Ladies and gentlemen, prep your screeners because it’s that time of year again. Fantastic Fest has officially opened the submission season for the 2010 Festival. The largest genre film festival in the U.S., Fantastic Fest showcases horror, fantasy, sci-fi, animation, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world. For additional information, or to submit your short or feature-length production for consideration, you may visit the Fantastic Fest website here. All submissions will be processed online through Without A Box.
When: Fantastic Fest will take place September 23-September 30, 2010
Where: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema South Lamar, Austin, Texas
Contact:
Tim League, Festival Director
info@fantasticfest.com
www.fantasticfest.com
@fantasticfest on twitter
Fantastic Fest on Facebook
IMPORTANT FESTIVAL DATES:
March 3, 2010: Earlybird Submission Deadline
May 5, 2010: Regular Submission Deadline
June 2, 2010: Late Submission Deadline
July 16, 2010: WAB Extended Deadline (submissions close)
September 23: Fantastic Fest 2010 Begins
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
Fantastic Fest was created to offer exposure to genre films which are often overlooked by the traditional festival circuit. We strive to offer acquisition and media and exhibition opportunities for undistributed films as well as spotlight upcoming genre theatrical releases and repertory genre classics.
In 2008, MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE named Fantastic Fest “one of the 25 festivals worldwide worth the submission fee”:
“The folks at Austin’s Fantastic Fest set the tone when they describe it as a place for “all around badass cinema.” With kudos from Charlie Koones, former publisher of Variety, who calls it “one of the 10 Film Festivals We Love,” moviemakers are definitely getting into that tender spirit, too, especially when it comes to the amount of publicity their Fantastic Fest screenings are generating…” – MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE (view the full article here)
“A festival unlike any other, FF is a celebration of all things truly fantastic, with the biggest that Hollywood has to offer rubbing shoulders with tiny productions from the far-flung reaches of the globe.” – Chris Tilly, IGN ENTERTAINMENT
“A world premiere is a very, very nerve wracking experience but what makes Fantastic Fest so amazing is that it’s not only the programmers and organizers that are on your side, but the audience too. They’re fighting in your corner and they want to see different and exciting movies and they’re so damn cine-literate it’s scary! The greatest test audience in the world…I’d recommend everyone has their premiere here!” – Andy Starke, Producer, DOWN TERRACE
“The best festival, the best movies, the best programmers, the best theater, the best barbeque, the best queso, the best guns and pretty much the best f#%cking time you will ever have promoting your movie. Period.” – Ti West, Writer/Director, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL
“Fantastic Fest has made my whole career. Everything related to the future of Timecrimes and mine as an American directors comes through your festival. I know that some directors have a particular festival attached to their whole biography. Now I know mine.” – Nacho Vigalondo, director, TIMECRIMES (worldwide rights to TIMECRIMES were purchased by Magnolia Releasing following the world premiere of the film at Fantastic Fest 2007
Rocketing out of the furthest reaches of the galaxy to stir up a massive amount of shocked reactions at Fantastic Fest 2009 was the manic intergalactic comedy musical STINGRAY SAM from writer/director/star Cory McAbee (THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT). Well, we decided that there was no better way to strike out against a new decade than with additional screenings at The Ritz (this Sunday through Tuesday) of this aggressively unique slab of movie insanity.
