After 21 years of disseminating and rewarding independent horror, terror, paranormal and thriller cinema, the founder of the Macabre Festival, Edna Campos, announced the alliance with the Cindie platform, to place the first 18 films on permanent display within the reach of fans of the gender at www.cindie.com.
A few days after announcing the programming of Macabro XXII México, which will take place from August 15 to 27, Edna Campos together with Elena García, Cindie’s Marketing and Public Relations, and George Hernández, curator and selector of the films, revealed the names of three films that come to the festival and that will be exclusively available from August 14 on said platform.
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The films are Abruptio, by Evan Marlowe (EU, 2023); Meltdown: A Nuclear Family’s Ascension Into Madness, by Colton Van Til (USA, 2023), and Episode 13, by Yogesh Rau (India, 2023).
“For two decades we have lived through the changes in technology when producing independent films. From VHS, to DVD, then Blu-ray, and currently to digital and with the pandemic, the rise of streaming platforms,” said Edna Campos.
“In 2020, faced with movie theaters closed due to Covid-19, our option was streaming projection. The experience was not good, but we fulfilled the followers of Macabre. With the opening of movie theaters in the post-pandemic period, the platforms are still maintained and we will continue to show the proposals, now with our alliance with Cindie, ”he added.
18 FILMS ON THE PLATFORM
George Hernández, curator and film critic, pointed out that Macabro, in alliance with Cindie, will place on the platform “the best content of independent, impressive and interesting films with different narratives created not only in Mexico, but also in Latin America and Europe.
“They are film stories with which the viewer is forced to pay attention in order to have a forward vision. We will not be on a platform with two thousand titles, but from the start they will have 18 quality films that if they have already seen them, they can remember them.
Among the titles on the Cindie platform are Rendez-vous by Pablo Olmos Arrayales (Mexico, 2019, winner of Macabro 2020); The mansion of madness, by Juan López Moctezuma (Mexico, 1976); The House of the End of Time, by Alejandro Hidalgo (Venezuela, 2013); La Llorona, by Ramón Peón, in a restored version of the original (Mexico, 1933), as well as El fantasma del convento, the 1935 film by Fernando de Fuentes.
Also Santo contra el cerebro del mal, by Joselito Rodríguez (Mexico, 1961), restored and remastered; the Argentines I am toxic, by Pablo Parés (2019) and Pájaros negros by Fercks Castellani (2015) and La funeraria, by Mauro Iván Ojeda (2021).
Light: Flower of Evil by Juan Diego Escobar Alzate (Colombia, 2022); In the well, by Bernardo and Rafael Antonaccio (Uruguay, 2019); David’s Secret directed by Diego Freitas (Brazil, 2018) and Agnes, by Mickey Reece (USA, 2021).
The virtual meeting was attended by the actor Antonio Alcántara and the director Pablo Olmos Arrayales from the film Rendez-vous, which was produced in a single take without cuts.
“The film deals with two people, Lily and Eduardo, who meet on a romantic date through an application and get to know each other through the meeting. Both are discovering each other’s dark secrets.
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“The characters show what they want to show and hide what they hide. Although they really want to live and get out of where they are and change their situation. That’s why this peculiar encounter happens.”
Olmos and Alcántara agreed in commenting that the filmmaker deceived Antonio by telling him that it was a short film. However, when they began to see the script they had to tell him the truth, that it was a film with a peculiar shooting, given the low budget for the production.
2023-07-28 08:00:00
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