Roll up, roll up! Come one, come all!

Welcome to the first annual Apocalypse Later International Fantastic Film Festival (ALIFFF)!

Mark your calendars now: the evening of Saturday, 15th October, 2016 at the Phoenix Center for the Arts.

Submissions Submissions are closed for 2016. Thanks for submitting! Acceptances will be sent out on 14th September.

Tickets Tickets are now live through PayPal (or a debit or credit card)! Cost is $10 and popcorn is free!

What We Are

We are a new event in the Phoenix metropolitan area which aims to return a high quality annual genre-based film festival to the sixth largest city in the United States.

There are two other events in the area that are worthy of note and we highly recommend both, but neither is dedicated:

• The International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival started as a genre film festival in 2005, but it was folded into the Phoenix Film Festival in 2011 and has functioned as its genre track since then. You can't buy an IHSFFF ticket, just a PFF ticket.
• Phoenix FearCon started as a horror film festival in 2006 but is now a convention with a film track. It's also not annual, usually running every other year.

So we're not replacing them (in fact we work both of them and love them to bits). We're giving audiences back a dedicated event that will concentrate entirely on high quality genre film and run every year.

We plan to grow ALIFFF in future years, but it will remain true to its core ideals, which are to find the very best genre films and screen them to audiences at as low a cost as is possible without sacrificing quality.

Where We Are

The Phoenix Center for the Arts is our home for year one. Their address is 1202 N 3rd St, Phoenix, AZ 85004.

It's conveniently located in downtown Phoenix right off I-10 and there's free parking right next to the building. It's about a quarter of a mile from the light rail and about half a mile from Central Ave & McDowell Rd.

At PCA, we'll be in the Third Street Theater, which seats a comfortable 210. The venue allows the sale of alcohol, so we'll have a selection of beers on sale and we plan to have free popcorn for everyone.

When We Are

Genre festivals are traditionally late in the year and we'll host our first annual event on Saturday, 15th October, 2016. It's a Saturday night and we'll start at 6.00pm. Doors will open an hour earlier at 5.00pm.

We'll be screening a 90 minute set of horror shorts and a 90 minute set of science fiction shorts, with an intermission in between and awards to wrap up the night.

Who We Are

ALIFFF was founded by Hal C F Astell, a film critic and author who has been part of the film festival community since 2007. It will become a cornerstone of the Apocalypse Later Empire.

Hal programs and hosts mini-film festivals at conventions across the southwest. He screens and/or judges a number of major film festivals and film challenges. He programs and judges the short film track for Phoenix FearCon. He writes at Apocalypse Later and his fourth book was The International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival: The Transition Years, which covers every feature and every short screened at that event in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Our judges are all established names within the local film community:

• Jim McLennan is the co-founder of Phoenix FearCon, a horror convention with a film track that was founded in 2006. He also runs the Trash City and Girls with Guns blogs.
• Victor Moreno is the founder of Cult Classics, a monthly repertory film programming series in Tempe, AZ that was founded in 2011 and has won two Best of Phoenix awards. He also hosts the Cult Following podcast.
• Toni Ross is the founder of the Jerome Indie Film & Music Festival in Clarkdale and Jerome, AZ, that was founded in 2013.

Our graphic artist is Marty Freetage of Freetage Designs. He handles the graphic art for the Phoenix Film Festival, the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, Phoenix FearCon, Phoenix Comicon etc. He also designed and created the cover for the book mentioned above.

Our awards will be utterly unique, because they've been commissioned from the utterly unique Tom Deadstuff, a Phoenix-based artist who works in paper mache. Check out his gallery.

Tickets are Live! We aim to keep ALIFFF as affordable as possible without sacrificing quality. This first event will be priced at only $10 per ticket. For this price, you'll be seeing two 90 minute sets of high quality short films, one horror and one science fiction, and enjoying free popcorn. Payment can be made through PayPal, which includes the ability to pay with a credit or debit card if you don't have a PayPal account.

Submissions are closed. Submissions are closed for 2016. Thanks for submitting! Acceptances will be sent out on 14th September. Submission fees for filmmakers are also low. We're charging only $20 per submission until 20th July and a late entry $40 per submission from then until 17th August. Submit soon and save!