Sitges Fanpitch Sets ‘The Hour of the Sorcerer,’ ‘Zombie Meteor,’ ‘Bloody Mary’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comSitges Fanpitch, an anticipated pitching event for sci-fi, fantastic and horror features and series. Sitges Fanpitch runs Oct.
10-13 at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, a Mecca for fandom worldwide. The pitching session comes as genre is building for independents as one of the two pillars of a residual theatrical film business and sci-fi and fantasy remain a top original production choice on Netflix and other platforms.
Sitges Fanpitch frames emerging talent. Only five are not first-time directors, most notably Argentina’s Cristian Ponce, behind “Sorcerer,” whose “History of the Occult” was the highest-rated horror title for Letterboxd’s 2021 Year in Review.
Genre is ever more broadening its artistic options. Fanpitch’s sci-fi offer, for example, take in critiques of stereotypes of ableism (“Newfall”) and the social wealth gap (“Reboot”), sci-fi, gothic and noir (“The Next Testament”), a coming of age survival thriller (“Fingernail”) and even, in a bold mash-up, sci-fi and zombies, a rare combination (“Zombie Meteor”).
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