Fantastic Fest Photos: Meeting the Heads of 'Machine Gun Woman'

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Machine Gun WomanChilean director/writer Ernesto Diaz Espinoza has returned to Austin once again for Fantastic Fest to premiere his latest Latin-sploitation action film, Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman. Accompanying Diaz Espinoza was the Machine Gun Woman herself, Chilean television star Fernanda Urrejola, as seen above on the red carpet. Diaz-Espinoza first visited Austin in 2007 for Fantastic Fest where he premiered Mirageman, along with a screening of his earlier project, the first Chilean martial-arts film Kiltro starring Chilean martial artist Marko Zaror.

With Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman, Espinoza has crafted another humorously entertaining exploitation film that centers around a beautiful and mysterious hit woman clad in machine guns, stiletto boots and not much else. The Machine Gun Woman is tracked by other killers-for-hire including Santiago, a videogame-playing deejay who must deliver her to a crime boss or face his own death.

Derek Rundell, Fernanda Urrejola, Enesto Diaz Espinoza of BRING ME THE HEAD OF MACHINE GUN WOMANProducer Derek Rundell (Kiltro, Mirageman, Mandrill) with Urrejola and Diaz Espinoza taking a break before watching another film at Fantastic Fest 2012.

Machine Gun Woman Q & AUrrejola and Diaz Espinoza at the Q&A after the first screening of Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman. The next Fantastic Fest screening of Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman is Tuesday, September 25 at 3:30 pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.

Photo Credits: "Fernanda Urrejola and Ernesto Diaz Espinoza on the Red Carpet"; "Derek Rundell, Fernanda Urrejola and Ernesto Diaz Espinoza"; "Q & A with Fernanda Urrejola and Ernesto Diaz Espinoza"; all photos by Debbie Cerda for Slackerwood, available for use with permission]