ABOUT BLOODY TIME: Blood Moon- What happens when women start... howling?
What happens when women stop trying to tame the parts of themselves they’ve been taught to hide... and start howling instead?
Welcome to BLOOD MOON.
One of six projects selected for our inaugural About Bloody Time: Women Are Seen Project Showcase at FrightFest 2026, Blood Moon is a female-led folk horror about witches, belonging, power and what
happens when women who have been exiled, silenced or misunderstood decide they’re done playing by the rules.
At the centre of the story is a witch who discovers her coven is hiding something dark.
To protect her sisters, she must defy the All Mother, challenge everything she has been taught and forge a new path of her own.
And yes...
things get a little feral.
THE KILLER LOGLINE 🩸
When a witch discovers her coven’s dark secret, she must defy the All Mother and forge a new destiny for her sisters.
SO… WHAT IS BLOOD MOON? 🩸
Written and produced by Nadia Lamin, Blood Moon began as a deeply personal exploration of belonging and female power.
Nadia has always been drawn to stories that sit between myth and memory, where the supernatural becomes a way of exploring something very human.
Survival.
Being seen.
And reclaiming your own story.
With Blood Moon, she wanted to take one of horror’s most enduring figures...
the witch
...and look at her differently.
Not through the stereotypes that have followed women for centuries.
But through a female gaze.
For Nadia, the film is about women who have been pushed out, misunderstood, silenced or made to feel that the parts of themselves that are too loud, too wild or too powerful need to be contained.
And what happens when they stop containing them.
As Nadia puts it:
“I want to show how we can be feral and not feel shame for it.”
The project was born from heartbreak, but what has grown out of it is something much bigger.
A celebration of women.
Of rage.
Of survival.
Of power.
And, in Nadia’s words, just how “murderously powerful and terrifyingly beautiful” women can be.
She ultimately wants Blood Moon to reclaim the witch narrative through a female lens and leave women with something hopeful:
We WILL rise from the ashes.
And she’s not building that world alone.
The project is female-led across its core creative team, with Laura Jean Marsh directing, Emma Langguth as Cinematographer and Andrea Giordani composing.
Nadia’s dream is to take that even further and make the eventual feature with an entirely femme-identifying crew, while showing a wide range of women across different ages and heritages on screen.
ABOUT BLOODY TIME 🩸
For Nadia, bringing Blood Moon to About Bloody Time marked something pretty significant.
It was the first time she had really put the project out into the world.
“Putting the project out there for the first time was a challenge I loved, and the response was amazing.”
And that response gave her something particularly valuable.
Proof that people wanted to see more.
“It confirmed Blood Moon has an eager audience waiting for it.”
Being surrounded by the other selected filmmakers mattered too.
“Being surrounded by powerhouse creatives with such vibrant, thrilling projects was really special, I can't wait to see what happens next for everyone.”
And rather than leaving the showcase exhausted, Nadia left with exactly the opposite feeling.
“It riled me up (in the best way) and gave me serious momentum to keep building Blood Moon.”
And then, of course, came our slightly unhinged 60-second OUT OF BLOODY TIME pitch challenge.
Sixty seconds.
One project.
A ticking clock.
And in Nadia’s case...
a room full of people who had no idea they were about to become a coven-adjacent wolf pack.
With time running out and panic setting in, Nadia did the only logical thing.
She got the audience to howl.
“Through sheer panic and a sprinkling of improv I decided to bring some feral energy into the space.”
Honestly?
Extremely on brand.
A BLOODY GOOD GIFT 🩸🖤
A huge thank you to Blue Bottle Terrariums, who created something especially for our About Bloody Time showcase and gifted Nadia a wonderfully witchy piece to take home. 🖤
Based in Peckham, South London, Blue Bottle Terrariums creates handcrafted miniature ecosystems using beautiful plants, moss and repurposed vintage glassware.
Inspired by nature, curiosity and a touch of the unusual, each piece gives an old vessel new life as its own tiny living world.
For About Bloody Time, founder James Lye created a special Apothecary Bottle Terrarium, inspired by Mother Nature, witchy potions and the darker side of botanical beauty.
Which felt rather perfectly matched to Blood Moon.
A film built around witches, female power and an All Mother at the heart of its coven...
paired with a tiny living world inspired by Mother Nature herself.
