48 Hour Film Horror SciFi Project - Toronto

Christopher  Cherry
Christopher Cherry
City Producer
Steve  Nash
Steve Nash
City Producer

Announcing the Winners!

After much deliberation, our distinguished panel of judges has selected this year’s winning films. Congratulations to all of the filmmakers and teams who participated. We are proud to announce our winners.

The Best Film of 2026 goes to Dragon Daughters! Their film ‘’Different Shirt’’ will go on to represent Toronto against all the other city winners from around the world at Filmapalooza 2027!

Character
Bela Karloff - Conspiracy Theorist
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“Talk is cheap.”
Prop
a Box

🎉 Huge congratulations to all of the winners and participants in the 2026 Toronto 48 Hour Film Project Horror/Sci-Fi Competition! This year’s teams brought incredible creativity, talent, energy, and imagination to the screen, and we’re so proud of the amazing films created in just 48 hours. 🎬⚡

👻🚀 The Toronto 48HFP Horror/Sci-Fi Competition will return in May 2027.

Next up: our biggest competition of the year — the annual Toronto 48 Hour Film Project, featuring regular genres. 🎥 ACTRA members can participate, and the Best Film will also go on to represent Toronto at Filmapalooza in Curaçao! 🌴

Registration opens on Canada Day, with a special one-day registration deal.

📅 Filmmaking Weekend: October 16–18, 2026

👉 Visit https://www.48hourfilm.com/toronto for more details.

1st Place: Best Film of 2026
Filmposter for Different Shirt
Different Shirt by Dragon Daughters
2nd Place: Best Film of 2026
Filmposter for Pop Sucks
Pop Sucks by Jalvin
3rd Place: Best Film of 2026
Filmposter for Katie
Katie by I Need to Call my Wife
Audience Favorite Group A:
Filmposter for Girl Dinner
Girl Dinner by Final Girl Collective
Audience Favorite Group B:
Filmposter for Pop Sucks
Pop Sucks by Jalvin
Audience Favorite Group C:
Filmposter for Zealots
Zealots by The Beta Units
Audience Favorite Group D:
Filmposter for CHATTERBOX
CHATTERBOX by I Majored In Film Productions
Audience Favorite Group E:
Filmposter for The Creature From Below
The Creature From Below by Glitter Theory
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Talk is Cheap
Blissett Legacy Entertainment Inc.
Relinquished
Dead plumbers
Like and Subscribe
Filthy Basement
Arrogance
Final Girl Collective
Girl Dinner
Fresh Cut Films
With Fists Open - Evilution
Fukkit
Holier Than Thou
Golden Years
The Bride of Diablo
Maharlika
Sitsit
Motor City North
Truth
Rat on Set
Bela is DEAD
Shady Lady Films
VEIL
Spawn-taneity
The Reclamation
Voyager
THAT TIME MY AI GIRLFRIEND BANKRUPTED ME
Bingus Dingus
Morto Bene
CAMP Productions
Piece by piece
Conroy Films
The Lost Tape
FFF
PRONOUNCE
Good Habit Films
Spaghetti Wednesdays
I Need to Call my Wife
Katie
Jalvin
Pop Sucks
Perfect World Pictures
Devil Box
Questionmark Productions
The Untitled Supernatural Project
Shadow Dinosaur Productions
Witch
ShaunTech Films
One Last Spin
Slate It Media
hear nothing,see nothing speak nothing
Stairwell Films
Covenant of the Six
Targuia
The Truth is in There
Village Idiot
Duck
416Film
The Idiots' Box
Bex's Misfits
All My Children
Cineshell Productions
Run...
Colombo 6ix Films
Peekaboo
CUT TO BLACK
Artificial Innocence
Goblin Fort Productions
Healing
Joff Films
The Box
Oliveira Productions
Obscure Memory
Sidebar Motion Pictures
Just Like You
Strong Monkey Prod.
Patricia's Hum
The Beta Units
Zealots
UGO Productions
Oneiros
Wicked Glam
Galaxy Gals
Amici Productions
Thank You For Shopping With Us
BeastJunkie
DEIFIED
Caffeinated and Confused
Room 3
Cats on the Moon Productions
Hamburger Rendezvous
Dragon Daughters
Different Shirt
Golden Hallows
The Cost of Forever
I Majored In Film Productions
CHATTERBOX
Peach Juice Creative
Bleed-Through
PLENTIFILM
Caught You
Settlers of Canad
Ascension
Tall Tree Productions
English
Weekend Warriors
The Box
West Endersons
RED HANDED
Anahata Studios
Quest of the Third Eye
Big Soda
When You See It
Bizkit Films
Please, Come In
Cameron Brothers
Hag
Dead—Junkies
Cottontail
Duran Duran
Two Gay Aliens F***ing
Glitter Theory
The Creature From Below
Good Morning Better Night
Layer 8
HorizonDream Productions
why me?
LATeam
Savia
Pursuit x Alarm
Chimera
Sauced Improv
Grin and Bear It
Slow Burn
The Other Thing
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