Filmoption International Presents
Following The Breakout Success of HONEYCOMB,
Avalon Fast Returns With
CAMP
In Canadian Theatres
Starting June 19, 2026
PRESS RELEASE
Filmoption International is pumped to announce the Canadian theatrical release of CAMP, the acclaimed sophomore feature from Canadian writer-director Avalon Fast. Following its World Premiere at Fantastic Fest (“Next Wave” Best Picture award) screenings at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography awards), Sitges, SXSW Sydney, and its selection for TIFF Next Wave, CAMP opens in select theatres across Canada beginning June 19.
Produced in Canada, CAMP is a coming-of-age horror film that weaves together grief, community, girlhood, trauma, gender, queerness, nightmare, spirituality and death into a dreamlike reckoning.
Written and directed by Fast, the film follows Emily, a young woman burdened by guilt after being at the centre of two devastating tragedies early in her life. Hoping to ease her pain, Emily’s father encourages her to become a counsellor at a camp for troubled youth. Welcomed by a close-knit community that embraces forgiveness and acceptance, Emily begins to imagine a different future for herself. But when a mysterious voice from the surrounding woods begins calling her home, she finds herself pulled toward an unsettling darkness she cannot escape.
Blending psychological horror with deeply personal themes, CAMP explores the strange space between nightmare and memory, where grief, trauma, identity and belonging collide, and where the horrors of growing up can feel both intimate and supernatural.
“Avalon Fast has established themselves as one of the most daring and original emerging filmmakers working in genre cinema today,” said Isabelle Légault, Vice-President, Acquisitions & Theatrical at Filmoption International. “With CAMP, they deliver an emotionally raw, visually hypnotic film through a wholly unique lens. We are thrilled to bring this bold Canadian genre film to audiences across the country.”
CAMP stars Zola Grimmer as Emily alongside Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp, Sophie Bawks-Smith, Izza Jarvis and Aiden Laudersmith.
The film was produced by Taylor Nodrick, Jacob Glickman, Jackie de Niverville and Martin Cadieux-Rouillard, with executive producers Michael Peterson, Peter Kuplowsky, Hamza Ali, Baddie Ali, Sanjay M. Sharma, Milan Chakraborty, Paul Cadieux, and Maya Cadieux-Rouillard.
Dark Sky Films will release CAMP theatrically in the United States beginning June 26.
ABOUT AVALON FAST
Avalon Fast is a writer, director and editor originally from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and currently based in New York City. In 2019, they shot their first no-budget genre feature, Honeycomb, which premiered as an Official Selection of the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival before embarking on a successful international festival run that included Boston Underground, Calgary Underground, Etheria LA, Fantasia and many others. Fast began writing CAMP in 2022 and brought the project to the screen after securing financing in late 2023. Their filmmaking is rooted in what they describe as “Girl Horror,” stories that explore the eerie, emotional and psychological realities of growing up.
Filmography
Drinking and Driving / feature / 2025
Cinephile Complex / short / 2023
Honeycomb / feature / 2022
Night Trouble / short / 2019
Violets Bloom in April / short / 2018
ABOUT FILMOPTION INTERNATIONAL
Filmoption International is a Montreal-based production and distribution company dedicated to bringing distinctive independent features and documentaries to audiences across Canada and around the world.