Denmark to Experience Night Terrors in February 2016; Submit Your Shorts Now!
Debi Moore
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Night Terrors Film Festival is a new genre festival opening up in Denmark and celebrating its first event in February 2016. It is geared toward short films: horror, thriller, supernatural, absurd – anything you can think of! Comedies and dramas are welcome, too, as long as they fit into the theme.
Films selected will have two screenings each, one in Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, and one in the second biggest city, Aarhus, the following day. It is a great opportunity to have your short films screened for a Scandinavian audience that might not have other ways to experience your work.
Actor and filmmaker Kim Sønderholm is the man behind the fest. He explains why he started it: “I’ve felt for a long time that Denmark needed something like this. We have several great film festivals, but most of them are about the more cultural films and not so much the sort of films we’re trying to promote – the more “prima” films, if you will. We do have genre festivals, but they are mostly concentrated around feature films that have already created a buzz. Our mission is to take small, lesser known, but great genre short films and do what we can to give them a Danish audience. To be most efficient in doing so, we are going to have the event twice, once in each end of the country. We’ve been working on involving Denmark’s third biggest city, Odense, as well – so far without luck, but we hope to succeed, although I can’t promise anything at this point.”
He adds, “I am personally very much looking forward to this, and I hope to see a lot of great films submitted and to meet a lot of genre fans at the events. We’ll be in Copenhagen on February 10 and in Aarhus on February 11, and there will be a great atmosphere, good films, loads of chills, loads of laughs, and a lot of nice people. We hope to have such a great success to make it an annual event.”
Night Terrors Film Festival is now open for short films submissions, 20 minutes max. Learn more from the festival’s official website, on Facebook, and on Twitter (@ntfilmfest).
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