Um concurso de filmes de terror. Os prêmios incluem promoção no site Hollywood Investigator, placas de premiação.
O fundador da Bruxa do Tablóide Thomas M. Sipos é autor de Horror Film Festivals and Awards (McFarland 2012) e Horror Film Aesthetics (McFarland 2010), disponível na Amazon.com.
O Molins Film Festival, criado em 1973 em Molins de Rei (Barcelona), celebrará sua 45ª edição em novembro de 2026. Conhecido como TerrorMolins, o festival apresenta uma seção oficial competitiva de longas-metragens, seção oficial de curtas-metragens, retrospectivas, documentários, shows ao vivo, workshops, sessões de rede/apresentação e projeções para escolas de ensino médio e crianças. Também abriga uma das mais antigas maratonas de filmes de terror da Europa, a 12 Hours Horror Movies Marathon (desde 1973).
O MHFF - Molins Horror Film Festival é um dos festivais mais antigos dedicados exclusivamente ao terror na Espanha e na Europa. O festival é um membro orgulhoso da Federação Internacional de Festivais de Méliès (MIFF).
Fiaticorti nasceu em 2000 por iniciativa de um grupo de jovens do Projeto Juvenil do Município de Istrana (Treviso).
O ano em que o evento foi fundado não é coincidência: os primeiros anos do novo milênio viram o surgimento da câmera digital, uma inovação que possibilitou a criação e edição de vídeos em casa, mas também marcou o declínio constante das fitas VHS, como evidenciado por alguns dos curtas-metragens enviados nesse formato durante a edição inaugural do festival.
O nome escolhido para o evento decorre de duas explicações: por um lado, “fiato corto” (respiração curta) é o resultado de um breve esforço físico (assim como os curtas-metragens são breves); por outro lado, um filme com duração máxima de 20 minutos pode transmitir emoções poderosas ao público, deixando-o “sem fôlego”.
Vinte e sete obras de toda a Itália participaram da primeira edição, um número destinado a crescer de forma constante e rápida: em quatro anos, o festival alcançou 150 filmes por edição. À medida que o número de curtas-metragens concorrentes aumentava, aumentava sua qualidade e, consequentemente, o interesse do público apaixonado pelo gênero.
Inicialmente, Fiaticorti foi condensado em uma única noite dedicada à cerimônia de premiação; no entanto, a partir da quarta edição, o formato foi enriquecido, expandindo o festival em quatro etapas durante as quais os melhores trabalhos concorrentes foram exibidos.
Em 2006, a seção FiativeNeti foi introduzida para premiar curtas-metragens de cineastas da região de Veneto.
Em 2010, décimo aniversário do festival, o arquivo Fiaticorti foi inaugurado no Centro Juvenil de Istrana, abrigando uma coleção de mais de mil obras que participaram do festival ao longo dos anos.
2011 foi o ano em que o diretor artístico histórico Gianni Billio passou o bastão para Bartolo Ayroldi Sagarriga (diretor artístico), Andrea Grespan e Simone Perotto. Também foi uma edição decisiva: o festival viu uma qualidade notável nos filmes concorrentes e um aumento significativo no número de participantes estrangeiros — principalmente da França, Grã-Bretanha, Romênia e Espanha — elevando o evento a um nível cada vez mais internacional.
A partir de 2026, o município de Istrana confiou a direção artística da 24ª edição a Andrea Grespan, que já havia desempenhado um papel de liderança na organização do festival em edições anteriores, ao lado de Sara Ricciardi e Livio Meo, representantes do Cineforum Labirinto, uma associação com vasta experiência na organização de eventos cinematográficos na província de Treviso.
O POST MORTEM International Horror & Bizarre Short Film Festival é um ponto de encontro para as visões mais sombrias, estranhas e provocativas do cinema. Um espaço onde criadores e amantes do gênero se reúnem para celebrar, desafiar e expandir os limites do horror e do bizarro.
The New Urbanism Film Festival is a film festival with a purpose. We want to encourage audiences to think about how they can make their cities and towns a better place. If your film addresses issues in that area, we'd like to see it.
