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E-mail2017 CALL FOR ENTRIES by Toronto After Dark Film Fest! Enter Your Film by July 28 Final Deadline!
WELCOME FILMMAKERS!
**PLEASE NOTE: 2017 FILM ENTRY DEADLINES: EARLY: JUNE 16, REGULAR: JUNE 30, LATE: JULY 14, FINAL: JULY 28, 11.59 PM PST ON EACH DATE**
Please Submit Early to avoid paying higher entry fees.
Welcome to the 2017 Film Submissions Page of Toronto After Dark Film Festival, one of the world’s leading showcases of thrilling cinema! Our 12th Annual Call for Entries is Now Open! We pride ourselves on discovering and promoting all forms of international and independent thrilling genre cinema including short and feature films in the genres of Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action, Animation, Crime, Thriller, Suspense, Cult, Bizarre, Genre-defying, Dark Comedy, Experimental, Music Video and Documentary.
A TERRIFIC AUDIENCE AWAITS YOUR FILM!
This year Toronto After Dark runs for nine nights, October 12-20, 2017 and will screen almost 50 films, including both shorts and features. Our Festival is uniquely run by film fans for film fans and enjoys incredible loyalty and support from the large film-appreciating community in Toronto. Last year, Toronto After Dark was attended by over 10,000 enthusiastic genre film fans and over 100 members of the film press and industry. Filmmakers were delighted in the fantastic response, overwhelmingly positive reviews, and some distribution deals! If you want to know more about Toronto After Dark’s filmmaker-friendly reputation, please visit our About Us for Filmmakers Page
GENRE ELIGIBILITY
Toronto After Dark Film Festival seeks independent feature-length and short films from around the world in any of the following main genre groups:
- Horror, Supernatural
- Sci-Fi, Fantasy
- Animation
- Crime, Action, Thriller, Suspense
- Dark Comedy
- Cult, Bizarre, Genre-defying, Experimental
- Documentaries with a genre connection
- Music Videos, with a genre connection
SHORT FILM ELIGIBILITY:
- Completed after January 1st, 2015
- Completed Films, Works-in-Progress and Rough Cuts all acceptable for submission
- Run time of between 1 and 29 minutes
- Not previously submitted to the festival
- Films in a language other than English must be subtitled in English
FEATURE FILM ELIGIBILITY:
- Completed after January 1st, 2015
- Completed Films, Works-in-Progress and Rough Cuts all acceptable for submission
- Run time of 60 minutes or longer
- Screening at the festival would be the film’s theatrical Toronto Premiere (only applies to feature films)
- Should not be available for public viewing in Canada prior to submission on any of these platforms: TV/broadcast/cable/satellite, Home Video/DVD/Blu-Ray, Video On Demand / Subscription Streaming Service or any other viewable platform in Canada or Ontario (only applies to feature films).
- Not previously submitted to the festival
- Films in a language other than English must be subtitled in English
READY TO SUBMIT? SUBMIT ONLINE NOW.
Please note: Toronto After Dark only accepts online screeners (no mail-in discs) submitted via these film festival submission platforms: Film Freeway and Withoutabox (WAB). While submissions are treated equally across the platforms, If you are a first-time submitter that have not used any of them before, we do recommend Film Freeway, simply for its ease of use. Please click on the applicable button link below, to begin your submission to the 2017 Toronto After Dark Film Festival.
1. FILM FREEWAY SUBMISSION:
2. WITHOUTABOX SUBMISSION:
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