HORROR SCREENINGS FILM FESTIVAL BLOODY MIRROR

WHO THIS IS FOR

Horror is the one genre where the audience decides everything, and it is the genre where filmmakers get the least audience data. You find out whether a scare works by watching people watch it. A programmer's yes or no tells you nothing about the moment the room went quiet or the moment it laughed when it shouldn't have.

Bloody Mirror puts your film in a dark room in Tbilisi with people in it, and on our Festival Channel online the same night. Viewers score it and write down what worked and what didn't while it is still fresh.

We take horror, mystery, supernatural, psychological, folk, body, creature, slasher and genre-adjacent work: features, shorts and screenplays. AI-driven work is accepted and always has been.

WHAT YOU GET

If your project is selected

✅ A screening in front of a live audience in Tbilisi and on our Festival Channel, the same night

✅ Structured audience feedback: recommendation score, component ratings, written responses

✅ A written jury statement on the work itself, not a template

✅ Official Selection laurels and certificate

✅ A project page on our site with your poster, stills, trailer and the audience reviews

✅ A full Audience Feedback Report, free in exchange for a FilmFreeway review

✅ Announcement across our channels

If it is not selected

✅ An LSN Reviewer Note: a brief expert read on the work and where it sits

That last one is the part most festivals skip. You paid an entry fee and got a form email. We would rather tell you something.

HOW THE SCREENING WORKS

Films are shown one after another on the festival days, in a room with actual people in it.

Viewers answer three questions on every film: would you recommend it, how would you rate it, and what did and didn't work for you. The same model runs on the Festival Channel online, where the work is available to a verified audience for the duration.

Those two streams produce two separate awards, Festival Winner from the live room, Channel

Audience Choice from the online vote, alongside the jury's own nomination awards.

If nobody watched a project, it gets no audience data, and we say so.

WHY A FESTIVAL IS ATTACHED TO A MARKET

LSN is not only a festival. We run a distribution and representation arm that takes finished films and screenplays to buyers and producers, and we have been reading independent work since 2015: over 5,000 projects from 159 countries.

That matters more in horror than almost anywhere else. Horror is the one independent genre with a real, functioning acquisition market: genre streamers, boutique distributors, international sales agents who buy contained films with a clear hook. Buyers in that market are unusually receptive to audience proof, because their whole business is predicting whether a room will react.

So the jury statement here is written by people who spend the rest of their week pitching genre work to those buyers, and the audience data is the kind of proof they will actually look at.

We do not guarantee that anything follows from it. Most projects are here for the screening and the feedback, and that is a complete reason to submit.

SCREENPLAY CONTEST

Bloody Mirror includes a screenplay contest for horror and mystery scripts.

Selected scripts get an excerpt published on the contest page: five to ten pages, or roughly ten percent, never the full text without your permission, alongside a Festival Opinion written by our team on the script and its potential. Readers download, read and vote using the same model as the films.

That vote produces the Readers' Choice Award.

Horror is also the genre where a spec script has the clearest route to a producer, which is why we read every one of them in full rather than off a synopsis.