The SIN Film Festival is part of Sinister Nights, an interactive horror experience. Sinister Nights includes everything you love about horror conventions (celebrities, vendors, photo ops, panels, etc.), and ramps it up. Fans are integrated into the event in various ways. The SIN Film Festival serves to showcase the best of indie horror from around the world...and, to connect filmmakers with fans, as well as with each other.
SIN Film Festival Objectives
- Providing exposure through various media to film makers and their films to the greater horror genre and its related subgenres (exploitation, sci-fi, dark comedy, etc.)
- Providing a robust and dynamically interactive experience for horror fans and horror genre filmmakers
- Academically fertile ground for the discussion of and growth of the genre and it’s subgenres
- Connecting the greater network of film professionals and fans
- Providing the ability for filmmakers and film professionals to network
- Providing honest and realistic cross-section of international horror for horror fans and genre professionals
- Strive to offer a well-rounded, robust, inclusive, experience for fans and filmmakers to connect, network, and grow
- Facilitate the negotiation and interaction of film professionals of a variety of film makers, and film fans
- Link the ultimate consumer with the filmmaker and their films
- Connection between the film fan and the filmmaker by linking a film festival with a horror film convention
- Unique experience in that film professionals can see real fans show an audience reception and reaction to a genre film
- Film and horror connoisseurs dedicated to the discovery, promotion, and appreciation of the independent horror film.
- Dedicated to the discovery, preservation, networking, education and enjoyment of film in the genre and subgenres
- Committed to supporting the horror genre and its subgenres
- Committed to serving and supporting the independent film maker within the genre and subgenres.
UPDATE: Due to COVID, Sinister Nights is being postponed until Labor Day Weekend, 2021. However, we are still hosting the SIN Film Festival. The location has changed. We are partnering with the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival to bring SIN to their theater - Savor Cinema, 503 SE 6th St, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. Located in the heart of downtown Fort Lauderdale, Savor Cinema features 220 plush fabric covered stadium seats (additional seating can be added to comfortably seat 250), a full proscenium stage, and a complete lighting and sound system. We will be observing 50% capacity for COVID (150). The theater also offers a full bar in the lobby as well as at the back of the auditorium. Built as a Methodist Church in the 1940s, the building was turned into a theater in 1986. What better of a place to host the first SIN Film Festival?
The "Sinners"
ENVY - Audience Choice
PRIDE - Best Film
GLUTTONY - Excess (Gore, Blood, Gratuitousness, etc)
GREED - Performance
LUST - Obsession
SLOTH - Best Director
WRATH - Rage