South African HORRORFEST
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The Horror Festacular // South African HORRORFEST
15th edition
Oct 30 - Nov 07, 2019
Cape Town, South Africa
Open Call Open to Public Competitive Market Special Fees
Festival type Real Venue Festival
Types of films Animation, Commercial, Docu-feature, Documentary, Experimental, Music video, Narrative fiction, Student
Film length Full length, Short
Genre
Action, Adventure, Alternative, Art, Avantgarde, B-Movie, Biography, Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Dark comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Fantastic, Fantasy, Film noir, Horror, Independent, LGBT, Live Action, Microcinema, Mockumentary, Music, Musical, Mystery, , Parody, Post modern, Realism, Reality, Satire, Science fiction, Silent movie, Surreal, Thriller, Transgender, Underground
Mission / description
The only all-encompassing Halloween season Horror event on the African continent, including its main film festival component with feature films and short films from around the world (fe…aturing many premieres), plus a short story competition (resulting in best of anthologies) as well as a live author event, Halloween dress-up, live movie soundtrack performance to classic silent films & more.
(All genre variants accepted, as long as it contains Horror elements) full text
Festival website http://www.horrorfest.info
Class
Founded: 2005
Festival category: B (international relevance, international player)
Dates
Open call: Mar 19, 2019
Early bird deadline: Apr 01, 2019
Regular deadline: Jun 01, 2019
Late deadline: Sep 01, 2019
Notification date: Sep 30, 2019
Favorite this festival or add it to one of your lists to be alerted about open call, deadlines and notification date.
Fees
Fees range from 8.00 to 15.00 USD . See submission categories for details about fees.
Awards
Total prize money: 0.00 USD
Other prizes: Winner certificates
General rules
All submitted Feature Films and Short Films will be viewed by the selection panel, and if chosen, screened at the S.A. HORRORFEST.
Where deemed fit, Official Selection status will be awarded & various winning categories selected after the event.
Short film running time should not exceed 30 mins.
Feature film length: minimum 60 mins. / maximum 125 mins.
(contact us if your production exceed these running times)
All submissions need to fall in the Horror genre, however all forms sub-genres are allowed.
Real snuff material and animal cruelty / torture will not be tolerated.
FFL feels responsible for only allowing legitimate and relevant festivals to accept submissions through our platform. Thus we verify the festival's legitimacy and relevance before pushing the call for submissions live. Some festivals are not being allowed to accept submissions at all. For festivals allowed to accept submissions FFL separates among:
VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy. There is no doubt that they are established and/or legitimate events.
NOT VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals don't fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy but appear to be legitimate events. We will leave you to decide whether you should submit to this event or not. We also welcome any feedback about these events. You can report your experience at verification@filmfestivallife.com
Click to reed more about FFl's validation policy.
The Horror Festacular // South African HORRORFEST
15th edition
Oct 30 - Nov 07, 2019
Cape Town, South Africa
Festival type Real Venue Festival
Types of films Animation, Commercial, Docu-feature, Documentary, Experimental, Music video, Narrative fiction, Student
Film length Full length, Short
Genre
Action, Adventure, Alternative, Art, Avantgarde, B-Movie, Biography, Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Dark comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Fantastic, Fantasy, Film noir, Horror, Independent, LGBT, Live Action, Microcinema, Mockumentary, Music, Musical, Mystery, , Parody, Post modern, Realism, Reality, Satire, Science fiction, Silent movie, Surreal, Thriller, Transgender, Underground
Mission / description
The only all-encompassing Halloween season Horror event on the African continent, including its main film festival component with feature films and short films from around the world (fe…aturing many premieres), plus a short story competition (resulting in best of anthologies) as well as a live author event, Halloween dress-up, live movie soundtrack performance to classic silent films & more.
(All genre variants accepted, as long as it contains Horror elements) full text
Festival website http://www.horrorfest.info
| Class |
Founded: 2005 Festival category: B (international relevance, international player) |
| Dates |
Open call: Mar 19, 2019 Early bird deadline: Apr 01, 2019 Regular deadline: Jun 01, 2019 Late deadline: Sep 01, 2019 Notification date: Sep 30, 2019 Favorite this festival or add it to one of your lists to be alerted about open call, deadlines and notification date. |
| Fees | Fees range from 8.00 to 15.00 USD . See submission categories for details about fees. |
| Awards |
Total prize money: 0.00 USD
Other prizes: Winner certificates |
| General rules |
All submitted Feature Films and Short Films will be viewed by the selection panel, and if chosen, screened at the S.A. HORRORFEST. Where deemed fit, Official Selection status will be awarded & various winning categories selected after the event. Short film running time should not exceed 30 mins. Feature film length: minimum 60 mins. / maximum 125 mins. (contact us if your production exceed these running times) All submissions need to fall in the Horror genre, however all forms sub-genres are allowed. Real snuff material and animal cruelty / torture will not be tolerated. |