We give awards for the best short film in each of these categories
-Architecture
-Bicycles
-Economic Development
-Healthy Cities
-Street Art / Public Art
-Tactical Urbanism
-Urban Design
-Walkability
The Top Prizes are
-Best of Fest (Best Film (feature or short) explaining New Urbanism
-Emerging Ideas (Workshop, Installation, Presentation, or Event held during the festival)
After the screenings, audiences are invited to dialogue with leading urban thinkers about the issues raised during the movie and discuss current local projects.
The festival also offers lots of special events, workshops, tours and classes that help audiences take lessons from the film and apply them to their hometown. We strongly encourage filmmakers to attend the festival.
This festival attracts filmmakers, artists, street artists, architects, urban planners, political leaders, bicycle advocates, faith-based community leaders, and fans of the urban environment. Here's a list of some of our past guest speakers.
Melissa Balmer, California Bike Coalition
Howard Blackson, president California Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism
Andy Boenau, host Urbanism Speakeasy,
Chris Bruntlett, director, Vancouver Cycle Chic
Diego Cardoso, L.A. Planning Commission, Director of Planning at LA METRO
Rick Cole, Los Angeles Deputy Mayor for Budget & Innovation,
Tim Deegan, former Chair of the Mid City West Community Council
Chris Elisara, board member, Congress for the New Urbanism
Scott Epstein, chair Mid City West Community Council
William Fain, architect and urban planner, partner Johnson Fain,
Dawn Finley, co-founder, Feminist Library On Wheels
Nat Gale, LA Great Streets Program Director, Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti
Debra Gerod, Partner, Gruen Associates,
Dean Haglund, actor, the X-files,
Tim Halbur, director of communications at Congress for the New Urbanism
Karney Hatch, director, Plant This Movie
Eric Jacobsen, author, Sidewalks in the Kingdom
Scott Hamilton Kennedy, director The Garden
Colin Marhsal, host of Notebook on Cities and Culture
Kellie Morris, author, We All Ride Bikes
Bob Nesson, director, Power to the Pedals
Taylor Nichols, Mid City West Communit Council Transportation committee co-chair
Marquis Olison, community organizer
Moncho1929, street artist
Neal Payton, West Coast director of Torti Gallas Partners,
Stefanos Polyzoides, architect & urban planner MoulePolyzoides
Peter Quintanilla, Prince’s Foundation for Building Community
Thomas Rigler, producer of the KCET series CITYWALK
Rebecca Autumn Sansom, director, Trainsforming America
Meghan Sahli-Wells, Mayor of Culver City, co-founder of the Culver City Bike Coalition
Scott Schultz, creator, BUSted True tales from people who ride the bus in LA
Kyle Sears, New Parish Collective
Maria Sipin, co-host of Women Talk Bikes
Ryan Swanson, founder The Urban Conga
Barry Taylor, Art Center Professor of Advertising & Marketing
J. Keith Van Straaten, host, Beat the Geeks,
Mike Wells, producer, American Makeover: Fresno
Will Wright, AIA-LA honorary, Government affairs liaison
Awards & Prizes
Prizes include:
Award Certificate
Gifts from our sponsors and media partners
Free submissions for life
All Access Pass to NUFF2015
Cinephone is a festival of short films made with mobile phone internationally and free theme that aims to bring filmmaking to a wider segment of the public with minimal economic costs.
A missão e o objetivo do festival é dar aos curtas-metragens uma identidade que diferencie a forma de arte da tela grande convencional. O CISFFi 2026 mostra curtas-metragens que celebram diversas culturas, tradições estéticas, temas sociais e relevantes e outros trabalhos que desafiam e transcendem as exceções. Nosso interesse particular está em curtas-metragens que tratam de temas inovadores, tecnologia e visualização de ponta, tradicionais, bem como aqueles que discordam em forma, técnica ou conteúdo de o mainstream.
The festival is organized by the Udada Festival Trust (UFT) and seeks to develop a local and regional audience by showcasing films that have been done by women for women and are not necessarily distributed in local cinemas or television. Special attention will be given to African films made by women and films pertaining to African women.
