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August 1, 2017 Extended Deadline I September 1, 2017 Final Deadline

FEARnyc is New York's City's biggest horror film festival. Sponsored by Bloody Disgusting and Dread Central, FEARnyc features screenings of dozens of new horror films in the days leading up to Halloween. The 2017 festival will take place 

October 27 – 29, 2017 

at The Sonnet Theater in Times Square, NYC. 

Click here to submit a film.

The festival accepts both features and shorts. For the purposes of this festival, features are defined as films with a running time of 45 minutes or longer. Anything shorter is consider a Short Film.

We accept films from people of all backgrounds and levels of experience and from all corners of the globe. We accept films in all horror sub-genres including thrillers, sci-fi, and suspense films.

We have no world premiere status regulations. We also do not have any regulations regarding whether your film has been screened elsewhere. 

When you submit a film, the film becomes eligible for all of the awards in all of the categories. You must supply the names of the production team members, cast and designers carefully, as this information will be used to determine the nominees.

We accept films in all languages. If your film is in a language other than English, please include subtitles.

There are no fee waivers available and there will be no submission fee refunds, even if you are not accepted into the festival.

By submitting your film, you consent to allow the film to be screened at the festival. If you are accepted into the festival, you may be asked to provide photos, stills and video clips to be used by the festival for publicity purposes. By submitting your film, you authorize that your work is cleared for festival exhibition and you accept full legal responsibility for the intellectual property therein.

Awards will be judged by a jury consisting of professionals from the film, horror and related worlds.

ABOUT FEARINCNY

"FEARnyc is the must-attend horror event of October. It's so impressive that I'm pretty sure it's the best thing happening in the entire country this October." - Dread Central​

"A must for horror fans" - Truly Disturbing​

"Your ideal Halloween warm up event" - Wicked Horror​

"Horror fans are in for a macabre menu of varying flavors when FearNYC, a new film festival, makes its debut." - The New York Times​

"A huge, authoritative horror film festival is coming to NYC next week. The significance of Manhattan hosting a major new horror film festival is not small. FEARnyc will be world-premiering several new works; the festival could grow into a launching pad like Austin's Fantastic Fest has become. I've seen much of the first batch of films...and there's some seriously promising stuff here. But just as importantly, if you ever wanted a one-week crash course in the horror essentials, you couldn't do better than FEARnyc. I would basically live at Cinema Village all week if I could." - Time Out New York