We are almost halfway through Women in Horror Month and more exciting news is still pouring forth as the month rages on. Today, we received the following press release about Patricia Chica’s Serpent’s Lullaby. Check that out below:
Horror Happens Productions in partnership with Jefferson Highlights & Women in Horror2015 are proud to present a night of WOMEN IN HORROR from different perspectives, parts of the world and paths brought together as part of February’s Horror Happens Film Showcase event!
One of the showcased shorts is the internationally acclaimed “Serpent’s Lullaby” (Cannes’ Coup de Coeur Selection 2014). The dark poem is directed and produced by award-winning filmmakerPatricia Chica, a resident of Los Angeles.
From the festival director, Jay K:
“Patricia Chica’s work goes beyond the boundaries of filmmaking. Patricia has a way of humanizing topics, figures and horror that connects on so many levels with myself, The Ghost and fans of film. Her style is lush and fearless! Patricia forms a connection to her work as each project is crafted and contains beauty similar to a deep love you feel for family. We selected “Serpent’s Lullaby” to go along with the short and features films because horror takes many shapes, actions, forms and feelings… “Serpent’s Lullaby” embodies all of that not to mention the eye from an experienced woman filmmaker like Patricia. This short was one of the first selections to the Horror Happens Film Showcase Celebrating Women in Horror and we consider it a foundation to what makes this movement and event great.”
Patricia Chica is recognized internationally for her multiple award-winning artsy genre films notably Day Before Yesterday, ThePromise, Rockabilly 514, CeramicTango, and A Tricky Treat to be released this summer. Chica is part of the Soska Twins’ Massive Blood Drive PSA 2015 anthology for the Women in Horror Recognition Month. She directed the morbid and comic segment Ripe N’ Bloody that was qualified by Fangoria Magazine as “the most deliciously vile of the blood bath”!
About Serpent’s Lullaby:
Few people know the name of the eccentric woman living in the centuries-old mansion just outside of town. Even fewer have seen her face. But everyone has heard the stories. Rumors of a secret garden in her backyard where her children are buried. Some think she is simply a grieving widowed mother seeking solitude. Others believe she’s a cold-blooded monster. When the empty baby’s crib in her home and her lost love become too much for her to bear she makes a decision that will change the course of her story.
