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Terror High Film Festival

Terror High Film Festival is a horror showcase presented by the San Antonio nonprofit Association of Creative Multimedia Partners to promote work by local and regional artists. It began in 2020 as a free online festival and ran virtually again in 2021. It honors short horror films for their effects, direction and overall craft, with custom trophies for best practical or special effects, best director and best feature. For its 2024 edition the festival moved inside Cursed City Con, the San Antonio horror convention, then held at the Norris Conference Center on NW Loop 410, and every selected entrant received two passes to the convention. The most recent listed edition was September 7, 2024. No later dates were posted, so it is listed as dormant. Cursed City Con now runs its own film program, Cursed City Cinema.

Festival · San Antonio · Since 2020 · Dormant since 2024

When it ran

Held in September
Norris Conference Centers (618 NW Loop 410), at Cursed City Con 2024
Association of Creative Multimedia Partners (nonprofit); directors Jesus Hernandez, Garrett Killian and Austin Rogers
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Old website ↗︎

Prizes

Custom trophies for best practical/special effects, best director and best feature.

Notable


In 2024 films screened at Cursed City Con at the Norris Conference Center; selected entrants received two convention passes	↗︎
The first Terror High Film Fest streamed free online on October 17, 2020, after plans for an in-person event were dropped because of the pandemic	↗︎
The 2nd annual festival in 2021 was again virtual and free to enter and watch	↗︎
Last listed edition September 7, 2024; listed as running 4 years on FilmFreeway	↗︎
Listed by Film San Antonio among local film festivals	↗︎

Sources

Terror High Film Festival FilmFreeway
Terror High Film Fest Seeking Submissions from San Antonio Filmmakers San Antonio Current 2020-09-04
San Antonio's 2nd Annual Terror High Film Fest now accepting submissions San Antonio Current 2021-09-03
Cursed City Cinema FilmFreeway
Local Film Festivals City of San Antonio, Film San Antonio (San Antonio Film Commission)