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Jay Kay's Film Festival and Journalist Resume (2012-Current)

Assistant Festival Director / Festival Director / Film Programming/ Filmmaker /
Judge / Jury / Moderating/ Teaching / Virtual Film Market / Journalist /

Assistant Festival Director (2019-Current)

  • Highlands Horror Film Festival (New Jersey)

  • HorrorHound Film Festival (Ohio)

  • Medusa Horror Film Festival (Las Vegas)

  • Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (Philadelphia)

  • Salt City Film Festival (New York)

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​Festival Director (2013 - 2015)

  • Horror Happens Film Festival (New Jersey)

  • Infect Scranton (Pennsylvania) 

  • Spin & Scream Horror Monthly (New Jersey)

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Film Programming (2014-Current)

  • FearNYC (New York)

  • Highlands Horror Film Festival (New Jersey)

  • Horrible Imaginings Film Festival (California)

  • Horror Happens Film Festival (New Jersey)

  • Infect Scranton (Pennsylvania) 

  • Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (Philadelphia)

  • Salt City Film Festival (New York)

  • Spin & Scream Horror Monthly (New Jersey)

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Filmmaker - 6 Short Films (2018-Current)

  • Accord Cine Fest

  • Anti-Hero Fest

  • Art All Night - Trenton: Film Festival 2025

  • B-Movie Film Festival

  • Bare Bones International Film & Music Festival (Award-Winning)

  • Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition

  • Bite Night Presents...

  • Boston Horror Comedy Film Festival

  • Canted Angle Film Festival

  • CineTech Future Fest

  • Culver City Film Festival®

  • Dead in Decatur film festival

  • Diabolical Horror Film Festival

  • Direct Monthly Online Film Festival

  • Drive In Movie Festival

  • East Coast Movie Awards (Award-Winning)

  • F3: Queen City Film Festival, Film Curation, & Film Awards (Award-Winning)

  • FESTIVAL ANGAELICA

  • FILMESQUE CineFest

  • First Night Film Festival (Award-Winning)

  • HYF Fest

  • Hallucinea Film Festival

  • Hang on to Your Shorts! Film Festival

  • Haunted Garage's Horror Fest

  • Highlands Horror Film Fest (Award-Winning)

  • Himachal Short Film Festival

  • HodgePodge Film Festival

  • Horrible Imaginings Film Festival

  • Horror Unleashed

  • Horror at the Hooker

  • HorrorHound Film Festival

  • Jackson Doc Festival

  • LA International Horror Film Festival

  • Latest Visions presents: International Women's Day Special

  • Listening Room Film Festival

  • Lit Scares International Horror Festival

  • London Indie Film Festival (Award-Winning)

  • Long Island International Film Expo - LIIFE

  • Macabro: Mexico City International Horror Film Festival

  • Make Art Not Fear (Award-Winning)

  • Milwaukee Twisted Dreams Film Festival

  • Montclair Film Festival

  • Montreal Requiem Fear Fest

  • Mosaic World Film Festival

  • Nassau Film Festival

  • New Jersey Film Awards (Award-Winning)

  • New Jersey Mystery, Crime & Horror Film Festival

  • Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival

  • Portland Horror Film Festival

  • Reels of the Dead

  • Rock the Shorts Film Festival Los Angeles

  • Round Reel International Film Festival

  • SCCC Film Festival (Award-Winning)

  • SPLICE Film Festival

  • STUFF - South Texas Underground Film Festival

  • San Francisco Another Hole in the Head Film Festival

  • Scandriglia Film Festival

  • Severed Limbs

  • Severed Shorts Film Festival

  • Shock Stock Horror & Underground Film Festival

  • Shocktober Film Festival

  • Shorts Infest

  • Spook Screen

  • Stockholm City Film Festival

  • Strong Chance Film Festival

  • Student World Impact Film Festival

  • The 2025 Greater Lehigh Valley Filmmaker Festival

  • The Brightside Film Festival

  • The Shawna Shea Memorial Film Festival (Award-Winning)