The mandate of the UDADA Film Festival is to:
Facilitate interaction between women filmmakers; and women filmmakers and their audiences;
Support and encourage women involved in film production;
Increase the exposure of new productions written and/or directed by women;
Showcase women productions to the Kenyan and International film industry for future ventures;
Provide opportunities for professional development;
Provide a marketplace for industry. In essence, a reverse trade mission providing local filmmakers and producers access to the national and international film industry;
Develop and offer youth programs to develop the next generation of filmmakers.
A 14ª versão do Festival tem como tema central “Cinema Comunitário como gerador de Mudança e Progresso Social”, o júri prioriza conteúdos que tenham esse foco, porém a recepção de peças audiovisuais não se fecha exclusivamente a esse tema, pois Portanto, outros tipos de conteúdo serão amplamente aceitos.
¨O cinema comunitário não é apenas uma forma de arte, mas também uma ferramenta poderosa para promover valores fundamentais de uma sociedade progressista, como igualdade de gênero, justiça social e participação cidadã. Facilita o debate, a pluralidade e a solidariedade e oferece um meio de expressão para os diferentes grupos e identidades que compõem o tecido social, cultural e identitário da Colômbia, nos níveis local, regional e nacional. ¨
É por esse motivo que o Festival de Cinema e Vídeo Comuna 13, A Outra História, em sua versão 2024, decidiu gerar espaços de diálogo e troca de conhecimento em torno do cinema comunitário, incentivando a participação dos grupos mais proeminentes do país nessa modalidade, a fim de compartilhar experiências, metodologias e conhecimentos com o setor acadêmico de nossa cidade (rede de criação audiovisual, mídia técnica, escolas de paz, entre outros)
O Festival Internacional de Cine de León (FICL) é um festival internacional de cinema realizado em León, Guanajuato, México, dedicado a mostrar cinema independente, cineastas emergentes e histórias poderosas de todo o mundo.
Por meio de exibições de filmes, programas especiais e conversas com cineastas, a FICL visa criar um espaço cultural vibrante onde o público e os criadores possam se conectar por meio do cinema. O festival destaca trabalhos que exploram diversas perspectivas, inovações artísticas e histórias que ressoam com o público contemporâneo.
A FICL busca fortalecer o crescente cenário cultural de León e, ao mesmo tempo, fornecer uma plataforma para cineastas mexicanos e internacionais compartilharem seu trabalho com novos públicos.
O festival pretende promover o cinema independente nacional e internacional.
Por oito anos, nosso festival se tornou o ponto de referência para diretores independentes de todo o mundo.
Estamos procurando as melhores histórias para mostrar ao nosso público fiel.
-História-
Desde 2015, ano de sua fundação, o festival se destaca pela qualidade e valor social das obras selecionadas.
Em dez edições, selecionamos e exibimos 221 obras de 70 países e premiamos 250!
Ao promover o cinema independente de todo o mundo, recebemos trabalhos estrelados por atores mundialmente famosos, como Salvatore Esposito (Gomorra, Fargo), Denis Lavant (Holy Motors, Tóquio!).
Na edição de 2021 tivemos a honra de premiar o ator Giuseppe Fiorello em seu último filme “L'afide e la formica”, vencedor do prêmio de melhor longa-metragem.
Ao longo dos anos, nos orgulhamos de ter promovido com sucesso dezenas de documentários independentes, que foram uma verdadeira janela para o mundo para nós.
Tentamos nos aprimorar a cada ano, dando a vocês, diretores, a oportunidade de receber um reconhecimento importante por seu trabalho e pelas histórias que desejam contar.
UK Web Fest is the first regional festival of it's kind and the second in the country. We are a platform for digital media and the tech worlds to showcase talented, creative, and collaborative master pieces.
We believe that UK and beyond can showcase web series and digital content for all to view anywhere in the world.
