Popcorn Frights Returns To Miami This Summer

 Popcorn Frights, the largest genre film event in Southeast US delivering the best horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and badass genre cinema to South Florida, has announced a partnership with Entertainment Squad’s genre label, The Horror Collective, to host a free theatrical experience for film fans.

From August 18-20, “The Horror Collective Screening Room” located at the O Cinema South Beach, right across the street from the world-famous Ocean Drive boulevard in the heart of Miami Beach, will feature brand new film premieres selected from across the world as well as Popcorn Frights’ shorts blocks celebrating up-and-coming filmmakers. 

As well, The Horror Collective representatives will be in attendance during the Festival and will host and moderate panel discussions and industry sessions for visiting and local filmmakers.

Additionally, Popcorn Frights is proud to announce its continued partnership with the genre streaming platform ALTER, which will consider all the short films premiering at the Festival for distribution on the online platform. In 2022, ALTER acquired 17 films out of the festival’s lineup, including RETURN TO SENDER produced by Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as Popcorn Frights’ prize winners KICKSTART MY HEART (Popcorn Frights Jury Prize for Best Short Film) and RINGWORMS (Popcorn Frights Audience Award for Best Short Film).

Together, Popcorn Frights and ALTER seek to discover and develop independent and emerging artists, and to provide a platform for them to showcase their works to a global audience.

Submissions to the ninth annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival are still open via Film Freeway with the final deadline set for July 10. Shorts, features, documentaries, animation, film, and video—all are welcome and can be submitted at the link: https://filmfreeway.com/popcornfrightsfilmfestival

Celebrated as one of “The World’s 50 Best Genre Festivals” by MovieMaker Magazine and recognized by FilmFreeway as one of the “Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals,” Popcorn Frights’ ninth edition kicks off August 10-20, 2023, with more than 10,000 filmgoers and industry professionals expected to attend its summer week of wicked films, events, and parties. In addition to the “The Horror Collective Screening Room” at the O Cinema South Beach, this year the festival also returns to the landmark Savor Cinema in downtown Fort Lauderdale, a state-of-the-art theater that was originally built as a Methodist Church in the 1940s.