The Death's Parade Film Fest supports independent filmmakers, creative writers and composers, and anyone else with the mind of creating horror! We are entering our third season and cannot wait to screen your work in 2022! If you're curious about who we are check out our past festival photos, and our body of work reviewing and hosting filmmakers at https://www.deathparadefilmfest.com/ .
As always, it is our goal to provide you, the filmmaker, a dark and brooding platform to display your talents within the horror, suspense and thriller genre. The Death's Parade Film Festival will carefully select the best of the best in regards to horror shorts, features, and animations to present to our audience.
The festival will feature short films and feature films from around the world, with an emphasis on paranormal, psychological and body horror, found footage, experimental, killers, monsters, zombies, gore, and dark comedy. Visit https://www.deathparadefilmfest.com/ for more.
While some festivals market themselves as an entertainment destination we will not dilute the festival experience with trashy live performances or cringy stage exhibitions. You are there to watch movies and that's what you'll get! We are here to promote you, the filmmaker, above all else.
NEW FOR 2022: The Death's Parade Film Fest will venture in the world of horror games. We will seek out and be open to reviewing and promoting video game horror.
We are looking for:
• Films that scare the pants out of us, or make us question our sanity!
• Horror films not released to the public yet, meaning they shouldn't be commercially available on blu ray/DVD, or any streaming platform such as Netflix, Prime Video, Youtube etc.
• Films generally less than three years old - we'll consider films of any age, but prefer newer projects.
As is our tradition we may feature Q&A from selected filmmakers. We had a blast with our attending filmmakers during our virtual fest on Eventive and look forward to meet more in 2022. We operate a year long podcast and Youtube screening platform.
The Grim and Bloody Podcast and Theater features guests across the horror genre spectrum: from films, books, music to illustrations. Helmed by Kevin Nickelson of Horror News Net, Joe Flynn and DPFF founder Anthony DeRouen. You can find the Grim and Bloody Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcast, Anchor, and Radio Public. Watch our episodes! https://www.deathparadefilmfest.com/. We've been honored to host the likes of Dee Wallace, director Alex Proyas, Michael Rooker and many more.
We call our awards The Grimmies!! That's a take on the Grim Reaper, not that other cheesy award show.
Best Short Film
Best Writing
Best Makeup Effects
** Films that are considered for the Best Writing award will be contacted late August to have their respective scripts submitted for review. The scripts do not have to follow any particular format, but we want to see the written dialogue that went into the film. **