Blood in the Snow Film Festival

Blood in the Snow Film Festival BITS began in 2012 and was registered as a not-for-profit in 2015.

🎬 15 years of fearless Canadian cinema 🇨🇦
🩸 Horror | 👽 Sci-Fi | 🔥 Action | 💀 Underground
📍 Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto · Nov 16-21, 2026

https://linktr.ee/BITSFILMFEST The Blood in the Snow Film Festival is a unique and imaginative showcase of contemporary Canadian horror, genre and underground cinema that exists to challenge social boundaries, explore artistic taboos and support and exhibit independent Canadian genre media artists. BITS takes place in Toronto, Ontario and brings together audiences, media coverage, community partnerships and the filmmaking industry to exhibit and celebrate Canadian genre film.

🎙️ BITS Radio LIVE! – Episode #151We’re closing out our BITS 2025 live recordings with filmmakers Findlay Ironside and ...
09/10/2026

🎙️ BITS Radio LIVE! – Episode #151

We’re closing out our BITS 2025 live recordings with filmmakers Findlay Ironside and Aidan Lesser to talk about FIRST RITES, which screened as part of our Dark Visions horror shorts program.

🩸 Writer / Director / Producer — Findlay Ironside (Findlay Ironside)
🩸 Writer — Aidan Lesser (Aidan Lesser)

⚰️ FIRST RITES
A young woman seeking solace for the afterlife turns to the only person who may have the answers — a long-dead co**se.

💀 Official Selection — BITS 2025
Dark Visions — Horror Shorts Program



🎧 Listen now: BITSRadio.ca

And that’s a wrap on our BITS 2025 interviews! 🫀

BITS Radio returns to record LIVE at the 15th annual Blood in the Snow Film Festival, November 16–21, 2026, at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto.

See you in November. 🎙️🩸

09/10/2026

Kelly and Rob sit down and chat with Findlay Ironside & Aidan Lesser while at the Blood in the Snow Film Festival 2025. The discussion involves their project First Rites that played in the festival.

🎬 TIFF is here — and so is the Young Film Makers Party!Blood in the Snow is proud to support the Young Film Makers Party...
09/09/2026

🎬 TIFF is here — and so is the Young Film Makers Party!

Blood in the Snow is proud to support the Young Film Makers Party, kicking off TIFF on Wednesday, September 9 at the Walrus Pub & Beer Hall in Toronto.

Celebrating more than 25 years, this long-running TIFF industry party brings emerging and established filmmakers, actors, creatives, executives and crew together under one roof — no velvet ropes, no hierarchies.

🎉 Young Film Makers Party
📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
⏰ 8:30 PM – Late
📍 Walrus Pub & Beer Hall, Toronto
🍸 Cocktail attire | 19+

Featuring Lotsy, Lemon Bucket Orchestra, DJ D Rock and more assorted madness!

Online tickets are sold out, but tickets will still be available at the door, subject to capacity.

Net proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to an arts charity. ❤️

See you at TIFF! 🎬🥂

Kat Katatonic

Event details:
https://admitone.com/events/toronto/community/party/young-film-makers-party/PJ8NYI

Fresh voices. Bold visions. New blood🩸The New Blood Creators Forum is an initiative designed to bring emerging Canadian ...
09/08/2026

Fresh voices. Bold visions. New blood🩸

The New Blood Creators Forum is an initiative designed to bring emerging Canadian genre filmmakers inside the beating heart 🫀 of BITS. This is not just a pass — it’s a guided experience.

Built for creators with projects in early-stage development, the Forum is a fully curated immersion into the BITS Horror Development Lab, the Deadly Exposure Industry Conference, and the festival’s screening programs. Throughout the week you’ll move through as a cohort — attending events together, getting facilitated introductions, and picking up insider knowledge on how genre projects actually move from concept to screen.

Your New Blood Creators Pass includes:
🎬 Access to observe the Horror Development Lab pitches
🎟️ Entry to Deadly Exposure panels, masterclasses & networking events
🍿 A curated festival screening lineup of features and shorts
🤝 Structured opportunities to connect with peers and industry guests

💥 $180 early bird (reg. $240) — per person, a small, intimate cohort
⏳ Early bird ends September 30
📅 BITS runs November 16–21, 2026 · Isabel Bader Theatre & the Trazac Club, Toronto

Applications are open now — complete the basic application form when you get your pass.

🎟️ Get your pass → bloodinthesnow.ca
👀 Full details: bloodinthesnow.ca/NewBloodCreatorsForum.html

See you at TIFF ‘26? 🎬🇨🇦Kelly Michael Stewart — Festival Director & Founder of Blood in the Snow Film Festival and the D...
09/07/2026

See you at TIFF ‘26? 🎬🇨🇦

Kelly Michael Stewart — Festival Director & Founder of Blood in the Snow Film Festival and the Deadly Exposure Industry Conference — will be at TIFF all week, September 10–18, and he’d love to connect.

