Below we reveal the Official Selections for the category. BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY of the third edition of the The Optical Theatre Festival. The finalists include the following horror short films: the Finnish The Defiler, the Turkish Black Ring, the Spanish Room for Rent e l'italiano Cold Inside. These are joined by the British feature film Charismata.
Di seguito la lista dettagliata delle sopracitate opere in concorso per l'award BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
The Defiler (Finlandia - 2016) diretto da Artturi Olavi Rostén su una sceneggiatura a firma di Aku Salminen. Trattasi di un'esplosione di generi cinematografici, una vera e propria ode al cinema action e horror anni '80.
Plot: The dangerous Greta The Defiler (Diana Ball) makes her way into the evil city where rot and squalor reign. Behind her only a long trail of death. What drives her to dismember and tear apart anyone who stands in her way is a precious feeling that elevates her above everything and everyone.
The cast includes Diana Ball, Sara Koiranen, Sini Sandman, Tito Tuononen, Tomi Tuominen, Junani Pennala, Markus Harjula, Daniil Kozlov, Pyry Sopenlehto, Toni Kandelin, Joonatan Järvinen, Kristian Aho, and Petri Aulin.
The photography of The Defiler Is by Esa Jussila.
The board of The Defiler on iHORRORdb.
Black Ring (Turchia - 2017) di Hasan Can Dagli. La sceneggiatura è a cura dello stesso regista in collaborazione con Cem Ozuduru (uno degli sceneggiatori di Baskin - 2016) and Turgay Dogan.
In Black Ring, a group of mysterious people hold peculiar photo shoots in an abandoned structure.
The cast includes: Turgay Dogan, Dounia Jauneaud, Tolga Akman, Sait Erol and H. Yuce Eser.
Olcay Oguz oversaw the photography of Black Ring.
The board of Black Ring on iHORRORdb.
Room For Rent (Spagna - 2017) scritto e diretto da Fernando Simarro.
Dopo aver guidato per ore, l'attrice Aphrodite Bunny (La China Patino), decide di passare la notte in un hotel. Ad accoglierla nella sua vecchia e polverosa struttura è Lady Montalvo (Silvia Casanova), una gentile e anziana signora che sembra non ricevere clienti da tempo.
In the cast: La China Patino, Silvia Casanova and Fernando Colomo.
The photography is by Daniel Gonzalez.
The board of Room for Rent on iHORRORdb.
Cold Inside (Italia - 2017) scritto e diretto da Valerio Burli.
Questo cortometraggio italiano vede protagonista una donna delle pulizie che, in una fredda giornata invernale, mette in ordine le stanze dell'hotel presso cui lavora. Dietro la sua routine quotidiana però si cela un macabro segreto.
In the cast: Elisabetta De Vito. Photography is by Andrea Jose di Pasquale.
The board of Cold Inside on iHORRORdb.
Charismata (UK - 2017), un horror che sfocia nel satanismo scritto e diretto dal duo composto da Andy Collier e Toor Mian.
The story's protagonist is Detective Rebecca Faraway (Sarah Beck Mather), a fragile woman who struggles to fit into the local police department, a place where bullying and intolerance reign. Things go from bad to worse when the policewoman begins researching a man suspected of being responsible for a series of heinous ritual murders. Lost in a vortex studded with death and Satanism, Rebecca will struggle to see reality with clear eyes.
The cast includes: Sarah Beck Mather, Jamie Satterthwaite, Johnny Vivash, Andonis Anthony, David J. Peel, Ross Mullan, Ethan Chapples, Nicole O'Neill, Sean Knopp, Dean Roberts, and Ryan Spong. The film is produced by Loose Canon Films.
The photography of Charismata Is edited by Fernando Ruiz.
The board of Charismata on iHORRORdb.
