As is tradition, the Sitges festival has presented at the Fantastic Pavilion of the Marché du Film at the Cannes festival the poster for its upcoming edition, the 59th, which will pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Carrie, a film directed by Brian de Palma, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King and starring a young Sissy Spacek as a shy teenager who lives with her mother, a religious fanatic, and is constantly mocked by her high school peers. “The poster references Carrie, which will be the leitmotif of the festival and the image, created again by the China agency, represents blood, adolescence and also refers to prom nights, the party that ends so badly in the film,” said the festival director Ángel Sala to La Vanguardia, who recalled that the film was a huge success and influenced the representation of student rituals as transitional spaces to adulthood, where evil and supernatural elements infiltrate and alter the appearance of normality.
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The image shows a teenage female figure covered in red glitter strips that refer to the bloodbath suffered by the protagonist in the climax of this iconic teen horror film. Sala said they are still working on the content of the program for the 59th edition, which will be held from October 8 to 18, and promised that there will be “more surprises than usual in Sitges,” many of which are in the poster itself, while assuring that Cannes is increasingly hosting proposals of horror and fantastic cinema, a genre that is in a leading position.
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On the other hand, the event has also served to show a preview of the documentary WomanInFan, directed by Mònica García i Massagué, general director of the Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia Foundation. The film will be screened out of competition at the Sitges festival and gathers the opinions and experiences of about twenty female directors, filmmakers, actresses, researchers, and festival programmers who recount their difficulties as women within the fantastic genre film industry.
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