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28th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL FANTASPORTO 2007
29th
FEBRUARY till MARCH 8TH
The Oporto International
Film Festival, now going to its 28th edition, specializes in fantasy and
science-fiction films in its Official Competitive section.
This Festival also includes the 15th New Directors Week with an Official
Competition and a Retrospective section. The Festival’s director,
Mário Dorminsky, is preparing, with the help of the Portuguese
Film Institute, a program with Portuguese Films for the benefit of the
foreign guests in Fantasporto.
The Festival runs now in 5 theatres (2,600 seats altogether ) and screens
nearly new 200 feature films each year. The press coverage of the Festival
is made by all the most important Portuguese newspapers, radio stations
and television networks and by foreign specialized press. This allows
press dossiers of about 5000 clippings every year and represents a unique
media coverage in Portugal for similar cultural events. Almost 110,000
entries, per year is the average of the Festival’s past editions.
Entry´s till December 15th 2007. Short´s and Features only
35mm. Please consult regulations.
Going now to its 28th
edition, Fantasporto has brought to Portugal for the first time the films
of such names as David Cronenberg, André Tarkovsky, Brian de Palma,
John Carpenter, Alain Resnais, David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar, Andrzej Zulawski,
Ridley Scott, Luc Besson, Peter Greenaway, Neil Jordan, Jean-Jacques Beneix,
Joel and Ethan Cohen, Sam Raimi, Brian Yuzna, Peter Jackson, Hal Hartley,
Anthony Minghella, Quentin Tarantino, Roberto Rodriguez, Danny Boyle,
Paul Anderson, David Fincher, James Mangold, the Wachowski Brothers, Scott
Hicks, Scott Reynolds and the Dutch director and Oscar winner Mike Van
Diem, among many others.
Situated in the west
corner of Europe, the World Heritage City of Porto hosts a one of a kind
film festival. Founded 25 years ago by a group of film fans and critics,
Fantasporto, as it is known, started as a haven for sci-fi and fantasy
films , a then not too well seen genre. After a huge sucesss in the first
two years, the festival has broaden its horizons with thrillers and seven
years later with a New Directors competition. Although fantasy is still
its trade mark, especially for the Portuguese press, it is recognized
as the biggest in Portugal and one of the most important in Europe.
Giving space to big
screen productions, to autheur films and to experimental projects from
all over the world, Fantasporto has created enthusiastic audiences, ranging
from cinephiles to more popular spectators, with an annual average of
110,000 film goers. In its 27th edition in February the festival reached
104,000 people and 5,000 media references (both national and international)
with a record of 187 hours of TV time. Present in Oporto were circa 100
members of the foreign press and about 250 Portuguese journalists and
media representatives.
In spite of being organized by a private entity, the event is mostly State
funded, with the Ministry of Culture leading and the President of the
Republic as head of the Honour Committee, and with private sponsors backing
strongly, responding to the festival’s crowd appeal.
Filmmakers who wish
to submit their work can get all the details from the online
entry form
Link in Filmfestivalspro.com Database |
