#MacabroXVIII Fourth Programming Update

OPENING GALA

This year, our opening screening will present a great night of silent film and dark music, with a live scoring of one of horror cinema's great classics: The Phantom of the Opera by Rupert Julian (1925), starring Lon Chaney, presented by the band that pioneered and paved the way for the dark gothic movement in our country: “El Clan”.

As is now tradition, the venue for the meeting between Eric (The Phantom), “El Clan,” and Macabro will be the Teatro de la Ciudad “Esperanza Iris” (Donceles 36, Centro Histórico, CDMX), on Wednesday, August 21, in a free event.

The invitation is also extended to continue the celebration of the eighteenth edition's kickoff at BAR UTA (Donceles 58, Centro Histórico, CDMX).

ANIMATED SHORT FILM SELECTION

We present the complete selection for the animated short film category:

Lentes | Dir. Carlos Smith Rovira | Colombia | 2018

Dreams from the Ocean | Dir. Carolina Sandvik | Sweden | 2018

Anacronte | Dir. Raúl Isidoro Koler & Emiliano Sette | Argentina | 2018

Toe | Dir. Neal O’Bryan & Chad Thurman | USA | 2019

The Last Man On Earth Sat Alone In A Room | Dir. Junyi Xiao | China | 2019

Como y porque se ha esfumado Don José | Dir. Moshe Ben-Avraham | Spain | 2018

The Last Crossroads of Earth | Dir. Fabrício de Castro | Brazil | 2019

Fuse | Dir. Shadi Adib | Germany | 2018

Viva el Rey | Dir. Luis Téllez | Mexico | 2017

Wild Love | Dir. Paul Autric, Quentin Camus, Léa Georges, Maryka Laudet, Zoé Sottiaux, Corentin Yvergniaux & Julien Deparis | France | 2018

Primos | Dir. Federico Gutiérrez Obeso | Mexico | 2018 | 10 min.

Todo esto sucede mientras duermes (y no puedes ver los que sueño) vol. 1 y 3 | Dir. Adrián Quintero | Mexico | 2018 | 5 min.

The jury responsible for choosing the winner of the Macabro Award for best animated horror short film will be made up of Carlos Narro, a cultural manager, professor, and film producer.

And Pablo Ángeles, the filmmaker who created the animated short film El modelo de Pickman and founding director of the animation and digital art studio Dei Ar Guachin Os.

EMERGING HORROR: SOFÍA CARRILLO

As it does every year, Macabro dedicates its section to emerging talent in horror and fantasy cinema from our country. Filmmakers such as Gigi Saul Guerrero and Abraham Sánchez, among others, have been recognized in this section.

This year, we dedicate this space to one of the most promising talents from our country: Sofía Carrillo, who has been recognized and has won animation awards at multiple festivals around the world, including FICG and FICM, the Havana Film Festival, and the San Diego Film Festival. Winner of two Ariel Awards for her short films Prita Noire (2013) and Cerulia (2017). Creator (Director and Animator) of the animated vignettes for the horror anthology “XX Pasión por el terror,” directed by Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin, and Karin Kusama (2017).

The program she will present at Macabro 2019 will span from her early short films such as Fuera de control (2008) to her most recent work, La bruja del fósforo paseante (2018).

DATES AND VENUES

The eighteenth edition of Macabro will take place from August 21 to September 1, 2019, at the following venues: Teatro de la Ciudad “Esperanza Iris,” Cineteca Nacional, Cinematógrafo del Chopo, Casa del Cine, Museo Archivo de la Fotografía, Museo Panteón de San Fernando, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Biblioteca de México, Centro Cultural “El Rule,” Centro Cultural “Xavier Villaurrutia, Cine Villa Olímpica, Circuito de FARO’s, Facultad de Cine, Sala Julián Carrillo de Radio UNAM, Universidad Latinoamericana plantel Del Valle, and Pulquería “Los Insurgentes.”