Our friends over at the Viscera Organization, a 501(c)3 non-profit based out of Los Angeles, California, are looking for volunteers to fill positions in both the beloved Viscera Film Festival and the fledgling Etheria Film Festival branches! Download the Staff Call PDF on the Viscera Film Festival front page to find out more!

The Viscera Film Festival on Facebook.

The Etheria Film Festival on Facebook.

While you’re at Comic Con in Montreal and watching Karen Lam’s newest short film The Stolen, you can also see her film Doll Parts which is playing as part of the Viscera Film Festival’s shorts block playing Sunday, September 16, at 3:45 in screening room 2.

Here are a few reviews of this year’s amazing Viscera Film Festival, which was held at the Egyptian in Los Angeles.

By Stephanie Ogrodnik for Quiet Earth.us

By Staci Layne Wilson for Horror.com.

By Jonathan Weichsel at Film Radar.com.

Announced at the Viscera event was a new service of the organization called MoHA, the Mistresses of Horror Alliance, which is headed up by French-Canadian filmmaker Maude Michaud. Allow me to quote myself (me being LB):

Where Viscera seeks to promote and encourage female filmmakers externally, MoHA seeks to connect those filmmakers with each other to encourage collaboration amongst our ranks. This is all a part of the message of Viscera, that we’re better working together like the organs of the human body (y’know…viscera.)

The website for MoHA is still being worked on, but if I’m remembering correctly, it should be up before the end of the year.

Don’t forget that THIS WEEKEND is the annual Viscera Film Festival bloody carpet kick-off for the 2012 tour! It takes place at the Egyptian in Los Angeles! The afterparty will be at the Hotel Roosevelt and there’s a brunch at Wirtshaus the next (early) afternoon!

For more information, click here to go to the Viscera Film Festival website.

Also, Karen Lam’s Doll Parts will be playing at the San Diego Comic Con the following week!! And Curio Media co-founder Ada’Pia d’Errico will be moderating a panel at San Diego Comic Con featuring her sister, artist Camilla d’Errico, about Censorship and Women.

MrDisgusting at Bloody Disgusting has posted details about a contest open to California residents interested in attending the Viscera Film Festival on July 7! Check out the page for more information!

If you were already planning on going, or if you are the lucky one who wins those tickets, don’t forget to RSVP to the afterparty at Hotel Roosevelt and to RSVP for the Post-Apocalyptic Brunch the next day!

The Etheria Film Festival, a component of the Viscera Organization and co-presented by AllThingsHorrorOnline.net, which features science fiction and fantasy films made by women, will have it’s inaugural event in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Somerville Theatre on September 15! Among those films chosen for the festival is none other than Karen Lam’s newest short film THE STOLEN!

Check out the full line-up at this post on FinalGirlSupportGroup.com and find out how you can attend and support these talented women!

Over on their fantastic website, the Viscera Film Festival have announced a few of this year’s special guests, including a special honour they’re handing out! Check it out:

Mary Lambert (director, “Pet Sematary”) is the Viscera 2012 Special Guest Speaker and will be honored with the first ever Inspiration Award onstage.

Gale Anne Hurd (producer,“The Walking Dead”, “Terminator”), Elizabeth Stanley (producer, “Trailers from Hell”), Lexi Alexander (“Lifted”,  ”Punisher: War Zone”), Susanna Lo, (Manson Girls),  Michael Berryman (“The Hills have Eyes”).

Get your tickets now for what will be one of the most amazing events of this year!

Also, RSVP for the afterparty which will be held at the Hotel Roosevelt and RSVP for the Post-Apocalyptic Brunch at Wirtshaus the next day!

I hope y’all have been paying attention to the Viscera Facebook event page or website, but if you haven’t: Tickets are now available for the Viscera Film Festival’s fabulous July 7th 2012 kick-off event and red carpet! 

Admission is $11 and you get to see ALL of the films, food, free drinks (including alcohol), and you get to check out the red carpet and awards ceremonies as well as the after party at the Hotel Roosevelt!