{"id":198765,"date":"2025-10-09T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/198765\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:02:09","slug":"official-poster-for-this-years-filmquest-film-festival-unleashes-nightmares-upon-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/198765\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Poster for This Year&#8217;s FilmQuest Film Festival Unleashes Nightmares Upon Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the fantastic.\u00a0FilmQuest is back for the 12th annual edition of the festival in Downtown Provo, Utah from October 23 \u2013 November 1, and this year\u2019s official poster has been unleashed.\u00a0Created by Sideshow Collectibles art director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tentaclesandteeth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Richard Luong<\/a>, the poster pays homage to the festival\u2019s mascot of Cthulhu while also hinting at the popular cryptids known to have made \u201csightings\u201d in FilmQuest\u2019s home state of Utah, such as Bigfoot and Skinwalkers.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme is \u201cBehold the Fantastic,\u201d which invites guests and filmmakers from around the world and industry to behold and witness firsthand all the incredible films and talents that can\u2019t be contained within. Check out the FilmQuest 2025 official poster below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s festival continues to triumph and celebrate the very best of independent genre cinema,\u201d said festival director &amp; founder, Jonathan Martin. \u201cWith 37 nations represented, FilmQuest truly represents the global voice of genre filmmaking, and we look forward to hosting all those who wish to discover the incredible talent and films on display, where I have no doubt the next big things are waiting to be unleashed unto the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Film and programming info, as well as tickets, passes and virtual passes for the hybrid event are available now via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmquestfest.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">www.filmquestfest.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FilmQuest has been named twice to MovieMaker Magazine\u2019s \u201c25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World\u201d list, and seven times to it\u2019s \u201cTop 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee.\u201d It is currently the #1 best reviewed film festival in the world on the film submission platform FilmFreeway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3908103\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3908102\/official-poster-for-this-years-filmquest-film-festival-unleashes-nightmares-upon-utah\/attachment\/202510081116190000\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/202510081116190000.png?fit=2408%2C3576&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2408,3576\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"202510081116190000\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/202510081116190000.png?fit=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/202510081116190000.png?fit=690%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3908103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/202510081116190000.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"1099\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Behold the fantastic.\u00a0FilmQuest is back for the 12th annual edition of the festival in Downtown Provo, Utah from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,98236,337],"class_list":["post-198765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-filmquest-2025","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}