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Screen can exclusively reveal the second wave of titles at the upcoming Frontieres genre international co-production market and forum scheduled for July in Montreal.
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Market selections include Ashlea Wessel’s horror Light Of The Void, Ryan Ward’s magic realism tale Pure Science Fiction, and James Watt’s horror Worm all from Canada, alongside Jan Verdijk’s Dutch psychological horror Alice, Peter Modestij’s Sweden-Denmark body horror drama Sub, and Maria Arida’s psychological thriller The Eyes Of Another from Brazil, among others.
Selected for the Forum section are TJ Cuthand’s Canadian Indigiqueer adventure thriller Maciskotew (Evil Fire), Noah Wagner’s magic realist romance The Dirty Oyster from the US, and Rikke Gregersen’s Norwegian horror thriller Until The Light Takes Us.
The Frontieres market will take place from July 26-29 with Forum overlapping on July 26-28. The concurrent Fantasia festival runs from July 20-Aug 9.
The first wave of previously announced market titles comprises the following projects: Milada Tesitelova’s Animal (Czech Rep-Slov); Rhona Rees’s Freya (Can-Austr); Angela Tobon Ospina’s Hall Of Dullness (Col); Olivier Godin’s Anna Nous Parlera (Can); Daddy’s Little Girl (UK) from Coral Amiga and Nicole Hartley; Cosmo Salovaara’s Drawn (USA); Peter Hengl’s Krampusnacht (Aus); Yannis Veslemes’s North Pole (Gre); and Jeanne Leblanc’s Visite Libre (Can).
The three previously announced Forum selections are: Audrey Ewell‘s And You As Well Must Die (USA-Pol); High Pressure (Fra) from Jean Mach and Nicolas Alberny; and In The Heart Of The South (Can) from Nyla Innuksuk.
SECOND WAVE
All descriptions provided by Frontieres.
Alice (Neth)
Dir. Jan Verdijk 01 As seemingly harmless alternative treatments slowly devolve into life-threatening rituals, the parents lose themselves in the desperation of helping their child.
Light Of The Void
(Can)Dir. Ashlea Wessel
A young photographer on the cusp of her big break captures a photo of an unwilling subject and finds herself at the centre of a series of mysterious, violent deaths.
Prism
Lake (USA)Dir. Carl W Lucas
When a young couple sets out for a quiet weekend in the mountains, they find themselves embroiled in the dark plot of a secret society with designs on resurrecting a long-forgotten Mesopotamian god.
Pure
Science Fiction (Can)Dir. Ryan Ward
A young architect’s life begins to unravel when he starts to believe he can see his past and future lives.
Sub
(Swe-Den)Dir. Peter Modestij
Teenager Nina is desperately trying to win her best friend Cici back, while at the same transforming into something less human.
Taniwha
(NZ, pictured)Dir. TBC 010010 Only one of them can survive.
Thank God It’s Friday
(Neth)
Dir. Michiel ten Horn When, after a “sabbatical”, high school teacher Joe finds a connection with a group of similar tormented colleagues during their weekly night of playing An Apple for the Teacher – a home-made role-playing game where the teachers hypothetically murder their most-hated students – one particularly nasty student gets under their skin and pushes the game into more and more realistic territory.
The Eyes Of Another
(Bra)
Dir. Maria Arida0 After a violent fight However, Olivia soon begins to question the identity of the man who survived.Worm
(Can)
Dir. James Watts
Be famous again… and eat whatever you want.FORUM
Maciskotew
(Evil Fire, Can)
Dir. TJ Cuthand
The story of a troubled hero, Kisik, who wants to keep the ones she loves safe, while looking for answers about her missing mother.T
he Dirty Oyster (
USA)
Dir. Noah Wagner 010010 Rikke Gregory 01 In search of answers about where things have gone wrong, she unearths truths and conspiracies about the town that put both herself and others in danger.Magnolia International adds key territory sales on Cannes UCR hit ‘The Delinquents’ (exclusive)
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