Description
The 6th Annual American Horrors Film Festival is a horror film fest screening original shorts, features, music videos & documentaries the weekend of October 4th through Sunday October 6th in historic downtown Lake Geneva, Wisconsin at the Grape Vine Theater (currently under going remodeling and an upgrade) triangulated in one of the hottest media markets in the nation, between Chicago, Rockford & Milwaukee.
The American Horrors Film Festival is supported with a worldwide advertising & social media awareness campaign supported by television commercials (featured on the fastest growing horror channel in the world, American Horrors), posters, postcards, t-shirt give-aways and online streaming radio.
All of the film festival panels, red carpet events & opening night party will be filmed for a television special streaming on the American Horrors network January 1st, 2025 (all participation is voluntary, if you do not wish for your film or short to be screened online, your wishes will be honored. Any airing of a film, short or music video is completely at the filmmakers discretion).
“What a great festival! Great organization, communication and presentation. The Geneva theater is a beautiful venue. Filmmakers enjoyed first-class treatment. We were stars for a day! Friendly, helpful staff, great promotion. We will be submitting again next year FOR SURE.” -Michael Ricci/Director/The Darkening Hollows
“Hart was incredibly helpful and supportive. He took the time to reach out personally before the festival to discuss the film and afterwards to congratulate us on its reception. This is a great up-and-coming festival, and I encourage everyone to submit!”
-John Burr/Director/Muse
The American Horrors Film Festival is hosted every year by Horror King, Hart D. Fisher, whose work has been written about in Time Magazine, The A to Z Guide to Serial Killers, Psychology Today, Rue Morgue & in such films as Serial Killer Culture, The National Geographic Channel’s special mini-series event The 90s: The Last Great Decade?, Larry King Live, Jerry Springer, CNN Headline News and more.
The American Horrors Film Festival is looking to break in the new blood, to give the bleeding edge creators a platform to build their careers & give them exposure to a worldwide audience of hungry horror fanatics. The American Horrors Film Festival is looking for the best in new horror from around the world in any of the following main genre groups:
– Horror in all it’s forms, whether it’s a horror thriller, animated horror film, a horror suspense film, a horror documentary, a supernatural or sci-fi horror film, if it has to do with the horror genre, then you should enter it because we LOVE all things even remotely associated with horror & so do our fans.
The American Horrors Film Festival accepts online film screeners and physically mailed DVD & BluRay screeners. Any applicable submission fees must also be paid online at the time of your entry.
Our Standard Festival Participation Agreement (Terms and Conditions), which all submitted films are also expected to follow is as follows:
GENERAL AGREEMENT OF PARTICIPATION IN THE AMERICAN HORRORS FILM FESTIVAL:
By submitting an entry to the American Horrors Film Festival, I have read and accept the terms and regulations of The American Horrors Film Festival. I will provide the festival with any additional information required pursuant to these rules and regulations. I authorize the The American Horrors Film Festival to exhibit my film, and if selected, I confirm that an exhibition copy will be available in a required format for screening during the 2024 festival (October 4th-6th 2024).
I certify that I hold all necessary rights for the submission of this film/video to the The American Horrors Film Festival and that all rights and clearances have been made. This film is not subject to any litigation nor is threatened by any litigation. I hold The American Horrors Film Festival harmless from damage to, or loss of any or all materials en route to, from or otherwise at the festival. I assume all legal responsibilities therein. By Agreeing to these terms, I transfer to The American Horrors Film Festival the right to use excerpts of the submitted film, its stills, and trailers, for the purposes of publicity and marketing of the film at the 2024 festival, and for other non-commercial uses related to the promotion of the 2024 festival. I hereby agree to indemnify The American Horrors Film Festival, in the event that such rights have not been properly transferred.
American Horrors Feature Film Eligibility: – Must Fit within the horror genre of filmmaking – Completed after May 1st, 2022 – Completed films, works-in-progress and rough cuts accepted – Run time of 70 minutes or longer – Must not have played in Canada or America on TV/cable/streaming, nor be available on Home Video/Streaming in America, nor be available publicly online prior to submission (only applies to feature films) – Not previously submitted to the American Horrors Film Festival – Films in a language other than English must be subtitled in English or with English subtitles.
PLEASE E-MAIL US QUESTIONS, ANYTIME:
americanhorrorssubmissions@yahoo.com
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