Hot Ghouls of Halloween: Blood in the Snow Festival 2023 (4.4)

On this week's' episode we finish spooky season with another edition of Hot Ghouls of Halloween. Our guests are Heidy Morales, Melanie Turner, Carolyn Mauricette, and Kassy Gascho (Nadine L'Esperance couldn't make it) who are the bulk of the selection team for Canada's famed Blood in the Snow film festival (BITS).  BITS was founded by Kelly Micheal Stewart in 2012 as an offshoot of his then ongoing monthly film series entitled "Fright Nights at the Projection Booth". Since then it has become a "unique and imaginative showcase of contemporary Canadian horror, genre and underground cinema", a Canadian Screen Award qualifying festival running from Nov 20 - 25th, screening more than 13 Canadian feature films, shorts plus the Deadly Exposure Industry conference and BITS Development Lab.  If you like genera and can make it to Toronto, then you best get BIT  www.bloodinthesnow.ca Heidy Morales: founder of Hye’s Musings, an alternative media website covering film, theatre, along with other arts and culture events. Heidy is a Rotten Tomatoes approved critic. Born in Guatemala, Heidy now resides in Toronto (Treaty 13), Ontario where she has been writing and discussing the film scene locally and abroad for over 10 years. Melanie Turner: Is super secretive about her bio info  Carolyn Mauricette: is a Toronto-based, Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, programmer, and Development Coordinator for the Blood in the Snow Film Festival. Carolyn is also the Director of Canadian Programming for the Fantasia International Film Festival. She is a published contributing author, writing about Japanese horror and racism in American cinema, lectured on Afrofuturism and Black women in horror, has written for Rue Morgue Magazine and Grim Magazine, and can be seen on Hollywood Suite’s docu-series, a Year in Film KASSY GASCHO: a filmmaker and film programmer for the Blood in the Snow Film Festival. Her work has been screened at various film festivals around the world since she was 16 years old.  Her short, The Phone Interview has received rave reviews such as "Can there be enough pink?” and “This looks like it was shot in Claire's store” as well as received multiple awards from festivals around the world. Her most recent short #BOSSBABE started its festival run with its world premiere   Talk to Us Goose www.howdyoulikethatmovie.com Twitter