Scream! Making Your First Horror Film
with Christopher Giroux

Join Christopher Giroux for an in-depth deep dive on how to produce your first low budget horror feature. The session will cover a reverse-engineering strategy; a step-by-step discussion on how to maximize your resources to create your first horror film, from detailed prep, streamlining production schedules, plans for post, pathways to distribution and grassroots marketing. 

Christopher Giroux’s career spans a multitude of productions, genres and over 50+ feature films.

A 2009 Sheridan graduate in the Advanced TV and Film program, Giroux moved quickly up the industry ladder, producing 10 back-to-back high concept genre features with Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough Entertainment.

Giroux joined Vortex Media in the fall of 2018, and is currently the SVP of Production.

In recent years he has produced and overseen production on such films as The Christmas Charade, Christmas Island, Learning To Love Again, Take Me Back For Christmas, The End of Sex, Anything For Jackson, The Voices of Her Mother, and the 2022 official TIFF selection, The End of Sex. 

Giroux's produced work has aired on The Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, UPtv, Paramount+, Super Channel, W Network, Prime Video, Tubi, Roku, BBC, Shudder, Showtime, Hollywood Suite, Diva-Romania, TF1, StackTV, Hallmark+, Crave and more. 

In addition to Giroux’s production work, he is also a member of The Producer’s Roundtable of Ontario. He was awarded a Certified Fresh Trophy from Rotten Tomatoes for producing Anything For Jackson (2020), and has received two Canadian Screen Award nominations, for his work on Christmas Island (2023) & Take Me Back For Christmas (2023).