O FESTIVAL DE CURTA-METRAGEM DE MONTEMARIO, organizado e patrocinado pela associação cultural sem fins lucrativos “CS-COMSPE” e “Arte & Musica d'Italia”, é um dos principais festivais de cinema da Itália, incentivando a participação de jovens e brilhantes cineastas independentes de qualquer nacionalidade e oferecendo-lhes a oportunidade de exibir seus filmes para um público diversificado de cineastas e amantes do cinema de todo o mundo.
A missão do festival sempre foi aprimorar, promover e disseminar formas cinematográficas, audiovisuais e expressivas de reprodução cinematográfica, através de curtas-metragens e videoclipes como forma de expressão visual e fônica, como arte eficaz, como forma de comunicação social e cultural, desenvolver o potencial da linguagem artística visual, responder às necessidades de crescimento cultural dos jovens em um ambiente futuro fortemente comunicado com as artes visuais, surpreender-se com as habilidades criativas, para dar aos criativos, diretores e cineastas o espaço certo para seus talento na maior visibilidade possível.
6th CinemAvvenire Film Festival carries on and strengthens the International/European dimension of the Associazione Centro Internazionale CinemAvvenire, a project managed with enthusiasm and determination since 1992 through the starting idea by Gillo Pontecorvo.
Lumière 2015 signs a crucial step forward; the previous edition hosted 100 feature films and 200 shorts from 60 different Countries.
Each tool of the festival is at disposal for the discover and the exploration of new styles and talents, assisting and supporting the independent productions setting a European platform for their expectations. A look at the past won’t be ignored –bringing to light some unpopular zone of Cinema History – as it belongs to the logic of discovery too.
We have concluded many deals with several partners around Europe. This partnerships are planned to decentralize the event with the aim to promote young talents inside a European web allowing audiovisual works to get a broader circulation around EU.
This European direction led us choosing the platypus as logo for our festival. It unites different parts from different animals and this feature makes it unique. It has a duckbill, the tail as rodents, the paws as reptiles and it lays eggs notwithstanding it is a mammal animal. Its skills let it free form categorization and guardian of a precious metaphor: united in diversity.
Kanyakumari International Film Festival
Celebrates its 4th year !
Event Type: Live Screening of Films from worldwide and Connected Programs including Film Making Workshops, Film Seminars, Film Appreciation Camps and Exhibitions.
The call for entries for the film festival is now open!
Screening Categories:
Feature Film Over 60 Minutes
Long Documentary Over 60 Minutes
Long Animation Film Over 60 Minutes
Long Experimental Film Over 60 Minutes
Music Video Over 60 Minutes
Short Film Under 60 Minutes
Short Documentary Under 60 Minutes
Short Animation Film Under 60 Minutes
Short Experimental Film Under 60 Minutes
Music Video Under 60 Minutes
Mencionado em publicações como Vox, Medium ou Backstage, o TMFF foi nomeado pela ShortFilm Connection “provavelmente o festival de cinema mais famoso atualmente na web”. Com quase 3500 FILMES SELECIONADOS até agora e dezenas de milhares de visitas ao site todos os meses, esperamos que através da TMFF você se destaque com seu projeto e obtenha o alcance que precisa e merece! Além disso, além de ser um evento qualificado para o IMDB, todas as seleções oficiais serão automaticamente inseridas em nossa extensa FILM COLLECTION: https://tmff.net/collection/
Mês a mês, nossos juízes (que trabalham na indústria cinematográfica) decidirão quem são os indicados e vencedores do TMFF. Recebemos mais de 13.000 projetos até agora, realizamos mais de 80 edições mensais e premiamos mais de 800 filmes de todo o mundo!
❗ E TENHA ISSO EM MENTE: Não colocaremos a versão completa do seu filme em nosso site se você não quiser. UM TRAILER SERVE.
❓ Perguntas frequentes: https://tmff.net/faq/
O 8º Festival de Cinema SciFi retorna ao principal local de exibição de Sydney no Event Cinemas, George Street, de 23 a 26 de setembro de 2021.
SciFi Film Festival é um evento anual em Sydney, Austrália, dedicado a celebrar e promover histórias fantásticas de ficção científica, fantasia e gênero de terror, da Austrália em todo o mundo.