  • Tokyo International World Film Festival 

  • VIZ Film Fest

  • Woodstock Museum Film Festival

  • Young Hearts Film Festival

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Judging (2016-Current)

  • AxWound Film Festival (Vermont)

  • DC Shorts Film Festival (DC)

  • Dead of Night Film Festival (UK)

  • FearNYC (New York)

  • FIlmQuest (Utah)

  • First Contact Film Festival (New Jersey)

  • Highlands Horror Film Festival (New Jersey)

  • Horrible Imaginings Film Festival (California)

  • HorrorHound Film Festival (Ohio)

  • Medusa Horror Film Festival (Las Vegas)

  • Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (Philadelphia)

  • The Dead of Night Film Festival (England)

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Jury (2017-Current)

  • Celluloid Screams Film Festival (England)

  • Etheria Film Night (California)

  • FearNYC (New York)

  • Fractured Visions Film Festival (England)

  • Knoxville Horror Film Festival (Tennessee) 

  • Macabro Film Festival (Mexico City)

  • Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (Philadelphia)

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Moderating Panels/Q&A’s (2015-Current)

  • AxWound Film Festival (Vermont)

  • Bizarre AC (New Jersey)

  • FearNYC (New York)

  • Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto)

  • Happenstance Horror Fest (Massachusetts) 

  • Highlands Horror Film Festival (New Jersey)

  • Horrible Imaginings Film Festival (California)

  • Horror Happens Film Festival (New Jersey)

  • Horror Rama (Toronto)

  • HorrorHound Film Festival (Ohio)

  • HorrorHound Weekend (Ohio)

  • Infect Scranton (Pennsylvania) 

  • Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival (New York)

  • Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (Philadelphia)

  • Rock and Shock Weekend (Massachusetts) 

  • Salt City Horror Film Festival (New York)

  • Slaughter in Syracuse (New York)

  • Spin & Scream Horror Monthly (New Jersey)​

  • The Human Centipede Film Festival (New York)

Press/Marketing (2014-Current)

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Teaching Filmmaking and Cinema - Both in New Jersey (2021-Current)

  • HorrorHound Film Festival Workshops (On-site)

  • Montclair 505 "Digging Into the Darkness" (Virtual)

  • Robert Treat Academy Charter School (Teaching Filmmaking and Cinema Grades 3-8)

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Virtual Film Market (Hybrid) (2021-2023)

  • HorrorHound Film Festival

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​Horror Happens Radio Journalist/Coverage (2012-Current)

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* Another Hole in the Head (San Francisco)

* Austin Revolution (Texas)

* AxWound Film Festival (Vermont)

* Big Apple Film Festival (New York)

* Bizarre AC (New Jersey)

* Blood in the Snow Film Festival (Toronto)

* Bonebat Comedy of Horror Film Festival (Washington)

* Boston Underground Film Festival (Massachusetts)

* Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (New York)

* Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Belgium)

* Buried Alive Film Festival (Atlanta)

* Celluloid Screams Film Festival (England

* Chattanooga Film Festival (Tennessee)

* Chiller Theatre (New Jersey)

* Cinephidelphia Film Festival (Philadelphia)

* Cinepocalypse (Illinois)

* Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival (South Carolina)

* CryptconKC (Kansas)

* CT Horrorfest (Connecticut)

* Days of the Dead Film Festival (Georgia)

* Dedfest (Canada)

* Dead Winter Con

* Eerie Horror Film Festival (Pennsylvania)

* Etheria Film Night (California)

* Fan Expo (Toronto)

* Fantasia (Montreal)

* Fantaspoa (Brazil)

* FANtastic Horror Film Festival (California)

* Fantastic Fest (Texas)

* FearNYC (New York)

* FilmQuest (Utah)

* First Contact Film Festival (New Jersey)

* Fractured Visions (England)

* Freak Show Horror Film Festival (Florida)

