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THE FULL REPORT OF FANTASPORTO DAY BY DAY
VIDEO 39th Fantasporto closed with the Awards Ceremony
IN 2019, THE 39TH OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – FANTASPORTO AWARDED CHINA, POLAND AND THE PHILIPINES. CHINESE “LAST SUNRISE” WINS MAIN FANTASY SECTION. “Last Sunrise” by Chinese first time director Wen Ren wa...
IN 2019, THE 39TH OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – FANTASPORTO AWARDED CHINA, POLAND AND THE PHILIPINES.
CHINESE “LAST SUNRISE” WINS MAIN FANTASY SECTION.
“Last Sunrise” by Chinese first time director Wen Ren was the big winner of the main section, Fantasy Cinema, of Fantasporto with a sci-fi story about the day the sun stops shining forever. The Best Director award went to British Julian Richards, for two films, &ldq...
Click to view! And below is the ad I took in the catalog, offering filmmakers to pick my brains
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Oksana Orlan is the producer and main actress of The Russian Bride The Closing Film of Fantasporto, she spoke briefly with Bruno Chatelin just a few minutes before introducing her latest movie on stage in Fantasporto as the closing ceremony treat.
Originally from Ukraine, she started her career as a model before entering the film industry, she is based in LA and in the pre production stage for her next movie.
In the Russian Bride she marries a billionnaire, played b...
BIJU KUMAR DAMODARAN Director of Painting Life (India) winner of of Critics Prize with the founders of the festival Mario Dorminsky and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira.
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Rodrigo Aragão Mayra Alarcón (Fabulas Negras) were in beautiful city of Porto to present their latest film A Mata Negra: shot at home, entirely in the amazon forest The jury awarded the film with best screenplay. See how proud they are about the win, on stage and in an exclusive interview along the Douro River with Bruno Chatelin.
With Mario Dorminsky festival President
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Julian Richards screened two films in competition Daddy's Girl and Reborn and won BEST DIRECTOR Fantasporto 2019 Fantastic competition.
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Special Jury Award Orient Express SCHOOL SERVICE – LOUIE IGNACIO LAGDAMEO- FILIPINAS Directors Week Best Actress Award EX- AEQUO: AI-AI DE LAS ALAS- SCHOOL SERVICE – FILIPINAS INA RAYMUNDO – KUYA WES - FILIPINAS
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Click Fantasporto 2019 best Actress Georgia Chara to view the album :-)
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39th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS
FANTASY INTERNATIONAL JURY
The International Jury of the Fantasy Section of the 39th Oporto International Film Festival - Fantasporto was composed of Milan Todorovic, Anton Bitel, Bruno Chatelin and Josep Maria Contel Ruiz The jury has decided to grant the following awards:
Best Film Award Fantasporto
LAST SUNRISE- WEN REN - CHINA
Jury’s Special Award
IN FABRIC...
The Russian Bride will have its European premiere at the Fantasporto Film Festival in Portugal! Closing film at 9pm at Rivoli Theatre Grand Auditorium. Producers and lead character Oksana Orlan in attendance.
Superb performance by Oksana.
A film about love, marriage and children beeing the ultimate wealth and treasure...of course a few guns here and there :-)
Here is The Russian Bride Trailer!
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GREAT AUDITORIUM
15:30 • The Sonata
Andrew Desmond - 88 '(GB / Fra) - CF - WORLD PREMIÈRE - Mystery / Fantasy
Andrew Desmond's first feature film, a classic tale of magic and horror. A young and talented violinist discovers the unfamiliar history of her father's past, releasing dark forces beyond imagination. With Rutger Hauer ("Blade Runner"), James Faulkner ("Game of Thrones")
and Freya Tingley ("Jersey Boys&qu...
"In the ensuing pandemonium, Aragão proves the old adages that it takes a village to raise a child, and that there is nothing more global than the local. It may start small, but by the end, A Mata Negra has expanded its themes to a universal, apocalyptic scale. The film is bloody bananas (and includes bunches of both in its exuberant narrative), using its limited budget to craft a gorily unhinged world of hell with a diabolically compromised innocent at its centre. In the end, the ...
Review by Anton Bitel
"In Adrian Panek’s film, the ‘Werewolf’ of the title is a metaphor.
