We are delighted to announce that we have reviewed hundreds of excellent submissions from all genres and have selected the outstanding films that will be shown at this year's festival.   Information about the films we've selected so far, as well as the festival schedule when it's available, can be found on our Films page.   More information can be found on our Press Releases page as well.

We are delighted to announce that we recieved hundreds of excellent submissions from all genres (Action, Animation, Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction).   We are now in the process of finalizing our selections and creating the schedule for the festival. Sorry for the delay, but we have received so many outstanding submissions this year that we have some very difficult decisions to make in the coming days. More information on the selected films will be available shortly. Thank you for your patience.

Psychotronic Cinema is a new series celebrating the best in new and classic genre cinema, including horror, action, sci-fi, fantasy, and everything weird, strange, disturbing, or just plain unclassifiable. Psychotornic Cinema will be taking place every Thursday evening at the SIFF Cinema Uptown. Scarecrow Video is the presenting co-sponsor of this new genre film block. MIFFF will be providing a boundary-breaking, genre-loving, or utterly bizarre short film before each feature screening.

2012 Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival

MIFFF is seeking features, documentaries, short films and animation for the 4th annual festival.

MIFFF has officially opened the submission season for the 2012 Festival. The premier genre film festival in the Pacific Northwest, MIFFF showcases action, animation, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and other mind-blowing films from across the globe. For additional information, or to submit your short or feature-length production for consideration, you may visit the MIFFF website at http://www.mifff.org

IMPORTANT FESTIVAL DATES:
Early Bird Submission Deadline is April 30th, 2012
Regular Submission Deadline is May 21st, 2012
Final Submission Deadline is June 11th, 2012
WAB Only Submission Deadline is July 9th, 2012

Click here to download the Entry Form.

or apply now online: Withoutabox.com

If you have questions, please email us at info@mifff.org

We are extremely happy and honored to announce the winners from the 2011 Festival! Please join us in congratulating the following films :

Best Feature (Audience Award): Boy Wonder
Best Feature (Jury Award): Absentia

Best Animation Short (Audience & Jury Award): Nullarbor
Best Fantasy Short (Audience Award): Employe du Mois
Best Fantasy Short (Jury Award): Arthur
Best Horror Short (Audience & Jury Award): Brutal Relax
Best Sci-Fi Short (Audience Award): Mongrel's Creed
Best Sci-Fi Short (Jury Award): Status

We are delighted to announce that we have reviewed hundreds of excellent submissions from all genres and have selected the outstanding films that will be shown at this year's festival.   Information about the selected films, as well as the festival schedule, can be found on our Films page.   More information can be found on our Press Releases page as well.

We are delighted to announce that we recieved hundreds of excellent submissions from all genres (Action, Animation, Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction).   We are now in the process of finalizing our selections and creating the schedule for the festival. Sorry for the delay, but we have received so many outstanding submissions this year that we have some very difficult decisions to make in the coming days. More information on the selected films will be available shortly. Thank you for your patience.

We are extremely happy and honored to announce the winners from the 2010 Festival! Please join us in congratulating the following films :

Best Feature: The Presence

Best Action Short: Street Angel
Best Animation Short: A Complex Villainelle
Best Fantasy Short: Manual Practico del Amigo Imaginario (abreviado)
Best Horror Short: The Familiar
Best Sci-Fi Short: Babylon 2084

We are delighted to announce that we recieved hundreds of excellent submissions from all genres (Action, Animation, Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction).   We have now finalized our selections and the full Schedule has been published.    More detailed information on all of the selected films will be available shortly. Thank you for your patience.

MIFFF is pleased to announce that it's an official sponsor this year of SIFF's Midnight Adrenaline programming film track. Midnight Adrenaline returns to SIFF this year with an overdose of highly addictive, unpredictable, and suspense-inducing features for the cult film junkie. Better than ever, SIFF showcases an onslaught of classic genre film and other underground fixations including a zombie apocalypse, slasher backwoods hillbillies, medieval fantasy games, and unusually enhanced geishas.

This year SIFF brings cult-classic grindhouse film to a whole new level with Israel Luna's controversial transploitation film, Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives. (6/12-6/13)

Zombie mayhem ensues with a live ZomBcon event at Boom Noodle before the screening of George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead, the sixth zombie film by the godfather of undead cinema. (5/21-5/22)

From Hong Kong, director Pang Ho-Cheung unleashes a gory tale of lifestyle fetishization and a desperate, bloody path towards obtaining one's own Dream Home. (6/11,6/13)

In the kitschy RoboGeisha, Japan presents a twisted take on sibling rivalry as two cybernetic-enhanced geishas combat to win the local steel baron's heart. (5/28,6/8)

Amer is a dreamy pastiche tour-de-force of 1970s Italian giallo horror movies that plays out a delirious, enigmatic death-dance of fear and desire. (5/29-5/30)

When their legion is ambushed in Northern Britain, a small platoon of surviving Roman soldiers must evade a revenge-hungry band of barbarian warriors through harsh terrain in an attempt to rescue their general and return to the safety of the Roman frontier in Centurion. (6/1,6/4)

Splice is a 21st century creature feature, two young scientists willfully ignore society's ethical boundaries, and achieve fame by splicing the DNA of different animals into the human genome to create a new species. However, their creation rapidly develops into a beautiful, yet deadly, winged chimera. (5/30-5/31)

The Wild Hunt explores when a medieval live action role playing game can go seriously off track

Finally, Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil tells the story of how two hillbilly's have found their perfect "fixer-upper" cabin, but remodeling is never easy, particularly when a group of college co-eds on spring break start killing themselves all over your property. (5/21-5/22)

MIFFF will be holding a trivia contest before some of the screenings with the prizes being a full weekend pass to the 2010 Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival.

