Macabro: Mexico City International Horror Film Festival

Dread Central: “Mexico City knows best how to party and so does this festival!,” exclaims a panelist. “Festival director Edna Campos Tenorio is a machine, and makes Macabro such a memorable fest with a new theme every year. Macabro always spoils their guests with the most amazing locations and an amazing time.” “That the festival is so well organized makes it of the highest caliber,” a panelist adds. Always looking to the future, Macabro plans to incorporate the digital model it experimented with for the first time this year into every annual edition going forward." December, 2020. Movie maker magazine: “No words are grand enough to describe this festival. One must simply experience it.” Movie Maker Magazine –30 bloody best genre film festivals of the world. October, 2018. HorrorHound magazine: "Unlike conventions, the take away from your journey is not usually tangible but is instead imprinted on your mind, heart and dark soul. Whether sitting back and watching genre film through the night or enjoy intimate conversations over a cerveza with genre filmmaking minds from around the world, each moment leaves an impression." Jay Kay. December, 2018. Macabro is the first genre film festival in Mexico and the second founded in Latin America. Based since 2002 in Mexico City as an event for the exhibition of independent new horror films as well as classic and cult movies, will have it’s XX edition in 2021. The festival was founded and directed ever since by Edna Campos, one of the few female genre film festival directors in the world. Macabro is an independent cultural organization supported and recognised by Mexico City Government, the Mexican Film Institute, the National Film Archive (Cineteca Nacional) and the National Autonomus University of Mexico (UNAM), and is one of the most respected and consolidated film festivals in Mexico and Latin America. For ten days in August, the festival brings to Mexico City a celebration of horror films in a succesful event that involves media, social and film industry through film exhibitions, Q&A sessions with guests, master classes, music, retrospectives, hommages, parties with filmmakers and audience, music and trips to cool and turistic venues in the City. Macabro reaches about 40,000 people in live venues and more than a million on social network. Macabro has formation sessions through Macabro Lab, which this year will have a separate edition, webinars and online workshops. We will give continuity to our Women in horror own transmedia project: Macabro Coven, with online chats and support for shortfilm production. Guests of the festival have included names such as Stuart Gordon, Nick Zedd, Lamberto Bava, Luigi Cozzi, Ken Foree, Denis Paoli, Nick Zedd, Mick Garris, Jairo Pinilla; Bill Watherson, Jeremy Gardner, Owen Eggerton, Kapel Furman, Tom Botchii, Thomas Aske Berg, René Franca, Eric England, Armen Aghaeian and Tyler Mcyntire; Women in horror: Tinni Tüllman, Monica Demes, Sofía Carrillo, Sharon Toribio, Laurette Flores, Gigi Saul Guerrero; the writer Sandra Becerril and producers Rosalie Chilelli, Sandra Arriagada y Abigail Bonilla. Mexican new blood: Jorge Michel Grau, Emilio Portes, Andrés Kaiser, Abraham Sánchez, Mauricio Chernovetsky, Lex Ortega and Southamerican wave: Santiago Fernández, Fabián Forte, Lucio Rojas, Felipe Guerra, Gonzalo Calzada, los Hermanos Quintana y Javier Diment. Macabro has also made hommages to Juan López Moctezuma, Herschell Gordon Lewis, José Mojica Marins, Jan Svankmajer, Shinya Tsukamoto and Jorge Molina.