The first meal that the children share in the palace is a tin of dog food, which they fight over and spill all over the floor before picking it up again with their hands and mouths to devour hungrily. Inured to Camp life, they have become brutalised, b...
Fantasporto enters the final stretch with the presentation of films that show the varied and imaginative cinematographic production that takes place outside the Hollywood matrix, which dominates the world cinema exhibition. From Taiwan to Hungary, from Russia to the United Arab Emirates, from Brazil to the Philippines, it is a challenge to the 'unique model' of the American film industry that is offered to the Portuguese cinema audience in these two weeks of cinema that Fantasporto pr...
3:30 PM • Lust
Severin Eskeland - 84 '(Norway) - 2017 - P & P - Terror
Lisa, a famous writer of violent and erotic books, isolates herself at home after being raped. When nightmares increase, he begins to wonder about what is reality or fiction. Few can help. Selection of the Night Visions Festival.
17:30 • Decision: Liquidation
Alexander Aravin - 97 '(Russia) - P & P - War / Action
Based on real facts. After the attack on the...
Julian Richards is a long time friend of Fantasporto, shot here introducing Daddy's Girl on stage Feb 27th. His second movie in the main competition in Fantasporto
A man with many hats Julian runs a sales Agency speciazed in genre movies, some of which he also directed and produced.
Julian Richards - 80 '(USA / Georgia Rep.) - CF - Terror
An investigation into missing persons leads a rookie cop and a guard from the missing unit to meet a serial killer who uses her daughter to lure...
Frederico Duarte Carvalho presenting his fiction book on Fatima: The last secret of Fatima about the unprecedented history, essential to understand the phenomenon that attracts millions.
Milan Todorovic (Jury President) and Georgia Chara (Living Space) on the bridge to Gaia for sunset!
United after screening Daddy's girl
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Big Auditorium presentation of the European Premiere of Isabelle
3:30 PM • Isabelle
Robert Heydon - 81 '(Can / USA) - CF - EUROPEAN PREMIERE - Fantasy Horror
A young couple's dream of starting a family is compromised as they go down the paranoid rungs due to a creepy neighbor who seems to demand their own lives. Second feature film by the award-winning director of "Ecstasy".
17:30 • Painting Life
Biju Kumar Damodaran - 140 &...
Philippine Ambassador to Portugal Celia Anna M. Feria hosted a cocktail reception for the participating Philippine delegation to the 39th Porto International Film Festival also known as Fantasporto 2019, at Teatro Rivoli in Porto on 26 February.
Philippine Ambassador to Portugal Celia Anna M. Feria hosted a cocktail reception for the participating Philippine delegation to the 39th Porto International Film Festival also known as Fantasporto 2019, at Teatro Rivoli in Porto on 26 February.
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With the official opening and the arrival of the competitive sessions of Fantasporto, there are naturally in Porto the members of the three Official Juries and the most diverse representatives of the World of the Cinema Industry begin to arrive.
FROM BEAUTIFUL RUSSA OKSANA ORLAN, "THE RUSSIAN BRIDE", to the winner of FANTAS 2015, KAROLY MEZÁROS. OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PRODUCER WHO DISCOVERED THEN THE HILLS TO REALIZE "THE HEAD HU...
GREAT AUDITORIUM
15:30 • The Black Forest
Rodrigo Aragão - 100 '(Brazil) - CF - Terror
A young woman who lives in the forest faces the demons, the spirits of the other world, the dead who are resurrected and, above all, a preacher who demonizes her. In possession of a book of spells, the young woman will try to survive the attacks of all, and at the same time retrieve a bag of gold coins that found.
A great production with Carol Aragão, Jackson Antunes and Fr...
GREAT AUDITORIUM
15:30 • Demon Eye
Ryan Simons - 87 '(GB) - CF - WORLD PREMIERE - Terror / Supernatural
Sadie returns from America to the United Kingdom to inhabit her father's house, after his suicide and to discover a reality where the supernatural mingles with the family's past. A mysterious amulet he finds will awaken two demons he has to defeat. From the director of "Seizure" (2016).
17:30 • Living Space
Steven Spiel - 80 '(Austra...
Dorminsky Mario 
