The Proof of Concept presentation is a selection of genre projects in advanced financing. Producers and directors present their original proof of concept teasers to prospective financiers, sales agents and distributors.
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Aulken
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Didier Konings
Produced by: Monique van Kessel
Country of Production: The Netherlands
Genre: Folk Horror
Language: Dutch
Mistrust spreads through a homestead of 14th-century famine refugees as a young orphaned boy’s arrival coincides with a threat from the countryside that can take any form… including that of the refugees themselves.
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Baldoon
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Gwynne Phillips, Briana Templeton
Produced by: Nancy Morski
Country of Production: Canada
Genre: Horror Comedy
Language: English
It’s 1829. John and Nancy McDonald’s farm is haunted by a mysterious force – putting their lives and sanity on the line.
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Duppy
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Ajuan Isaac-George
Produced by: Dorottya Szekely, Aleksandra Bilic, Jamie Clark, Rob Maylor
Country of Production: UK, Jamaica
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Language: English, Jamaican Patois
Left with her grandparents in the Jamaican countryside, a lonely 12-year-old girl summons a vengeful spirit to take revenge against her strict grandmother, unknowingly forming an unbreakable pact with a shapeshifting demon.
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Magai-Gami
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Norihiro Niwatsukino
Produced by: Yasushi Miyamae
Country of Production: Japan
Genre: Horror
Language: Japanese
In a cursed forest ruled by false gods called Magai-gami, survival depends on one rule: never look away.
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Read the Bones
Original Title: Leer los Huesos
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Oan Hostench
Produced by: Edurne San Jose, Coque Serrano, Juan Malcom
Country of Production: Spain
Genre: Horror
Language: Spanish
After a disfiguring accident during her first photoshoot, a young aspiring model spirals into delusion and revenge, reinventing herself as a cult-like icon—until brutal retribution turns her into a macabre work of art more powerful in death than she ever was in life.
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Spiral
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Kourtney Roy
Produced by: Amber Ripley
Country of Production: Canada, France, Belgium
Genre: Horror, Satire
Language: English
In the City of Light, young artist Kat spirals into a pit of madness and mayhem, leaving a trail of bloody carnage through the elite art world whose recognition she so desperately craves.
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You’ve Been Chosen
Original Title: Den Utvalgte
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Viljar Bøe
Produced by: Arne Dahr, Anders Fløysand
Country of Production: Norway
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Language: Norwegian
When Fredrik begins receiving anonymous letters with instructions that reward obedience and punish resistance, he is drawn into a brutal system that challenges both his free will and his sense of responsibility.