* Frightfest (London)

* Frontiers Market (Fantasia)

* GenreBlast (Virginia)

* Giallo Film Festival (New York)

* Grindhouse Nights Film Festival (New Jersey)

* Halloween Horror Picture Show (Florida)

* Happenstance Horror Film Fest (Massachusetts)

* Hexploitation Film Festival (Canada)

* Highlands Horror Film Festival (New Jersey)

* Horrible Imaginings Film Festival (California)

* Horror Rama (Toronto)

* Horror Realm (Pennsylvania)

* HorrorHound Film Festival (Indiana /Ohio)

* HorrorHound Weekend (Ohio)

* Hudson Horror Show (New York)

* Idaho Horror Film Festival (Idaho)

* Infect Scranton (Pennsylvania)

* International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Fest (Phoenix)

* Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival (New York)

* Knoxville Horror Film Festival (Tennessee)

* Macabre Faire Film Festival (New York)

* Macabro Film Festival (Mexico City)

* Mayhem Film Festival (England)

* Medusa Underground Film Festival (Las Vegas)

* Mile High Horror Film Fest (Colorado)

* Monster Mania Weekend (New Jersey)

* MonsterFest Traveling Side Show (Australia)

* New Jersey Horror Con (New Jersey)

* New Jersey Horror Fest (New Jersey)

* New York Asian Film Festival (New York)

* New York City Horror Film Festival (New York)

* Nightmares Film Festival (Ohio)

* NOLA Horror Film Festival (Louisiana)

* North Bend Film Festival (Washington)

* Overlook Film Festival (New Orleans)

* Parafest (Pennsylvania)

* Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (Philadelphia)

* Philip K. Dick Film Festival (New York)

* Philly Loves Women (Pennsylvania)

* Popcorn Frights Film Festival (Florida)

* Portland Horror Film Festival (Oregon)

* Requiem Fearfest (Canada)

* Rock & Shock Weekend (Massachusetts)

* Soho Film Festival

* Stranger with My Face International Film Festival

* Sacramento Horror Film Fest (California)

* Salt City Film Festival (New York)

* San Diego Underground Film Festival (California)

* Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival (Canada)

* Scareacon Film Festival (New York)

* Scares That Care Film Festival (Virginia)

* Screamfest (California)

* Severed Short FIlm Festival (Pennsylvania)

* Shawna Shea Film Festival (Massachusetts)

* Shock Stock (Canada)

* Shriekfest (California)

* Sick Chick Film Festival (South Carolina)

* Sick & Twisted Film Festival (Florida)

* Sitges (Spain)

* Slaughter in Syracuse (New York)

* Slaughter Movie House

* Soho Film Festival (New York)

* South African Hiorror Film Festival (Cape Town)

* South Texas Underground Film Festival (Texas)

* Stranger with My Face International Film Festival (Australia)

* SXSW (Texas)

* Telluride Horror Show (Colorado)

* Texas Frightmare Weekend (Texas)

* The Brightside Tavern Film Fest (New Jersey)

* TIFF (Toronto)

* Toronto After Dark Film Festival (Toronto)

* Tribeca Film Festival (New York)

* Twisted Tales Film Festival (Texas)

* Twisted Terror Con (California)

* Vancouver Badasses Film Festival (Canada)

* Videodrunk Film Festival (Canada)

* Weird Film Festival (California)

* Windy City Horror Rama (Illinois)

* Women in Horror Film Festival (Georgia)

* Zed Fest (California)

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Film Festival QandAs and Panels

  • (AxWound Film Festival)

  • ​(Bizaare AC) 

  • (FearNYC)

  • (Female Eye Film Festival) 

  • (Happenstance Horror Fest)

  • (Infect Scranton) 

  • (Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival)​

  • (Highlands Horror Film Festival)

  • (Horrible Imaginings Film Festival)

  • (HorrorHound Film Festival)

  • (PUFF)​

  • (Salt City Horror Film Festival)

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