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Sitges WomanInFan Expands With Book Launch, Residency, Talent-Packed Roundtables With Oscar-Winning Montse Ribé, Director Mary Lambert

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Holly Jones Continuing its quest to promote and center women in genre cinema, Sitges will hold its annual networking, scholarship, and conference strand, WomanInFan, which head of the industry department, Patricia Salvatierra declared “is growing by leaps and bounds.” The events take place over Oct.

6-8, as part of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, unspooling Oct. 5-15. This year marked the second call for the WomanInFan FanLab Short-Film Teaser Contest, won by director Samantha Aldana, for “Little Lying Wild,” billed as a story of female empowerment rooted in Mayan folklore.

Sitges also celebrates the official release of the WomanInFan imprint’s second book, “Mistress of Fan: Monsters, Creatures and Nightmares Engendered by Them,” teased last year.

The ambitious collection of essays, a joint approach at boosting women who’ve contributed fiercely to the genre, muses on cult classics and blockbuster fare while centering movements that have catapulted the feminine gaze toward the mainstream.

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