Who Says Horror Movies and Halloween Is Only For OCTOBER?! "Horror in the Heat" Festival Creators Love Horror ANY Time of the Year And We Know YOU Do Too! With So Many Horror Genre Festivals Held In Oct and the Winter Months We Know It's Hard To Make Them All. This is Why We Decided To Create Our Festival. We Are Planning Our Festival To Be A "Progressive Venue Type" In Historical Downtown Hattiesburg, MS. Hattiesburg is Known As the "Hub" Because It Lies Between The Gulf Coast, New Orleans, La and Jackson, MS With Airports Surrounding Making It The Perfect Place For Our Festival.
Kim Taylor Fagan Is a Native of Hattiesburg , MS and She Owns KTA Talent Group and DoUFilms. She Is A Talent Agent, Film Director, Writer and Producer and Recently Her Feature Film "F5 Teraphobia" Was A Festival Favorite. Kim Decided To Offer The Community It's First HORROR Genre Film Festival Along With Screening Winners of the "DoUFilm" Online Film Competition Being Included at the Horror in the Heat Festival. Kim's Film Is Soon To Be Distributed and She Wants To Help Other Filmmakers Have The Same Success!
We Plan To Have Industry Guest Such As Casting Director, Agent, Film Director, Producer, Distributor Panels and Many More Guests Such As Celebrity Guests and Photo Opportunities and Hearing Their Journeys to Success in Showbiz.
PLEASE NOTE : LIVE EVENT SUBJECT TO UPDATES ON COVID HOWEVER WE WILL HAVE A VIRTUAL FESTIVAL AS WELL. WE WILL ALSO SUBMIT ALL WINNERS TO OUR DISTRIBUTOR CONTACTS.
Awards are given to all film selections in attendance, as well as several top category awards by our judges. All film submissions are viewed by several distribution partners for possible distribution offers and television play.
* All Winners Also Get A FREE submission entry to our next festival's opening date
We hope to add some cash prizes this year.