Fright-B-Wary Film Festival

Presented by Qwerkiflix
We’re programming off beat films; films that mainstream festivals ignore or don’t appreciate. We’re looking for dark, esoteric, nightmarish stories. Our audience will be coming in from a dark, cold, rainy winter day and we want to creep them out.

Although this is the first year of this festival,  the organizers are filmmakers and understand the importance of promoting individual films, giving filmmakers post-screening Q&A, and opportunity to meet other filmmakers and fans.

Fright-B-Wary FF is at the Clinton Street Theater (220 seats), Portland OR, home of the longest running screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show (without interruption during covid).

At the conclusion of the festival, participants can purchase a ticket to the midnight screening of Rocky Horror. (Ticketing for Rocky Horror is handled by Clinton Street Theater and is not a part of Fright-B-Wary.)

Film directors of selected short and feature films will receive one complimentary festival pass for all films screening during the festival.

Film directors of features will have a short Q&A session following their screening. Film directors of shorts will have a combined Q&A session following all shorts screenings.

Awards are determined by a panel of avid horror film aficionados. The audience awards will be determined by QR code survey. All awards will be announced at the end of the festival.