2024-01-12 12:09:43
He Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival City of La Laguna Calavera Island, presents the dates for its eighth edition, which will take place from November 8 to 17, 2024 with the sponsorship of the La Laguna City Council, through the Department of Culture, among other public and private entities. There will be 10 days of programming, during which the 70th anniversary of Godzilla and the science fiction subgenre known as Kaiju, as revealed at the closing gala of the 2023 edition. The enormous mutant dinosaur, which saw the light of day for the first time in 1954 in the film Godzillaproduced by the studios Tōhō has appeared in more than thirty feature films and is still topical after the recent Godzilla Minus One, Japanese production. Furthermore, next March the long-awaited Godzilla x Kong: The New Empiredirected by Adam Wingardwhich will unite the two iconic creatures against another titan that threatens the planet.
On the other hand, during the year different pre-festival activities will take place in which details of the program and guests will be announced. Thus, one of the most anticipated previous events already has a date: the Skull Island Tenerife Zombie Walk City of La Laguna, which will return on Thursday, October 31. The public of all ages is the protagonist of the cavalcade of the living dead that will once again tour the historic center of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, a World Heritage city, on Halloween night, dressed and made up like the classic zombies popularized by the cinema. television, comics and fantasy literature. Free makeup tents, gastronomic spaces, music, entertainment and other surprises will be part of the offering of the fifth edition of this “Zombie march.” Closing Gala of the Calavera Island Festival 2023.
Call for papers
Soon the Calavera Island Festival will open the call for feature films and short films of fiction and documentaries to participate in the next edition of the contest, with the aim of showing the range of trends within fantasy genre cinema, through the variety of themes, styles and views that coexist in the current panorama, as well as recovering film classics, with the participation of national and international guests.
Organized by the Cultural Association Charlas de Cine, the Isla Calavera Cultural Association, Multicines Tenerife and the specialized publication TumbaAbierta.com, with the sponsorship of the La Laguna City Council, through the Department of Culture, among other public and private entities, the Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival Ciudad de La Laguna Calavera Island was born in 2017 and in its seven years of history it has achieved a significant national impact and is considered one of the five most relevant fantasy film festivals in the country.
At the international level it has also become one of the events to take into account, thanks to the participation of such relevant figures as John Landis, Joe Dante, Sam J. Jones, Deborah Nadoolman, Sarah Douglas, Rick Baker, Caroline Munro, David Naughton, Enzo G. Castellari, Mick Garris, Neil Marshall, Charlotte Kirk, Nicholas Rowe, Colin Arthur, Jack Taylor or the Hollywood star Amber Heard and Eduardo Noriega, who presented their film on Calavera Island In the fire in national premiere. Sam J. Jones, during the meeting with the public held within the framework of the Calavera Island Festival 2023.
Other guests who have visited Tenerife within the framework of the Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival and who have put the event on the map of cinematographic meetings are Belén Rueda, Álex de la Iglesia, Eduardo Noriega, Manuela Velasco, F. Javier Gutiérrez, Víctor Clavijo , Silvia Tortosa, Paco Plaza, Carolina Bang, Paco Cabezas, Víctor Matellano, Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Eugenio Mira or Lola Dueñas, among others.
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