H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival at NecronomiCon Providence, RI 2019
We're coming back to Providence to host several blocks of Lovecraft short films at NecronomiCon Providence, August 22-25, 2019 in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, RI. Stay tuned for details!
We'll also be back in August of 2020 for the 3rd biennial H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Providence. In the meantime, check out the HPLFF Providence archive below, for a look at the kinds of guests and films we showcased last time.
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2018 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival - Providence, RI ARCHIVE
Feature Films
Short Films
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Fri 5:00pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
DOORS OPEN (General) |
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Fri 6:00pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
Opening & SHORT FILM BLOCK 1 (with Filmmaker Q&A) (Film)
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Fri 8:30pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
FEATURE FILM: Can Evrenol's HOUSEWIFE (Film)
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Fri 10:00pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
THEATRE CLOSES (General) |
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Sat 12:00pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
DOORS OPEN (General) |
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Sat 12:30pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
Opening & SHORT FILM BLOCK 2 (with Filmmaker Q&A) (Film)
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Sat 2:25pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
FEATURE FILM: THEY REMAIN (with Filmmaker Q&A) (Film)
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Sat 4:30pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
BREAK (General) |
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Sat 5:30pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
SHORT FILM BLOCK 3 (with Filmmaker Q&A) (Film)
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Sat 7:20pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
FEATURE FILM: COLD SKIN dir. by Xavier Gens (Film)
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Sat 9:00pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
THEATRE CLOSES (General) |
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Sat 9:30pm The Arcade |
AFTER PARTY with Narragansett Brewing (Live Event) |
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Sat 9:30pm The Arcade |
Author Readings (Author Reading)
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Sun 10:00am The Arcade |
Carbload for Cthulhu featuring Donald Sidney-Fryer (Author Reading)
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Sun 12:00pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
DOORS OPEN (General) |
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Sun 12:30pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
Opening & SHORT FILM BLOCK 4 (Film)
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Sun 2:10pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
FEATURE FILM: NECRONOMICÓN (Film)
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Sun 4:00pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
SHORT FILM BLOCK 5 (Film)
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Sun 5:00pm RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St. |
THEATRE CLOSES (General) |
Can Evrenol's HOUSEWIFE opens the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Providence!
This Friday, Can Evrenol's highly anticipated Lovecraftian feature film, HOUSEWIFE shows opening night of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Providence, RI, taking place on College Hill at the beautiful Metcalf Auditorium at RISD Chace Center (20 N Main St, Providence). We're very pleased to bring this amazing film to Lovecraft's hometown. Can Evrenol is the director of BASKIN (2015) which garnered many extreme reviews, and was called one of the bloodiest and one of the weirdest horror films of that year. Reviewers noted its slightly Lovecraftian overtones, but won't be able to miss the influence of the Ol' Gent from Providence in this one... it has everything he would've loved (and a few things he would've hated!): nightmares becoming real, a generational family curse, strange books of forbidden secrets, artists under the sway of cosmic power, a modern day cult, tentacles, and a little blood, nudity, and sex (that's the stuff Howie wasn't too fond of, but you'll love). Don't miss it on opening night!
Also on Friday is a full short film block of amazing new Lovecraftian shorts, followed by two blocks of shorts on Saturday, and the feature films THEY REMAIN, directed by local filmmaker Philip Gelatt (Europa Report), and COLD SKIN, directed by Xavier Gens and featuring a survival story on a desolate island beset by monstrous fish people. Sunday will showcase two more blocks of short films, bringing the total of Lovecraftian short films to 24, from countries as diverse as the US and Canada to the Czech Republic and Spain, with 10 countries represented overall in the madness! The festival will end Sunday afternoon with NECRONOMICON: THE BOOK OF HELL from Argentinian director Marcelo Shapces, which follows the chaos in the wake of the discovery of the fifth copy of the Necronomicon in the bowels of the University of Buenos Aires (as cited by Lovecraft himself, in his "History of the Necronomicon"). Fans of the Cthulhu Mythos should not miss this film, or indeed, the whole festival. Single day tickets and 3-day passes are still available on Eventbrite, and will be available at the door (if they remain).
The Full schedule of films and events is available now on the official Web site. (click here)
Guests and first films announced for H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Providence!
Providence, RI will host the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival at the Metcalf Auditorium in RISD's Chace Center this August 17-19th. In addition to a selection of high quality independent feature and short films, there will be author readings held in the Arcade Providence, featuring Livia Llewellyn, Donald Sidney-Fryer, Matthew Bartlett, Christopher Burke, Fiona Maeve Geist, and Victoria Dalpe. Among the feature films slated for screening are Cold Skin, directed by Xavier Gens, starring Ray Stevenson and David Oakes, Housewife by Turkish filmmaker Can Evrenol (Baskin), and They Remain by Philip Gelatt (Europa Report). Classic restored short films will also be screened with the filmmakers in attendance! For more information, visit the Guest and Film sections on the website. Get updates in your inbox by subscribing to our announcements list!
2018 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Providence, RI finds new venue at RISD!
Last held at the Providence Public Library, the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® will take place August 17-19th 2018, at its new digs, smack dab in Lovecraft country, up on College Hill at the beautiful RISD Metcalf Auditorium. With fantastic projection, excellent sound, and a lovely dark auditorium, the Metcalf ups our film festival game, ensuring that you'll be immersed in the cosmic horror of our independent film selection.
We're also expanding from two days of film to three days, bringing even more Weird to the hometown of H. P. Lovecraft. Tickets are available now! Click here to get both full 3-day passes and single day tickets at Eventbrite.
H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival coming to Necronomicon Providence 2017
The organizers of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, OR are making a pilgrimage to the hometown of Weird tale author H. P. Lovecraft, to show an amazing selection of independent short films, from around the world, to the attendees of NecronomiCon Providence 2017. Brian and Gwen Callahan will be showing over 3 hours of shorts, split into two blocks shown several times over the weekend, from Lovecraftian filmmakers in Finland, Peru, UK, Germany, Czech, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, as well as the US and Canada!
It all happens August 17-20th at AS220's Black Box Theater, at 95 Empire St. in Providence, RI! Screenings take place every day, but click here for films synopses and the film schedule.
What is NecronomiCon? Besides being the fabled and cursed tome featured in several H. P. Lovecraft stories, it is also now one of the largest gatherings of Lovecraft fans, scholars, authors, artists, filmmakers, and musicians, held every other year in Providence, Rhode Island, and this year August 17-20th, 2017. If you're a Lovecraft enthusiast on the East Coast of the US (or can get there!), click here for more information and to buy single day tickets or passes that get you access to all four days of macabre programming.
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