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Etheria Film Festival, the world’s leading showcase for horror, science fiction, and fantasy films directed by women, has announced the launch of its new feature film screening series, Etheria Presents, with the Los Angeles premiere of Izzy Lee’s House of Ashes! The prescient film tackles the ever-looming fears of women losing bodily auntomy as fascism rises both in the United States and around the world.

The premiere event will take place on Saturday, May 24, 2025, at the Los Feliz 3 Theater, presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque. Etheria Presents will continue with bi-monthly screenings of groundbreaking new genre features by women directors throughout 2025 and 2026.

In House of Ashes:

Still reeling from a miscarriage, Mia grieves her husband Adam, found dead at the veterinary clinic they owned. She’s been acquitted of Adam’s death, but is under public scrutiny and must serve a house arrest sentence due to...

A few years ago, the idea of a woman being prosecuted for having a miscarriage or stillbirth sounded like something out of a dystopian horror movie. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, this scenario has become a horrifying reality. Filmmaker Izzy Lee’s debut horror feature film, House of Ashes, cleverly utilizes the powerful combination of grief, loss of bodily autonomy, and toxic masculinity to tell a story that is contemporary and remarkably effective, led by a powerhouse performance from Fayna Sanchez.

House of Ashes was written by Izzy Lee and Steve Johanson (Meat Friend) and directed by Lee. Producers include C. Robert Cargill, Jenn Wexler, and Kyle Edward Ball (Skinamarink), and filmmaker Joe Lynch even has a cameo.

The film follows a woman named Mia (Fayna Sanchez), who is living in a nightmare she can’t wake up from. Mia and her husband Adam (Mason Conrad) run a...

Exonerated of the murder of her husband Adam, Mia Sheldon (Fayna Sanchez) still finds herself under house arrest and for twelve months as the result of her being the first woman convicted courtesy of a draconian update of the law, which now considers miscarriage a criminal act. Sharing her enforced living space with boyfriend – or is he? – Marc (Vincent Stalba), Mia tries to deal with her grief while being bullied by her boorish Probation Officer Davis (Lee Boxleitner) and hassled by online media celebrity pest Lexi ShokToks (Laura Dromerick) who’s trying to get some juicy background on the woman she disgracefully refers to as a “miscarriage killer.”

If Mia and Marc’s relationship wasn’t being tested enough, a series of strange occurrences plague the house. Mia suspects supernatural forces are at work but Marc thinks someone human must be targeting them because of Mia’s current profile and...

A small mountain lake town is consumed by chaos in the new trailer for Mary C. Russell's The Otherkind!

"Labranche Productions and director Mary C. Russell have released the first-look trailer for The Otherkind, a new film which chronicles a mountain lake town that descends into anarchy as residents start to change. The suspenseful story marks the feature directing debut of Mary C. Russell, whose short films have screened worldwide. Her acclaimed slasher short, Carved, is available on Shudder.

The Otherkind is written and directed by Mary C. Russell. Caroline O'Meara produced and Gary Labranche and Karen Labranche executive produced. The village is populated by cast members Marc Anthony Samuel, Lestonja Diaz, Rebekah Kennedy, Paris Dylan, Muneeb Rehman, Laura Dromerick, Luciana Faulhaber, Caroline O'Meara, Jeff Pride, and Madonna Young-Magee.

As the film prepares for its debut, Russell shared, "When I wrote the first draft several years ago, I was...