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Jonathan Martin<\/a>, a filmmaker who is also the founder and director of genre festival FilmQuest, and Jon Fitzgerald<\/a>, a festival director, filmmaker and curator who co-founded Slamdance<\/a>, have announced the creation of the FilmQuest<\/a> Market. Launching next year, Marin<\/a> and Fitzgerald<\/a> are co-founders and partners on the project, which is set to platform genre-focused fare and run alongside the festival in Provo, Utah.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we could do something very different,\u201d Martin says. \u201cWe don\u2019t want this to just be another AFM or just mimicking everybody else. What can we bring that adds value to the industry and to the market space? Obviously, there\u2019s business-to-business, but how do we actually educate, inform, get people excited about coming to a marketplace again? When we look at it, most successful markets have a film festival attached to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new film market is looking to create fresh inroads for genre-focused projects. Jonathan Martin, a filmmaker who is also the founder and director of genre festival FilmQuest, and Jon Fitzgerald, a festival director, filmmaker and curator who co-founded Slamdance, have announced the creation of the FilmQuest Market. Launching next year, Marin and Fitzgerald are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2135415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2135414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/New-Genre-Focused-Film-Market-to-Launch-in-2026-Alongside-FilmQuest.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135416,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135414\/revisions\/2135416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}