It is always pleasant to remember the birth and the development of the Oporto International Film Festival, since its launching in 1981, still as a non-competitive event, till adulthood in the 1993 edition. Considered by the professional international magazine “Variety” as one of the 60 top film festivals of the world, and the best as far as the fantasy genre is considered, Fantasporto has become the most talked about film and culture event in Portugal.
Since the very beginning, Fantasporto had as goal the creation of a dynamic forum of all arts, with a strong tendency to show the best of fantasy films and the diversity of the film world.
The Festival has also tried to bring to its programme a group of sidebars as art exhibitions,theatre plays, puppet presentations, lectures, seminars, poster competitions, comics and amateur film-making, as well as the publishing of several film related material. It was this combination of several art forms which gave Fantasporto the appeal it still has today, at the top of all film festivities in Portugal, gathering an enthusiastic crowd and the support of official and governmental authorities, local entities and private companies. Through these 21 years we have presented in competition over 5.000 films( feature length and shorts), never released theatrically in Portugal.
Enlarging the number of film addicts, the festival prepares each year special programmes for children , handicapped citizens and schools. In the first editions the festival had extensions in many towns in Portugal such as Lisbon, Coimbra, Braga, Espinho and Povoa de Varzim. The objective is the promotion of cinema and fantasy film in particular.
We brought to Portugal, in an obvious promotion of national tourism an important group of film-makers, producers, actors, screenplay writers, flm critics and journalists.
Danny Elfman, Veit Helmer, Elias Merhige, Julian Temple, Ben Hopkins, Alison Anders, Carla Camurati, Mojica Marins, Bill Plympton, Júlio Bressane, Richard Elfman, Brian Yuzna, David Lynch, Ben Kinskey, Mariano Baino, Robert Golden, Ray Brady, Luc Besson, Karel Zeman, Andrzej Zulawski, Francis Leroi, Wolf Gremm, Carl Schenkel, René Laloux, Mansur Madavi, Monique Enckell, Oldrich Lipsky, Harry Kumel, Vicente Aranda, Juan Luis Bunuel, Roy Ward Baker, Ivan Cardoso, Piotr Szulkin, Mike Hodges, Jesus Garay, Rauol Servais, André Delvaux, Pim de la Parra, George Sluizer, Imanol Uribe, Jean Claude Carrière, Serguei Paradjanov, Roland Lethem, not forgetting the presence of the Portuguese film-makers such as António Macedo, Victor Silva, Ana Luisa Guimarães, Cristina Hauser ou Margarida Gil, Fernando Vendrell, Fernando Lopes, Joaquim Leitão, Tino Navarro, Paulo Branco, Manuel Costa e Silva, in a total of more of 3,500 guests who have honoured us with their presence.
The promotion of European and Portuguese films was permanent as a counterpoint to the north- american film industry. The festival published “Horror Show I, II” by Lauro António, “Spielberg” and “Cronenberg” by Pedro Garcia Rosado, “Edgar Allan Poe” by António Reis, “Roger Corman” and “1893-1993: Pequena história de uma arte que é também uma indústria” by Mário Dorminski, “Terence Fisher” by Gilbert Verschooten, “Frankenstein” by Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and “Walt Disney - Um Mundo de Magia” by several authors and “Tendências do Cinema Espanhol” by Núria Vidal or a photobiography of Jacinto Molina.... 2000 was the year for two special editions a photobiography of the Festival and a very special Fantas Graffiti Album.
In past editions the festival has changed the Auditório Nacional de Carlos Alberto in a pleasant and convial space for watching films. Recently also the Teatro Municipal Rivoli has become the centre of the Festival, proving that the cinema crisis was only due to insuficient projection quality.
There, the festival has created a video circuit running 14 hours per day, with a professional editing room and production centre. We have created and consolidated to our guests the trade mark of sympathy and warm welcoming, together with an accurate and competent organization which makes the difference between us and some other festivals.
The final results for these 21 years is clear to all and proved by the big press dossiers that we have been collecting through the years. We became a big (in Portugal) Film Festival, with a significant projection on the production companies and international organisms, without loosing the charactheritics of the informal but priveliged treatement through the guests, the nacional and international media and through a large amount of audience who has been always with us, helping us growing.
We are proud of having contributed, in only nineteen years, to the international projection of the town, the region and the country promoting the cinema and above all, returning to the spectators the will and joy of watching movies.
