Thanks to everyone who made the inaugural Attack of the $5 Film Festival our best festival ever!
Also our only festival ever! So far!
26 creators, sold-out programming blocks, audience voting, and a groovy little after-party gathering made this an event to remember, and hopefully repeat.
Gallery (more images coming soon!
Our winners!
Decided by audience vote, the 2026 winners in each category:
Animation: Picking with Spikes • Janne Vanhaecke
Horror: The Well • Henry Tran
Experimental: Calling • Noah Levac
Trash Cinema: Let's Talk About Chip • Carte Blanche
2026 Schedule
12:00 - Welcome
12:15 - Animation Block (50 minutes)
12:55 - 10 minute break
13:05 - Horror Block (70 minutes)
14:15 - 10 minute break
14:25 - Experimental Block (80 minutes)
15:45 - 10 minute break
15:55 - Trash Cinema Block (95 minutes)
17:45 - Awards, Thanks, and Wrap-Up
18:00 - Informal get-together/dinner/drinks (Tir Nan Og, Ontario St.)
Special guests
Gonna be honest, the day was kind of a blur, so I think these are the creators who came out... but this list may be amended!
- Noah Levac, Calling
- Ella Suhl, Expel
- Jesse Larrivée, The Death of a Star is Such a Beautiful Thing
- Ranee, The Naughty List
- Dylan Simpson and Ryan Leacock, DRINKS
- Henry Tran and Sawayz Sayed, The WELL
- Jordan Lee-Tung, Staples
- Josée Prud'Homme, As We Know It
- Martin Bruyère, Screen of the Dead
- Ben Ronalds, Dinner with Michelle
- Lauren Cook, Something from Space
- Carte Blanche and Katrina Sturgeon, Let's Talk About Chip
- Matt "Attack" Shepherd, CHICKEN II
- Liam of Chez Veggy
- Deniz Berkin, The Flame
- Luke Meneok and David Kolenski, Hot and Ready
- Chris Jack, Government Holiday (the Clip)
- Josée Prud'Homme and Timothy Johnson, As We Know It
- Matt Gale, Untitled Matt Gale Joint
- Manuel "Fiver" Mathieu, Festival and block intro videos
All Films
Animation Block
- He Has Your Eyes • John Dimes (USA)
- Creep • Daniela Abarca (USA)
- My Deathcar • Schnater (France)
- Sea of Hope • Jubrail Abubaker Rahman (Iraq)
- My Pal, Satan • Mike J. McAllister (USA)
- Eden • George Asimakakis (Greece)
- Abstract Activities • Mary Alison Gilson, Lily Grace Gilson (USA)
- In the Key of Green • Christopher Albert De La Roa (USA)
- Picking with Spikes • Janne Vanhaecke (Belgium)
- The Leg • Dali Laurendeau-Downing (Canada)
- Unidentified • Dave McKenna, Steve Roberts (USA)
- KAFE EXISTANSIA • Oğuz Tunç (otgunz) (Turkey)
- Zombie in my Basement • John L. McFarland (USA)
- Overly Ambitious Incomplete Motion Picture • John Akre (USA)
- The Skyward Sapphire Chase • Weston Barber (USA)
- ASHBURN • Sam Reilly (Canada)
- Cool Dog • Jude Larson (USA)
Horror Block
- Luminance • Jonah McCall, Eli Smart (Canada)
- Purple Moon • Sebastian J. Flynn (USA)
- The Naughty List • Ranee (Canada)
- Mr. No-Shoulders • Kevin Martin (USA)
- DRINKS • Dylan Simpson and Ryan Leacock (Canada)
- The WELL • Henry Tran (Canada)
- 3 Days Dead • Rae Bleu (USA)
- Downpour • Vic Kings (Brazil)
- Incubate • Alexander Walker Miller (USA)
- Sepal House • Reed Hodgkinson (Canada)
- Cherub • John Alan Hulbert (USA)
- Who the hell are ya? /// Té qui toué ? • Francis Ouellet (Canada)
- DREAM CATCHER • Stuart Drake (New Zealand)
- Something's Out There • Nicholas Bricolas (USA)
- Staples • Jordan Lee-Tung (Canada)
Experimental Block
- The Eye's Pledge • Muçteba Çatalbaş (Turkey)
- How to Have the Best Marriage Ever • Amanda Tkaczyk (Canada)
- The Flame • Deniz Berkin (Canada)
- Calling • Noah Levac (Canada)
- Presidential Address • Grant Foxon (UK)
- Two Too Odd • Dave Lojek (Austria)
- Built for Efficiency • Evgeny Patvakanov (Canada)
- My New World Never Unfolds for Anyone Else • LLJSPIRIT (China)
- WHEN THERE WON'T EVEN BE ANY MORE • Anthony C. Cajan (France)
- Capriccio #1 in E-Phrygian • Andres Luz (USA)
- Swimming pool - Fushigi Man • Natalia Ryss (Israel)
- Queen_Daddy_666 • Kristina Tokar (USA)
- Expel • Ella Suhl (Canada)
- Dire Madrigal • Seb Heil (Canada)
- You’re Not A Fool, Grandpa • Adrien Lhoste (France)
- Take This to Your Grave • Preston Sky Brown (USA)
- Ghariban • Angelissa Melissa (Indonesia)
- Sinfonia para o vampiro • Rubens De Mello
- Really Bad Eggs • JP DeGennaro
- The Death of a Star is Such a Beautiful Thing • Jesse Larivée (Canada)
- Untitled Matt Gale Joint • Matt Gale (Hull)
Trash Cinema Block
- GARAGE SALE MASSACRE • Warren Dean Fulton (Canada)
- Government Holiday (The Clip) • Chris Jack (Canada)
- Got a Light? • Matt Lishman (Canada)
- As We Know It • Josée Prud'Homme (Canada)
- Zeus Atomic vs The Monster Queen • Jerry Williams (USA)
- Girl Dinner • Krista Poroszlay (Canada)
- Hot & Ready • Luke Meneok (Canada)
- Let's Talk About Chip • Carte Blanche (Canada)
- Cryptid City • David LaMorte (USA)
- Lupo Mannaro • Matthew Eyre, Philip McKeever (USA)
- Screen of the Dead • Martin Bruyère (Canada)
- The Carry-Arrow Video Collection • Dan Carriero (USA)
- Dinner with Michelle • Ben Ronalds, Dylan Jast (Canada)
- Attack of the Atomic Menace: Chapter Four • Vincent DiConstanzo (USA)
- CHICKEN II • Matt Shepherd (Canada)
- Pimple • Fernando Alle (Portugal)
- Something from Space • Lauren Cook (Canada)
- Jon Quits his Job • Vincent DiCostanzo (USA)
- Chez Veggy • Elisabeth Calder, Noel De Capon, Annabelle Crowley, and Angela Todd (Canada)