbaro)

Laurette Flores - Bautizo

Caitlin Koller - Maid of Horror

Jose Pedro Lopes and Ana Almeida - M is for Macho

Rina-fay Monroe - The Dinner Date