INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILM FESTIVAL ~ We accept films from around the world!!
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The rumors are true, the Northern Frights Festival will return for a SEVENTH year!! That's cause for one scary celebration, and we intend to bring the fear like never before. Stay tuned for all the updates.
Once again, we're bringing the world's scariest films to Northern Ontario, and we're throwing this down on October 8 and 9, 2021, in beautiful North Bay, Ontario.
Please Note these THREE important updates (Jan. 2, 2021)
Ist Update: We are accepting features again! We haven't screened features since our first festival, and now we're hungry for more. With a longer festival, we will be able to once again acommodate feature length films...and we are thrilled.
2nd Update: Last year we presented the festival online and on YourTV. This year, we will be producing another special for YourTV (yes, we're doing this even if we have the live festival). This special will conist of submitted shorts. Rest assured if you're accepted to the festival, and we decide to use your film in the television special, we will contact you to let you know. Please NOTE, not all shorts accepted to screen at the festival will be chosen for inclusion in the television special. We will not include features in the television special.
3rd Update: Due to the health concerns posed by Covid-19, these dates are subject to change. We hope things are much better by then, and we can return to live events! If our hopes are dashed, we may be forced again to present the fest this year in a "virtual" manner--online, or otherwise--so as to ensure the safety of all horror fans within the city.
This is Northern Ontario's PREMIERE horror festival, and we're gearing up to bring you another heavy hit of horror!
We love horror movies, and we love those who make them, so we want to screen your films! We're looking for all types of horror flicks...monsters, psychos, killer plants, demon dogs, supernatural, super serious, hilarious, dreadful, creepy clowns, possessed machines, ghost horror, found footage, we want them all!!
Anything goes, as long as it's horror! We're also accepting sci-fi as well! As for format, we're focusing this year on shorts, no longer than 20 minutes, and feature films. We're also down with documentaries, animation, claymation, puppetry, wizardry, and we love trailers!!
Submit today, and showcase your work to a new audience of horror fans! Help us celebrate our seventh Northern Frights Festival!
We've been part of the "Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals" on FilmFreeway five times, in Nov. 2016, and February, April, May and June 2017! Thanks to everyone for their kind reviews!
Awards and Prizes:
Yes there will be awards...the soon-to-be-coveted NFA's...the Northern Frights Awards! We'll have a jury this year to select the winners.
Laurels will be presented to:
Audience Favourite (for Shorts and Features)
Scariest Film
Best Soundtrack
Most Original Story
Best Actor (both male and female leads)
Best Visual Effects
Best Makeup
Best Gore
Best Cut (editing award)
Favourite Director