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After announcing the 12 projects that comprise its Frontières selection of film projects in May, the Fantasia International Film Festival's Frontières International Co-Production Market’s team has now revealed the event’s Off-Frontières line-up of 12 projects. Read on for the details of this latest dirty dozen.

The first Frontières announcement contained new projects being pitched by Joe Dante, Bobcat Goldthwait, Richard Stanley, and more. The following Off-Frontières projects come from such amazing talent as Larry Fessenden, The Rasmussen Brothers, and Josh Johnson.

Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival, widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world, introduced its Fantasia Industry Rendez-Vous, including the Frontières International Co-Production Market and the Fantasia Film Market, in 2012. Frontières is the first international co-production market to connect North America with Europe, in an environment focused specifically on genre film production. Now Frontières has become a circuit in-between Fantasia, in July,...

From the Fantasia Film Festival press release:

After announcing the 12 projects of its Frontières selection of film projects in May, the Frontières International Co-Production Market’s team has now announced the event’s Off-Frontières line-up of projects.

The projects, in this second group, feature additional up-and-coming talents and experienced filmmakers from the independent genre film world. The Off-Frontières 2013 selection of the 2nd edition of the Frontières International Co-Production Market will consist of the following 12 projects:

Canuxploitation (USA)

Director: Josh Johnson (Rewind This!)

Documentary

Dead Max (Québec)

Director: Patrick Boivin (Bunker)

Writer: Randall Lobb

Producer: Stéphane Tanguay (Jaloux) Productions Kinesis

Emerald Falls (Québec)

Director: Boris Rodriguez (Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal)

Writer: Phil M. Rosenberg

Jumbo (France)

Director/Writer: Zoé Wittock (First Feature)

Producer: Anaïs Bertrand (First Feature) Insolence Productions

Réclusion (France)

Director: Franck Richard (The Pack)

Writers: Franck Richard and Florent Silieri

Producer: Fares Ladjimi (The String) Mille et Une Productions...

After announcing the 12 projects of its Frontières selection of film projects in May, the Frontières International Co-Production Market has now announced the event’s Off-Frontières line-up of projects. The projects, in this second group, feature "additional up-and-coming talents and experienced filmmakers from the independent genre film world." Read More: Joe Dante and Bobcat Goldthwait's New Films Among 12 Projects Set For Fantasia's Co-Production Market The Off-Frontières 2013 selection of the 2nd edition of the Frontières International Co-Production Market will consist of the following 12 projects: Canuxploitation (USA) Director: Josh Johnson (Rewind This!) Documentary Dead Max (Québec) Director: Patrick Boivin (Bunker) Writer: Randall Lobb Producer: Stéphane Tanguay (Jaloux) Productions Kinesis Emerald Falls (Québec) Director: Boris Rodriguez (Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal) Writer: Phil M. Rosenberg Jumbo (France) Director/Writer: Zoé Wittock...

Selection includes three projects from Québec and the latest projects from Josh Johnson and Boris Rodriguez [pictured].

As part of their second Frontières international co-production market, Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival has revealed its Off-Frontières selection of film projects.

The selection includes three projects from Québec, including Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal director Boris Rodriguez’s next feature (Emerald Falls), as well as the latest documentary from Rewind This! director Josh Johnson (Canuxploitation).

Frontières market director Stephanie Trepanier told Screen: “We’re happy with the diversity of the Off-Frontières line-up. It allows us to feature more local projects and projects in a wider range of development stages.

“We’re also seeing more filmmakers with their first feature film project in there, which pleases us. The discovery and promotion of new genre filmmakers has always been an important element of Fantasia, and Frontières allows us to support them at an even earlier stage.”

The Frontières...

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