Stanley Film Festival was a horror film festival located in Estes Park, Colorado. Founded in 2013, the festival showcased independent horror films, including features, shorts and special events with guest filmmakers. The festival was named for the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park where it is held, a neo-Georgian hotel that was the inspiration and setting of Stephen King's horror novel The Shining. The festival also held a student film competition titled, The Stanley Dean's Cup.
2013 Festival The inaugural festival was held May 2–5, 2013. Opening night film: The Purge with director James DeMonaco and producer Jason Blum in attendance. The 2013 festival was curated by Programming Director Landon Zakheim and programmer Michael Lerman, with films from 13 different countries.
Selected films Film Director Country Additional Notes 100 Bloody Acres Colin and Cameron Cairnes Australia Aftershock Nicolás López USA, Chile Closing Night All the Boys Love Mandy Lane Jonathan Levine USA Beneath Larry Fessenden USA Berberian Sound Studio Peter Strickland United Kingdom Big Bad Wolves Navot Papushado & Aharon Keshales Israel Black Rock Katie Aselton USA Cabin Fever – Unrated Director's Cut Eli Roth USA Frankenstein's Army Richard Raaphorst Netherlands Here Comes the Devil Adrián García Bogliano Mexico Macabre Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto Singapore, Indonesia Maniac Frank Khalfoun USA No One Lives Ryûhei Kitamura USA Room 237 Rodney Ascher USA Sightseers Ben Wheatley United Kingdom Centerpiece The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Robert Wiene Germany The Purge James DeMonaco USA Opening Night The Rambler Calvin Lee Reeder USA The Shining Stanley Kubrick USA Tower Block James Nunn & Ronnie Thompson United Kingdom V/H/S/2 Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto & Adam Wingard USA, Canada, Indonesia Vanishing Waves Kristina Buozyte Lithuania, France, Belgium Wither Sonny Laguna & Tommy Wiklund Sweden
Special Events "Secrets of The Shining" panel discussion about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, which complimented a screening of Room 237. It included Room 237 director Rodney Ascher and subject Jay Weidner, Leon Vitali, who was Kubrick's personal assistant on The Shining, Mick Garris, director of The Shining (TV miniseries), and moderated by Badass Digest writer Devin Faraci.
Presentation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with live piano score by performer Hank Troy. "Composing for Genre Cinema" - a panel discussion with film score composers, Nathan Barr, Jonathan Snipes, William Hutson, Hank Troy and Mark Schulz. Live performance by the John Chaos Sideshow.
2013 Awards Award Recipient Film/Note Visionary Award Eli Roth Example Audience Award for Feature Franck Khalfoun Maniac Audience Award for Short Ryan Spindell The Root of the Problem Stanley Dean’s Cup John McSween Peak of Terror
2014 Festival The 2nd annual festival took place April 24–27, 2014.
Selected films
Film Director Country Additional Notes Doc of the Dead Alexandre O. Philippe USA Opening Night What We Do in the Shadows Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement New Zealand Closing Night The Babadook Jennifer Kent Australia Blood Glacier Marvin Kren Austria Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead Tommy Wirkola Norway/Iceland Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick UK/USA The Fall of the House of Usher Jean Epstein France/USA Gremlins Joe Dante USA Housebound Gerard Johnstone New Zealand Late Phases Adrian Garcia Bogliano USA Lesson of the Evil Takashi Miike Japan LFO Antonio Tublen Sweden/Denmark Moebius Kim Ki-duk South Korea The Nightmare Before Christmas Henry Selick USA Nothing Bad Can Happen Katrin Gebbe Germany Open Windows Nacho Vigolando Spain/USA Ragnarok Mikkel Brænne Sandemose Norway R100 Hitoshi Matsumoto Japan Rigor Mortis Juno Mak Hong Kong The Sacrament Ti West USA Sleepwalkers Mick Garris USA Starry Eyes Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer USA The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Belgium / France / Luxembourg The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – 40th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION Tobe Hooper USA Witching and Bitching Alex de la Iglesia Spain Who Can Kill a Child? Narciso Ibáñez Serrador Spain
2014 Awards Award Recipient Film/Note Visionary Award Elijah WoodDaniel NoahJosh Waller Founders of SpectreVision The Master of Horror Award Joe Dante Audience Award for Feature What We Do In The Shadows Audience Award for Short Here Be Monsters Jury Award for Short Ghost Train Stanley Dean's Cup Jury Award and Stanley Dean's Cup Audience Award Wormbug
2015 Festival The 3rd annual festival took place April 30 - May 3, 2015.
Opening night film: Cooties with SpectreVision production company partners Daniel Noah, Josh Waller, and Elijah Wood in attendance.
Selected films
Film Director Country Notes The Nightmare Rodney Ascher USA We Are Still Here Ted Geoghegan USA Body Dan Berk & Robert Olsen USA The Boy Craig Macneill USA Deathgasm Jason Lei Howden New Zealand Director's Commentary: The Terror Of Frankenstein Tim Kirk USA The Final Girls Todd Strauss-Schulson USA Closing Night Cooties Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion USA Opening Night Goodnight Mommy Ich Seh Ich Seh Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz Austria The Hallow Corin Hardy United Kingdom Hollow Ham Tran Vietnam The Invitation Karyn Kusama USA Centerpiece Let Us Prey Brian O'Malley United Kingdom Over Your Dead Body Kuime Takashi Miike Japan Scherzo Diabolico Adrian Garcia Bogliano Mexico Shrew's Nest Musarañas Juanfer Andrés & Esteban Roel Spain Some Kind Of Hate Adam Egypt Mortimer USA Stung TBenni Diez USA Sun Choke Ben Cresciman USA The Treatment Hans Herbots Belgium When Animals DreamNår Dyrene Drømmer Jonas Alexander Arnby Denmark Shivers David Cronenberg Canada Retrospective Re-Animator Stuart Gordon USA Retrospective The Bride Of Frankenstein James Whale USA Retrospective DiaboliqueLes Diaboliques Henri-Georges Clouzot France Retrospective Repulsion Roman Polanski United Kingdom Retrospective The Rocky Horror Picture Show Jim Sharman USA Retrospective
2015 Awards Award Recipient Film/Note Visionary Award Tom Quinn RADiUS-TWC co-president Audience Award for Feature The Final Girls Director Todd Strauss-Schulson Audience Award & Jury Award for Short Film The Babysitter Murder Director Ryan Spindell Stanley Dean's Cup Colorado Prize Moon Studios Director Merritt Crocker Stanley Dean's Cup International Prize Inherent Noise Director Karol Jurga
External links Official Site - www.stanleyfilmfest.com
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