A word from the festival founders / organizers
WHO ARE WE AND WHAT DO WE STAND BY?
We are filmmakers, genre film aficionados and we go by the names of Lari Teräs and Jonny Lewis. Of course, running a good festival isn't a two man show, so we also have awesome volunteers helping out during the festival.
Our aim is to showcase the best genre films from around the World from new filmmakers and seasoned veterans. We focus on new voices and prefer creativity over big budgets. In addition to dedicated short film blocks, we aim to schedule each feature with one short and a genre appropriate music video at the beginning to set the mood. Final scheduling obviously depends on the entries we get and the lengths of the feature/short films that are accepted.
Also, although we are filmmakers ourselves, this is not a platform to showcase our own work and all films we are involved with are automatically disqualified. Still, as the genre film community is a fairly tight knit group, situations may arise where it is hard to objectively judge entries from people we know. For that purpose we have sourced horror, sci-fi and fantasy film fans from outside of Canada to give us an unbiased view for the films we can't objectively judge ourselves.
WHY TORONTO SPRING OF HORROR AND FANTASY?
We acknowledge that Toronto is already a home to some excellent genre film festivals such as Toronto After Dark and Blood in the Snow. However, we feel that genre films should be accessible all year round, that's why we have set our festival in the spring. We are also rolling out with some more unique features such as a scream queen competitions alongside our screenings. More details will be posted later as we update the website.
WHEN AND WHERE?
After 2 years of Covid postponements, the 5th annual Toronto Int'l Spring of Horror & Fantasy Film Festival will take place at the Carlton Cinema in downtown Toronto on the weekend of May 27-29.
More details to follow, so keep in touch and like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter as well!
We are filmmakers, genre film aficionados and we go by the names of Lari Teräs and Jonny Lewis. Of course, running a good festival isn't a two man show, so we also have awesome volunteers helping out during the festival.
Our aim is to showcase the best genre films from around the World from new filmmakers and seasoned veterans. We focus on new voices and prefer creativity over big budgets. In addition to dedicated short film blocks, we aim to schedule each feature with one short and a genre appropriate music video at the beginning to set the mood. Final scheduling obviously depends on the entries we get and the lengths of the feature/short films that are accepted.
Also, although we are filmmakers ourselves, this is not a platform to showcase our own work and all films we are involved with are automatically disqualified. Still, as the genre film community is a fairly tight knit group, situations may arise where it is hard to objectively judge entries from people we know. For that purpose we have sourced horror, sci-fi and fantasy film fans from outside of Canada to give us an unbiased view for the films we can't objectively judge ourselves.
WHY TORONTO SPRING OF HORROR AND FANTASY?
We acknowledge that Toronto is already a home to some excellent genre film festivals such as Toronto After Dark and Blood in the Snow. However, we feel that genre films should be accessible all year round, that's why we have set our festival in the spring. We are also rolling out with some more unique features such as a scream queen competitions alongside our screenings. More details will be posted later as we update the website.
WHEN AND WHERE?
After 2 years of Covid postponements, the 5th annual Toronto Int'l Spring of Horror & Fantasy Film Festival will take place at the Carlton Cinema in downtown Toronto on the weekend of May 27-29.
More details to follow, so keep in touch and like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter as well!