The Etheria Film Festival just dropped their official 2024 lineup, and folks, we are excited. The annual festival celebrates new horror, science fiction, and fantasy films directed by women. This year, the festivities kick off with a live event in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, July 6, 2024, at the Screenland Armour Theater. Filmmakers and special guests will be in attendance for an onstage Q&A followed by an official afterparty. Director Axelle Carolyn will be honored with the 2024 Etheria Inspiration Award from special guest presenters, get your tickets for the live event right here.
Can’t make the fest in person? The official festival lineup will stream exclusively on Shudder beginning Sunday, July 15, through August 15, 2024.
This year’s Etheria Inspiration Award recipient, Axelle Carolyn, is the writer and director of the Amazon/Blumhouse horror film The Manor and has worked on the series The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Midnight Club for Netflix and American Horror Story for FX. Most recently, she’s directed episodes of the horror anthology series Them: The Scare for Amazon and Mayfair Witches for AMC. Her first feature, the British ghost story Soulmate, had its Los Angeles premiere at the Egyptian Theatre at the inaugural Etheria Film Festival in 2014, so this is truly a full circle moment.
“I’m so stoked that we screened Axelle Carolyn’s first feature, Soulmate, at our first Etheria festival live event in 2014, and now, ten years later, she has this amazing horror directing career that we can celebrate by giving her the 2024 Inspiration Award,” says Etheria, Director of Programming Heidi Honeycutt. “We’ve been so lucky to witness the beginning of her horror filmmaking career and are so grateful that she will accept our 2024 Inspiration Award for inspiring other filmmakers and our festival.”
“This year’s lineup will take our audience on an intense, entertaining ride. Celebrating this year’s finalists while honoring Axelle will be an amazing experience,” says Etheria Festival Director Stacy Pippi Hammon.”
Take a look at the official Etherial Film Festival 2024 teaser below.
“The throughline in this year’s films is how joyously bizarre they are,” says Etheria Programming Coordinator Livia Rappaport. “They don’t fit neatly into ‘horror’, ‘ sci-fi’ or ‘action.’ It’s a celebration of how women continue to push genre boundaries.” Scroll on for this year’s official poster and a complete list of the 2024 Etheria Film Festival Short Film Lineup.
The 2024 Etheria Film Festival Short Film Lineup includes:
TOOTH
Directed by Jillian Corsie (4 min) (Horror/Comedy/Animation) (USA)
Fed up with decades of suffering through the forced perfection of modern beauty standards, a tooth takes matters into its own hands.THE THAW
Directed by Sarah Wisner & Sean Temple (16:30 min) (Horror) (USA)
In 19th-century Vermont, a young woman’s parents drink sleeping tea to survive the harsh winter, but an early thaw leads to horrifying results.1 IN THE CHAMBER
Directed by Annie Girard & Diana Wright (7 min) (Action/Comedy) (USA)
When an ambitious assassin is sent to “retire” a fellow agent, she’s shocked to discover her target is pregnant and that the baby-proofing in the room is preventing them from killing each other.TEN OF SWORDS
Directed by Faye Jackson (16 min) (Horror/Comedy) (UK)
Jay wakes up dead – murdered – and discovers that everything the agency told him about becoming a zombie was a lie. This revenge is happening.RIDE BABY RIDE
Directed by Sofie Somoroff (7:30 min) (Horror/Fantasy) (USA)
This 1978 Camaro was her dream car. Now, it’s her nightmare.MAKE ME A PIZZA
Directed by Talia Shea Levin (12:30 min) (Fantasy/Comedy) (USA)
A woman tells a pizza delivery guy she can’t pay for the pizza she ordered. But can the sex she offers instead of currency possibly equate to the true value of a pizza?THE SHADOW WRANGLER
Directed by Grace Rex (13:30 min) (Horror/Fantasy/Comedy) (USA)
When Nan attempts to finish recording the audiobook of a Western erotica novel The Shadow Wrangler, she is interrupted by an unsettling visit from her recent ex and elements of the salacious fantasy she’s voicing.INKED
Directed by Kelsey Bollig (14:30 min) (Horror) (USA)
Dylan attempts to honor her father’s memory by tattooing his ashes into her skin. However, what was supposed to be a sentimental tribute quickly turns sinister.MLM
Directed by Brea Grant (19 min) (Horror/Comedy) (USA)
When Sarah joins a multi-level marketing company, La La Leggings, she isn’t ready for the horrific consequences of not selling.
Get your tickets for the live event right here and stay tuned for the official festival lineup streaming exclusively on Shudder July 15, through August 15.
