Frontières in the News

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December 2025
Variety - John Hopewell
EFM Frontières Focus Unveils Lineup, Featuring Bosnian PTSD Folk Horror, Irish Sexual Fantasy and the Whole Truth, Perhaps, About Legendary Skyjacker ‘D.B. Cooper’ (EXCLUSIVE)

August 2025
Screen Daily - Mona Tabbara
EFM partners with Montreal’s Frontières Market for genre showcase

August 2025
Variety - John Hopewell
EFM, Frontières to Launch a New Genre Focus in 2026

July 2025
Variety - John Hopewell
Fantasia’s Frontières Market Titles Plumbs Real-World Horror, from War Zone Trauma to AI, Hellish Maternity and the Restaurant Business, Plus Bigfoot Romance

June 2025
Screen Daily - Jeremy Kay

2025 Frontières Co-Production Market announces lineup, record submissions

April 2025
Variety - John Hopewell

Cannes Frontières Buzz Title ‘Skin Side Up’ Elevates Drag Queen Horror (EXCLUSIVE)

June 2024
Screen Daily - Jeremy Kay

Frontières Co-Production Market unveils 16th edition line-up (exclusive)

April 2024
Variety - John Hopewell
Hollywood Legend Phil Tippett, RKSS’ Anouk Whissell Bring Brand New Projects to Powerful, Rangy Cannes Frontières Selection

July 2023
Variety - Marta Balaga
Frontieres Prizes: ’Freya,’ ‘Alligator,’ ‘In the Heart of the South,’ ’Animal Realm’ Take Awards

July 2023
Variety - Marta Balaga
‘Bloody and Messy’: Fantasia’s Frontières Market Readies for Exploding Heads, New Zealand Monster Movie and Dark Pro-Birth Future

April 2023
Variety - Callum McLennan, John Hopewell
RKSS, Simon Jaquemet, Nina Kiri Feature at Ever More Prominent Cannes Frontieres Platform

July 2022
Screen Daily - Tim Dams
From creepy cats to haunted palaces, Frontières throws the spotlight on hot international genre projects

July 2022
Variety - Marta Balaga
Frontieres Market Welcomes ‘Films for Women by Women,’ Gets Tipsy on ‘Space Beers’

April 2022
Variety - JD Linville
Murderous Gnomes Among Practical Effects Surge at 2022 Frontières Platform Marché du Film

June 2021
Variety - Ben Croll
Homegrown Initiatives Push Genre Fare Into the Spotlight

June 2021
Variety - Will Thorne
Cat Serial Killer and Deportation Horror Projects Among Highlights at Frontières 2021 Genre Market

June 2020
Variety - Tim Damns
Frontieres Genre Platform Forefronts Female Filmmakers, Characters

May 2020
The Hollywood Reporter - Etan Vlessing
Frontières Unveils Genre Lineup for Virtual Co-Production Market

May 2020
The Hollywood Reporter - Scott Roxborough
Frontieres Unveils Genre Lineup for Virtual Cannes Market

January 2020
Deadline - Tom Grater
Frontieres Selects 11 Projects For Genre-Focused Financing & Packaging Event In Sweden

February 2019
Screen Daily - Melanie Goodfellow
Film Industry Gender Equality ‘bad but getting better’ says Berlinale conference

August 2018
Dread Central - Becky Sayers

Why every Indie Horror Filmmaker should know about Frontières


July 2018
Playback - Regan Reid
Building New Frontiers For Women In Genre Film


July 2017
CTVM

Le Marché Frontières – 2017 une année de croissance et de déploiement

July 2017
IndieWire - Eric Kohn

How Fantasia Film Festival Has Fostered a New Generation of Genre Filmmakers

August 3, 2015
RogerEbert.com - Noel Murray

Fantasia Fest’s Frontières Market Is Trying To Change How Genre Films Get Made

FRONTIÈRES ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

July 2025
Variety - Jennie Punter
‘Communion’s’ Nejib Belkadhi Joins Cast of Kays Mejri’s Psychological Thriller ‘The Sleeping Grotto’ (EXCLUSIVE)

July 2025
Variety - Jennie Punter
‘Station Eleven’ Star Prince Amponsah to Head Kit & Arran’s Satirical Horror ‘How Dare You,’ Boarded by B Good Picture Company (EXCLUSIVE)

July 2025
Variety - John Hopewell
‘Fur,’ The Story of History’s First Bigfoot Abductee and Reluctant Romancer to Star Frank Mosley (EXCLUSIVE)

