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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) -- Dane2007 ^talk 03:14, 13 August 2016 (UTC) reply

Screamfest Horror Film Festival

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Non-notable film festival. Despite claims as the largest and longest running horror film festival, evidence of independent coverage is lacking. Many outlets carry ScreamFest LA's press releases, but few, it appears, actually cover the event. WikiDan61 ^ChatMe! _ReadMe!! 14:13, 30 July 2016 (UTC) reply

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• Comment. Film festivals are kind of tricky, since most of the time the festivals really only gain coverage for the awards they hand out. I will say that I've heard of this festival and it's considered to be pretty big in the horror world since it's kind of the US equivalent of the London FrightFest Film Festival, itself a fairly prestigious horror film festival. In any case, Screamfest is well known for being the place where a lot of American films have their world or US premieres. I'll see what I can add. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:45, 2 August 2016 (UTC) reply

• This is one of those cases where you have to look more at whether or not there are people reporting from the event itself and where this coverage is being posted. So far I'm seeing a lot of coverage from major horror outlets like Dread Central ( [1], [2], [3]), Bloody Disgusting ( [4], [5]), and Fangoria ( [6], [7], [8]). There's also coverage in places like MoviePilot and Backstage. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:15, 2 August 2016 (UTC) reply
• It was also covered by Shock Till You Drop, whose website now redirects to the website ComingSoon.net. ( [9]) Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:51, 2 August 2016 (UTC) reply
• Looks like there was also an episode of Cupcake Wars where they made cupcakes for the festival. ( [10]) There's also some coverage from Horror.com. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:06, 2 August 2016 (UTC) reply

• Keep. While this hasn't been showered with a ton of articles specifically about the festival in-depth, there are some out there. Something to also note is that there is a lot of coverage for RS that was written during Screamfest itself, most notably coverage of films screening and/or premiering at the event itself. I've found a lot of articles like this one from places like The Hollywood Reporter that talk about various horror films premiering or screening at the festival - many of which are notable and some of which are some pretty major mainstream films. What makes this something of note is that film companies don't want their movies to screen at a film festival that isn't seem as important within the business or genre - they want their films to be seen in places that would gain them coverage, especially from the major, mainstream horror websites/outlets, most of whom don't really go to the smaller, lesser known festivals because those aren't usually worth the time of outlets like Crave to go and review their offerings or for Dread Central or Variety to repost the awards results or otherwise comment on material in the festival. It's admittedly not as strong as the coverage for the bigger, less niche festivals, but I believe that this is enough to establish notability here. If not, then it'd be a shame since this is one of the most major horror film festivals in the US. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:29, 2 August 2016 (UTC) reply
• Keep per Tokyogirl79's research, it is somewhat borderline but it received enough coverage for a claim of notability. Cavarrone 05:34, 5 August 2016 (UTC) reply

• Keep per Tokyogirl79. Arthistorian1977 ( talk) 11:44, 9 August 2016 (UTC) reply

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