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 Festival screening in 2024 | |
| Location | Sofia, Bulgaria |
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| Language | International |
The It's Alive! Horror Film Festival (Bulgarian: It's Alive! хорър филм фест), is an annual film festival held in Sofia, Bulgaria since 2023. It is the first Bulgarian genre film festival and focuses mainly on horror films. The festival traditionally starts on Halloween (October 31st).[1][2] The second edition of the festival was held from October 31 to November 10 and included about 17 feature length and 20 short films.[3]
History
[edit]The festival traditionally starts with a film screening followed by a Halloween party and offers its audience new indie horror films plus retrospective of genre film classics. The opening film of the first edition of the festival was the Australian folk horror drama You Won't Be Alone and the first Closing film was the Mexican supertnatural horror film Huesera: The Bone Woman.[4]
Awards
[edit]The prizes awarded at the festival are named "Wooden Frankie" and are voted by the audience. Awards are given in two main categories - Best Short Horror and Best Feature Fright.[5]
"Wooden Frankie" Award
[edit]- 2024
- Best Feature Fright: Mother Father Sister Brother Frank
- Best Short Horror: Bookworm
- 2023
- Best Feature Fright: Eight Eyes
- Best Short Horror: In the Shadow of God
References
[edit]- ^ "Capital- The first Bulgarian horror festival". 30 October 2023.
- ^ "It's Alive Horror Film Festival is coming".
- ^ "Bulgaria finally has a horror film festival". 27 October 2024.
- ^ "The horror festival "It's Alive!" will delight us in cinemas". 21 October 2023.
- ^ "Финал на второто издание на It's Alive! Horror Film Festival". 14 November 2024.
External links
[edit]Category:Fantasy and horror film festivals Category:Festivals in Bulgaria Category:Film festivals in Bulgaria