A little wild.
A little witchy.
And beautifully unusual.
Go show them some love: https://www.instagram.com/bluebottleterrariums/
Thank you again to James and Blue Bottle Terrariums for creating something so special for the showcase and helping us celebrate Nadia and the Blood Moon team!
WHAT DOES GENRE NEED NEXT? 🩸
For Nadia, one of the most important things about the showcase was the feeling in the room.
“It felt like such a safe space to be vulnerable and share your project, the support in the room was palpable.”
And her message to us was essentially:
Keep going.
She said the community brought together by Yes She Cannes, Silicon Gothic, FrightFest and Etheria Film Festival felt incredibly special.
But there is one thing she’d love to see more of.
Direct access to the people who can actually help get these projects financed.
Executives.
Distributors.
Financiers.
Producers.
People who understand how to move a strong genre idea from development towards production.
Because as Nadia put it:
“We are not short of ideas but when it comes to finding the dollar, that's where it gets complicated.”
And that’s something we’ve heard from more than one of our filmmakers.
The ideas are here.
The women making them are here.
The audiences are here.
The next challenge is building stronger connections to the finance, collaborators and industry infrastructure needed to actually get those films made.
WHAT'S NEXT FOR BLOOD MOON? 🩸
Since About Bloody Time, Nadia has been quietly pushing Blood Moon forward.
She’s been tightening the script and working with Director Laura Jean Marsh and DOP Emma Langguth to develop the visual language of the film.
And putting the project in front of people has already started something.
Conversations.
“The pitch has actually sparked a few early conversations about next steps, which has been great.”
The momentum from the showcase has helped shape the film moving forward.
And now she’s looking for another important piece of the puzzle.
CAN YOU HELP? 👀
Right now, Nadia is looking for producers who connect with Blood Moon and want to help bring it to life.
So if you’re a producer working in horror, folk horror or genre...
or if you’re reading this thinking:
“I know exactly who Nadia should speak to.”
Make the introduction.
Because sometimes the most valuable support you can give an independent filmmaker is simply helping the right people find one another.
You can also support the project by following:
Share it with somebody who’d love it.
Follow the journey.
Join the coven.
Or the pack.
We’re apparently doing both now.
THE LASTING IMPRESSION 🩸
When we asked Nadia what moment from About Bloody Time stayed with her most, the answer was brilliantly predictable.
“I think it might be when I made the audience all howl like wolves ha!”
What started as panic at the end of a sixty-second pitch became one of the most memorable moments of the showcase.
But actually...
there’s something rather perfect about that.
A filmmaker bringing a story about women reclaiming the parts of themselves they’ve been taught to fear into a room for the very first time.
Taking a risk.
Being a little ridiculous.
And having the whole room go there with her.
Because Blood Moon is ultimately about something much bigger than witches.
It’s about women reclaiming their own narrative.
Being seen in all their complexity.
And refusing to make themselves smaller just to fit into the spaces they’ve been given.
As Nadia put it:
“To invite our feral nature and let it be seen.”
And maybe genre is exactly the place to do that.
To be wild.
To be strange.
To be powerful.
To explore the parts of ourselves that don’t always behave.
And to create work that refuses to apologise for any of it.
That’s why we want to create more spaces where women can show up as they are.
More connections built on genuine enthusiasm for the work.
And more genuine routes forward for women and their stories.
DISCOVER BLOOD MOON 🩸
Watch the teaser trailer here:
Writer/Producer: Nadia Lamin
Production company: Asteria Rising Productions
Director: Laura Jean Marsh
Cinematographer: Emma Langguth
Composer: Andrea Giordani
Genre: Folk Horror
Project stage: Development
Currently seeking: Producers and collaborators
Blood Moon website:https://www.nadialamin.com/bloodmoonfilm
Blood Moon Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/bloodmoonfilm_/
Nadia Lamin:https://www.instagram.com/nadialamin91/
Event photography by: Sue Parkhill Photography https://www.instagram.com/parkhillphoto/
ABOUT BLOODY TIME 🩸
About Bloody Time: Women Are Seen was created to celebrate, connect and champion women working in genre.
The inaugural Project Showcase took place at FrightFest 2026, presented by Yes She Cannes in collaboration with Silicon Gothic and Etheria Film Festival, bringing six female-led genre projects into the spotlight.
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