FilmQuest Details Genre-Focused Film Market "Marché Du Cthulhu" (Exclusive)

The Provo, Utah-based genre festival FilmQuest has detailed its inaugural film market. Named in tribute to H.P. Lovecraft's famous cosmic monster, "Marché du Cthulhu" is described as "taking a curatorial approach to presenting buyers, distributors, sales agents and others with films it believes have commercial value and will sell in the surrounding markets."

Provo-based genre festival, FilmQuest Utah, details its inaugural film market.

As a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft's famous Cosmic Beast, the market is described as "a regulated approach to providing buyers, distributors, sales agents and others with films they believe have commercial value and are sold in markets around the world along with the festival's official competition list". Related Stories Ice-T on "Law & Order: SVU's Persistence and Cultural Impact": "I'm on a good treadmill and I'm gonna stay on it" Questlove reflects on the power of vulnerability and pioneering: "I gotta be the change I wanna be."

The in-person and remote marketplace will be held in conjunction with the festival, Oct. 27-29 at Provo's InTension Studios, hosted by genre production company Intension Industries. Popular in Variety

Jon Fitzgerald, director of Marché du Cthulounder, said in a statement: "We're excited to have the opportunity to offer an additional set of features. As the appetite for genre titles continues to expand, we see this market leading to more acquisitions in this space. More support for emerging filmmakers translates into more content for audiences."

"We received 3,000 submissions for FilmQuest this season, nearly 500 of which were feature films," Jonathan Martin, festival director and co-founder of Marquee, said in a statement. "While it was impossible for us to plan to include them in our competition lineup, we saw many feature films that have commercial value and still deserve to be recognized and seen by distributors that are potentially being overlooked."

Participants include Sony, CAA, Vertical Entertainment, Bleecker Street, Scatena & Rosner Films, Breaking Glass, StudioDome, Chroma, Archstone, Buffalo 8 and Jackrabbit Media, more to be announced.

In addition to the official selections available, available titles include Guy Bauer's dark comedy-thriller Anna the Cleaner (USA). Andy Chen's sci-fi thriller "One More" (USA); Julian Hoffman's horror-slasher comedy "Autumn Hill" (Canada); Jesse Behrenwald's sci-fi thriller "Brother Saves Us" (USA); Cyrus Neschaud's dystopian horror and Luxembourg's official Oscar entry, "The Child" (Luxembourg); Stuart Spark's sci-fi feature "Dead Reset" (UK); David Hebro's family horror "House of Atreus" (Spain); Jen Walden's post-apocalyptic science fiction "Lumi" (Canada); Science fiction space series "Phase" by Jessica Vogt (UK); Robert Cannon's action film "The Prowler" (USA); Rob Alicia's sci-fi thriller "Serena" (USA); Willard Morgan and Gideon Berger's period horror film Tannery (USA); Shayne Putzlocher's horror film "The Wrath" (Canada); Maxwell Morrow's action horror film "Horntak Valley" (USA); And Nick Psinakis and Kevin Ignatius make the 70s crime thriller Valley View Motel (USA).

Every season, at least another 30 to 50 titles are submitted, Martin also said: "The festival that is not planned and then we see distribution on different platforms." "The thinking is, if we're watching hundreds of new genre features in the market right now, which gives us an early look at all the trends, the emerging talent and then some, why not cut it down and bring that directly to buyers with hundreds of market experience who don't have hundreds of experience of all the movies and booths that come with it, but instead we reduce it to movies," Martin said. We know they will sell, and their value to the market will be immediately apparent."

The team is already looking to grow the market next year, hoping to include tournaments, pitch opportunities and an expanded lineup.