The Bleeding Tree International Dark Drama Film Festival is a new indie film festival showcasing dark drama – short and feature length films that depict protagonists starting off with good intentions but who, due to trauma, addiction, ignorance or just bad decisions, spiral into dark places. Endings for these films may be horrific, tragic, ambiguous, even happy, but the events leading up to them must be distinctly dark. See IMDB’s description of dark drama at https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031796628/.
Created by two independent film/media scholars and filmmakers (THE ORCHARD (2022), EXOPHORIA (2024) and upcoming HEXE), Bleeding Tree will be held August 9, 2024 in Cranbrook, British Columbia at the historic (and famously haunted) Studio Stage Door Theatre (https://www.cranbrookcommunitytheatre.com/). Selected dark drama films are vetted by a panel of non-participating judges with experience in the filmmaking industry or in film/media scholarship.
Festival attendees will enjoy Cranbrook’s numerous top-rated spas, restaurants, brew pubs, lakes, camping, world-class golf courses and cultural amenities — including the St. Eugene Resort, formerly a residential school reclaimed under the leadership of the Ktunaxa Nation, and the nearby and picturesque town of Kimberley.
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Laurels and a cash prize are awarded in the following categories:
Best Short Film (under 45 minutes) — $150
Best Feature-Length Film (over 60 minutes) — $250
Best Music Video -- $150