Cristian Ponce

For the first time ever we here at Film Combat Syndicate had the privilege of covering the annual Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival. This is Brazil’s long-running fest and this year was number seventeen! This year’s edition was supported by the Brazilian government and renewed the festival’s partnership with the streaming service Darkflix. The festival ran from April 9 to 18 and featured over 100 shorts and 50 feature films from over 35 countries. If you haven’t already read FCS’s coverage of films by Cathy (Cemetery of Lost Souls) and Vance (One Grave for Three Men), you should. You might find a new film for you to try. I was able to watch History of the Occult, which was not what I expected. Honestly, at first I thought I had clicked on the wrong screener because it opened with a mysterious conversation then turned into a political situation. There was a […]

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