Starting tomorrow Nov. 9, 2017 official selections for the 2017 edition of the The Optical Theatre Festival, international film festival dedicated to horror, fantasy, bizarre and grotesque. The titles of the best works, as well as the names of the stars of this edition's films, will be announced in stages on DarkVeins.com and iHORRORdb.com.
The films of the The Optical Theatre Festival 2017 will be screened on the November 30, December 1 and 2 at theformer Filangieri kindergarten in Naples (free admission).
This will be followed by a second screening on December 21, 22 and 23 in the "Bigauda Lime Tree Hall" in Camporosso, in the province of Imperia (free admission).
The best films of the 2017 edition will be spotlighted by partner sites with news, interviews and reviews. Official partners include again The Internet Horror Movie Database (iHORRORdb), DarkVeins, ScaredToWatch, Unearthed Films, Tombstone Distribution, BlumHouse.com and Horror-Movies.ca.
The selected works, now in the finals, will be evaluated by the prestigious international jury consisting of Italian director Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust); Stephen Biro (director and founder of Unearthed Films); Italian screenwriter Antonio Tentori (Demonia, A Cat in the Brain); Chris Savage (editor for the international website Horror-Movies.ca); Michael Del Rossa (founder of Multivision Fx, a well-known special effects company); Gregory Burkart (editor of Blumhouse.com), Federico Frusciante (film critic and owner of Livorno's Videodrome video library) and director and producer Scott Martin (Partner and founder of Archstone Distribution, LLC and Archstone Pictures, LP).
Now in its third edition, this event saw significant growth in 2017 in terms of the number of entries. Hundreds (including feature films, shorts and trailers) have in fact come to us from all over the world.
Selecting the best works has been a very difficult job indeed, often the result of bitter choices. The nominations that we are going to announce starting tomorrow are the result of the commitment, sacrifice and dedication of our team but above all our contribution to the kind of horror cinematography we believe in.
We are confident that we have chosen the best of them all and made the right conclusions.
