Cannes And Fantasia's Frontières Join Forces Again. For Good, Possibly Evil

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Cannes And Fantasia's Frontières Join Forces Again. For Good, Possibly Evil
Our friends at the Frontières Int'l Co-production Market have just come off of a successful Spring market in Brussels and the good news just keeps on coming. Variety reported this morning that the Co-production market that started at the Fantasia Film Festival just a few years ago will join with the Cannes Film Festival to form a wide-ranging genre-pic-focused industry partnership.
 
Earlier this year the two festivals announced Genre Alliance which kicks off with Frontiéres Goes to Cannes, a four genre pix-in-post showcase during the Cannes Films Festival. Now the Marché du Film and Frontiéres are talking with other third party collaborators to stage a Packaging and Financing Forum for genre movies next year. This would be a stand alone event that happens outside of the Cannes film festival at another venue in Europe in 2017.
 
As the report goes on, this is the second big venture for Cannes having recently partnered with Blood Window, a pix-in-progess program at the Ventana Sur Film Market in Buenos Aires. 
Said Lindsay Peters, director of Frontières: “With genre cinema only continuing to grow in terms of technological innovation, insightful marketing strategies and international box office appeal, there has never been a better moment to expand the global networking opportunities for the genre film industry, and there is no better platform than the Marché du Film in Cannes.” Added Jérôme Paillard, executive director of the Marché du Film: “Since a few years back, fantastic and horror films have proved to be a highly sustainable genre which reaches large audiences through all channels of distribution including new platforms.
Paillard added: “We made our first steps three years ago in Ventana Sur with Blood Window and in Cannes with the Fantastic Mixer. Joining forces with Frontières is a very exciting new step which will support tremendously this industry.”
 
Frontières began under the leadership of our friend Stephanie Trepanier only a handful of years ago. The market quickly established itself as one of the go to co-production markets for genre filmmakers, it's market spots highly coveted among those looking to get their next project off the ground. Out of this market have come title like last year`s festival hit Turbo Kid and one of our most anticipated "come-on-and-finish-it-already" movies, The Void
 
Lindsay Peters took over the market last year when Stephanie moved on to join Snowfort Pictures and the market continues to grow in influence around World. 
 
Congrats to Lindsay and her team, and to Stephanie's legacy. 
 
(ScreenAnarchy will once again be attending Frontières in Montreal this July, and will begin to lay down some groundwork and try get us (meaning ME specifically) to Cannes or Ventana Sur in 2017 to cover those co-production markets. Because.) 
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