All Aboard For After Dark ...

Todd: Great to have you on board. I love your website, and I know your programming for our inaugural 2006 festival is going to rock!

Twitch readers: feel free to start sending Todd or myself your wishlists of upcoming Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Asian Action or Cult films you want to see on the big screen.

Fellow fantastic film fans of the world, hope to see you all in Toronto, next October (18-22). Get it in your diaries now, it's going to be a blast!

- Adam

Adam Lopez
Founder/Director
After Dark Film Festival
adam.lopez@gmail.com

Sweet, I couldn't think of anybody better. It's crucial that genre fans embrace more unusual (dare I say artistic) entries from around the world. This is why I propose that you guys put together one or several blocks of non-narrative more avant garde inclined works. I'm thinking here of something like Karim Hussain's subconscious cruelty, angel's egg, E. Elias Merhige's begotten (oh my god that would be incredible on the big screen!). And, I'd suggest an absolute gem a little film from 1981 starring Sam Neil called Possesion. I completely fell in love with this horrific philosophical melodrama last year (it might be hard to find a print of this). As I'm in the city I'd also love to volunteer if possible.

I would love for you After Dark to secure a print to Bielinsky's El Aura.

Or try another interesting spanish/argentine (but not horror) genre effort, The Gronholm Method.

Milkpop, Kurt: Todd and I can't promise anything at this point in terms of yay or nay to any specific title, as it's early days yet in terms of getting a hold of prints. But we will add all suggestions to our rapidly expanding wish list (already at 30+ titles), and work from thereon in. FYI: to get the greatest interest in our new fest, we will be concentrating on securing hard to get international genre films, recently produced (2004, 2005, and 2006) that have not screened in Toronto, and are not available at high street retailers (e.g. HMV). As time goes on, and our fest expands in terms of days and screenings we will of course be adding retrospective screenings.

Alas, the general consensus amongst genre festivals today is that retro screenings are generally poorly attended with the DVD and home theatre explosion, and therefore form only a small part of the festivals.

- Adam

P.s. Todd:
Looks like this comment list got spammed, by author "nvWcljzcga"! Yukk those links are totally not what we're going to be programming!

i love impartial journalism. haha! congratulations!

and look like nvWcljzcga has some ideas on what to program ;)

Adam: I've got an idea for a retro screening that would a) be cool as hell and b) bring an absolute classic film here for what I think will be the first time in North America, though I need to do a bit of research to confirm that. I know it's never been available anywhere in any format with English subtitles, though ...