Trailers for all the films can be found here.

This Sunday, some of the best films from the 2009 Festival will be showing at Norwescon as part of the Fandance Film Festival. These fillms will include Hart, The Kirkie, The Urge, and Mr. Gun just to name a few.

Director of Programming, Eric Morgret, will be introducing the films, so stop by, say hello, and enjoy some of the finest short films we showed last year during our inaugural festival.

For more information, please visit the Norwescon site at: www.norwescon.org.

We are extremely happy and honored to announce the winners for our inaugural year's Festival. Please join us in congratulating the following films :

Best Feature: Strigoi

Best Animation Short: Enter the Sandbox
Best Fantasy Short: Hart
Best Horror Short: Death In Charge
Best Sci-Fi Short: The Kirkie

No matter what happened throughout the year and with all of our worries, the event came together solidly. There were butts in the seats. People were laughing, gasping or slightly disturbed by what they saw. The volunteers who showed up were fantastic and attentive and got the chance to meet all of the filmmakers who came through, as well as see all of the smiling faces of the attendees as they came in and out of the fabulous SIFF Theater, really a one-of-a-kind venue that I am looking forward to being at next year.

Thanks goes out to the volunteers:
Aimee, for her pre-festival help.
Angelina and Walli, for being my dedicated volunteers throughout the entire weekend.
Special thanks goes out to Cindy for not only volunteering but putting me up for the night so I didn't have to drive home to Tacoma each night and letting me in the door after staying out late every night.

Thanks goes out to SIFF:
Randy and Jody for being so great, attentive and helpful at the front before, during, and after the film festival.
To the three dedicated volunteers who come back to SIFF theater events and came in at the last minute to help MIFFF.
The day and night projectionists whose assistance with microphones and lighting were on the ball and spot on each time.
To Kat for all her help in putting together a fantastic web interface for selling and advertising our films on the SIFF site.

Thanks goes out to all of the great filmmakers who showed up to MIFFF and are dedicated to attending the festivals where their products went out to! Good luck on your future film festivals in the upcoming year! I look forward to seeing your next film ventures at MIFFF in the future, especially next year!

Thanks goes out to the sponsors:
The Dreaming, one of Seattle's best comic shops for years.
Field of Screams, one of the most professional, scariest and incredible haunted house type events in a field that you will ever go to. Ever.
Crypticon, Seattle's first choice in horror conventions.
Hen Da Ne, Inc., Vendor of only the finest Japanese doujinshi, found only at anime conventions, check your local listings for the next anime con in your area that they are at.

And last, thanks goes out to every single member of the Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival board that I had the pleasure of helping put together this inaugural year:

Board Secretary, Dan Doody -- Without your work and your contacts, we would not have gotten into such a beautiful venue so easily, nor had all of our questions answered so well and thoroughly. Your knowledge and selfless assistance in getting this film festival get started helped us demonstrate what will become in the continuing years. Thanks, Dan!
Board Treasurer, Marth Christensen -- Your bookkeeping kept us on track and you needled in questions that needed to be asked at every meeting you could be at. Dedication to the details are part of what paid off big time in the end.
Director of Guest Relations, Jon Tomhave -- Being one of three people on the board with film festival experience, both competing and arranging, you were great to have on board. Taking up the slack wherever you could, I appreciate the work that you put in. I am sure Adnan had a fantastic time because of you as well. Thanks, Jon!
Director of Publications, Rick Tillman -- Spot on fantastic website and a really great layout and design for all of our posters, business cards, and especially, programming guides. You put in more work than I can count and enjoyed what you were doing. Professionally done, professional looking. Thanks, Rick!
Vice President and Director of Programming, Eric Morgret -- What a fantastic film selection! It really came together so well. All of the hard work over the past year and then some for you really paid off. This started off as your baby and you man-birthed it the whole way through on that last push this weekend. Thanks, Eric!
Director of Publicity, Isaac Alexander -- If it had not been for you, I would never have gotten the chance to work with such a great crew on a great event in the first place. Your work from the east coast was invaluable. Your energy and dedication to the cause was more than helpful. The only thing that we would need more out of you is for you to live on this side of the nation. Thanks, Isaac!

And to all the film lovers who came this year and made our inaugural year a great one. THANK YOU! It is for the lovers of film, especially genre film, that made this year an outstanding one and will make next year one for the books as well. We will see you next year to get MIFFF'd at the movies!

Gabe