Gearing up for its 16th edition price of propecia from canada in 2012, the Fantasia International Film Festival is widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world. Taking things up a notch, Fantasia is proud to embark on a new venture that will contribute to the future of cutting-edge genre filmmaking worldwide: Frontières, the Fantasia International Co-Production Market.

The event will be part of the Fantasia Film Market, which will make its official debut in 2012 to support the sales efforts for the features that will be part of Fantasia’s programming.

Frontières will curate 12 standout projects by filmmakers hailing from Canada, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia and the generic viagra in the us United States. These projects will be presented to international producers, sales agents and distributors with the objective of creating working relationships that will allow these projects to see the light of day.

Fantasia innovates by establishing the very first international co-production market to connect Canada with Europe, Scandinavia, Australia and the United States in an environment focused specifically on genre films. Indeed, only two other co-production markets are specialized in genre cinema: The Network of Asian Fantastic Films of the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (Pifan), focusing on Asia, and the Baltic Event Film and Co-Production Market of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, focusing on Eastern-Europe, Scandinavia, the Balkans and Russia.

“Fantasia has always been tremendously popular with its local audience and we’ve happily seen its industry presence grow over the years. The launch of a film market is a natural step in the long-term vision we have for our event,” said Pierre Corbeil, President cialis fast delivery usa of the festival. “Over the years, we’ve established friendships with so many fascinating talents and key players in the international industry and have long felt that we should establish a way to better connect them. I can’t wait to see which projects take flight from this!” commented Mitch Davis, Festival Co-Director. “Frontières will further Fantasia’s position as one of the vanguard film festivals of the world by contributing to the development of new genre film works and the fostering of co-production relationships for Canada. Its possibilities are very exciting,” added Stephanie Trepanier, Market Director.

Frontières will be held from July 26 to 29, 2012, within the 3-week body of the Fantasia Festival. Over the course of these four days, various meeting sessions will be held and a series of conferences will be organized to assemble the participants around current industry topics.

To participate in the market, the selected projects will have to be market premieres and will need to be applicable to an international co-production environment where there would be a Canadian production element. The market is open to both seasoned directors and directors looking to produce their first feature film project.

The early-bird application deadline is January 9, 2012. The late deadline is March 5, 2012. The selected projects will be announced in early May 2012. Directors wishing to apply to the market should consult the application guidelines at http://fantasiafestival.com/pre2012/en/film_market.

The Fantasia International Film Festival will be held from July 19 to August 7, 2012.

For more information:

Stephanie Trepanier
Market Director
Fantasia International Film Festival
514-815-1542                                                                                                               
stephanie@fantasiafestival.com

Anna Phelan
Director of Communications
Fantasia International Film Festival
514-999-4411
anna@fantasiafestival.com

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).