Nosso programa com curadoria inclui, os mais recentes filmes indie e mainstream para exibições temáticas e clássicos de culto, bem como eventos agradáveis à multidão, de fóruns a perguntas e respostas com cineastas e sua equipe, também temos uma mistura eclética de atividades de espetáculos laterais que são divertidas, peculiares e vão mudar de vez em quando.
Always striving to be one of the most progressive and creative Festivals in the world, the Great Lakes In-ternational Film Festival has officially opened its 2026 Call for Entries and is now accepting films of all ge-nres and lengths from around the world and across the United States for our 2026 Festival.
The passion and commitment that each Filmmaker and writer puts into his or her work is both noble and unique, to say the least, and deserves to be acknowledged. As not only the cornerstone of our mission, but as the foundation of our belief system and morals, we seek out, acknowledge, and award the innumerable talented independent Filmmakers who otherwise might not get the recognition they richly deserve.
For a quarter of a century the Great Lakes International Film Festival strives to serve the interests and needs of Independent Filmmakers worldwide by connecting artists with audiences, exhibiting and promoting new films and filmmaking talent, as well as nurturing a creative independent film community worldwide.
In addition to being one of the most dynamic festivals, one of the most popular attractions that the Great Lakes International Film Festival offers to Filmmakers is our home, Erie Pennsylvania. As one of the most unique communities, Erie proffers an amazing landscape that is as diverse as the people that make up its City.
Seated on the shores of Lake Erie, the beautiful Presque Isle State Park is a peninsula with amazing beaches and trails that curve around Presque Isle Bay. This 3,112-acre park boasts 13 miles of roads, 21 miles of recreational trails, 13 beaches for swimming, a myriad of wildlife and a lovely marina.
Nearby, Waldameer Amusement Park & Water World has roller coasters and waterslides along with many other attractions to engage visiting Filmmakers and attendees alike. The Erie Maritime Museum traces the history of Lake Erie and is the homeport of the US Brig Niagara, a historic 19th-century ship.
Only a few blocks away the Erie Art Museum features a very impressive collection of 20th-century works, while a number of local playhouses deliver off-Broadway-style stage plays regularly.
Erie Pa also features a cornucopia of stunning historic architecture throughout, including the very impres-sive West Sixth Street Historic District, otherwise known as Millionaire's Row. Consisting of 117 beautiful buildings originally constructed in the Victorian era by lumber, banking, and Manufacturing barons such as Peter Herdic as their homes. Millionaire's Row now stands as a remarkable testament to an age long past.
In addition to awarding outstanding Filmmakers with Best of Genre Awards, our Festival offers an audience Choice Award to the Filmmaker whose film is the most popular with our attendees, and that receives the most attendee votes.
Since our inception, the Great Lakes International Film Festival has showcased more than 4,000 films, and has played host to countless celebrities and actors, and has amassed a formidable catalog of exceptionally high caliber Independent Films and career launches, with countless films that have gone on to be screened on the Sundance Channel, IFC, PBS and HBO along with so many more filmmakers who have received dis-tribution deals after screening in our festival.
While the success of the GLIFF has not come from an excess of big-name celebrities crowding its red car-pet, we feel that it instead is rooted in the much more important attention to detail that we offer, and most significantly, the very personal way in which we interact with each and every Filmmaker who has allowed us the honor of presenting their films over the past 25 years, doing our best to make each Filmmaker a part of our Festival family with ties that bind far beyond only one festival season.
Showcasing the best films of the 2026 season, the Great Lakes International Film Festival will be held LIVE in the great city of Erie, Pennsylvania starting on September 24, 2026, with our virtual screenings con-tinuing through October 10, 2026.
