#AquelarreMacabro: The Official Image of Macabro XVII

“They say that if you dance around a bonfire after midnight during the month of August, Macabro materializes to headline the coven that will stretch on for 13 days and 13 nights in honor of the cinematic monsters coming to Mexico City's screens.”

The #AquelarreMacabro is this year's image for the seventeenth edition, created by Diego Álvarez and Roxana Ruiz, who have been the creators of the festival's artwork since 2007, and is inspired by classic depictions of medieval witches' covens, as well as by the Mexican cult film Alucarda.

During thirteen days of the capital's summer, from August 21 to September 2, 2018 and with side activities throughout the month of August and part of September, Macabro will emerge in the city with a unique celebration of horror cinema in a coven that will include experiences involving specialized and cinephile audiences, media outlets, the film community, Q&A sessions with guests, master classes, workshops, music, retrospectives, tributes, parties, music, and tourism promotion.

The seventeenth edition of Macabro will be presented at the following venues: Teatro de la Ciudad "Esperanza Iris," Cineteca Nacional, Cinematógrafo del Chopo, Casa del Cine, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Biblioteca de México, Museo Archivo de la Fotografía, Museo de la luz, Circo Volador, Cine Villa Olímpica, Foro Quetzalcoatl, Circuito de FAROs, and others.

ABOUT MACABRO

Macabro is the first genre film festival in Mexico and the second in Latin America after Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre. It was created as a showcase for contemporary horror cinema, as well as for the rescue and reappraisal of classic and cult cinema, the promotion of Mexican and Latin American genre filmmaking, historical review, and support for emerging talent, with a programming model that has marked a turning point in the cinematic exhibition of horror and fantasy film in Mexico.

It has been based in Mexico City since its founding in 2002, where it has put down deep roots and focused on building audiences for the genre and its different expressions.

The festival is an independent cultural project supported and recognized by the Mexico City government through the Ministry of Culture and PROCINE, the Cineteca Nacional, the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, among other institutions. In nearly 17 years, it has established itself as one of the most respected festivals on the circuit in Mexico and Latin America. International media such as Movie Maker Magazine in its October 2017 issue, included it as one of the 15 most anticipated festivals in the world within the specialized circuit for 2018.

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