BAKUNAWA FEST (formerly Bakunawa Young Cinema) is the first fantastic and genre-based film, art & music festival in the Philippines and the longest-running fantastic filmfest in Southeast Asia. Bakunawa is a mythical dragon-like creature in Philippine mythology that devoured moons. Because we are a genre-bending film fest, we want to flip the Bakunawa's role and we want it to instead symbolize the creative monsters inside us.

Bakunawa Festival has an annual film camp and series of film workshops for young Filipino filmmakers that culminates into a section of our festival, producing mostly genre films (horror, sci-fi, fantasy, folk, noir, folk, etc). The films that the film camp participants produce competes in a unique section created for young filmmakers.

Bakunawa Fest loves new visions, new voices. We support young promising filmmakers, artists and musicians who either have no access to expensive workshops and may not have the name/recognition to be programmed in a festival. Since our third edition, we have included a section that screens curated local and international films - mainly for educational purposes. Most of the Bakunawa Film Camps are done as outreach programs/workshops and are hosted by different cities in the Philippines.

During the pandemic years and lockdowns from 2020-2022, we have temporarily migrated to mostly online screenings but, in 2023, we shall conduct more live screenings following health protocols. For our tenth edition, we will do a semi-hybrid festival wherein we screen more films in live venues and do a limited program online.

We also continue our partnership with SolarFlix TV wherein we show curated film programs on Philippine Primtime TV, screening to Filipino audiences all over the Philippines reaching to millions of viewers.

Visit our website at https://www.bakunawafestival.com/

Welcome to Tokyo CINEMASTERS International Film Festival. 
We are hosting our 1st Annual Festival in OCT 1st 2020 at Tokyo Cine Center.

Through discovering films and directing talent from across the globe, our film festival was founded with the mission of developing the next generation of cinema. 
Japan loves all cinema, regardless of country, language, or race. 
The culture of watching films with subtitles is well established here, with releases from a multitude of nations each year. 

However, the majority of those releases are limited to commercial movies. The reality is that there are a wealth of fantastic overseas directors and films lying dormant that we’re never exposed to. The lack of “international” film festivals in Japan has also been an issue.

Based in Tokyo, a place where new and diverse booms are born, this festival brings together films and people active on a global stage. 
A festival where you can see cinematic work that cross boundaries of race and language.

www.trappedfilmfestival.com

Live Entertainment, LLC, Russia in co-operation with EVENT FILM, Canada proudly present an annual Russian event – Russian International Horror Film Festival & Awards "DROP" (Российский международный кинофестиваль остросюжетного кино и хоррор фильмов «КАПЛЯ»). 

The festival is being annually held in the city of Moscow in late March since the year 2011 and contains 4 events:

- press conference

- awards ceremony

- master-classes and Q&A with movie stars

- film festival competition program screenings

The Awards ceremony takes place in a big concert venue (changing every year) and consists of the show program and the awards ceremony which is divided into 3 national voting categories: 

- awards granted to local film distribution companies for the blockbusters shown on a big screen in the reported year;

- awards granted to young directors and producers as competition program. The category is called “Hope for Survival”;

- awards granted to World stars for the contribution to horror genre

The Awards ceremony is always visited and recorded by a large number of mass media.

The Master-class is a so-called Q&A horror convention held in a cinema-theatre in a form of a question-answer conference between the star guests of the festival and the audience + autograph session. The event usually ends with a premier film screening.

The festival program is a week non-stop screening of new and old horror movies on a big screen in several Moscow cinema-theatres. The films-participants of the festival are being selected by the Awards jury. Films are being accepted by the Awards organisators during the whole year.

The Awards schedule usually also contains a pre-party and an after-party arranged for the honored guests and winners.

The TV version of the Awards is televised by TV1000 VIASAT and other partnerin TV channels.

The Awards specializes in all sub-genres of horror film industry, i.e.: cartoon horror, comedy horror, psychological thriller, trash horror, zombie horror etc. Starting from 2013 the Awards also specializes in survival horror video games sphere.

The Awards is annually visited by World-known honored guests. The former guests were: 

- World star Eric Roberts,

- Horror films of 80's stars: Stuart Gordon and Bryan Yuzna, 

- “Silent Hill” and “Tideland” super star actress Jodelle Ferland,

- “SAW” series stars Costas Mandyllor & Tobin Bell,

- TROMA hero Lloyd Kaufman,

- Japanese World famous composer and producer Akira Yamaoka,

- Italian directors of modern horror movies known for “Screamers” and other works – Marco Ristori and Luca Boni,

- Indian model, international actress, beauty princess and participant of Oscar Awards Preity Uupala,

- Norwegian actor of “Dead Snow” Yeppe Laursen

- Norwegian actress of “THALE” Silje Reinaamo

- American composer Daniel Licht

- Finnish director of “SAUNA” A.J. Annila

- Shoreline Entertainment manager Zachary Gleuck

- Russian soviet star Leonid Kuravlev

- Oliver Robins

- Corbin Bernsen

- Lauren Esposito

- John Kassir

- James Russell

- Mick Garris

- Shawn Hall

- Liesl Ahlers

- Kyle Catlett

- Lina Leandersson

- Richard Cutting

- Helen Crevel

...and many others

A great number of star-winners also send their exclusive video messages rotated on a big screen during the ceremony.

A more detailed information can be found on the English version of our web site and in Google engine.