Though we have never focused on the big name Hollywood celebrities, still our Festival has played host to numerous special guests that include, writer, producer Bill Hinzman of Flesheaters and Night of the Living Dead; director Lloyd Kaufman of the Toxic Avenger films, Pot Zombies, and President of Troma Films; ac-tor Gunnar Hansen of Texas Chainsaw Massacre; actor and director Mark Borchardt of American Movie and Coven; Erick Rodgers (Writer of NYPD Blue); best-selling mystery author Jamian Snow (Shrouded Insani-ty); John Hancock (“Hill Street Blues”, “The Twilight Zone”, & California Dreaming); actress and “Scream Queen” Debbie Rochon (Blood Relic, Vampyre Tales, & Lord of the Undead); Bobby Logan (Meatballs 4 & Repossessed), along with so many more.
As one of the premier film festivals worldwide, the Great Lakes International Film Festival held its inaugural festival in the fall of 2002, welcoming internationally acclaimed celebrities like Dirk Benedict, best known for his work on Battlestar Galactica and A-Team, along with Hollywood script guru Harri James who worked as script supervisor for blockbuster films and TV Shows as ER, Alias, Tremors II: Aftershocks, and Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, to name only a few.
In that same year, B.J. and the Bear & Up in Smoke producer, Otto Felix visited the festival along with the renowned Keith Carradine being presented with a lifetime achievement award for his dedication and con-tributions to indie film.
Since that time, the Great Lakes International Film Festival has had many films go on to greatness like “The Derby Stallion” which was released through Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, a subsidiary of Disney, and Director Joel Miller’s film “The Still Life” that received distribution through Warner Home Video after having been screened at the festival.
As far back as 2004, the Great Lakes International Film Festival had the proud pleasure to present the North East United States Premiere of “SAW”, Lions Gate Films’ gripping psychological thriller starring Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, and Leigh Whannel.
The legendary Terry Moore was our special guest of honor and was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her amazing accomplishments in film over the past 60 years, while international recording su-perstar Dizzy Reed of Guns ‘N Roses performed before a capacity crowd at our Film Festival.
Considered among the most popular film festivals in the world, the 25th annual Great Lakes International Film Festival genre categories for feature-length and short-length films are Narrative, Documentary, Expe-rimental, Religious/Spiritual, Animation, Comedy, Horror, with Horror sub-genres that include Supernatural, Thrillers, Wicken, Magical, Slashers, Science Fiction, Suspense, Horror Documentary, Horror Animation and all genres of Music Videos and GLBT films for the 2026 festival.
If there is anything as universal as the ageless storytelling of motion pictures, it’s the music that makes up life’s soundtrack. The 2026 Great Lakes International Film Festival shall accept Music Videos from around the world of cross-continent and cross-genre productions. We shall accept Music Videos of all genres from Pop, Punk, Rock, Alt-Country, Country-Western, Folk, Reggae, Hip-Hop to Electronica, Jazz, Blues, Zydeco, Industrial, Metal, Hardcore, Gothic, Karaoke, Avant-Garde, World Music, and Experimental, and all other genres that may not be listed here.
The 2026 Great Lakes International Film Festival will accept all forms of Religious, Christian, and Spiritual films including African, African-American, GLBT, Black, Hispanic, Islamic, Latino, Native/Aboriginal, and student films from the United States and around the world.
From the feature narrative genre to documentary to animation; experimental, horror, and Spiritual films, the Great Lakes International Film Festival celebrates the film arts in dynamic transition. As emerging technologies, continue to redefine the form, Filmmakers from the Great Lakes region, across the country, and around the world express the common and the diverse through the age-old tradition. — The art of the story.
DSOFF is an International, Independent online event for all Short, Documentary, Feature, Music Video and Web Series. Goal of DSOFF is to Provide homes to group of young and vibrant film enthusiasts who are committed in creating spaces for independent cinema and devoted to spreading of the knowledge of the modern visual art form to all interested. We, at DSOFFest aim at bringing out the best Short, Documentary, Feature, Music video and web series from around the globe and to present it all on one single platform which is our website
Mission:
A judged film festival described as "Sundance with Fangs" by Newsday Long Island. We provide a venue for showcasing your films within a celebratory & respectful environment, where fans can enjoy the independent films entered by those of you who passionately craft your Strange-ifical, Weird-ifical, Horror-ifical, Sci-fi-tastical, Fantastical and Macabre-licious films. The opportunity to win awards, increase film visibility via press and possibly obtain distribution is always part of the equation with the Macabre Faire Film Festival.
