Women in Horror
Iranian and Mexican women on their passion for making horror movies.
Ella Al-Shamahi is joined by Ana Lily Amirpour, an Iranian-American filmmaker and Gigi Saul Guerrero, a Mexican filmmaker, to talk about their passion for making horror on screen.
Ana Lily Amirpour’s feature-length directional debut, A Girl Walks Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Alone at Night, is a Persian-language Western-horror. It follows an Iranian vampire who skateboards around a ghost town, preying on men that disrespect women. It won the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award in 2014.
Gigi Saul Guerrero gained recognition for La Quinceañera, a horror series based on the Mexican traditional celebration of a girl’s fifteenth birthday. Her feature film, Culture Shock, follows a young Mexican woman who crosses the border in to the US in hope of finding the American dream, but instead finds herself in an American nightmare. In Latin America, Guerrero is known by fans as La Muñeca Del Terror, which means The Horror Babe.
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- Mon 21 Oct 2024 03:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service
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