By MICHAEL GINGOLD
Latin America’s biggest genre fest has 47 features from 29 different countries set to screen during its 16th edition, which will run on-line due to the pandemic starting next week. A trailer for the event has been issued as well.
Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival will be presented by the Darkflix streaming platform July 24-August 2. The films, also including 89 shorts from 25 countries, will be geolocked to Brazil and capped at 5,000 viewers, but its filmmaker and cast Q&As, celebrity master classes, lectures and other events will be visible worldwide, and it’s all completely free of charge. The features are:
- ANTRUM: THE DEADLIEST FILM EVER MADE (David Amito and Michael Laicini, Canada, 2018)–Latin American Premiere
- AVIVA (Boaz Yakin, U.S./France, 2020)–International Premiere
- BAD BLACK (Nabwana I.G.G, Uganda, 2016)
- BEING NATURAL (Tadashi Nagayama, Japan, 2018)–Latin American Premiere
- THE BERLIN BRIDE (Michael Bartlett, U.S./Germany, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME TRAVEL (Gisella Bustillos, U.S., 2018)–Latin American Premiere
- BUTT BOY (Tyler Cornack, U.S., 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- CABRITO (Luciano de Azevedo, Brazil, 2020)
- CLARITA (Roderick Cabrido, Philippines, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- COMRADE DRAKULICH (Márk Bodzsár, Hungary, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- THE COLOR ROSE (Courtney Page, Canada, 2020)–International Premiere
- CRAZY WORLD (Nabwana I.G.G, Uganda, 2019)
- THE CURSE OF VALBURGA (Tomaz Gorkic, Slovenia, 2019)
- DIABLO ROJO PTY (Sol Charlotte and J. Oskura Nájera, Panama, 2019)–Brazilian Premiere
- ENTWINED (Minos Nikolakakis, Greece/United Kingdom, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- FERAL (Andrés Kaiser, Mexico, 2018)–Brazilian Premiere
- FRIED BARRY (Ryan Kruger, South Africa, 2020)–Latin American Premiere
- FULCI FOR FAKE (Simone Scafidi, United Kingdom/Italy, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- GHOST MASTER (pictured; Paul Young, Japan, 2019)
- GOD’S HILL (Daniel M. Carneiro, Spain, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- A HAIRY TALE (Amir Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Iran, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- H0US3 (Manolo Munguia, Spain, 2018)–Brazilian Premiere
- THE IMPOSSIBLE VOYAGE (Noro Drziak, Czech Republic, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- JAMES VS. HIS FUTURE SELF (Jeremy LaLonde, Canada, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- LIMBO (Tim Dünschede, Germany, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- NIRVANA INN (Vijay Jayapal, India, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- THE OLD MAN: THE MOVIE (Oskar Lehemaa and Mikk Mägi, Estonia, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- THE PACK (C. Martin Ferrera, Spain, 2019)–International Premiere
- THE PANDEMIC ANTHOLOGY (Various directors, Brazil, 2020)–Latin American Premiere
- POISSA (Arttu Haglund, Finland, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- PORNO (Keola Racela, U.S., 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- PRECARIOUS (Wes Terray, U.S., 2020)–Latin American Premiere
- RESIN (Daniel Borgman, Denmark, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- THE RINGING BELL (Casey T. Malone, U.S., 2020)–International Premiere
- RK/RKAY (Rajat Kapoor, India, 2019)–International Premiere
- ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS (Martín Blousson and Macarena García Lenzi, Argentina, 2019)–Brazilian Premiere
- SALVATION (Lee Chang Moo, South Korea, 2020)–World Premiere
- SATOR (Jordan Graham, U.S., 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- SKULL (Armando Fonseca and Kapel Furman, Brazil, 2020)–Latin American Premiere
- STORONNIY (Dmitriy Tomashpolskiy, Ukraine, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- TO KILL A DRAGON (Jimena Monteoliva, Argentina, 2019)–Brazilian Premiere
- TOXIC (Ariel Martínez Herrera, Argentina, 2020)–International Premiere
- TWO HEADS CREEK (Jesse O’Brien, Australia, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- THE VICE GUIDE TO BIGFOOT (Zach Lamplugh, U.S., 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- WHO KILLED CAPTAIN ALEX? (Nabwana I.G.G, Uganda, 2010)
- ZANA (Antoneta Kastrati, Kosovo, 2019)–Latin American Premiere
- ZOMBIES IN THE SUGAR CANE FIELD: THE DOCUMENTARY (Pablo Schembri, Argentina, 2019)
For more info, head over to Fantaspoa’s official website.
