If you're a writer, artist, scholar, or filmmaker who wants to take part in this year's 2012 Portland H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon, May 11-13, there's still time to let us know. Just hop on over to our Festival Guest Application Form and fill out your details (please try to be complete, even if you've been a guest in previous years). We'll be closing submissions by Friday, with a plan to let guests know the scoop quickly, so submit your application today! Don't worry if your info is a little incomplete... we'll give you a chance to polish it later.
Portland 2012, Festival Guest Application Form
http://hplfilmfestival.com/webform/festival-guest-application-form
Every year, we receive excellent submissions from filmmakers all over the world, including some right here in Portland. What we’d like to do this year is showcase our local talent. This is your chance to make a movie instead of just talking about making one! Entries will be screened on Sunday afternoon of the Film Festival.
We are proud to announce that the new multiple-award winning feature, It's In The Blood, starring Lance Henriksen, Sean Elliot, and Rose Sirna, will screen at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, OR, May 11-13. Director and writer Scooter Downey combines elements of the Weird Tale with dream realities and mystical realism to make It's In The Blood a deconstruction of the prototypical "creature feature."
For those lusting for more info about our programming, here's a preliminary list of the short films we'll be showing. We might still add a couple more, so stay tuned. Schedule information and feature film announcements coming during the week.
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Fancy a Re-Animator reunion? The Portland H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival is proud to announce that we'll be showing never before seen preview footage from the long long lost "The Evil Clergyman." Starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, and David Warner, this will be an awesome look back at the days of Re-Animator and From Beyond.
If you purchased a 3-day pass or VIP ticket before 5pm on Thursday, May 10th, you can pick up your pass at Aliviar Coffeehouse, located next to the Hollywood Theatre, from 7-9 pm on Thursday and again from 4-6 pm on Friday.
Buy your tickets now!
For those of you that missed the awards ceremony on Sunday night of the festival, here are the results! Each of our new style awards were a cold cast bronze statuette, provided by awesome sculptor Mike Jones, mounted on a black marble block.
- Best of the Fest (Cthulhu Tiki) - Doctor Glamour (dir. by Andrew Jones)
- Best Feature (Deep One) - It's In The Blood (dir. by Scooter Downey)
- Best Short (Deep One) - Dumbshow (dir. by Jason Hooper)
- Best Adaptation (Cthulhu Tiki) - Die Farbe (dir. by Huan Vu)
- Pickman's Apprentice (Ghoul) - Nick "The Hat" Gucker
- Lovecraft Under The Gun winner (Nightgaunt) - Michael Entler
We had so many great films, it was really hard to choose! The runners up for Best Short included Stay At Home Dad (dir. by Andrew Kasch & John Skipp), Fortuna (dir. by Casey T. Malone), The Earth Rejects Him (dir. by Jared Skolnik), and Bedtime for Timmy (dir. by Thomas Nicol).
In addition to film awards, we also had two special awards, one for the winner of the "Pickman's Apprentice" event, where three artists competed to create an image in 90 minutes, based on a theme supplied by the audience, and another award for the winner of the "Lovecraft Under The Gun: 72 hour film project" event, where filmmakers had 3 days to make a Lovecraftian short film from start to finish.
Did you miss the festival or miss out on the souvenirs while you were here? T-shirts and both posters are now available for purchase on-line for the 2012 Portland H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. But wait, there's more! We still have inventory for last September's Los Angeles HPL Film Festival, as well as various items going back as far as 2004, with Lovecraftian art from artists like Lee Moyer, Mike Mignola, David Milano, and more. Merchandise purchases help support the festival operations year round, and also lets you show pride in this awesome Lovecraftian institution, so be sure to get yourself a poster or T-shirt and let everyone know what a kick-ass event this is. Thanks!
Click here to visit the official merchandise store on Arkham Bazaar, and complete your collection!
The first special events for the 2012 LA Festival are now posted on the Events page. Further updates to come!
The 2012 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® screenplay contest finalists are:
"The Crawling Chaos" by Nicholas Kubik
"House of Yhargoth" by Dom Zook
"Call Girl of Cthulhu" by Chris LaMartina & Jimmy George
"This Vehicle Has Been Checked for Sleeping Children" by John Burdeaux
Thanks to everyone who submitted! Winner to be announced at the HPLFF-LA on Saturday night! Tickets to the show available here.
Screenplays submitted after September 1 will be considered for 2013.