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Fantaspoa
Genre film festival in Brazil From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fantaspoa is an international film festival held annually in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Established in 2005, it focuses on genre cinema, including fantasy, science fiction and horror, and showcases both feature-length and short films, with a focus on Portuguese and Spanish language productions.
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History
Fantaspoa was founded in 2005,[1] and has the following official sections: Short Film Competition (subdivided into live-action/animation and national/international); Ibero-American Feature Film Competition and International Competition. The festival also have special sidebars that change from edition to edition, such as animated feature films, documentaries, zombie films, panorama, among others.
Each edition, the festival grants around twenty awards in the different sections, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award, that has been presented to some of the greatest auteurs of the fantastic genre, such as Luigi Cozzi, Lamberto Bava, Ruggero Deodato, Claudio Simonetti, Stuart Gordon, David Schmoeller, Frank Henenlotter, Lloyd Kaufman and Simon Boswell.[2]
Fantaspoa is the only South American festival to be a member of the Méliès International Festivals Federation, and stands alone, outside of Europe, in awarding the prestigious Méliès d'Argent for Best European Short Film.[3][4]
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Reception
Described by Variety as the largest genre film festival in Latin America,[5] Fantaspoa has also been included in the following lists:
- 2025 – MovieMaker – "Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee"[6]
- 2025 – Dread Central – "The 90 Best Genre Film Festivals on Earth"[7]
- 2024 – MovieMaker – "Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee"[8]
- 2023 – MovieMaker – "The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World"[9]
- 2023 – MovieMaker – "Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee"[10]
- 2022 – Dread Central – "Best Horror Festivals in the World"[11]
- 2021 – Dread Central – "Best Horror Festivals in the World"[12]
- 2021 – MovieMaker – "50 Best Genre Fests in the World"[13]
- 2019 – MovieMaker – "30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World"[14]
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