We see the greatest amount of fearless innovation among filmmakers in the short film form, and women's horror film festivals are significant as the only organizations in the world that regularly curate and showcase a significant portion of these films. This talk gives an introduction to the women's horror film festival circuit from 2004 to the present, with particular attention to these spaces in which the short film form is central.

Sonia Lupher is a Visiting Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where she completed her PhD. She is the founder and editor of the digital humanities project Cut-Throat Women: A Database of Women Who Make Horror, which catalogues the work of hundreds of female practitioners in horror media production. Her scholarship has appeared in Jump Cut, Critical Quarterly, and Studies in the Fantastic.

Presented by the Montreal Monstrum Society, the Moving Image Research Lab, McGill and the Fonds de Recherche--Société et Culture Research Team CORÉRISC (Collective for Research on Epistemologies of Embodied Risk).