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'Realms of Fantasy' Magazine seeks submissions for August 2011 “Women in Fantasy” issue Realms of Fantasy Magazineis planning an all-women-authors issue for August 2011, and they're looking for submissions from women and regarding women for nonfiction, art, and fiction! This is a great chance to publish that fantasy short story with a female lead character, or your essay about female superheroines or your Red Sonja fan art. Feminists, fantasy fans, and anyone who loves women and fantasy are encouraged to apply.
Their official submissions rules and instructions are as follows...
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05/15/10 |
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Jeani Rector, Amber Benson, Sarah Langan, Sarah Pinborough among British Fantasy Award 2010 nominees Among the The British Fantasy Society Award 2010 nominees are Jeani Rector, Amber Benson, Sarah Langan and Sarah Pinborough, as well as an awesome number of female horror, fantasy, and sci-fi authors.
Rector's The Horrorzine, a monthly ezine that features some of the best horror and fantasy authors of today, as well as fantastic up-and-coming and established artists. Founded in 2009, The Horrorzine has quickly established a reputation as an e-publication that truly delivers...
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03/31/10 |
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Ajami's 'Asylum Seekers' wins Best Alternative Feature; 'No Money' has Trailer Rania Ajami's fantasy/sci-fi feature Asylum Seekers won for "Best Alternative Feature" at the Garden State Film Festival!
Ajami also just completed a futuristic, politically prophetic short film entitled No Money, in which an American president's rise to power hinges on a novel economic plan: money is a thing of the past. Gifts and social obligations are the new currency. Check out the new trailer!...
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03/31/10 |
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Floria Sigismondi ('The Runaways', 'Postmortem Bliss') By Scott W. Perry
In the mid 1990s, director Floria Sigismondi exploded onto the music video scene with visually striking, intense visuals that took the art form to a high. Probably best known for Marilyn Manson’s iconic music video "The Beautiful People," Sigismondi has made arrestingly striking videos with the best artists in the field, including David Bowie, The White Stripes, Christina Aguilera, and The Black Eyed Peas.
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03/17/10 |
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Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning ('The Runaways', 'Twilight') By Scott W. Perry
In the past decade, Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart grew up before our eyes on screen to become the most successful child stars of the decade. Now grown up, Fanning, 16, and Stewart, 19, enter the new decade with their most challenging and ambitious work yet in capturing the essence of the two main members of The Runaways, Cherrie Curie and Joan Jett respectively.
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03/17/10 |
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Locus and SFSite's picks for scifi/fantasy lit of 2009 are mostly men SFSite (the 'home page for science fiction and fantasy literature') and Locus Magazine (the website for the 'leading news and review magazine for science fiction and fantasy') have posted lists of sci-fi and fantasy literature they decided were the 'best' of 2009. Not surprisingly, SFSite mostly chose titles written by men. Locus did a little better.
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03/10/10 |
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Dark Revival - The Art and Fashions of Antoinette's Atelier Decadence, luxury and opulence. The aristocracy of the 18th-century really knew how to party and dressing up was one of the most important aspects of the culture at the time. If you didn’t look good you didn’t really have a future in society. Expensive gowns, elaborate jewellery and finely made accessories were key if you wanted to be somebody in France... well, at least until that revolution got started but hey, it was fun while it lasted. Even now, the image of Marie Antoinette is one of global renown and she remains an icon of wealth and fashion for the ages. The iconic image of the 18th-century woman is still one of familiarity today in movies and media long after the fall of high society all those years ago...
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02/08/10 |
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Ellen Smit's Fantasy 'Eep!' set for a February 2010 release, watch the trailer EEP! is a new fantasy film directed by Dutch filmmaker Ellen Smit. A little girl (played by a real person with some kind of spectacular dwarfism) is found in the woods who has wings instead of arms. She's also about the size of a bird. This weird Where The Wild Things Are-ish fantasy is going to have a theatrical European release in February 2010. Check out the official synopsis and watch the trailer/teaser...
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01/19/10 |
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Jennifer Thym ('Lumina') Jennifer Thym is a Hong Kong filmmaker with a genre-bending web series she defines as ‘magical realism’. Lumina features a female lead in a strangely sci-fi modern world where mirrors lead to romance and corporate greed, and a supernatural force called The Mirrorati that are to be feared.
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11/16/09 |
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Jennifer Thym's 'Lumina' gains audience recognition; complete series online now Jennifer Thym's original Hong Kong fantasy web series Lumina jumps from the little screen to the big screen at this past weekend’s Clockenflap Music & Multi-Media Arts Festival held at Hong Kong’s Cyberport. An estimated 3,500 festival attendees had the opportunity to view the Saturday and Sunday screenings of the first Lumina webisode, which to date has been available exclusively online.
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11/12/09 |
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