Oh boy, are you in for a treat! Anomaly is a genre film festival, showing new, independent genre films: horror, action, sci-fi, fantasy, dark comedy, and more.

See our About page for more

You may have heard of the coronavirus. It forced people indoors, and shut down our movie theaters. We found way too many good films to take a year off, so we’re crazy and decided to still hold Anomaly… despite a pandemic, a US presidential election, closed theaters… Whew. But we felt that people needed movies more than ever!

While Anomaly will almost entirely be within the comfort of your own home, we hope you’ll still feel some of the communal film-festival-spirit. AND you’ll enjoy our selection of fantastic features and shorts! (Nothin’ here’s available on Netflix!)

Feature films are only available to viewers in New York State.
Shorts programs are available to viewers across the United States.

All virtual programs (features, shorts, and livestream events) can be accessed at: watch.eventive.org/anomaly

All individual film program tickets are just $10 each, and full-festival and shorts-only passes are available to offer you a deep discount on seeing lots of stuff!
Details on passes and tickets

For a walk-through on purchasing tickets and unlocking films, watch our “Quick Start Guide” video to using Eventive for Anomaly 2020

Some suburban Rochester Greenlight customers are temporarily experiencing blocked access, BUT this can be fixed!

If you are NOT able to buy an individual ticket or “unlock” a film, please use the Eventive Audience Support chat. When the chat box opens, please mention you’re using Rochester Greenlight and have your zip-code handy; if possible use this link to copy your IP address, the name of the film you’re trying to watch, etc. as that helps get to the source fast, for quickest support.

If you do not receive a response from Eventive within an hour, please email us at hello@anomalyfilmfest.com, or post on our Discord, or private message us on social media and we will get you setup.

Again, you are still able to watch, but it may take us a few minutes to get you going! Thank you for your patience and excitement!

The films/shorts/programs are all available ON-DEMAND ALL 4 DAYS of the festival. They become available at 12am midnight on Thursday, November 12 and end at 11:59pm Sunday, November 15. You can watch them at any time, all 4 days (early birds and night-owls, rejoice!). The order listed on this page is the recommended watch order, but that’s just to provide some structure; you certainly don’t have to follow it.

All festival programs are available to watch through a web browser on Anomaly’s virtual festival platform, Eventive: watch.eventive.org/anomaly

You must “Unlock” a film program - either with a festival pass or buying an individual ticket to that program - and then you may watch the program.

Eventive also has FREE APPS for iPhone, Android, Roku, and Apple TV. (See below for more details on setting up the Eventive app on a TV).

For a walk-through on purchasing tickets and unlocking films, watch our “Quick Start Guide” video to using Eventive for Anomaly 2020

Yes! Eventive has FREE APPS for Roku and Apple TV. First, unlock film programs on a web browser to add them to your account. Then download the “Eventive” app from the app store on your device, and sign in with the account you used to buy your pass or tickets. You will need to complete a short TV app setup (see our setup video for quick instructions). Any unlocked programs should all appear within the app, allowing you to watch on your favorite web-enabled TV or device.

Watch our 3-minute video “How to Get Anomaly on Your TV” for fast instructions on how to hook up Eventive’s TV apps.

You can also connect your computer to your TV via an HDMI cable, or use Chromecast with an Android device. Due to copyright protections, most devices’ “screen mirroring” will not work.

We strongly recommend Eventive’s FAQ for more technical questions and troubleshooting.

Here is a complete list of which films in this year’s festival have captions, subtitles, or do not contain any English dialogue.

There are several livestream events with set start-times: some are actually live, and some are pre-recorded but premiering live. All are FREE and open to the public; a free Eventive account is required. Feel free to join the live chat alongside the video with your fellow audience members, and the Anomaly organizers!

All livestreams will be available on-demand after their premiere, for the remainder of the festival. They will (eventually) also be available on the Anomaly YouTube channel.

Details on livestream events

The Anomaly Discord is an invite-only server that we created as a place where our audience can discuss this weekend's movies, get event information, ask questions, and more - as well somewhere to meet other Anomaly folks and just chat and relax. It is our virtual lobby, just without the popcorn smell (you can provide your own, though.) It’s FREE and features chat channels for the full lobby, individual films, and more!

Join and talk movies with us!

Discord Basics (includes info on mobile AND desktop installation; also works in a browser!)

Beginner's Guide to Discord

Full Festival Passes are only available to viewers in New York State.

1. Full festival passes allow access to every program, BUT you still need to reserve/unlock each program you want to watch, one by one.

2. There ARE a limited number of virtual “seats” for each program, but Full Festival Passholders are always guaranteed a “seat.”

3. When you purchased your pass, it should have asked you to create a free Eventive account. Your pass is tied to that email/account. Login with that email/account at: watch.eventive.org/anomaly. Because of the pass, it will not charge you the individual ticket fee when you reserve/unlock any program.

4. You must unlock every film program, individually, that you want to watch. (And you must unlock programs on a web browser in order for them to display in your TV app — see the “CAN I WATCH ON MY TV?” for details.)

5. The films/shorts/programs are ALL available on-demand all 4 days of the festival: 12am midnight on Thursday, November 12 - 11:59pm Sunday, November 15. You can watch them at any time, all 4 days (early birds and night-owls, rejoice!). The order listed on this page is the recommended watch order, but that’s just to provide some structure; you certainly don’t have to follow it.

6. See ”HOW DO I WATCH?”, above, for details on ways to access the films.

Buy a Virtual Full Festival Pass here

Short Film Passes are available to viewers anywhere in the United States.

1. Short Film passes allow access to all 4 shorts programs, BUT you still need to reserve/unlock each of those programs that you want to watch, one by one.

2. There ARE a limited number of virtual “seats” for each program, but Short Film Passholders are always guaranteed a “seat.”

3. When you purchased your pass, it should have asked you to create a free Eventive account. Your pass is tied to that email/account. Login with that email/account at: watch.eventive.org/anomaly. Because of the pass, it will not charge you the individual ticket fee when you reserve/unlock the 4 shorts programs.

4. The short film programs are ALL available on-demand all 4 days of the festival: 12am midnight on Thursday, November 12 - 11:59pm Sunday, November 15. You can watch them at any time, all 4 days (early birds and night-owls, rejoice!). The order of the 4 shorts programs listed on this page is the recommended watch order, but that’s just to provide some structure; you certainly don’t have to follow it.

5. The 4th program - “A Shorts Encore” - contains all the shorts that are ALSO playing before the features. If you’re outside New York: you’re not missing out on any of the shorts! If you’re in New York and watch all the features: you would have already see these, so be forewarned so you don’t think you have amnesia.

6. See ”HOW DO I WATCH?”, above, for details on ways to access the films.

Buy a Virtual Shorts Pass here