Shudder Labs 2017

About

Shudder Labs is a creative workshop retreat dedicated to building the skill set and talents of exciting, emerging horror filmmakers. Shudder Labs aims to marry the belief that horror and suspense can be at once the most thrilling, sharpest and subversive of genres.

In its inaugural edition in 2016, 11 fellows came together with established masters and special guests in the scenic, secluded Hudson Valley, NY. There, master classes, field trips and an intimate, encouraging creative atmosphere bolstered some of the scariest work you’ll see in the future. Each participant graduated from the program as a Shudder Fellow and took home a $5,000 grant and a year-long mentorship from one of the Masters-in-Residence.

For this year’s Shudder Labs, Shudder partnered with Project Greenlight Digital Studios (PGLDS), a digital content initiative from Adaptive Studios, and filmmaker Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed, Lord of Illusions) to aid in the submission process. Stay tuned for more updates.

Go to Shudder Labs 2016

The Main Event

June 11-15th 2017

Size of Lab

10 Fellows

Location

Mohonk Mountain House, NY

Masters

Lindsay Peters
Mike Flanagan
Nick Antosca
Larry Fessenden
Travis Stevens

Lindsay Peters

Lindsay is the Director of the Frontières International Co-Production Market, and the Industry Director for the Fantasia International Film Festival, the largest genre film festival in North America. She has over 10 years experience in festival management & film programming, with past positions at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Canadian Film Centre, Fashion in Film, and the Museum of the Moving Image. She has served as an industry expert at the Producers Network of the Marché du Film in Cannes, TIFF Studio, the EAVE - European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs Producers Workshop, the Nordic Genre Boost and Blood Window at Ventana Sur Latin American Film Market. This year Frontières expanded its international profile by establishing a partnership with the Marché du Film-Festival de Cannes, which will feature genre industry networking events in Cannes under the Frontières banner, and the creation of a Financing Forum for genre film projects in 2017.
Mike Flanagan

After earning critical acclaim for his micro-budget indie ABSENTIA in 2011, Flanagan's mainstream career has flourished. He has written and directed OCULUS (2013), the Netflix Exclusive thriller HUSH (2016), Universal Pictures' OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL (2016) and the yet-to-be-released BEFORE I WAKE. His adaptation of Stephen King's GERALD'S GAME, a Netflix Original film, is set for release later this year, and he will also be adapting Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE as a Netflix Original Series for 2018. He lives in California with his wife (and HUSH co-writer/star) Kate Siegel.
Nick Antosca

Nick Antosca is the creator and showrunner of CHANNEL ZERO, ordered straight to series for two seasons airing on Syfy in 2016 and 2017. He was also a writer and producer on HANNIBAL, and he has written five books including THE GIRLFRIEND GAME, FIRES, and MIDNIGHT PICNIC, which won a Shirley Jackson award. He is from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Larry Fessenden

Larry Fessenden is an actor, producer, and director of several art-horror movies including No Telling, Habit, Wendigo, and The Last Winter, as well as the TV films Skin and Bones and Beneath. Fessenden has operated the production shingle Glass Eye Pix since 1985 with the mission of supporting individual voices in the arts. Fessenden has also been a producer on various projects including Rick Alverson's The Comedy, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (nominated for two 2009 Spirit Awards and on over 60 "Top 10 Movies of the Year" lists), and Ti West's The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers. Under his low budget horror banner ScareFlix, Fessenden has produced 9 films including Jim Mickle's Stake Land (winner of the 2010 Toronto Film Festival Audience Award), Joe Maggio's Bitter Feast, Ti West's The Roost and Trigger Man and Glenn McQuaid’s I Sell The Dead which opened the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival where it won awards for best cinematography and best actor (Fessenden). I Sell The Dead won the 2008 Toronto After Dark Film Festival award for best Independent Film.
Travis Stevens

Travis Stevens is the founder and CEO of Snowfort Pictures; a boutique production company specializing in the development, financing and production of commercial genre films. Recent Snowfort productions include the 2013 SXSW Audience Award Winner Cheap Thrills (Drafthouse Films), the 2013 Cannes Director’s Fortnight documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune (Sony Classics), the 2014 SXSW / 2014 BUFF Director’s Choice Award winning Starry Eyes (MPI/Dark Sky Films), We Are Still Here (voted one of 2015’s best horror films by Rolling Stone) and the 2016 SXSW high-school thriller Teenage Cocktail. Prior to launching Snowfort Pictures, Travis worked in film development, acquisitions and international sales.