Festival Data:

• Established: 1993
• Genre: Sci-Fi - Fantasy - Horror (click to see)
• Attendance: 2000
• Media Attendance: 20
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 15
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 500
• Total Number of Films Screened: 50
• Total Screenings: 50
• Total Domestic Films Screened: 8
• Total Foreign Films Screened: 42
• Total National and International Premieres: 15
• # of Shorts Screened: 30
• # of Features Screened: 20

• Competitive
• Retrospective

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Festival Description:

The Dead by Dawn Horror Film Festival has several programming strands. The main features program which is comprised of the very best that independent cinema has to offer as well as the occasional preview and premiere. To complement the new movies, we have a classic features program with some bits of horror cinema history on the big screen where they belong! There are also three short film programs – those accompanying the features program, a section called What You Make It, which is for films though not traditionally horror, will still make you feel so wrong, but in a good way, obviously! And then there’s the Cutting Edge short film competition for debut and emerging film-makers.

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Submission formats: VHS, Beta-SP, Digi-Beta, 16mm, 35mm, DVD