Heidi Honeycutt

{{Short description|American film journalist and actress}}

Heidi Honeycutt is an American journalist, author, actress, filmmaker, film programmer, and co-founder of the Los Angeles-based Etheria Film Night,{{cite web|url=https://awfj.org/blog/2020/08/30/spotlight-september-2020-heidi-honeycutt-film-programmer-producer-and-champion-for-women-in-horror/|title=Spotlight September 2020: Heidi Honeycutt, Film Programmer, Producer, Champion for Women in Horror|last=Heller-Nicholas|first=Alexandra|date=August 30, 2020|website=AWFJ.org|publisher=Alliance of Women Film Journalists|access-date=March 15, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/406558/heidi-honeycutt-dishes-on-etheria-women-in-horror-and-more/|title=Heidi Honeycutt Dishes on Etheria, Women in Horror, and More!|last=Doupé|first=Tyler|date=July 14, 2021|website=Dread Central|access-date=March 15, 2024}}{{cite book|editor-last=Bacon|editor-first=Simon|year=2022|title=Spoofing the Vampire: Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fDyVEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA153|publisher=McFarland & Company|page=153|isbn=978-1476682686}} a film festival that showcases short films by women directors. She established the festival in 2014 with Stacy Pippi Hammon,{{cite web|url=https://the-line-up.com/heidi-honeycutt-interview-etheria-film-night-july-2020|title=An Interview with Heidi Honeycutt, Horror Film Journalist and Founder of Etheria Film Night|last=Phillips|first=Marian|date=July 9, 2020|website=The Lineup|access-date=March 15, 2024}}{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/movies/etheria-trailer/|title=Watch trailer for anthology horror and sci-fi series Etheria|last=Collis|first=Clark|date=August 12, 2020|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=March 15, 2024}} and serves as its Director of Programming.{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=John|date=April 3, 2016|title=Women directors bring new blood to sci-fi, horror|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news/143394679/|newspaper=The Buffalo News|location=Buffalo, New York|page=C8|access-date=March 15, 2024|via=Newspapers.com}} Honeycutt and Hammon had previously run the Viscera Film Festival alongside Shannon Lark.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jul/12/viscera-festival-los-angeles|title=The horror, the horror: women gather in LA for Viscera film festival|last=Marks|first=Lisa|date=July 12, 2012|website=The Guardian|access-date=March 15, 2024}} As a journalist, Honeycutt has written for such magazines as Fangoria and Famous Monsters of Filmland.{{cite web|url=https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/matt-barone/women-directors-horror-movies|title=The Unfair Business of Being a Woman Director in the Boys Club of Horror Filmmaking|last=Barone|first=Matt|date=May 30, 2013|website=Complex|access-date=March 15, 2024}}

In 2007, Honeycutt wrote, produced, and starred in the short film Wretched, which she also co-directed with Leslie Delano.{{cite book|editor-last=Peirse|editor-first=Alison|year=2020|title=Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bWn9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA151|publisher=Rutgers University Press|page=151|isbn=978-1978805118}} She also appeared as herself in the horror mockumentary, The Once and Future Smash.{{cite web |last1=Mesnard |first1=Terry |title=[Panic Fest 2023 Review] The Once and Future Smash is the Mockumentary Punch Line to End Zone 2's Joke |url=https://www.gaylydreadful.com/blog/panic-fest-2023-review-the-once-and-future-smash-is-the-mockumentary-punch-line-to-end-zone-2s-joke |website=Gayly Dreadful |date=28 April 2023 |access-date=5 April 2024}} In 2024, she served as jury president of the International Short Film Competition award ceremony at the 28th Fantasia International Film Festival.{{cite web |title=Competitions |url=https://fantasiafestival.com/en/festival-2024/awards-juries/competitions |website=Fantasia Festival |access-date=21 August 2024}}