THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: “GASTROMANCY” by Judy P. Steele
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GASTROMANCY
Description
Listen for gastromancy in this eerie exploration of one woman’s struggle to rise above quickening anxiety and fear that bind both her inner and outer voices.
Runtime: 5 minutes, 41 seconds
Director Biography - Judy Lea Steele is an interdisciplinary writer, performer and producer. Her experimental plays, poems and performance art have been shared, recognized and published across the US including the Eugene O’Neill National Play Conference, River Styx, Trampoline Poetry, the Patty Friedmann Writing Competition and LMNL arts 2024 anthology of the same. Her cinepoem “Eve’s Ribs Lilith’s Lungs” has been awarded or selected by the WRPN Women’s International Film Festival, the Fourth Poetic Cinema Festival in Buenos Aires and Bridge Video where it resides in their archives. Judy’s work is dual and dichotomous in voice, exploring expressions of self-ventriloquism and feminism using shape and multimedia tools appropriate to the work. Its multiple lives span page, live performance and cinepoetry, speaking in multiple voices – spoken word, gesture, movement, instrumentals and vocalization. Through her non-profit, Wisteria Root Productions, she works with ongoing collaborators and project specific artists to create larger multi-media art and performance events amplifying women’s voices, especially over 50. Her play play Gerutha and Margaret will be featured in a new works festival in Mexico City, summer 2026. Her performance/play hybrid Bobo the Pig is Good and Bad (inspired by the book), is currently in production for fall 2026. A recent interdisciplinary MFAW alumna of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, she did her undergraduate work at Northwestern University.
Co-Director Roberto Campos Segura holds a degree in Cinematography (2019-2023) and has 9 years of experience in audiovisual media with over 13 film and audiovisual works produced. His
production company FIELDS PRODUCTIONS has enabled him to collaborate with high-level national and international artists, earning awards at festivals in Mexico, the U.S., Germany,
France, India, and Greece.
Credits & Specifications:
Completion Date: January 2026
Production Budget: $1,200 USD
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Shooting Format: Samsung S25 Ultra
Language: English and Spanish