For starters the word "Macabre" is pronounced: Ma-Cob. The "re" is hardly ever heard. What does it mean?
Although it is an adjective meaning: disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury, WE ARE NOT SOLELY A HORROR FILM FESTIVAL but instead a whole lot more than that. We usually approach the Macabre Faire Film Festival with a lighter touch in the sense that, not all of the films screened are horror and instead many may simply be considered a bit on the darker side. Of course, we will add some horror to this festival but, when we hear the word "Macabre" we remember those hauntingly fascinating films that starred legendary greats such as:
Vincent Price & Peter Cushing or those fantastic Gothic horrors like the "Hammer" films. These names in themselves represent what "macabre" means to us. What we are saying is that the word "Macabre" DOES NOT mean we only accept HORROR films but instead that we welcome those films that can tap into our fears through what you don't see or hear. A dark drama, mystery, suspense, thriller or dark comedy can do a lovely job making us feel uncomfortable in the dark. So folks, this is what many of the films selected for the Macabre Faire Film Festival offer. A buffet for any pallet. About the only thing we may have to say "No Thanks" to would be a romantic comedy/drama... unless, there's a monster under the bed during love making or other dark element.
All submitted films are pre-screened by select judges that includes Eileen Dietz, our Festival Ambassador, of the original "The Exorcist" film to ensure the films have followed guidelines and are an overall fit for the festival. Then the films are passed on to another set of judges consisting of more filmmakers, film critics, genre film fans and or seasoned actors to choose the Official Selections. Once these selections have been identified there is an additional judging process in collaboration with the original pre-screening judges to identify the different category nominees. Once you have been notified we insist on having the film festival entry form filled out and submitted back to the festival via email or snail mail within 4 weeks of acceptance. This form can be found on our website or it has been emailed to you as an attachment with your initial welcoming email.
URGENT NOTE: IF THERE IS NO CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE FESTIVAL AND INDIVIDUAL WHO SUBMITTED THE ACCEPTED FILM WITHIN 4 WEEKS FROM INITIAL ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION, WHICH ALL FILMMAKERS RECEIVE FROM FESTHOME BY DEADLINE DATE, YOUR FILM WILL NO LONGER BE AN OFFICIAL SELECTION IN THE MACABRE FAIRE FILM FESTIVAL. So we urge everyone to check their spam folders at all times and or ensure to make contact with the festival within 4 weeks of the acceptance notification. Failure to do so will exclude your film from the festival. Please take the time to ACTUALLY READ all the pages of the submission form which contains mailing address information (if needed) and other very important details which includes getting your discs or film posters sent to the festival in a timely fashion. This does not mean mailing materials in 2 weeks before the event as they will not be accepted.
Moving on...
January's festival always falls on Martin Luther King Jr weekend for easy remembering. This 4 day event start with Thursday and Friday being solely screening days with minimal panels within 3 screening rooms. The festival continues for another 2 days with Saturday screenings starting at 12pm into midnight within 4-5 screening rooms and an intimately sized vendor room with additional panels available for guests. Saturday evening is capped with an elaborate Red Carpet Gala Award Ceremony that offers a glamorous atmosphere filled with Press, Photos, Entertainment, Dinner and Awards! This is NOT to be missed.
Sunday captures the conversations from the night prior winners and more. A perfect day to catch those shorts you may have missed as it usually hosts an encore segment for short films from 12pm until 6pm. Be sure to visit the vendor room before the day is over and sit in on another panel or other special treat before it all ends until the following year.
Several films that have screened at MFFF have received distribution at this time for titles like: Cannibal Diner, Caesar & Otto's Deadly XMas, Caesar & Otto's Paranormal Halloween, Model Hunger, The Perfect House, House of Afflictions, Dead Woman's Hollow, The Long Island Serial Killer, The Ghouligans, Devil Knows His Own, Coyote, and others being discussed at this very moment. Will yours be next?
