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Dorothy Booraem is a video production multi-hyphenate from Lincoln, Nebraska. In addition to creating several film and video shorts, she is also the writer and director of the Asian-influenced horror feature Wake the Witch (available on Netflix). As the COO of Unfiltered Entertainment, a privately owned production company, she has helped in fostering a creative community of artists who specialize in genre content. Her newest project, Blood Rites, is a well-shot, micro-budget horror feature that she co-wrote, produced and directed with the help of her dedicated team. In spite of our underwhelming review, Booraem generously gave her time (and refreshing sense of humor) to speak with Planet Fury about working with a low budget, her creative process and embracing negative criticism.

How did you get started making movies?

How did I get started making movies? Like this… I was working at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder on the costume/prop crew.

Directed by: Dorothy Booraem

Written by: Dorothy Booraem, Chad Haufschild

Starring: Karis Yanike, Eric Moyer, Shaun Vetick, Mark Dews, Christopher Michael O’Neil

Here’s a tip for all future criminals in micro-budget crime films: When your caper goes awry (whether or not you’ve got the money/drugs/bag of gold/Pink Panther diamond), go home!

Go back to mom and dad’s basement. Flee to Mexico. Just don’t, under any circumstances, proceed to the previously planned rendezvous point. No good can come from this. Rest assured your partners-in-crime will be there waiting. Some of them will be knocking on death’s door. Some will be stark raving mad. Some will be planning on two-timing you regardless of success.

Look-it, plans have changed. People have died. Anger is involved. Guns are too. Whoever is left will be desperate and ready to turn on you. And if someone is...

Just when you think you've found every last female horror director on Earth, out pops another one. And her movie has 'witch' in the title!

Dorothy Booraem's horror feature Wake the Witch is not only available in March 2011 on DVD in the UK, it's already out in the USA.

I scour the Internet for new stuff daily that may be genre and that may be directed by women. When one slaps me in the face that's already got distribution, I get all agitated and go, "Jesus, what if I'd never found this????" You see, my obsessive compulsion to document the history of all female horror directors -ever- has actually become... difficult. Not only are new ones popping up everyday, but I find that it's not too hard to miss a few, no matter how hard you search or how much due diligence you apply. I mean, if you don't...

State Senator Colby Coash of Nebraska is going to try his hand at horror films. He's committed to play Sergeant Bob Merrill in the indie Blood Rites . That's about as far as Omaha.com's report goes in terms of information, but with a little digging, we've learned the film is written by Chad Haufschild and directed by Dorothy Booraem. Unfiltered Entertainment is producing. Rites is the story of Nicky, a young woman on the wrong side of the law, who finds herself trapped in a secluded warehouse with a sociopathic ex-soldier, a violently unstable drug user, a dying gunshot victim and a handful of religious zealots. As the plot description goes: Something unnatural is happening. A demon wants to be born and that can only happen with a sacrifice of blood. Auditions took place...