Dark Sky Films
Presents…
Rising Canadian Auteur Avalon Fast’s Bewitching and Surreal Queer Summer Camp Horror
Winner of the Fantastic Fest Next Wave Best Feature Award
Opening in New York June 26 at the IFC Center
Special NY Sneak Previews June 24 and June 25!
Further US Theatrical Dates & Cities Listed Below
Opening in Canada from Filmoption International June 19
“[A] genre-blending fever dream.”
-SCREEN SLATE
“Fast is an undeniable talent, a filmmaker who knows how to tap into repressed emotions and how to reflect the simmering impact of trauma cinematically.”
-ROGEREBERT.COM
Synopsis: Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life, and she feels the weight of these accidents as though cursed. At her father’s suggestion, she takes a position at a summer camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is welcomed by the other counselors, who accept her as she is and surround her with peace and forgiveness. Just as Emily begins to believe in a new kind of life, she starts to hear a voice whispering from deep in the woods — one that urges her to go home, and one that may be impossible to ignore.
Dark Sky Films will release festival favorite CAMP, a new coming-of-age horror feature from writer-director Avalon Fast (Honeycomb, Drinking and Driving) on June 26th in select US theaters, with a New York Theatrical Premiere at the IFC Center with Fast in attendance for the opening weekend.
The film world premiered at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, where it took Best Feature in the Next Wave competition, and picked up the awards for Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography out of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. Further festival selections include the Seattle International Film Festival, Outfest in Los Angeles, San Francisco’s Frameline, Chicago’s inaugural edition of Beyond Fest, TIFF Next Wave, and international stops at prestigious genre festivals Sitges in Spain and Fantaspoa in Brazil.
CAMP follows Emily, a young woman haunted by a traumatic past, who finds solace as a camp counselor while navigating grief, witchcraft, and the power of female friendship. The film stars Zola Grimmer in her screen debut alongside Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis (Castration Movie Part 1 & 2, In A Violent Nature), Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp (This Too Shall Pass), Sophie Bawks-Smith (Honeycomb), Izza Jarvis, and Aiden Laudersmith.
Beautifully lensed by cinematographer Eily Sprungman, CAMP is a melancholic and surreal odyssey into female adolescence that Letterboxd called “a bit like Virgin Suicides-era Sofia Coppola if she had grown up in the woods of British Columbia instead of a penthouse in New York City.” Drawn from Fast’s lived experience, it’s the second film in the writer-director’s signature style—self-labeled GIRL HORROR—which explores the eerie horrors of growing up, infused with haunted female influence.
The film is produced by Taylor Nodrick (Influencers), Jacob Glickman, Jackie De Niverville, Martin Cadieux-Rouillard, and Maya Cadieux-Rouillard. Executive Producers on the film are Paul Cadieux (The Triplets of Belleville), Milan Chakraborty (My Friend Dahmer), Peter Kuplowsky (In a Violent Nature, Psycho Goreman), Michael Peterson (Harpoon), and Sanjay M Sharma (Four Samosas).
About the director:
Avalon Fast hails from Vancouver Island, BC. In 2019, they shot their first film, Honeycomb, which was selected for the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival and went on to screen at Boston Underground, Calgary Underground, Etheria LA, Fantasia, and many more. In 2026, they premiered Drinking and Driving—co-directed, co-starring, and co-written with Jillian Frank—at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies. In addition to writing and directing, Fast recently starred in Louise Weard’s cultural breakout trans DIY epic Castration Movie Anthology, co-starred in prolific young filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay’s sapphic horror The Serpent’s Skin, and appeared in Jane Schoenbrun’s recent Cannes sensation Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
US THEATRICAL DETAILS
SNEAK PREVIEW
6/24 – IFC Center [New York, NY]
Q&A with Avalon Fast moderated by Jack Haven (Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma)
SNEAK PREVIEW
6/25 – Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn 12 [Brooklyn, NY]
Q&A with Avalon Fast
THEATRICAL PREMIERE WEEKLONG RUN
6/26 – IFC Center [New York, NY]
Opening weekend Q&As with Avalon Fast
6/26 – 6/27 – Vidiots [Los Angeles, CA]
7/3 – Cape Ann Community Cinema [Rockport, MA]
7/3 – Gateway Film Center 8 [Columbus, OH]
7/3 – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place [New Orleans, LA]
7/10 – Pickford Film Center 3 [Bellingham, WA]
7/25 – Northwest Film Forum [Seattle, WA]
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS – FANTASTIC FEST PRESENTS
dates pending expansions
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan [New York, NY]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers 6 [Yonkers, NY]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Los Angeles [Los Angeles, CA]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse New Mission [San Francisco, CA]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair [Santa Clara, CA]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Mueller 6 and South Lamar [Austin, TX]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Boston Seaport [Boston, MA]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Wrigleyville [Chicago, IL]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Cedars [Dallas, TX]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Denton [Denton, TX]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Richardson [Richardson, TX]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake 8 [Denver, CO]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Woodbury [Woodbury, MN]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse La Vista [Omaha, NE]
6/26 – Alamo Drafthouse Raleigh 11 [Raleigh, NC]
7/2 – Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn 12 [Brooklyn, NY]
