🔥 Frontières: Fantasia Film Festival & Marché du Film Announce 2024 Selection
Frontières Platform, the genre-focused event co-organized by Fantasia Film Festival and the Marché du Film, reveals its 2024 selection to be presented in Cannes from 18-19 May.
Frontières is delighted to unveil its latest lineup of films, spanning the realms of horror, magical realism, and comedy, showcasing the most vibrant talents in today’s genre film industry. From mythical water spirits and creepy vampire landlords to chilling tales of astral possession and supernatural headless nuns, get ready to see the world through another lens!
7 projects in advanced stages of financing will be presented in the Proof of Concept pitching session (18 May), in front of prospective financiers, sales agents and distributors, while 6 works-in-progress will be presented in the Buyers Showcase (19 May) in front of international distributors, festival programmers and sales agents.
Buyers Showcase
ABOVE THE KNEE (Norway)
Director: Viljar Bøe | Producers: Varde Film
DEAD BY DAWN (Poland)
Director: Dawid Torrone | Producers: Kinga Tasarek, Katarzyna Kostecka (LARMO Sp. z o. o.)
DELIVERY RUN (Finland)
Director: Joey Palmroos | Producers: Arctic Renegades: Joey Palmroos, Pekka Ollula & Aleksi Hyvärinen
LANDLORD (USA)
Director: Remington Smith | Producers: Filmsmith Productions
NESTING (Canada)
Director: Chloé Cinq-Mars | Producers: Nicolas Comeau (1976 Productions), Jean-Marc Fröhle (Point Prod)
SCARED SHITLESS (Canada)
Director: Vivieno Caldinell | Producers: Lewis Spring (Happy Cat Productions)
Proof of Concept
BUG BOY (Austria)
Director: Peter Hengl | Producers: Lola Basara (Capra Film)
COUGAR (United Kingdom)
Director: Jennifer Handorf | Producers: Grace Sargeant (Graceless Productions)
MY STALKER (Spain, Mexico, USA)
Director: Xavier Rull | Producers: Xavier Rull (Monster Box), Jack Zhaga (Avanti Pictures), Orlando Pedregosa (Ingredient X)
OSTRICH BOY (USA, Canada)
Director: Ricardo Bonisoli | Producers: Rooxter Films
SENTINEL (Canada, USA)
Director: Phil Tippett | Producers: Colin Geddes, Katarina Gligorijevic, Gary Mundell
SISTER INCONNUE (Canada)
Director: Anouk Whissell | Producers: Maja Jacob (Maja Jacob Films Ltd.), Tina Pehme (Sepia Films)
THE GIRL WITH THE GREEN EYES (The Netherlands, Italy, Norway, others)
Director: Yfke van Berckelaer | Producers: Monique van Kessel (Make Way Film)