Queer Fear Film Festival celebrates independent genre films that highlight queer creators and stories, from the campy to the truly skin-crawling. Join us for our fourth annual festival on Saturday, October 12 for a day jam-packed with new queer horror shorts and feature films from around the world. Be part of the Queer Fear community as we honor the latest Gothic, slasher, supernatural, body, psychological, and toe-curling horror through a queer lens.

Some of the most exciting queer horror creators are doing work here in the South, and we’re excited to partner with a/perture cinema to present this year’s event. Winston-Salem is a welcoming and vibrant arts community, and we offer screening fees and travel assistance to all accepted filmmakers to help them attend and present their work in person. 

Filmmaker Q&A to follow each screening!

Single Tickets $15 – still available!

Saturday, October 12 

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Film Block 1: 1:00 p.m.

Film Block 2: 3:30 p.m.

Film Block 3: 7:00 p.m.

Film Block 4: 9:00 p.m.

Queer Fear Film Festival is a nonprofit founded in 2021 with a vision of spotlighting LGBTQ+ representation in genre films, and bringing together filmmakers and fans through screenings and discussions. The queer community and the horror community have so many intersections and overlaps, including how welcoming and supportive they both are! If you identify as queer, as a filmmaker, or as a horror fan, you belong here.

Queer Fear Film Festival is a sponsored project of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County and funded through ARPA supported by the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.