Frontières at TIFF The Market Unveils Lineup, Featuring a ‘Dim Sum Western,’ Newlywed Night of Terror and Wolf-Tracking Dark Comedy (EXCLUSIVE)
Frontières at TIFF: The Market has announced a seven-title genre-project showcase for Toronto in September, led by Johnnie To’s “Two Gun Cohen”. The standalone event is designed to connect co-producers, sales agents and buyers with projects, and its expanded selection reflects strong interest from independent genre filmmakers.
– “Two Gun Cohen”: a true-story-inspired “dim sum western” blending eastern and western influences.
– “Ringing the Changes”: psychological horror about honeymooners hearing bells in an abandoned town, adapted from Robert Aickman.
– “Fin”: Lowell Dean’s fantasy dramedy about estranged siblings discovering their catatonic mother is a mermaid.
– The showcase grew from five to seven projects after receiving more than 100 submissions.
- Frontières’ TIFF showcase has expanded to seven genre projects.
- Johnnie To’s “Two Gun Cohen” headlines the selection.
- The market targets co-producers, buyers and sales agents.
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Frontières is an industry programme for horror, fantasy, thriller and other genre films. It brings filmmakers with projects in development together with potential co-producers, sales companies and distributors, helping them find finance and international partners before the films are made.
It takes place alongside the Toronto International Film Festival’s market, where film professionals meet to buy, sell and support new work. Johnnie To is a Hong Kong director known for crime films, while Robert Aickman was a British writer whose stories are often unsettling and ambiguous.
The selected projects range from horror to dark comedy, reflecting the broad use of “genre” in film. A larger-than-planned selection suggests organisers received substantial interest from independent filmmakers seeking industry backing.