MARCHÉ DU FILM ANNOUNCES 14 GENRE PROJECTS SELECTED FOR FRONTIÈRES PLATFORM

Once again, Frontières is delighted to present a new lineup of horror, science-fiction, comedy, and avant-garde storytelling from emerging talents in today’s genre film industry. Bringing to life vengeful ghosts, romantic folk horror, AI lifeforms, deadly monasteries and alternate realities, this year’s lineup is bustling with creativity among 14 genre film projects!

7 projects in advanced stages of financing will be presented in the Proof of Concept pitching session (20 May), in front of prospective financiers, sales agents and distributors, while 7 works-in-progress will be presented in the Buyers Showcase (21 May) in front of international distributors, festival programmers and sales agents.

Both pitching session events will be held at the Marché du Film in Cannes (and available for view on the Marché du Film Online platform).

Frontières Platform in Cannes: Complete List of Projects

BUYERS SHOWCASE

BURY ME WHEN I’M DEAD (USA)

Director: Patrick Clement
Producers: Amanda Freedman, Nicholas Santos

DEN MOTHER CRIMSON (Canada)

Director: Siluck Saysanasy
Producers: J. Joly, George Assimakopoulos, Katarina Kovecses (Branded to Film)

ELECTRIC CHILD (Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands)

Director: Simon Jaquement
Producers: Michela Pini, Aurelius Eisenreich, Simon Jaquemet, Judith Lichteneckert, Titus Kreyenberg, Raymond van der Kaaij

HOSTILE DIMENSIONS (United Kingdom)

Director: Graham Hughes
Producers: Graham Hughes & Evrim Ersoy

HUNTRESS (Canada)

Director: Annick Blanc
Producers: Midi La Nuit

U ARE THE UNIVERSE (Ukraine)

Director: Pavlo Ostrikov | Producers: ForeFilms

WE ARE ZOMBIES (France, Canada)

Director: RKSS | Producers: Laurent Baudens, Christian Larouche, Fabrice Giger, Pierre Spengler

PROOF OF CONCEPT

ABSOLUTION (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro)

Director: Filip Kovacevic
Producers: Filip Kovacevic (Void Pictures), Djordje Stankovic (Void Pictures), Vukota Antunovic (Void Pictures)

DARK TIDE (Canada)

Director: Peter Ricq
Producers: Hangar 18 Media, GoodBye Productions, League Productions

PAWS (Germany)

Director: Lukas Rinker
Producers: Neopol Film

PESTA (Norway)

Director: Hanne Berkaak
Producers: Tonje Skar Reiersen (Mikrofilm) and Lise Fearnley (Mikrofilm)

QUEST OF THE GODS (USA)

Director: George Moïse
Producers: Terraform Pictures

THE SECOND WOMAN (Canada)

Director: Zach Gayne
Producers: Precious Chong, Party Hunks Inc.

UPIRO (Spain)

Director: Óscar Martín
Producers: Elena Muñoz

FRONTIÈRES is an international co-production market and networking platform specifically focused on genre film financing and co-production between Europe and North America. It is organised by the Fantasia International Film Festival, in partnership with the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes. In addition to its annual co-production market at Fantasia (July 26-29 2023), Frontières programming also includes the Frontières Platform (May 20-21 2023, Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes).