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After a highly successful Frontières Platform at the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes,  Frontières returns to the Fantasia International Film Festival for the tenth edition of its co-production market, which will take place July 19-22 in Montreal.

Following the announcement of a first wave of projects in Cannes, Frontières is pleased to announce an additional 10 projects in the official selection from emerging and established directors and producers from across North America and Europe. This selection includes a project from Mexico (THE CONTAINMENT), as well as two projects from Finland (BIRDS OF A FEATHER, THE TWIN). Notable producers include Stéphanie Morissette (LES AFFAMÉS), Lene Borglum (THE NEON DEMON, ONLY GOD FORGIVES), François Cognard (LET THE CORPSES TAN),  Michael & Shawn Rasmussen (writers of THE WARD and the upcoming CRAWL), as well as the team behind BODOM (Taneli Mustonen & Aleksi Hyvärinen).

Frontières is also pleased to announce the launch of a new collaboration with RIDM (Montreal International Documentary Festival) and its market, Doc Circuit Montréal. RIDM will co-present the project BLACK ZOMBIE, a documentary from director Maya Annik Bedward (Doc Circuit Montréal's Talent Lab 2017). This new partnership will take the form of long term collaboration to strengthen ties between the genre and documentary communities.

Additional featured programming includes the Arctic Chills Pitch & Development Session, a spotlight on emerging short filmmakers from the Arctic regions, co-presented by Telefilm Canada, the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival, and the International Sàmi Film Institute. Indigenous filmmakers from Greenland, northern Scandinavia, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon will come together to develop their scripts for the upcoming anthology film ARCTIC CHILLS. The Created by Women Pitch Session, presented by Telefilm Canada with Women in Film + Television Vancouver, will include 6 first feature projects pitched by up and coming female screenwriters & directors from across Canada.

“This group of projects represent an incredibly exciting future for genre film,” says Lindsay Peters, Frontières Executive Director. “We’re particularly thrilled to bring Indigenous talent from the Arctic regions to Frontières, develop new partnerships in the documentary sector and strengthen our commitment to female-driven genre film.”

These projects join a line-up of previously announced titles from Scythia Films (THE WITCH) from Canada, Fantastic Films (the upcoming SEA FEVER & VIVARIUM) from Ireland and DOR Films (THE DARK) from Austria. Past Frontières projects include RAW, LES AFFAMÉS, 78/52, TURBO KID, THE RANGER and the upcoming EXTRA ORDINARY, GHOST TOWN ANTHOLOGY, SLAXX and GEORGE A. ROMERO’S ROAD OF THE DEAD.

Industry Registration for Frontières is now open (Registration deadline: June 22).

Frontières@Fantasia 2018 Official Selection: Second Wave of Projects

AT THE BREAK OF DAWN (Denmark, Italy)

Director/Writer: Marco Cacioppo

Producer: Lene Borglum (Space Rocket Nation)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER (PAHANHAUTOJA) (Finland, Sweden, Norway)

Director: Hanna Bergholm

Writer: Ilja Rautsi

Producers: Mika Ritalahti (Silva Mysterium) & Nima Yousefi (Hobab)

Co-presented with the European Genre Forum

BLACK ZOMBIE (Canada)

Director/Writer: Maya Annik Bedward

Producers: Kate Fraser & Maya Annik Bedward (Third Culture Media)

Co-presented with RIDM - Doc Circuit Montreal

BOLT (France)

Director: Thierry Lorenzi

Writers: Stéphane Cabel, Thierry Lorenzi

Producers: Vincent Brançon (TO BE CONTINUED), Lionel Guedj (TO BE CONTINUED), François Cognard (TOBINA FILM), Julien Renaud (BLACK BOX PRODUCTION)

CLOSE TO YOU (USA)

Director/Writer: Jim Hickcox

Producer: Makena Buchanan (Demon Janx)

THE CONTAINMENT (Mexico)

Directors: Jack Zagha & Yossy Zagha

Writers: David Desola, Yossy Zagha, Jack Zagha

Producers: Jack Zagha & Yossy Zagha (Avanti Pictures)

Co-presented with Blood Window (Ventana Sur)

MIHARA (USA)

Director/Writer: Jacqueline Castel

Producer: Pier Harrison (Future Primitive Films)

Co-presented with IFFAM Project Market

A MOMENT OF PURE JOY (JUSQU’À LA FIN) (Canada)

Director/Writer: François Blouin

Producers: Stéphanie Morissette & C.S. Roy (La maison de prod)

TERRORBIT (UK, USA)

Director: Jonas Odenheimer

Writers: Jonas Odenheimer & Joshua James

Producers: Jonas Odenheimer (Old Jim Productions ), Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen

(Sinister Siblings Films )

THE TWIN (Finland)

Director: Taneli Mustonen

Writers: Taneli Mustonen & Aleksi Hyvärinen

Producer: Aleksi Hyvärinen (DON FILMS)

Co-presented with the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF-BIFAN), Korea