We are so looking forward to another installment of Cinemafantastique! Our Cinemafantastique5 Film Freeway is up and running if you would like to submit your films. Once again we are looking for the weird and wonderful that make up the spectrum of Horror, Thriller, Sci-fi, and Erotic films…really we like anything that is on the Darkside (pun intended), so if you have an animation, drama, comedy, or a documentary film, you can submit that too!! Once again we would like to thank everyone for their patience while we attended to our Darkside adventures; we are excited to be back, and see what you talented folks have going on!
We’d also like to thank Richard and Samantha Lukacs of Crone Cult Pictures for the awesome photography we were able to use to make our graphics this year.
Hello Everyone! Just a quick post to let all you awesome filmmakers know that submissions are open over at our FilmFreeway site page. Early Bird rates run from September 15 – October 13 (Yes! a Friday the 13th in October!) We had so many great submissions last year, and are looking forward to what crazy, bloody, awesomeness will be submitted to this year’s!
We will only be selecting films that have gone through our Cinemafantastique 4 FilmFreeway site page and not via our company/personal emails or social media platforms, and we are very pleased to offer hugely competitive submission rates! As a non-profit all money goes into making the festival the best it can be. We’re looking forward to seeing your films this season!!
We have a great lineup of films for this year’s festival! We wanted to have a bit of fun for this year, so most of the films will hopefully make you laugh, but don’t worry we will still be taking you to the darkside. There is a ton of great talent here, and we’d like to share a bit about them so you get as excited as us for SATURDAY AUGUST 26th at the Vancity Theatre in Vancouver BC, Canada!!
This is NOT going to be the screening order, we will keep you posted on that at a later date.
Thank you again to all the filmmakers for submitting their work, and putting their art out into the world!!
ALPHAMEM
Run time: 10 min 45sec
Country of Origin: Canada
Director: Jason William Lee, Marc Boily
Starring: Tristan Risk, Jason William Lee, Robert Leaf, Momona Komagata, Brian Johnstone,Natalie Moon, David Aboussafy, Ariel Hansen
Synopsis: In 2033 when much of humanity is equipped with neural implants that allow them to play back their memories in perfect fidelity, one man must fight to fulfill a promise to his dead wife before a solar magnetic pulse wipes out all memory of her forever.
THE BARBER’S CUT
Run time: 11 min 40 Sec
Country of Origin: UK
Director: Mark Brocking
Starring: Lewis Georgeson, Alisa Arnah, David Whitford
Synopsis:Two cut off but living heads wake up in a fridge and manage to escape while trying to avoid a psycho barber.
BUN IN THE OVEN
Run time: 7min 45sec
Country of Origin: USA
Director: Jono Freedrix
Starring: Laren Miller Rogen, Magan Wiles, Mj Rodriguez
Synopsis: Janelle and Sydney are hungry for a baby… but they have zero interest parenting. For them, this is truly a LABOR of LOVE.
BUZz
Run time: 6min 24sec
Country of Origin: USA
Director: Niccolo Bello
Starring: Mark Kelly
Synopsis: No-dialogue dark comedy with a man and a drone.
DON’T F*CK WITH ENGLAND
Run time: 2min 15sec
Country of Origin: USA
Director: Rocket Ear
LA FOLIA
Run time: 13min 5sec
Country of Origin: USA
Director: Adam Grannick
Starring: Tina Motoki, Milan Williams, Tessa Stokes, Gregg DaCosta, Rosanne Rubino, Anna Schon, Yeman Brown, Lynn Berg, Adriel Choo Tung, Tenzing Tsepak, Andrew Reynolds Cooksey, Maria Romano, Michael Simon Hall, Joe Sullivan, Naomi Lewin, Mekhi Lee, Kiyoko Kashiwagi, Calum Reid, Omayra Amaya , Ryann Weir, Diane Chen, Silvana Jakich, Kurt Grube, Matthew Bovee, Jayna Katz, Andrew Dunn, Mona Depena, Jaden Amistad
Synopsis: La Folia is a visual anthology of twenty-four short stories, from the imaginations of over a dozen different people and all inspired by variations on the same ancient melody. The thematic story that links La Folia’s stories begins and ends the film, returning its protagonist full circle, yet changed.
HADA
Run time: 9min
Country of Origin: Spain
Director: Tony Morales
Starring: Eva Isanta, Fernando Boza, Michel Hérraiz, Silvia Casanova
Synopsis: Tonight Hada comes to visit Daniel because her last child tooth as fallen out. What Daniel doesn’t expect is that his worst enemy is the light.
HELL HAUNT
Run time: 12min 10sec
Country of Origin: Canada
Director: Richard Lukacs
Starring: Samantha Lukacs
Synopsis: A deranged stalker turns the sets of an eccentric premiere event into twisted art pieces, using the talent’s flesh and blood.
HOPE
Run time: 11min 44sec
Country of Origin: Norway
Director: Adam A. Losurdo
Starring: Herman L. Opedal, Tonje Brattås
Synopsis: A senseless wandering ghoul roaming through a world of the hunger-less undead and accepting yet resentful humans will soon discover a craving that leaves him completely and utterly without hope.
