Festival Updates

Toronto After Dark Joins the Fantastic Festival Alliance!

We are thrilled to announce that Toronto After Dark Film Festival has become a fully accredited member of the prestigious North American Fantastic Festival Alliance.  NAFFA is comprised of professional North American festivals dedicated to presenting the best new independent and international fantasy, science fiction, horror, animation, exploitation, experimental and cult movies with a dedication to quality and respect for the filmmaker’s work.  Only six other film festivals have been given the NAFFA seal of approval, so this is huge honour for Toronto After Dark, only its third year. 

Toronto After Dark’s 2008 Call for Submissions Ends with a Record Over 700 Film Entries!

Our 2008 call for entries has now ended and we would like to thank the hundreds of filmmakers from around the world who chose to submit their works to our festival.  We received another record amount of entries this year, a staggering over 700 films! If you are waiting to see your status update change on the withoutabox submission system, please be patient as due to the record volume, it is taking additional time to update all records. Our little worker droids in the programming department will be spending the next few weeks reviewing every single one of our entries before we make our final selection for screening at this year’s 3rd Annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival. All filmmakers will be notified of our selection decision by August 31. 

Toronto After Dark 2007 Wraps with Record Attendance and Wins Runner-Up, Best Film Fest in the City!

OVER 6,500 FANS TAKE IN THE FEST!

A big thank you to all the fans, filmmakers and supporters who helped make the Second Annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival, 7 Amazing Nights of New Horror & Fantasy Cinema, Oct. 19-25, 2007, such a huge success! Our 2007 event exploded with over 6,500 fans coming out over seven nights, a more than 50% jump on our first year.  Watch the slideshow featuring all the most memorable scenes from the festival here.

HUGE MEDIA BUZZ!

Toronto After Dark 2007 also broke records for our media coverage this year. The festival and our incredible lineup of films and events were featured in more than 100 media outlets across Television, Print, Radio and the Web including Ain’t It Cool News, Bloody-Disgusting, CHUD, CityTV, Exclaim, Fangoria, Filmmaker Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Inside Entertainment, Joblo.com, MTV, NOW, Rue Morgue Magazine, Showcase, Space Channel, Toronto Star, Twitch and dozens more!  Read what the critics have to say about us here.

RUNNER-UP FOR BEST FILM FESTIVAL IN THE CITY!

UPDATE (Feb’08): Toronto After Dark has been voted Runner-up, Best Film Festival in the City by Filmgoers at Toronto’s leading news, arts, and events blog, BlogTO.

WATCH THE SLIDESHOW & VIDEO CLIPS!

If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the slideshow here featuring all the most memorable moments of our 2007 festival and the collection of video clips here.

JOIN US FOR MORE CINEMATIC THRILLS IN OCT ‘08!

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2007 Festival Award Winners Announced, Thai Supernatural Hit, ALONE, the Big Winner!

Toronto After Dark is proud to announce the Award Winners of its recently wrapped 2007 Festival. Over 2,000 votes were cast for the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film and the Gold (1st Place) winner is Thai supernatural horror film ALONE, with Silver (2nd Place) going to horror-comedy MURDER PARTY and Bronze (3rd Place) to Russian Fantasy film WOLFHOUND. New for this year were the Toronto After Dark Spirit Awards recognizing outstanding independent genre filmmaking, where the big winner was indie zombie flick MULBERRY STREET. For the complete run-down of 2007 winners, including short film awards, click here.