Horror  film distribution label The Horror Collective will exclusively release six seasons of ETHERIA, a series of stand-alone short horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, and thriller episodes directed by women, inspired by the Etheria Film Festival’s innovative programming, beginning with Season 1 on August 20 on Amazon. From post-apocalyptic westerns to demented comedies to terrifying horror and gore, ETHERIA serves up the perfect blend of mind-bending and panic-inducing excitement from the best emerging women genre directors in the world. Each episode showcases a vision of the fantastic in this new anthology series created to introduce amazing directors to devoted genre fans. 

Etheria Seasons 1 through 6 present episodes from award-winning women genre directors such as Bola Ogun (Queen Sugar) Christine Boylan (The Punisher TV series), Arantxa Echevarría (Carmen y Lola)  Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jill Gevargizian (The Stylist), Gigi Saul Guerrero (Into the Dark: Culture Shock), Bridget Savage Cole (Blow the Man Down), Mindy Bledsoe (The In-Between). Roseanne Liang (Shadow in the Cloud), Kayoko Asakura (Love and Murder of Sheep and Wolf), Chloe Okuno (V/H/S 1994), and Mae Catt (50 States of Fright) featuring talent such as Shannon Woodward (Westworld), Grace Huang (The Man with the Iron Fists), Paula Jai Parker (Hustle & Flow), Tina Majorino (Napoleon Dynamite),  Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby), Javier Godino (Deception), Emme Rylan (Guiding Light), James Hong (Big Trouble in Little China), Lyndsy Fonseca (Agent Carter), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (The Man in the High Castle), Marta Larralde (Gran Hotel), Gregory Marcel (General Hospital), Najarra Townsend (Contracted), Ernest Thomas (What’s Happening!!), Britt Lower (Future Man), Tiffany Hines (Bones), Tamlyn Tomita (Star Trek: Picard), Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey), Christine Kellogg-Darrin (Days of Our Lives), Mouna Traoré (Murdoch Mysteries), and Anne Ramsay (Bombshell).

Featuring apocalyptic westerns, creepy Japanese ghost children, serial killer road trips, unnerving parallel universes, angry angelic avengers, interplanetary kidnapping, last desperate shots at crazed glory, and the worst job interview you’ve ever had, Etheria Season 1 offers shockingly innovative short genre anthology content for real genre fans. Etheria Season 1 will be released on Amazon on August 20, 2020. For more information, visit www.thehorrorcollective.com/film/etheria-season-1