September 20-27, Austin, TX Fantastic Fest 2007 has come and gone, but we will be posting a bunch of photos and video to this site as well as the Dell Lounge, so keep checking the blog for updates. We had a wonderful time this year, and I hope you guys did too. We will be launching the 2008 site in a couple of months with a complete breakdown of festival passes and relevant dates. The programming team has already started sprinting for the 2008 Festival, with Blake Ethridge heading of to Sitges and Tim and Karrie heading out to AFM. We'll be posting our findings throughout the year to the Fantastic Fest blog as well as announcing "Fantastic Fest presents" special screenings, so become a subscriber to get the first reports.Again, thanks to all of the filmmakers, our sponsors, and most importantly, our festival attendees for everything that was Fantastic Fest 2007.
About the festival
Fantastic Fest is a week-long festival featuring the best in new science-fiction, fantasy, horror, animation, crime, Asian, and all around badass cinema. The event was created to offer exposure to genre films which are often overlooked by the traditional festival circuit. We strive to offer acquisition, media and exhibition opportunities for undistributed films as well as to spotlight upcoming genre theatrical releases and give audiences a chance to see 35mm prints of repertory classics.
Fantastic Fest is held each year at one venue, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on South Lamar in Austin, Texas. The Alamo Drafthouse was named the best cinema in America by Entertainment Weekly, and features food and drink served to your seat without any disruption of the movie experience.
We also strive to make the festival the most friendly, fun and exciting experience as possible for our out of town guests and visiting filmmakers. In addition to showcasing over 60 premiere genre features and 30 shorts, we host plenty of parties throughout the week as well as outings to local Texas institutions and always one serious barbecue run.
"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
Badges are currently on sale for the 2007 Festival. We are already sold out of VIP badges, but have a limited number of regular festival badges remaining. We do expect to sell out in advance of the festival so reserve yours soon or miss out on the fun!
The final schedule is posted, the films are almost all here, it's like the night before Christmas around Alamo South Lamar right now, and I for one am expecting something a bit more interesting than coal this year. We'll see you in less than two days!
