The two-headed monster lurking at the roadhouse where Arthouse and Grindhouse meet, CINEMA VISCERA is an award-winning independent film production company, based in Melbourne, dedicated to making stripped-back, character-driven, genre films with a frequent focus on female leads. 

Since 2008, we have made several award winning shorts and two feature films: female powered detective comedy-noir, Trench (2018), nominated for two 2019 OzFlix Independent Film Awards (Best Film Under $500K and Best Emerging New Talent), and Apparitions (2021) premiered at Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia, won Best Feature at the Horrific Hope Film Festival in the US, and was nominated for two Septimus Awards in the Netherlands (winning Best Oceanic Actress for lead Cate O’Connor), distributed by 4Digital Media in the US and UK and Bounty Films in Australia.
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PAUL ANTHONY
​NELSON
DIRECTOR. SCREENWRITER. EDITOR. PRODUCER.
One half of Cinema Viscera, Paul has over a decade’s experience as a director, screenwriter, videographer and editor. In addition to features Trench and Apparitions, he has directed six short films and won multiple awards as the editor for the popular queer crime drama web-series After Nightfall, as a film historian can regularly be heard on blu-ray audio commentaries for companies such as Kino Lorber and Arrow, and is currently working with Bounty Films to open up a theatrical release pathway for Australian and international independent features.  

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PERRI
​CUMMINGS
ACTOR. DIRECTOR.
SCREENWRITER. PRODUCER.
The other  half of Cinema Viscera, Perri has also worked regularly as a script writer and storyliner for Neighbours, was the creative producer and writing mentor for the award winning web-series Last Breath, co-wrote, directed and produced the popular narrative comedy podcast Moving On. She has also starred in two feature films, played grieving wives and mothers in multiple Australian TV shows, scaled cliffs in frocks for several Shakespeare productions and was pushed in front of a car by her real-life brother, Stefan Dennis, as Jill Ramsay in Neighbours.