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Brazil’s Fantaspoa film festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and the festival is breaking numerous records, presenting an impressive total of 114 feature films, 22 of these as World Premieres, marking the largest number of feature films in Fantaspoa’s long history.

The final selection of feature films for Fantaspoa’s highly-anticipated 20th edition has been exclusively presented to Bloody Disgusting, so read on for everything you need to know!

The festival tells us this week, “With a diverse selection, the feature films screening at Fantaspoa Xx have been divided into seven distinct competitive categories: International, Ibero-American, National, Documentary, Animation, All-Nighter, and Low Budget, Great Films. These categories promise audiences a variety of cinematic experiences, from the fringes of horror and fantasy to the depths of the human imagination.

“In addition to feature films, Fantaspoa will screen 123 short films, totaling 237 participating works, making this edition of the festival the largest in its history.

A tidbit of news that slipped under our radar late last week, Variety reports that Canadian Korean filmmaker Anthony Shim (who is coming off a solid 2022 with his sophomore feature Riceboy Sleeps) is attached to adapt and direct Offerings for the big screen. Production would be set for the fall of 2024 – so we’d be looking at a possible 2025 drop if everything falls into place. Anonymous Content’s David Levine and Chadwick Prichard (set to produce Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Jupiter) plus Anthology Studios’ Jay Choi and Soon Ho Song (Cobweb) will produce the acclaimed Korean novel written by Michael Kim (aka Kim Byung Ju).…...