Demonic Brilliance Film Festival 2025
Demonic Brilliance Film Festival hit whole new levels in 2025, selling out Theatre New Brunswick’s Black Box Theatre with well over 100 people in attendance. With 22 short films and 2 feature films, DBFF 2025 was the perfect celebration of our 6th year of bad behavior.
2025 Award Winners
The JUDGES
SAM EVANS
Sam Evans is a 8 time Vogue Italia PhotoVogue published photographer specializing in things that go bump in the night. Inspired and inspiring Sam has had her work displayed and sold at the Salem Art Gallery, as well as several other odd publications and album art. While Sam has recently delved into more short filmography and music videography she still loves to provoke fear and evoke horror with a single still image. Recently she is excited to collaborate with Chains of Metal and some upcoming spooky Canada wide markets this fall.
Photo Credit: Abbie Marie Photography
mike thorn
Mike Thorn is a fiction writer and film critic. He is the author of Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and Peel Back and See. His stories have appeared in anthologies, magazines, and podcasts, including Vastarien, NoSleep, and Tales to Terrify. His film criticism has been published in American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, MUBI Notebook, The Film Stage, and elsewhere. He is a SSHRC-funded doctoral candidate in the Department of English (Creative Writing) at the University of New Brunswick. He co-hosts the Craftwork podcast with Miriam Richer. Connect with him on Twitter (@MikeThornWrites) and visit his website: https://mikethornwrites.com/
Ashley Dale and Kayleigh Saad are alternative artists embracing the night, and all the things that go ‘bump’ within it.
Years of friendship and creating weird art together have finally culminated in the creation of Left Hand Girls, an Art House that goes against the right hand man. Using their combined experience and passion, they have begun focusing on creating content centered around hard topics, presenting their work through the lens of Horror Films.
As Left Hand Girls, the goal is also to create a safe space for fellow artists to make a ruckus, cause a stink, or however else they choose to rail against the system.
With their first short length film Ruff under their belts, they are excited to continue celebrating all things that lurk in the shadows, and they are very excited to see what Demonic Brilliance brings their way this year.
