The Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival aims to stimulate interest in European audiovisual works in the genres of horror and science fiction. The festival will take place during Halloween week and feature sections for official competition films, films by women directors, and a focus on the horror/sci-fi of a particular country each year. Core target audiences are geek/nerd audiences and young audiences who enjoy watching such films together. Festival activities include screenings, roundtables, competitions, concerts and exhibitions to engage these audiences as well as women, families, students and general audiences.

1. Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival

2. Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival
WHAT are we going to do?
Support horror & scifi audience development as a means of
stimulating interest in and improving access to European
audiovisual works in particular through promotion, events and
movies.

3. Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival
When?
Halloween week. We want Susto to
take place in the same week
where everybody, school and
University focuses on the fantastic genre.

4. Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival
WHO is our core Audience:
• Geek/Nerd audience who loves to see another genre besides
drama, they are moves by fast paced literacy like horror and
sci-fi. Love to see films/tv shows based on literacy like Game
of Thrones or Hunger games and are really into comics and
Star Wars movies and merchandising.
• Young audience who are willing to go in group to the cinema,
and they rather prefer to see a horror movie to have fun in
group. Ex. Paranormal Activity Audience.

5. Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival
WHO is the other audience we want to reach out:
• Women: we really want to encourage during the festival
females who want to show a different view through the horror
and sci-fi genre. And during the whole process we want to
engaged female audiences who love fantastic genre and who
don’t have the opportunity to see this kind of movies/events in
Seville.
• General audience: who is willing to have another kind of
events besides the typical well knows events in Andalucia
more related with Tourism/Food.

6. Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival
Target
Core
Activities
Instagram
competition
Screenings –
Festival
Sections
Roundtables
Horror Short
Stories Book

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• SECTIONS
• Official Competition Features & Shorts: movies that compete for the main awards of the
festival.
• Fantastic Women: Special section where at least the writer and the director must be a woman
• Horror-land: special section where we are going to see horror/scifi films focused in a concrete
country each year. 2016 - French horror/scifi movies.
• Inauguration Gala.
• Closing Gala.
• Sustito: last day of the festival there will be a screening of a movie children and families.

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AWARDS
• Best
Movie
• Best
Audience
Award
• Best
Director
• Best
Women
Director
• Best
Short
film
• Best
short
film
directed
by
a
woman
• Best
Screenwriter
• Best
kill
• Best
movie
to
watch
with
a
group
• Best
Actress
• Best
Actor

9. Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival
WHAT are we going to do?
ACTIVITIES
For Both Audiences: Instagram 15 seconds
competition with a horror short movie.
The team must have a Director, Producer and
Writer at least. 50% of the team must be women.
The social competition will have the hashtag,
#Sustoin15seconds

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WHAT are we going to do?
ACTIVITIES
Horror short stories in 35 mm
During the festival we are going to present the
book “Fantastic short stories in 35 mm”. This would be the
second entry in a series of books related to cinema and the
art of filmmaking, the first one being the already published
“Short stories in 35mm” / “Relatos en 35mm” .
So, as stated, for the festival we are working to release the second part,
dealing with three main points:
• Cinema and the art of filmmaking
• Fantastic Stories.
• Seville.

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WHAT are we going to do?
ACTIVITIES
Secondary School:
• Horros Scifi Short European films/ Movie
screening and after talk about the above and
below the line roles in filming.
Audiovisual University Activities: University of Seville Competition of best Fantastic
Short film and best Short film directed by a woman. Make your fantastic short film in
48 hours.

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Non-
Target
Core
Activities
Concert
horror
music
Make up
YouTube
Competition
“Monsters”
Theatre Play
Modern Art
Horror – Sci
Fi Exhibition Fantastic
Women

13. Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival
WHAT are we going to do?
ACTIVITIES
Primary School and Families
Performance of the horror theatre play
“Monsters”, a comedy for children, that
introduced kids to the classic monsters of all
time: Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mommy, etc.

14. Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival
WHAT are we going to do?
ACTIVITIES
Young University Audience:
• Modern art exhibition focused on the
fantastic genre that will be exhibit in one of the
rooms available at the entrance of the festival.

15. Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival
WHAT are we going to do?
ACTIVITIES
YouTube Competition: Mainly Female Make up Artists:
• What?: YouTube competition through make-up artist
in YouTube.
• How? Contacting the main European networks and
Google Branch in Spain to bring awareness of the event.
• Why?: to bring awareness of the festival and gain
non-core audience: mainly women and non geek/nerd audience.

16. Sevilla Fantastic Film Festival
WHAT are we going to do?
ACTIVITIES
• What?: Horror & SciFi Music concert .
• How?: Concert in Teatro Lope de Vega Theatre,
one of the main building of the buildings and
leading by the awarded Sevilla’s musician Jose
Carlos Carmona.
• Why?: to bring awareness of the festival to gain non-target audience: adults who don’t
usually watch fantastic genre but who loves music & events.

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