Whether you’re a filmmaker, distributor, or industry partner, Kelly would like to learn more about your current projects and priorities, and see if there are opportunities for us to work together — whether through programming, filmmaker development, industry partnerships, sponsorship, or connecting you with Canadian genre talent.

📅 Sept 10–18
📍 TIFF, The Market
🔗 Book a meeting → cal.com/bloodinthesnow/bits-tiff2026

Want to know what’s coming this November? Learn more about BITS 2026 → bloodinthesnow.ca

DeadlyExposure

🌐 T.O. Webfest is back — Sept 29 & 30 at the Novotel, Downtown Toronto.Now in its 13th year, T.O. Webfest is Canada’s fe...
09/04/2026

🌐 T.O. Webfest is back — Sept 29 & 30 at the Novotel, Downtown Toronto.

Now in its 13th year, T.O. Webfest is Canada’s festival created for short-form digital series & podcasts — screenings, panels & direct access to the funders, broadcasters & decision-makers shaping the industry. Official selections & nominees are announced. Full schedule drops next week.

🏷️ Use code TOWF4BITS for 10% off all tickets & passes

🎟️ TICKETS: 3common.com/towebfest2026
💻 MORE INFO: webseriescanada.org/towebfest

WebSeries Canada 🇨🇦 Jess Blackwell Novotel Toronto Centre

🎙️ BITS Radio LIVE! – Episode #150This week we’re joined by filmmaker Dave Thorpe to discuss APPENDAGE—a sci-fi horror ...
09/04/2026

🎙️ BITS Radio LIVE! – Episode #150

This week we’re joined by filmmaker Dave Thorpe to discuss APPENDAGE—a sci-fi horror short where a quiet morning of work takes a very unexpected turn when visitors from another planet arrive.

🩸 Director — Dave Thorpe (Dave Thorpe)

👽 APPENDAGE
Emma’s quiet morning of work is interrupted as invading creatures from another planet arrive, bearing striking resemblances to certain appendages.

💀 Official Selection — BITS 2025
APPENDAGE screened ahead of Connor Marsden’s feature film VIOLENCE.

🎧 Listen now: BITSRadio.ca

09/03/2026

Kelly and Rob sit down and chat with Dave Thorpe while at the Blood in the Snow Film Festival 2025. The discussion involves their project Appendage that played in the festival.

🩸 ONE MONTH LEFT TO APPLY.Your project could be next.Applications for the BITS 2026 Horror Development Lab close October...
09/01/2026

🩸 ONE MONTH LEFT TO APPLY.

Your project could be next.

Applications for the BITS 2026 Horror Development Lab close October 1, 2026.

Now in its 6th year, the Lab is a hands-on development program supporting BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, and underrepresented Canadian genre filmmakers with feature films or web/TV series that are ready to move toward production.

Over three intensive days, selected filmmakers work directly with industry professionals to strengthen their production-ready projects, sharpen their pitches, receive industry feedback, and make connections that can help take their projects from development into production.

⚡ Every project selected for the 2026 Horror Development Lab will also receive over $11,000 in in-kind services from companies including Sunbelt Rentals, Scriptation, Act Write Here and My Air Bridge.

Since 2021, the Horror Development Lab has supported 61 projects — including alumni such as the award-winning FOREIGNER (dir. Ava Maria Safai), distributed by Raven Banner Entertainment.

🧪 BITS 2026 Horror Development Lab
🗓 November 16–18, 2026
📍 Toronto, Ontario
⏰ FINAL DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2026

You have one month. Bring us the project you’re ready to make.

🩸 Apply via FilmFreeway
🔗 Full details at DeadlyExposure.ca

Sunbelt Rentals Act Write Here MyAirBridge.com

🎙️ BITS Radio LIVE! – Episode #149This week we’re joined by filmmaker Janet-Rose Nguyen to discuss DO YOU SEE HER?—a ch...
08/27/2026

🎙️ BITS Radio LIVE! – Episode #149

This week we’re joined by filmmaker Janet-Rose Nguyen to discuss DO YOU SEE HER?—a chilling short about blurred vision, creeping paranoia, and an entity that can only be seen when the glasses come off.

🩸 Writer / Director / Producer - Janet-Rose Nguyen janet-rose nguyen 🌈 🧙
👓 DO YOU SEE HER?
Katie has terrible vision and begins questioning her sanity as she thinks she’s being stalked by a terrifying entity—one she can only see when her glasses are off.

💀 Official Selection — BITS 2025 Dark Visions — Horror Shorts Program

🎬 DO YOU SEE HER? kicked off BITS 2025 as the very first film to hit the screen on Opening Night.

🎧 Listen now: BITSRadio.ca

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