Fantastic Market, Fantastic Fest’s industry program, has just unveiled its first wave of programing and things are looking a bit different.
Moving from a Latin American-focused genre-project to an industry forum for genre films, Fantastic Market is picking up the pace by bringing industry professionals the absolute best from the constantly evolving world of genre film. With a mixture of screenings, discussions and film pitches with special guests stopping by from all over the world, Market Director Rodney Perkins proclaims, “our goal is to become the premiere industry forum for genre films.”
The Market will kick off on September 22nd with a keynote discussion from two of the most respected minds in the genre world: Ryan Turek of Blumhouse and Travis Stevens of Snowfort Pictures. Both Turek and Stevens have been huge supporters of Fantastic Fest over the years and are excited to share their immense knowledge with (as Stevens’ puts it), “the next generation of rule breakers”.
The Market’s initial slate offers a wide-ranging mix of projects that help to solidify its expanded focus.
IT WAITS BELOW (USA)
Director: Eric Red (THE HITCHER, NEAR DARK)
Producer: Soyoung Jung, Brendan McCarthy (LET US PREY, WAKEWOOD), John McDonnell (LET US PREY, WAKEWOOD)
A three-man submarine crew dive to the deepest part of the ocean to salvage priceless treasure from a sunken shipwreck, unleashing a nightmarish extraterrestrial organism they must survive when the sub gets stranded at the bottom of the sea.
DIRT EATERS (Canada)
Director: Chris Nash (ABCS OF DEATH 2)
Producer: Peter Kuplowsky (THE VOID, ABCS OF DEATH 2, MANBORG), Shannon Hanmer (ABCS OF DEATH 2), Ant Timpson (ABCS OF DEATH, DEATHGASM)
A down-and-out woman befriends a squirm of intelligent carnivorous worms, and seeks revenge on the small town officials that turned their backs on her, in this poli-sci-fi horror satire that evokes BLACK MIRROR and TREMORS.
BIRTHDAY PRESENT (REGALO DE CUMPLEAÑOS) - 2016 BLOOD WINDOW SELECTION (Mexico)
Directors: Christian Cueva (JIRON), Ricardo Farías
Producers: Adrián García Bogliano (SCHERZO DIABOLICO, HERE COMES THE DEVIL), Andrea Quiroz Hernández (SCHERZO DIABOLICO, HERE COMES THE DEVIL)
When you accept a gift, you also accept its consequences.
JAIRO'S REVENGE (LA VENGANZA DE JAIRO) - 2016 BLOOD WINDOW SELECTION (Colombia/Guatemala)
Director: Simón Hernández (PIZARRO)
Producer: Ivette Liang (VENICE)
A documentary about cult terror film director Jairo Pinilla, in his attempt to finance and produce his last dream project he's been working on for 6 years, THE SPIRIT OF DEATH, the first 3D terror film made in Colombia.
EL CUCUY (USA/Canada)
Director: Gigi Saul Guerrero (EL GIGANTE)
Producer: Raynor Shima (EL GIGANTE)
A group of troubled kids at a residential treatment center are forced to work together despite their differences to defeat an ancient creature that is stalking and feeding on all of the naughty children within the facility.
ZERCH (USA)
Director: J. Xavier Velasco
Producer: Javier Gonzalez (VALEDICTORIAN)
A police detective investigates a missing person case that leads her to a body-snatcher creature who uses humans as hosts in order to survive.
