Festivals: Fantasia
Frontières 2020: First Ten Titles Announced For This Year's Virtual Edition
All right, Summer is almost here! Yay? At the very least it usually meant that Frontières and Fantasia would be nearly here. Seeing as this year is exceptionably different from any other year in modern memory both the coproduction market...
Frontières Platform Cannes 2020: Announces 13 Genre Projects For Industry Platform
The landscape of film festivals dramatically changed this year. You may have noticed. If we can see the light at the end of the tunnel or not everyone is still preparing to get going, making great genre cinema, once we...
Fantasia 2020: Famed Canadian Genre Festival Opts to Go Virtual Instead of Cancelling This Year's Festival
We haven’t lost the Fantastia International Film Festival. Not completely. In these current times while many festivals are cancelling outright, rather than close the shutters on the year our friends at Fantasia have decided to hold the festival as a...
Frontières 2020: Annick Mahnert Appointed Executive Director, Co-Pro Goes Digital This July
I don't know about you but I'm itching to get back to normal life, under whatever definition it means once the current health crisis is over. I for one, am thinking about the long game and how my future plans...
Frontières: Executive Director Lindsay Peters Exits After Six Years
Well. This is not how we expected to start our weekend. Lindsay Peters, the executive director of Frontières, has decided to step down from leading the genre industry platform that has helped over five dozen genre films get the resources...
Frontières 2020: Call for Submissions to Platform in Cannes And International Co-Pro Market at Fantasia
Now that Winter is in full swing up here in the Northern hemisphere our hearts and minds have swiftly turned to yearning for Spring and Summer. Our friends at Frontières always have a good way to recover from these...
LILI Trailer: #MeToo Horror Short Film From Yfke Van Berckelaer
Dutch filmmaker Yfke Van Berckelaer's latest short film Lili has been making the festival rounds this past Summer and we have the trailer to share with you this morning. Lili (Lisa Smit – Netflix’s Ares) knows she has to...
HARPOON Trailer: Catch Rob Grant's Dark Comedy This October
Rob Grant's lost-at-sea love triangle thriller Harpoon sales into cinemas, bluray & VOD this October. Last week a new trailer was released. We are a bit tardy with the news but what is a week between friends? Rivalries, dark...
BLISS: Joe Begos' Latest Indie Horror Bleeds Into US Cinemas And on Digital in September
After a quick run through the North American genre festival circuit Dark Sky Films has announced that Joe Begos' (Almost Human, The Mind's Eye) latest horror flick Bliss will have its U.S. theatrical and digital release on September 27th. ...
Fantasia 2019 Review: HARD-CORE, A Tale Of Right-Wingers, Robots, and Redemption
Yukon (Yamada Takayuki) Gondo is a hard-headed ne'er do well who can't quite seem to hang on to anything in his life. Having no relationships, no real job, and no goals sends him adrift in ways that often get him...
SATANIC PANIC: New Trailer And Poster Deliver Hot And Fresh Horror Right to Your Door
Chelsea Stardust's horror flick Satanic Panic is coming to U.S. cinemas and On Digital/ On Demand on September 6th. Written by friends to the Screen Anarchy family, Ted Geoghegan and Grady Hendrix, Stardust's sophomore feature film premiered at the Overlook...
Fantasia 2019 Review: A Relationship Disintegrates Over And Over In THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WKND
It's been over a week since I first saw Jon Mikel Caballero's fantastical relationship drama, The Incredible Shrinking Wknd at Fantasia and I just cannot shake it. An incredible fantasy film that blends elements of Groundhog Day and Timecrimes into...
Fantasia 2019 Review: AMERICAN FIGHTER Puts a Different Face to The 80s Style Fighting Genre
The year is 1981. Ali is a student from Iran attending university on a foreign scholarship. The war between Iran and Iraq is early into their years long conflict and Ali's parents are try to flee Iran and get his...
Frontières@Fantasia 2019: Five Standouts From Official Selection Pitch Session
The Fantasia organized Frontières Market is the premiere event for filmmakers looking to take the next step in making their ideas into reality. For years Frontières has helped connect creative talent with the resources needed to translate great concepts into actual films....
Fantasia 2019 Review: THE ODD FAMILY: ZOMBIE ON SALE, A Story Of Gore And Greed In A Korean Town
What would you do if you stumbles across the fountain of youth, or better yet, a fountain of youth stumbled across you? In LEE Min-jae's The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale, the answer is clear, you monetize! The issue here...
Fantasia 2019: Award Winners Announced, IDOL Takes Top Prize
The dust has settled from industry weekend at Fantasia but the good times keep rolling on at the fest through to next week. Yesterday the award winners were announced and Lee Su-Jin's Idol took home the Chevel Noir Award...
Fantasia 2019 Review: IDOL, An Opaque South Korean Crime Procedural That Will Overheat Your Brain
Let us get this out of the way first: In over 40 years of watching movies and more than 20 years writing about them, this South Korean neo-noir was perhaps the first film to ever to leave me reeling to...
Fantasia 2019 Review: A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND
Sarah Bolger shines in new Irish revenge thriller.
Fantasia 2019 Review: DARLIN', An Effervescent, Entertaining Exercise in Empowerment
There is a story told between teen girls, midway through Darlin', about survival. How do you deal with the constricting snake trying to consume you in the forest? You let yourself get partially eaten, and kick the shit out of...
Fantasia 2019 Review: Nakashima's IT COMES, A Wild Multi-Thread Horror Ride
There are few filmmakers in Japan whose work is quite as immediately recognizable as Nakashima Tetsuya. Even as he has evolved over the last fifteen years from the candy-colored pop explosion of Kamikaze Girls to his gritty 2015 thriller, World...
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