Starting on May 11, Writer / Director Todd E. Freeman’s Fantaspoa Fantastic FFest Daily Video Blog will be available in Spain at Almas Oscuras as well as in the USA at More Horror! For my friends in Brazil it will be available in Portuguese over at Boca do Inferno. For those of you in the UK be on the look out for it at Horror Cult Films. For our hometown fans it will be available on the Oregon Film Blog. Each of these sites will also have Exclusive Content (Pictures, written blogs, information of films playing at the festival etc.) so be sure to check them all out.
This will be a document of Todd’s experience at the 2012 Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival as well as the World Premiere of the Polluted Pictures and Wooden Frame Productions film Cell Count.
Fantaspoa Announces its Full Program
Starting next week, on may 4th and going until may, 20th, Porto Alegre will be the Latin American Capital of Genre Cinema. Fantaspoa – International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre, the biggest genre film festival of Latin America will be back for its 8th edition, with 17 days of pure cinephilia, exhibiting 150 films – including 87 features from 32 countries: 5 having their world première, 12 in national première and 43 in their Latin America première. The festival will also bring more than 35 guests, including the duo that will be getting a Career Achievement Award: David Schmoeller and Stuart Gordon. Schmoeller, in the occasion, will also have the première of his first feature in 14 years: “Little Monsters”.
The festival will open and close with two world premières: “Nervo Craniano Zero”, directed by Paulo Biscaia Filho will open the festival and “Cell Count”, directed by Todd E. Freeman will close it.
Website for the festival: www.fantaspoa.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/fantaspoa
The trailer for the festival is available on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrqcfkaXgLM
FULL PROGRAM
The Short Films Competition will exhibit a total of 51 films, including “Para Eu Dormir Tranquilo”, “Conto do Vento”, “Paths of Hate”, “Blackwater Gospel”; “Animal Control” and “La Casa Del Lago”.
Zombie Apocalypse is a competitive sidebar that has been put together to exhibit eight recent films with our beloved living dead, to show the richness in which these characters can be used on film. The highlights of this sections are “Portrait of a Zombie”, “A Little Bit Zombies” and “Di Ingon ‘Nato”.
Panorama will exhibit films that are not explicitly genre films, but that involve interesting themes or unusual situation. 11 titles will be part of this section: “The Maiden Danced to Death”, “Searching for Sonny”, “Kid-Thing”, “Brawler”, “El Ambulante”, “White Vengeance”, “Bad Ass”, “Pilgrim Song”, “El Infierno”, “Machete’s Language” and “Happily Never After”. These films compose a Panorama of some of the most interesting and unusual films that are being made nowadays. Some have been played on the most renowned film festivals throughout the globe and it’s especially interesting for us to start this new sidebar in Fantaspoa this year.
The Ibero-American Competition will exhibit a total of 12 films, from six different countries. From Chile we’ll be presenting “El Circuito de Román”, winner of the special jury award at Valdivia International Film Festival; from Venezuela, the multi-awarded “La Hora Cero”; from Costa Rica, “El Fin”, a unique comedy about the last day on earth; and from Spain comes Carne Cruda, a comedy about cannibals that pay homage to the Italian horror classics. Mexico will have two films presented: “Alucardos” and “Pastorela”; and Argentina will have six films on the competition: “Plaga Zombie 3”, “Penumbra”, “Fase 7”, “La Memoria del Muerto”, “Diablo” and “Topos”.
The whole line-up for the International Competition, with 32 titles can be find at www.fantaspoa.com
Thank you for the support and excitement. We are so very excited to be showing the film for the first time! Much love and respect to you all… we appreciate our fans! :)
“I’m always on the prowl for fresh, new horror from upcoming directors. Some might even say that I’m an internet “horrorstalker”. Ok, so I made that up. Still, the fact remains. What satisfies and quenches my horror thirst is when I discover something different, something out of the ordinary that captures my attention. This involves scouring the ‘net’ for talented individuals; some of which include artists, writers and, as is the case here, filmmakers. It is no wonder that I happened upon director Todd E. Freeman whose upcoming thriller/horror film Cell Count is just peeking over the horizon as it will start its journey through the festival markets starting in May of 2012. Todd was kind enough to sit down with Reelybored Horror and answer a few questions.”
Click HERE to read the entire interview.
Trailer for the 2012 Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival in which Cell Count was chosen as Closing Night Film. Shows a few shots from Cell Count. Check it out!
Here is the poster that was released today for the Fantaspoa Film Festival where Cell Count has been chosen as the Closing Night Film. This will also be our World Premiere!
Poster Design by the amazing Tom Hodge at The Dude Designs.
