• ...and the Winners Are!

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    Congratulations to all the Festival Award Winners! With so many great films, it was extremely difficult to choose the winners. Our jury deliberated furiously!

     

    Categories and winning films are:

     

    Best Feature: They Remain by Philip Gelatt

    Best Short Film: "Sound From the Deep" by Antti Laakso & Joonas Allonen

    Best Adaptation: "Wattmarck" by Lorenz Tröbinger

    Best Screenplay: "The Summoning Day" by Soroosh Iradi

  • 2018 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Providence, RI finds new venue at RISD!

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    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.

  • Guests and first films announced for H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Providence!

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    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.

  • Can Evrenol's HOUSEWIFE opens the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Providence!

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    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.

  • Portland Welcomes 2018 Guest of Honor, Screenwriter and Author Chiaki J. Konaka!

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    PORTLAND, OR - We are extremely excited to announce that Author and Screenwriter Chiaki J. Konaka will be our 2018 Guest of Honor! With over 200 screenwriting credits, he is best known in the US for Marebito, "Innsmouth Wo Oou Kage," "Ultraman Gaia," and "Mononoke." He is also well known among fans for putting Lovecraftian and Mythos elements in many of his works.

  • Japanese Idol Band Necronomidol to Perform at H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival

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    PORTLAND, OR - Necronomidol, an "occult-infused" Japanese Idol band, will be performing at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival! The Lovecraftian metal pop, darkwave band will open the festival on Friday night, October 5th, and will also perform a longer set on Saturday night, October 6th. With song titles like "Strange Aeons," "Ithaqua," and "Celephais," festival attendees are sure to appreciate the juxtaposition of pop vocals, metal/darkwave instrumentals, and lyrics suffused with cosmic horror and mythological references. 

  • 2018 Kickstarter Campaign is LIVE! Get Tickets and Exclusive Rewards!

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    The 2018 Kickstarter Campaign is LIVE!

    Get Deluxe Ticket Packages, VIP Experiences, Innsmouth & Tiki-themed rewards, and help support the festival! If you're not able to attend this year, you can still enjoy the Tiki-goodness by pledging for "there in spirit" rewards (we'll ship them to you after the festival!).

    Reward highlights include:

  • Four Screenplay Finalists for 2018

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    This year's Screenplay competition has been narrowed down to four finalists by our illustrious jury (Ross E. Lockhart, Dominique Lamssies, Susan O'Neill, Gwen Callahan). The winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Sunday night at 7 pm! We can not post screenplays, but here are the synopses of the four contenders:

    Feature screenplay - "Lovecraft: Into the Abyss" by Mark Sudano

  • The 2018 Awards Roundup

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    Congratulations to all the 2018 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Award Winners! With so many amazing films, choosing the winners was a difficult process

     

    Categories and winning films are:

     

    Best Feature: Hammer of the Gods by Nick Szostakiwskyj & Cameron Tremblay

    Best Short Film: "Young Liars" by Adam Christy

    Best Adaptation: "The House of the Seven Gables" by Ben Wickey

    Best Screenplay: "You and Me and Dagon Makes Three" by Mack W. Mani

  • Victoria Price, daughter of Vincent Price, is our 2019 Guest of Honor!

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    Vincent Price has long been a beloved actor in the horror genre, and starred in several very Lovecraftian films, including Roger Corman's The Haunted Palace (based on HPL's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward), Diary of a Madman (based on Guy De Maupassant's "The Horla"), and even portrayed the sorcerer John Carnby in Night Gallery's adaptation of Clark Ashton Smith's "The Return of The Sorcerer." This year, we welcome his daughter Victoria Price as our guest of honor.

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