Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
Status	Active
Genre	Film festival
Location(s)	Brooklyn, New York
Country	United States
Inaugurated	2016
Area	International
Website	brooklynhorrorfest.com

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is an annual film festival in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in 2016.

With the 2020 edition of the festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, it was one of the partners in the Nightstream online festival. ^[1]

Festivals by year

2016

The first annual festival took place from October 14–16, 2016. ^[2] The festival took place in multiple theaters including Wythe Hotel Cinema, Videology, Spectacle Theater and Syndicated Theater. ^[3]

World premieres ^[4]

• Child Eater Dir. Erlingur Ottar Thoroddsen
• Psychotic! A Brooklyn Slasher Dir. Maxwell Frey & Derek Gibbons

North American premieres ^[5]

• Broken Dir. Shaun Robert Smith

US premieres ^[6]

• Without Name Dir. Lorcan Finnegan Best Feature, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Cinematography ^[7]
• Let Her Out Dir. Cody Calahan
• Therapy Dir. Nathan Ambrosioni
• Fury of the Demon Dir. Fabien Delage

East Coast premieres ^[8]

• Dearest Sister Dir. Mattie Do
• We Are The Flesh Dir. Emiliano Rocha Minter Best Actor Noé Hernández (actor) ^[9]

New York premieres ^[10]

• Beyond The Gates Dir. Jackson Stewart Audience Award Winner ^[11]
• Trash Fire Dir. Richard Bates Jr. Best Actress Angela Trimbur ^[12]
• The Master Cleanse Dir. Bobby Miller Best Effects ^[13]
• Pet Dir. Carles Torrens

Retrospective screenings ^[14]

• The Sentinel Dir. Michael Winner

Short Films ^[15]

• Nightmare Fuel: Scary Horror Shorts: Pigskin, The Puppet Man, Tilly, Playback, The Sticks, The Home, The Stylist
• Head Trip: Alternative Horror Shorts: Disco Inferno (dir. Alice Waddington), Eveless, The Push, Empty Bed, Venefica, Shorty
• Local's Only: Shorts by Brooklyn filmmakers: Mute, Chambers, Last Stop Coney Island, Stitched, ETA, The Toothbrush, Wandering

Special events ^[16]

• Grady Hendrix's Summerland Lost: A Ghost Story
• Critical Drinking
• Apparition: A Popup Art Show
• Ghosts We've Known: Storytelling Competition
• Tears - Live music performance by Dani Marie and Johnny Butler

See also

• List of fantastic and horror film festivals

Other genre film festivals

• Sitges Film Festival
• Fantasia International Film Festival
• Fantastic Fest
• Beyond Fest
• Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
• Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
• Chattanooga Film Fest
• Fantaspoa
• Fantasporto
• FilmQuest
• FrightFest
• Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival
• Nightmares Film Festival
• Overlook Film Festival
• Screamfest
• Telluride Horror Show
• Toronto After Dark
• A Night of Horror

Notes

1. Dino-Ray Ramos, "Genre Film Festivals Across The Country Partner For Nightstream Virtual Event". Deadline Hollywood , August 13, 2020.
2. Calvario, Liz (16 July 2016). "2016 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Announced: First Annual Gathering Of Genre Enthusiasts Will Celebrate Scares". Indiewire.
3. Donato, Matt (17 October 2016). "First-Ever Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Awards Announcement And Recap!". We Got This Covered.
4. Klein, Brennan (6 September 2016). "SEE TRASH FIRE, PET, AND ERIC WALKUSKI AT THE BROOKLYN HORROR FILM FESTIVAL!". Arrow In The Head. Jo Blo.
5. Klein, Brennan (6 September 2016). "SEE TRASH FIRE, PET, AND ERIC WALKUSKI AT THE BROOKLYN HORROR FILM FESTIVAL!". Arrow In The Head. Jo Blo.
6. Harrington, Lexi. "Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Announces Inaugural Line-up!". Fangoria. Archived from the original on 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
7. Miska, Brad (18 October 2016). "The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Award Winners Announced!". Bloody Disgusting.
8. Harrington, Lexi. "Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Announces Inaugural Line-up!". Fangoria. Archived from the original on 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
9. Miska, Brad (18 October 2016). "The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Award Winners Announced!". Bloody Disgusting.
10. Mack, Andrew (7 September 2016). "Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Announces Inaugural Lineup And Much More". Screen Anarchy.
11. Collis, Clark. "Brooklyn Horror Film Festival special report: Sex, Laos, and videotape". Entertainment Weekly.
12. Miska, Brad (18 October 2016). "The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Award Winners Announced!". Bloody Disgusting.
13. Miska, Brad (18 October 2016). "The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Award Winners Announced!". Bloody Disgusting.
14. Mack, Andrew (7 September 2016). "Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Announces Inaugural Lineup And Much More". Screen Anarchy.
15. Alexander, Chris (6 September 2016). "Brooklyn Horror Fest Launches; Reveals Program and Poster". Coming Soon.
16. Alexander, Chris (6 September 2016). "Brooklyn Horror Fest Launches; Reveals Program and Poster". Coming Soon.

External links

• Official website