With the announcement just earlier this week that “Cell Count” was chosen as the Closing Night Film and to also have it’s World Premiere at this years Fantaspoa Film Festival in Brazil we thought it would be a great time to show our new poster from the amazing Tom Hodge at The Dude Designs.
Cell Count is the story of Russell Carpenter who “reluctantly admits his wife Sadie into an experimental treatment facility for her life threatening disease. While locked in this prison like surrounding they, along with 6 others, are unknowingly subjected to a cure that might just be worse than the disease itself.”
“We are so excited to have our World Premiere at this year’s Fantaspoa Film Festival. We’ll be among some of the very best Fantastic Cinema has to offer from around the world. Our intent from day one was always to make a film for enthusiasts of the Sci-Fi and Horror genre. It’s going to be a blast to see it in a theater full of genre fans for the first time.” - Writer and Director Todd Freeman.
Tom Hodge, The Dude Designs says, “For Cell Count I wanted to create a modern illustrated montage poster. A lot times of this type of work can get labeled as ‘retro’ but i really wanted to show that this type of art is still as fresh, fun and relevant for today’s movie market in 2012 as it was back in 1972.
Cell Count is the type of movie that can benefit from this school of poster art as there is so much going on, so while you could just depict one isolated character or image to promote the film, it wouldn’t really tell you the whole story and my main aim for the design was to capture all the rich nuances, characters, plot twists and atmosphere of the movie to build this static trailer.
I took a lot of influence from the Thai posters of the 70s, as they always had such a great flair for balancing out a broad spectrum of elements but still tying them together in a composition that looks unified as a whole.”
Joao Fleck and Nicolas Tonsho, Directors of the Fantaspoa Film Festival, say that “Cell Count is a film that has a strong potential to please a large audience. Those seeking pure entertainment will get their fix and those looking for a film to reflect upon will be satisfied watching it as well. All in all, the suspense, the twists, its powerful visuals along with it’s simple universal story make it unique and effecting. We look forward to seeing Cell Count be appreciated by a large, and well deserved, audience.”
Cell Count’s production company, Wooden Frame Productions, is currently in talks with Sales Agents as well as Distributors from all over the world.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Portland Feature Film “Cell Count” has World Premiere and closes the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Porto Alegre Brazil.
PORTLAND, Oregon (March 05, 2012) - The Fantaspoa Film Festival announced today that the Portland feature film “Cell Count,” made by Polluted Pictures in association with Wooden Frame Productions, is the Closing Night Film at their Festival in May. Last year’s Closing Night Film, “Stakeland”, was later released in theaters in 2011 by IFC Films and Dark Sky Films.
Cell Count was the third of three feature films shot in 2011 from Wooden Frame Productions that utilized the Oregon state iOPIF rebate program which provides rebates of 20% of goods and services and 10% of Oregon labor for films produced by Oregon filmmakers who spend a minimum of $75,000 but not more than $750,000 on their project. Over 50 cast and crew for the film were residents of Oregon. “This incentive is why we are able to make feature films in the state that we love,” said filmmaker Todd E. Freeman. “Oregon has diverse actors, locations, and crew abilities and without this incentive we would have to consider making movies in another state.”
This is the Fantaspoa Film Festival’s 8th year. It is the first genre festival in Brazil as well as the biggest fantastic film festival in Latin America. “We are so excited to have our World Premiere at the Fantaspoa Film Festival. We’ll be among some of the very best that Fantastic Cinema has to offer from around the world,” said Todd E. Freeman. “Our intent from day one was always to make a film for enthusiasts of the Sci-Fi and Horror genre. It’s going to be a blast to see it in a theater full of genre fans for the first time… as well as subtitled in Portuguese!”
Joao Fleck and Nicolas Tonsho, Directors of the Fantaspoa Film Festival, say that “Cell Count is a film that has a strong potential to please a large audience. Those seeking pure entertainment will get their fix and those looking for a film to reflect upon will be satisfied watching it as well.” They went on to say that “All in all, the suspense, the twists, its powerful visuals along with its simple universal story make it unique and effecting. We look forward to seeing Todd E. Freeman’s film “Cell Count” appreciated by a large, and well deserved, audience.”
The production company of the film Wooden Frame Productions is currently in talks with Sales Representatives as well as Distributors all over the world. The poster from the film Cell Count designed by Tom Hodge, The Dude Designs, debuts on Ain’t It Cool News website on Friday March 9th.
Find out more, watch the film’s trailer, and stay up to date at: www.pollutedpictures.com
Next week is a very exciting week for us. We announce our World Premiere as well as premiere our new poster from Tom Hodge from The Dude Designs. Let’s get this party started. Tell your friends! Share the FB page! Watch the trailer! Attack! :)
