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Fantaspoa 2021 Announces Its Award Winners

Brazilian genre-film festival Fantaspoa celebrated its second year online with a tantalizing selection of horror, science fiction, thriller, and other exciting movies, as the fest’s 2021 awards affirm. Following is the official press announcement for Fantaspoa’s wrap-up of its 2021 edition. The seventeenth edition of Fantaspoa was again a landmark for the long-running Brazilian genre festival. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Latin America’s largest genre film festival celebrated its second online edition, with free access within Brazil to all festival content. In total, 160 films from over 40 countries were exhibited, including 57 features and 103 shorts. The massive virtual event took place from April 9th through 18th on the Brazilian streaming platform, Wurlak — and the festival proudly presented fourteen masterclasses along with 29 Q&As with filmmakers from around the globe. According to festival directors and producers João Fleck and Nicolas Tonsho, this was the finest edition of the festival they’ve presented thus far, even with the ongoing

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Joseph Perry

May 6, 2021

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Fantaspoa Announces Final Wave of Its 2021 Feature Programming

Highly acclaimed Brazilian genre film festival will hold its seventeenth edition from April 9th through the 18th, 2021, showcasing 160 shorts and features from around the world. From the Mexico-set folk horror of The Old Ways to the French dark fantasy Jumbo to the Canadian science fiction feature Parallel Minds, the fest offers an incredible array of top-notch genre films. Following is the official press announcement. As previously announced, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Brazil’s long-running Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival will celebrate its seventeenth edition completely online and free of charge. The 2021 edition of the beloved South American genre festival is supported by a special grant from the Brazilian government, which is offered to relevant cultural events amidst the pandemic. The festival has renewed its partnership with Darkflix, Brazil’s immensely popular streaming service aimed at fantastic genre cinema. Fantaspoa’s festival directors are keenly aware of the fact that no live events will take place in the cinemas of

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Joseph Perry

Mar 27, 2021

Film Festivals

Brazil’s Fantaspoa Film Festival’s First Half of Its 2021 Lineup Includes Monsters, Murderers, and the Mystical

Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival will repeat the free, online format that worked splendidly for it last year for its 2021 edition. The first batch of its scheduled offerings for this year includes horror films and horror comedies from around the globe. Following is the official press announcement. Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival announced via Deadline that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, its seventeenth edition will again be held online and completely free of charge. The 2021 edition of the beloved South American genre festival is supported by a special grant from the Brazilian government, which is offered to relevant cultural events amidst the pandemic. The festival will also renew its partnership with Darkflix, Brazil’s immensely popular streaming service aimed at fantastic genre cinema. Fantaspoa’s festival directors are keenly aware of the fact that no live events will take place in the cinemas of Porto Alegre in 2021. Theaters currently remain closed due to a worsening of the virus and

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Joseph Perry

Mar 11, 2021

Film FestivalsNews

“Rock, Paper and Scissors” and “Two Heads Creek” Among Sixteenth Fantaspoa Awards

The 2020 online version of Fantaspoa Awards have been announced, and the dysfunctional families of the Argentinian chiller Rock, Paper and Scissors and the Australian horror comedy Two Heads Creek are two of the films capturing Best Feature prizes. Following is the official press release listing all of the winners. The sixteenth edition of Fantaspoa was a landmark moment for the long-running genre festival. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, South America’s largest genre film festival marked its first-ever online edition, with free access to all festival content in Brazil. In total, 138 films were exhibited: 49 features and 89 shorts from over 40 countries. The massive virtual event took place from July 24th until August 2nd on the Brazilian streaming platform, Darfklix, and the festival presented two masterclasses along with 21 Q&A’s with filmmakers from around the globe. According to festival directors and producers João Fleck and Nicolas Tonsho, this was certainly the most challenging edition of the festival. After

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Joseph Perry

Aug 9, 2020

Film Festivals

Brazil’s Fantaspoa’s 2020 Digital Edition Announces Its Tremendous Full Lineup

The sixteenth edition of Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival follows up its stellar first-wave announcement with its full lineup. The fest will host 47 feature films and 89 shorts online for free. Following is the full press release detailing everything readers around the world should know about this incredible festival and what they can watch, depending on their locations. Following the announcement of its first 16 titles, Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival is proud to announce the full program for its upcoming sixteenth edition, which will be held online and completely free of charge. The bold move is courtesy of an unprecedented partnership with Darkflix, a Brazilian video streaming service aimed at fantastic genre productions. Fantaspoa 2020’s full lineup will consist of 47 feature films from 29 different countries and 89 shorts from 25 countries – totaling more than 130 films from 40 countries. The festival’s full lineup will be available for free on the Brazilian streaming platform Darkflix between

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Joseph Perry

Jul 19, 2020

Film FestivalsNews

Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival Announces Its Virtual Version for 2020 and Its Incredible First Wave of Genre Titles

Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival has announced that, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, its sixteenth edition will be held online and completely free of charge, with more than 110 genre features and shorts geo-blocked to Brazilian viewers but with digital versions of the festival’s popular lectures and masterclasses available free to cinema lovers around the world. The event is slated to run July 24th through August 2nd, 2020. Fantaspoa joins other genre-film festivals around the world in moving to a virtual version this year in these uncertain times. The fest’s move comes courtesy of an unprecedented partnership with Darkflix, a Brazilian video streaming service aimed at fantastic genre productions. The opening film of Fantaspoa’s sixteenth edition will be Keola Racela’s Porno, which has already won over audiences at SXSW, Fantasia, Sitges, and FrightFest. You can read Horror Fuel’s review here. The closing films of the festival’s sixteenth edition will be dual co-productions of Fantaspoa Productions: Skull: the Mask and

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Joseph Perry

Jun 21, 2020

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