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It is always pleasant to remember the birth and the development of the Oporto International Film Festival, since its launching in 1981, still as a non-competitive event, till adulthood in the 1993 edition. Considered by the professional international magazine “Variety” as one of the 60 top film festivals of the world, and the best as far as the fantasy genre is considered, Fantasporto has become the most talked about film and culture event in Portugal.
Since the very beginning, Fantasporto had as goal the creation of a dynamic forum of all arts, with a strong tendency to show the best of fantasy films and the diversity of the film world.
The Festival has also tried to bring to its programme a group of sidebars as art exhibitions,theatre plays, puppet presentations, lectures, seminars, poster competitions, comics and amateur film-making, as well as the publishing of several film related material. It was this combination of several art forms which gave Fantasporto the appeal it still has today, at the top of all film festivities in Portugal, gathering an enthusiastic crowd and the support of official and governmental authorities, local entities and private companies. Through these 21 years we have presented in competition over 5.000 films( feature length and shorts), never released theatrically in Portugal.
Enlarging the number of film addicts, the festival prepares each year special programmes for children , handicapped citizens and schools. In the first editions the festival had extensions in many towns in Portugal such as Lisbon, Coimbra, Braga, Espinho and Povoa de Varzim. The objective is the promotion of cinema and fantasy film in particular.
We brought to Portugal, in an obvious promotion of national tourism an important group of film-makers, producers, actors, screenplay writers, flm critics and journalists.
Danny Elfman, Veit Helmer, Elias Merhige, Julian Temple, Ben Hopkins, Alison Anders, Carla Camurati, Mojica Marins, Bill Plympton, Júlio Bressane, Richard Elfman, Brian Yuzna, David Lynch, Ben Kinskey, Mariano Baino, Robert Golden, Ray Brady, Luc Besson, Karel Zeman, Andrzej Zulawski, Francis Leroi, Wolf Gremm, Carl Schenkel, René Laloux, Mansur Madavi, Monique Enckell, Oldrich Lipsky, Harry Kumel, Vicente Aranda, Juan Luis Bunuel, Roy Ward Baker, Ivan Cardoso, Piotr Szulkin, Mike Hodges, Jesus Garay, Rauol Servais, André Delvaux, Pim de la Parra, George Sluizer, Imanol Uribe, Jean Claude Carrière, Serguei Paradjanov, Roland Lethem, not forgetting the presence of the Portuguese film-makers such as António Macedo, Victor Silva, Ana Luisa Guimarães, Cristina Hauser ou Margarida Gil, Fernando Vendrell, Fernando Lopes, Joaquim Leitão, Tino Navarro, Paulo Branco, Manuel Costa e Silva, in a total of more of 3,500 guests who have honoured us with their presence.
The promotion of European and Portuguese films was permanent as a counterpoint to the north- american film industry. The festival published “Horror Show I, II” by Lauro António, “Spielberg” and “Cronenberg” by Pedro Garcia Rosado, “Edgar Allan Poe” by António Reis, “Roger Corman” and “1893-1993: Pequena história de uma arte que é também uma indústria” by Mário Dorminski, “Terence Fisher” by Gilbert Verschooten, “Frankenstein” by Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and “Walt Disney - Um Mundo de Magia” by several authors and “Tendências do Cinema Espanhol” by Núria Vidal or a photobiography of Jacinto Molina.... 2000 was the year for two special editions a photobiography of the Festival and a very special Fantas Graffiti Album.
In past editions the festival has changed the Auditório Nacional de Carlos Alberto in a pleasant and convial space for watching films. Recently also the Teatro Municipal Rivoli has become the centre of the Festival, proving that the cinema crisis was only due to insuficient projection quality.
There, the festival has created a video circuit running 14 hours per day, with a professional editing room and production centre. We have created and consolidated to our guests the trade mark of sympathy and warm welcoming, together with an accurate and competent organization which makes the difference between us and some other festivals.
The final results for these 21 years is clear to all and proved by the big press dossiers that we have been collecting through the years. We became a big (in Portugal) Film Festival, with a significant projection on the production companies and international organisms, without loosing the charactheritics of the informal but priveliged treatement through the guests, the nacional and international media and through a large amount of audience who has been always with us, helping us growing.
We are proud of having contributed, in only nineteen years, to the international projection of the town, the region and the country promoting the cinema and above all, returning to the spectators the will and joy of watching movies.