Organizers of the Viscera Organization has send us over the list of winners from the fourth annual Viscera Film Festival that took place during the award ceremony that took place at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood on July 13th. The winners included:

INSPIRATION AWARD (Lifetime Achievement Award) Jennifer Lynch

BEST FILM: Karen Lam, “The Meeting”

BEST DIRECTOR: Jen Moss, “My Brother’s Keeper”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mai Nakanishi and Christine Joy (producers), Nicholas Humphries (director), “No Place Like Home”

FRESH BLOOD (under 18): Maddison Lopez, “Outbreak”

for more information on the Viscera Film Festival, you can visit the festival's official website at: http://www.viscerafilmfestival.com

Press Release:

The Viscera Organization is thrilled to announce the winners from the fourth annual Viscera Film Festival which showcased 13 incredible short horror films to a packed house at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The 2013 VFF was co-presented by the American Cinematheque and celebrated emerging female filmmakers from several continents spanning across the globe. During an awards ceremony on July 13th directly following the short films program, the Viscera Film Festival winners were revealed.

BEST FILM: Karen Lam, “The Meeting”

BEST DIRECTOR: Jen Moss, “My Brother’s Keeper”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mai Nakanishi and Christine Joy (producers), Nicholas Humphries (director), “No Place Like Home”

FRESH BLOOD (under 18): Maddison Lopez, “Outbreak”

Director Jennifer Lynch was also at the Viscera Film Festival this past weekend where she accepted the Inspiration Award in honor of her pioneering filmmaking career starting with 1993's BOXING HELENA; Lynch has continued to establish her legacy of powerful storytelling through various other projects including SURVEILLANCE, CHAINED and the controversial HISSS.

This year's festival kicked off with a bloody carpet ceremony featuring many familiar faces from the independent horror world and wrapped up at the legendary landmark, the Cat & Fiddle, afterwards where festival-goers partied until late into the evening.

The Viscera Film Festival will also be kicking off an international tour shortly for the selected short films as well as a handful of tour selections that aren’t screening at the premiere event. This past year, the Viscera Tour landed at over 20 venues around the world ranging from independent movie houses to universities, screening an eclectic program of shorts that have been curated by the Viscera Organization since 2007. The tour provides an outlet for up- and-coming female filmmakers around the world to have their work shown on the big screen and to industry professionals. For more news on the upcoming Viscera Tour, please visit www.viscerafilmfestival.com.

Sponsors for the 2013 Viscera Film Festival include include American Cinematheque, Cat & Fiddle, The Redbury, ARRI, Final Draft, SoulFX Studio, FEARnet, OKC & Norman Vapes, Fast Custom Shirts, Fangoria Magazine, Western Digital, Spider Energy Drinks, Wooden Nickel Lighting, Evil Supply Company, Jungle Software, Sony Creative Suites, Scream Sirens Magazine, Too Fast Brand Alternative Apparel, Mago's Magic Shoppe, Horribly Eclectic, The House of Mirthquake, Joshua Hoffine, Irene Langholm, The Homicidal Homemaker, Undead FX, Laughing Vixen Lounge, Deep Midnight Perfumes, Fangtastic Cards, Evil Episodes, The Art of Kamille Freske, Solocosmo: Art by Jessica Grundy, NikytaGaia Photography, Dolled up or Dead, The Shoggoth Assembly Special Effects, From the Vomit, SoCal Death Militia, Epic Leather, Lycan it!, and The Poisoned Apple.

Photo credit: Shersy Benson

Now that Halloween is drawing near, female filmmakers working in genre cinema are stampeding to Viscera as it announces its 2013 festival call for submissions. Now through February 28, 2013 (culminating in Women in Horror Month), Viscera is accepting digital submissions for its 2013 festival season. Unlike most festivals, Viscera does not charge submission fees. Filmmakers interested in submitting should head to the Submissions tab of the main website, www.viscerafilmfestival.com.

For filmmakers whose work is selected, gore-soaked masses of thrilling experiences await. On the Viscera Film Festival Bloody Carpet Event, filmmakers pose for photos and meet fans and fellow filmmakers, as well as big-name celebrity guests. Films are screened in front of enthusiastic crowds (this July, Viscera screened at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles). Uniquely beautiful awards are given out, and there’s always an after-party. But the Viscera World Tour is the real draw: Festival-selected films are shown around the world throughout the year. As every filmmaker knows, the more a film screens, the greater the opportunity is for furthering a career in the industry.

Although Viscera’s primary mission is to promote female filmmakers, the Organization doesn’t believe in exclusion or domination, but in equality. Many men are co-directors/co-producers of the films programmed. Even scary little monsters (filmmakers age 18 and under) can gain support in their budding careers via Viscera’s Fresh Blood category.

“I believe in the Viscera Film Festival and what it has done for women filmmakers everywhere by creating one of the few venues available to showcase the work women are doing in the genre and avant-garde film world. It is a small but steadily growing community and the Viscera Film Festival, along with its ancillary endeavors, act as a support system and a bridge for these filmmakers to find one another and connect on a creative and professional level. Without the film festival, I would not have met many of the bright and talented women filmmakers, actors and producers that I now work with on a daily basis.”

– Amber Benson, Director/Actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Drones)

“As a producer of genre films, I can assure you that there is no other organization in the United States which has taken on these objectives with the degree of passion and commitment as VFF.”

– Elizabeth Stanley, Producer (Dark Path Chronicles)

“Thanks to their championing of females who write, direct and produce horror films, I have been given the chance to share my voice and vision with a wider audience, which has facilitated some significant opportunities in my career.”

– Devi Snively, Filmmaker (Confederate Zombie Massacre)

Additionally, horror photographer Joshua Hoffine, known for his work depicting children’s nightmares, lent one of his frightening images for the call for submissions poster. It depicts a menacing monsteress lying on a field of rose petals in the style of American Beauty, which illustrates the horror and beauty of Viscera’s mission in gorgeous, full-blooded color.