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  • Bentonville Film Festival
  • Cinépride Nantes
  • CineSLAM
  • DIGO Festival
  • DiversidArte: Festival de Curtas
  • Encounters South African International Documentary Festival
  • Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival
  • Fire!!
  • For Rainbow
  • Frameline
  • Gilbert Baker Film Festival
  • I+N Festival Courts Queer Short Film Fest
  • Korea Queer Film Festival
  • LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival
  • Mix Mexico
  • National Queer Arts Festival
  • OGA (S)exhibition
  • OutFilm Festival Connecticut
  • Palm Springs International ShortFest
  • Premio Maguey
  • Provincetown International Film Festival
  • Queer Arts Festival
  • Queer Mvmnt Fest
  • Queer North Film Festival
  • Queer Vision
  • Queer Women of Color Film Festival
  • Raindance Film Festival
  • Sydney Film Festival
  • Taos Pride Short Film Festival
  • Tribeca Film Festival
  • Zinegoak Bilbao International GLBT Film Festival
Queer Fear Film Festival

Queer Fear Film Festival

Saturday, 12 October 2024 until Saturday, 12 October 2024

The transgressive nature of horror has always skewed queer. Queer Fear's mission is to fling open the closet door and spotlight the rainbow end of the horror and genre film spectrum. Gays lost in the woods? We're into it. Lesbian vampires? We want them (really, call us). Trans Final Girls? Send them in. Experimental animation through a queer lens? Yes, thank you, more please. Like sexuality, our definition of horror is pretty fluid. Sci-fi, thrillers, dark fantasy, harrowing documentary, and cinematic experiments are all welcome. If your story faces down the darkness in the world or within, we probably want to see it.

Be part of the South's only exclusively queer horror and dark genre film festival! We set ourselves apart by building a community dedicated to queer creators and queer stories, from the campy to the truly skin-crawling. Horror has always embraced The Other, and queer folx around the world know a thing or two about being Othered. But we're not alone.

Our fourth annual event will be in-person at a/perture cinema in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Our judge's top picks for Best Short, Best Feature, and Best Student Film, as well as our Audience Choice film, will all receive cash prizes and a coveted Golden Unicorn statue.

Best Feature Film | Prize: $250
Best Short Film | Prize: $250
Audience Choice Film | Prize: $250
Best Student Film | Prize: $250