Attack of the $5 Film Festival
2026 Schedule of Events
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 (location TBD)
Please arrive a few minutes early as we'll be checking tickets, etc. for each individual block.
Only day pass holders and Trash Cinema block ticket holders (and creators!) will be able to watch the awards at the end (because there are only so many tickets in the theatre), so if you want to see the prizes given out, please plan accordingly!
Special guests
A tentative list of creators who will be joining us! Subject to change; some folks are still confirming, and obviously plans can change!
- 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, The WELL
- Jordan Lee-Tung, Staples
- Josée Prud'Homme, As We Know It
- Martin Bruyère, Screen of the Dead
- Ben Ronalds and Dylan Jast, Dinner with Michelle
- Lauren Cook, Something from Space
- Matt Shepherd, CHICKEN II
- Two of the Chez Veggy folks
- Manuel Mathieu, Festival and block intro videos
Awards
Decided by AUDIENCE VOTE FOR EACH BLOCK!
Rather than take any form of responsibility for their decisions, Manuel Fiver and Matt Attack are craven cowards who have decided that mob rule is the order of the day, and will let the audience decide who will win for best feature in each category! Voting sheets will be distributed at the venue. Bring pens!
on second thought maybe we'll set up Poll Anywhere or something for this, I dunno
Films
Sequence still being determined at time of writing; films may not be in the exact order listed below.
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 • Brendon LaCarte (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)