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New projects from Rook Films’ Andy Starke and Paz Brothers [pictured] among first wave of projects unveiled for sixth edition of Fantasia’s co-production market.

Frontières International Co-Production Market will include TV shows for the first time at its upcoming edition.

Following its third European edition at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifff), Frontières returns to Fantasia International Film Festival for its sixth edition, running July 21-24 in Montreal.

The first wave of projects announced include two TV series: House Of Psychotic Women and Untold Horror.

House Of Psychotic Women is based on the book by Canadian author Kier-La Janisse, who will also produce alongside Rook Films’ Andy Starke (Sightseers, The Duke Of Burgundy). Sean Hogan has written the pilot episode.

Untold Horror from Rue Morgue magazine editor-in-chief Dave Alexander will be an eight-part documentary series about the greatest horror movies never made. Directed by Bob Barrett, the series is written by Alexander and Mark Pollesol.

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New projects from Kutlug Ataman, Bogdan Mustata, Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross among the 14 titles.

The Turkish film industry, buoyed by the Palme d’Or win for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep, dominates Sarajevo Film Festival’s upcoming co-production market, CineLink (Aug 20-23).

The selection committee has shortlisted a total of 14 projects from over 200 submissions from 18 countries across South-Eastern Europe. These have been split between the CineLink and CineLink Plus sections.

Turkey has four projects across the two strands included Hilal, Feza And Other Planets by Kutlug Ataman (The Lamb) and producer Emre Yeksan’s directing debut The Gulf.

Romania has three projects including In Between by Bogdan Mustata (last year in Sff competition with Wolf) and Lemonade, produced by Cristian Mungiu and directed by Ioana Uricaru (Tales From The Golden Age).

Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross, who directed 2012 festival hit In Bloom,will present their new project My Happy Family.

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If you love watching movies about extremely unstable young women who are prone to acts of violence and self-destruction, you’re going to simply adore the three trailers embedded below. Instead of creating three separate articles for three movies that essentially share the same theme, I figured I’d simply lump all three together in one place for your collective viewing pleasure. Lisa Aschan’s “She Monkeys” tells the story of Emma and Cassandra, two girls who begin a tumultuous relationship, while Aldo Tardozzi’s “Spots” (aka “Fleke”) is about Lana and Irena, two girls who begin a tumultuous relationship. Ziska Riemann’s “Lollipop Monster”, meanwhile, chronicles the adventures of Ari and Oona, two girls who begin a tumultuous relationship. Thus, a themed post was born. All trailers have been embedded below. Source: Quiet Earth function getVideo() { var so = new SWFObject("http://cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com/storage/xplayer/yo033.swf?...

While some mourn the lack of "juicy" roles for women in Hollywood (though there seem to be quite a few to choose from for the younger set), the rest of the world seems to be filling in the gaps. In the last few weeks alone we've seen trailers for Lollipop Monster (trailer) and She Monkeys (trailer) and here's another to add to the mix.

Aldo Tardozzi's Spots (Fleke) stars Iskra Jirsak and Nika Miskovic as Lana and Irena, two seventeen-year-old strangers who meet in the bathroom of a bar where they form an unlikely friendship over blood stains (hence the title of the film) and a police raid that could get them thrown in jail.

Drugs, shootings, sex, break-in's. it's all part of a night of fun and adventure, not to mention loss of control, for the teens as they make their way through the streets of Zagreb.

Screen Daily called the film "sleazy,...