EXCLUSIVE: The largest genre film festival in South America, Fantaspoa, has presented the first half of its program for the seventeenth edition from April 9th to 18th. Scroll down for the full list.
Like last year, the festival had to run online due to the ongoing pandemic. It will be held completely free of charge with films that can be streamed in Brazil through a renewed partnership with Brazilian horror streaming service Darkflix. Last year’s event drew more than 67,000 spectators. While the films are geographically restricted and limited to 3,000 viewers per screening, questions and answers and workshops can be viewed anywhere in the world.
25 feature films have been confirmed to date, including three world premieres, five international premieres and 10 Latin American premieres. Titles come from previous festivals like San Sebastian, Rotterdam and Toronto.
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This year’s festival was supported by a special grant from the Brazilian government to support cultural events during the pandemic.
Festival events featuring Brazilian creators, including actors, directors, screenwriters and make-up artists, will be held on YouTube and Facebook.
Here is the full list of the initial announcement:
A dark, dark man (Adilkhan Yerzhanov, 2019, Kazakhstan / France, Latin American premiere)
BLOOD SHOT HEART (Parish Malfitano, 2020, Australia, International Premiere)
THE CEMETERY OF LOST SOULS (Rodrigo Aragão, 2020, Brazil, regional premiere)
CYST (Tyler Russell, 2020, USA, Latin American premiere)
DANCE MARY (SABU, 2019, Japan, Latin American premiere)
ATTENTION! ATTENTION! (Lexie Findarle Trivundza, Nick Trivundza, 2020, USA, International Premiere)
FRANK & ZED (Jesse Blanchard, 2020, USA, Brazilian premiere)
GET LOST (I-Fan Wang, 2020, Taiwan, Brazilian premiere)
THE GREAT LEAP (Karim Lakzadeh, 2021, world premiere)
HAWK AND REV: VAMPIRE STACKER (Ryan Barton-Grimley, 2020, USA, Latin American premiere)
HISTORY OF THE OCCULT (Cristian Ponce, 2020, Argentina, Brazilian premiere)
OFFICE (Anshul Chauhan, 2019, Japan, Latin American premiere)
PUPPET (Elbert van Strien, 2020, Netherlands / Luxembourg / United Kingdom, international premiere)
MISTER LIMBO (Robert G. Putka, 2021, USA, world premiere)
MOSCOW DOESN’T HAPPEN (Dmitry Fedorov, 2020, Russia, international premiere)
WIN MURDER BURY (Michael Lovan, 2020, USA, Latin American premiere)
NIGHTON (PAGE A) (Gonzalo Calzada, 2020, Argentina, Latin American premiere)
PLAYDURIZM (Gem Deger, 2020. Czech Republic, Latin American premiere)
POST MORTEM (Péter Bergendy, 2020, Hungary, Latin American premiere)
ASS VULTURE (Eric Fleitas, Luciana Garraza, 2019, Argentina, Brazilian premiere)
SOUND OF VIOLENCE (Alex Noyer, 2021, USA / Finland, international premiere)
THE STYLIST (Jill Gevargizian, 2020, USA, Latin American premiere)
SWEETIE, you won’t believe it (Yernar Nurgaliyev, 2020, Kazakhstan, Brazilian premiere)
THIS GAME IS CALLED MURDER (Adam Sherman, 2021, USA, world premiere)
VURDALAK BLOOD (Santiago Fernández Calvete, 2020, Argentina / Singapore, Brazilian premiere)
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