Submit your film
Submissions for the 2010 Edition are active on December 1, 2009!
All submissions are processed online via
Without A Box. Click
here to submit your film. Follow their simple submission procedures and you are on your way.
2010 SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Discount Earlybird Deadline: March 3, 2010
Regular Deadline: May 5, 2010
Late Deadline: June 2, 2010
Without A Box Extended Deadline: July 16, 2010 (Final Deadline!)
First wave of content announced: July 12, 2010
Second wave of content announced: August 9, 2010
Schedule Announced: September 6, 2010
Festival Begins: September 23, 2010
TESTIMONIALS
In the spring 2008 issue, MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE named fantastic fest one of the 25 festivals worldwide worth the submission fee. View article or read the quote below:
"The folks at Austin's Fantastic Fest set the tone when they describe it as a place for "all around badass cinema." With kudos from Charlie Koones, former publisher of Variety, who calls it "one of the 10 Film Festivals We Love," moviemakers are definitely getting into that tender sprit, too, especially when it comes to the amount of publicity their Fantastic Fest screenings are generating. "For the size of our event, we have an incredibly high number of journalists from key publications: Variety, Twitchfilm, The Hollywood Reporter, Cinematical, Ain't It Cool News, Fangoria, Rue Morgue, indieWIRE and Film Threat just to name a few. We guarantee that your film will get a review and possibly as many as eight to ten," promises festival director Tim League. If you're hoping those good reviews will turn into a great distribution deal, this genre-focused fest has got you covered on that front, too. "We have a high volume of acquisition representatives and buyers from major and indie studios at the fest and have a media room equipped with screeners of all films for those agents who can only be on hand for part of the fest." - MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE
"Fantastic Fest has made my whole career. Everything related to the
future of Timecrimes and mine as an american directors comes
through your festival. I know that some directors have a particular
festival attached to their whole biography. Now I know mine."
- Nacho Vigalondo, director, TIMECRIMES (worldwide rights to TIMECRIMES
were purchased by Magnolia Releasing following the world premiere of
the film at Fantastic Fest 2007
"A
world premiere is a very, very nerve wracking experience but what makes
Fantastic Fest so amazing is that it's not only the programmers and
organizers that are on your side, but the audience too. They're
fighting in your corner and they want to see different and exciting
movies and they're so damn cine-literate it's scary! The greatest test
audience in the world...I'd recommend everyone has their premiere
here!" - Andy Starke, Producer, DOWN TERRACE, world premiere 2009
"The best festival, the best movies, the best programmers, the best theater, the
best barbeque, the best queso, the best guns and pretty much the best
f*@king time you will ever have promoting your movie. Period." - Ti
West, Writer/Director, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, Fantasticc Fest 2009
"The best film festival I've ever been to, at the best theater in the world.
Everyone at Fantastic Fest really cared about the filmmakers, and worked incredibly hard to make every screening memorable. Thanks to everyone for making this first-time short film director feel like a Hollywood superstar."
- Phil Mucci, director, THE LISTENING DEAD