MONSTERS
Run time: 13min 38sec
Country of Origin: USA
Director: Steve Desmond
Starring: Caitlin Carmichael, Iona Skye, Christopher Wiehl, Joey Luthman
Synopsis: Jenn lives in an underground bunker with her family, protected from the monsters that now ravage the world. This is the day that she goes outside…
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WITCHING HOUR
Run Time: 7 min 43 sec
Country of Origin: UK
Director: Tarvana Garvey
Starring: Tasmin Leona, Roxanne Bordeaux
Synopsis: A spellbinding journey into the mind of an insomniac, as she spends each night haunted by hallucinations from another world.
Synopsis: In a surreal world, Lili, a 14-year-old albino, lives alone with her mother Claudie (50) who over-protects her from the outside world. Obsessed with her own appearance; Claudie regularly replaces aging parts of her face, alone in her operating lab, while Lili dreams of Lyesse, her 16 year-old handsome neighbor. But scared by so much love, Lyesse gently pushes her away. Devastated, she decides to operate his heart to understand why he doesn’t love her…
**Trailer is in French, sorry no subtitles, the festival screening will have subtitles***
POOL PARTY MASSACRE
Run time: 1 hour 21min
Country of Origin: USA
Director: Drew Marvick
Starring: Kristin Noel McKusick, Margaux Neme, Destiny Faith Nelson, Crystal Stoney, Jenifer Marvick, Nick Buyer, Mark Justice with LeeAnna Vamp and Alexis Adams
Synopsis: What started out as a relaxing summer day by the pool for a group of high maintenance young socialites quickly becomes a nightmare when an unknown killer begins stalking and murdering them one by one.
READY TO BURST
Run time: 10min 48sec
Country of Origin: Canada
Director: Ariel Hansen
Starring: Lee Shorten, Ariel Hansen, Malcolm Stead, Gigi Saul Guerrero
Synopsis: Kate and Dylan have been dying to have a baby. When they finally find success what follows is Kate’s struggle with the early stages of an unusual pregnancy as it takes a horrific turn.
SYNOPSIS:Three characters from three different epochs are joined by a dream of freedom and a small masterpiece of literature. A mysterious and timeless journey through the aspirations, the sufferings and the “fantasies” of a poet, a young student and a lost child in the woods.
**Trailer is in Italian, sorry no subtitles, the festival screening will have subtitles***
THE ROOM
Run time: 15min 55sec
Country of Origin: Italy
Directors:Silvia Cremaschi and Stefano Etter
Starring: Sara Drago, Gigio Alberti
Synopsis: Making hats has always been Anna’s passion. Something more too: a foothold, a way of escaping her oppressive, repetitive daily routine – that room, shaken by passing trains, that voice with its announcements. Anna has used her creativity like armour, and has survived. But now, the lure of the outside is growing more powerful. And in breaking out of her imprisonment, Anna discovers the truth about the room…
STICK TO YOUR GUN
Run time: 9min 38sec
Country of Origin: New Zealand
Director: Joe Hitchcock
Starring: Jodie Rimmer, Levi Holley
Synopsis: A gun-loving woman aspires to cook breakfast for the man handcuffed to her bed, but first she has to stop a wild chicken from destroying everything.
SYNCHRONOUS
Run time: 13min 39sec
Country of Origin: Columbia
Director: Ricardo Fernández Jiménez
Starring: Juan David Salcedo, Alieth Vargas, Edgar Duran Jr
Synopsis: Hilbert’s consciousness can be in two worlds at the same time. An amazing skill which allows him to help a gangster win fifty-fifty bets. But Hilbert wants out, and it could be the perfect opportunity when he meets Ana. Using split screen, we delve into Hilbert’s double universe–full of strange, exciting visual effects.
VEXED
Run time:12min 49sec
Country of Origin: USA
Director: Marc Cartwright
Starring: Baker Chase Powell, Nosheen Phoenix
Synopsis: A romantic date night goes horribly wrong when a couple questions the validity of horror film plots.
WHO’S WATCHING OLIVER
Run time: 1 hour 27min
Country of Origin: USA
Director: Richie Moore
Starring: Russell Geoffrey, Sara Malakul
Synopsis: Who’s watching Oliver tells the story of a mentally unstable loner lost in a life forced upon him. By night Oliver aimlessly wanders the streets and bars on what can only be described as a truly shocking and humiliating killing spree. His only savior and possible way out of a life he is desperate to escape comes in the form of the beautiful Sophia with her sweet eccentricity and naivety to the danger she has put herself in.
Cinemafantastique 2 was what indie filmmaking is all about, genuine ass-kicking passion for what you love. There was such a great energy flowing through the theatre that I’m sure I was not the only one inspired to start the ‘next one’ sooner rather than later. We wish all the filmmakers the very best with their projects! Some of the films are still running the film fest circuit and others have started to get picked up for distribution, please do yourself a favour and track these films down (by legit means please), you will not be disappointed!
Thank you so much to everyone who donated, participated, and came out to Cinemafantastique 2! We had a great bunch of films and a truly awesome group of people in attendance. Thank you to UBC and the UBC Film Society for letting us use the Norm Theatre, and in fact be the last ones in the theatre for 2 years while everything is torn down and rebuilt.
Cinemafantastique 3 will be opening for submissions shortly, so stay tuned to Twitter and the like for updates!
CINEMAFANTASTIQUE 2 (2016) will be held in Vancouver (once again) and is now accepting submissions in both the short and the feature film categories. 2016’s festival outline is: HORROR, EROTIC, GIALLO, SURREALISM.
International submissions are welcomed!
Filmmakers interested in submitting have until our FINAL DEADLINE on JANUARY 15th on Film Freeway.
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