July 2025
Variety - John Hopewell
Sitges FanPitch Winner ‘Delia’s Ghost’ Taps Avalon Studios, Umbrella, Liz Mullane (EXCLUSIVE)

July 2025
Variety - Jennie Punter
Mongrel Media Boards Anouk Whissell’s ‘Holi Womb’ Ahead of Its Debut at Fantasia’s Frontières Co-Production Market (EXCLUSIVE)

July 2025
Variety - John Hopewell
‘Succession’s’ Hiam Abbass Set to Play Lead in Talal Selhami’s Hot Package Horror Project ‘The Shelter’ (EXCLUSIVE)

July 2025
Variety - Callum McLennan
Jeffrey Combs Joins ‘Mystery of the Mothman,’ Selected for Frontières Market at Montreal (EXCLUSIVE)

July 2025
Variety - Rafa Sales Ross
Cabaldana Alchemy and Driven Equation Team Up for Feature Adaptation of Miguel Angel Caballero’s Award-Winning ‘The Ballad of Tita and the Machines’ (EXCLUSIVE)

May 2024
Variety - Emiliano De Pablos
Federation Spain Boards Xavier Rull’s Frontières Platform Player ‘My Stalker’

August 2023
Variety - Marta Balaga
Frontières Winner ‘Freya’ Takes on ‘Extreme’ Pro-Birth Future: ‘If This Was Happening to Men, There Would Be World War III’

July 2023
Variety - John Hopewell
‘Charcoal’ Producer Bionica Drives Into English-Language Production With ‘The Eyes of Another’

July 2023
Variety - John Hopewell
‘Family Dinner’s’ Capra Film Builds Horror Slate With New Projects From Peter Hengl, Marc Schlegel, Michael Winiecki, Paul Ertl

July 2023
Variety - Marta Balaga
Frontieres Project ‘Macîskotêw’ – ‘Evil Fire’ – From ‘Turbo Kid’ Producer Introduces Indigenous Lesbian Superhero

July 2023
Variety - John Hopewell
Roller Coaster Road Productions Joins Mad Films on ‘High Pressure,’ from ‘8th Wonderland’ Directors

April 2023
Variety - Marta Balaga
Norwegian Animation ‘Pesta’ Brings the Black Plague to Cannes Frontières Platform

April 2023
Variety - Marta Balaga
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Star Nina Kiri Readies to Get ‘Absolution’

October 2022
Screen Daily - Rebecca Leffler
Charades boards Norwegian holiday horror romp ‘There’s Something In The Barn’

July 2022
Variety - John Hopewell
‘Stranger Things” Francesca Reale, ‘Succession’s’ Dagmara Dominczyk to Star in ‘Surgat’

July 2022
Deadline - Melanie Goodfellow
‘The Last Video Store’: First Look Image For Horror Described As “Love Letter To The Era Of The Video Store”

August 2021
Variety - Anna Marie de la Fuente
Robbie Lemieux’s ‘Fester’ Scares Up New Twist to the Coming-Out Genre

August 2021
Variety - John Hopewell
Montreal’s WaZabi Films Board Frontières Buzz Title ‘Red Wings’

August 2021
Variety - Anna Marie de la Fuente
‘Frontier Mistress,’ a Timely Western Set in 18th Century South Africa

August 2021
Variety - Anna Marie de la Fuente
Doc ‘Sharksploitation’ Delves into the Sub-Genre Spawned by Steven Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’

July 2021
Variety - Jamie Lang
‘First Cow’s’ John Magaro Leads Ensemble Cast of Southern Thriller ‘All the Names We Buried’

August 2018
The Hollywood Reporter - Etan Vlessing

Paramount, Platinum Dunes Team for Horror Thriller 'Meet Jimmy
'

May 2018
Screen Daily - Melanie Goodfellow

Versatile, XYZ board Can Evrenol's 'Girl With No Mouth'

May 2018
Screen Daily - Orlando Parfitt

Neasa Hardiman's 'Sea Fever' wins Cannes Frontières post-production award

May 2018
Variety - Jaimie Lang

2nd Frontières Platform Readies for Cannes

April 2018
Screen Daily - Ben Dalton
Cannes Marché Frontières platform selects Ben Wheatley, Denis Côté projects

January 2018
Screen Daily - Jasper Hart

'Baskin', 'The Transfiguration' directors picked for Frontières Finance Forum

July 2018
IndieWire - Michael Gingold

Vomiting Monster Birds and Serial Killer Podcasts Among the Horror Movie Highlights at Fantasia’s Frontieres Market

Fantasia’s Frontières Market: The Best Horror Films Yet to Be Made, Including George Romero’s ‘Road of the Dead’