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The Red Blood Buenos Aires Film Festival ended its number edition over the weekend 23, setting a true attendance record.

After eleven days of projections, the Festival that contemplates the best of horror cinema, fantastic and bizarre was enjoyed in a mixed way both in the Belgrano Multiplex complex and in the San Martín Cultural Center, as in the Vivamos Cultura platform.

As detailed from the organization, The call to the rooms set an absolute record, managing to be in the Top 10 domestic box office during the 11 Festival days.

Within that context, the BARS was not only the cinema screen where you can see everything that is not shown anywhere else, but also a proposal with special activities that were carried out in the Larreta Auditorium of the Museum of Spanish Art.

In both venues it was possible to enjoy the metal sculptures by Agustín Schiffer, that became the place most requested by the public, lover of horror and the fantastic genre. Uruguayan filmmakers were also present, Panama, Honduras, Brazil, Belgium and Argentina; becoming the neuralgic center of genre cinema in the city.

closing functions (with “To the Bones” by Luca Guadagnino) and Gala's (with “Terrifier 2” by Damien Leone) they filled the room, and due to the enormous flow of public, a late-night function had to be added.

Then, The sidewalk shows you the list with all the winners of the new edition of the Festival.

COMPETENCIA INTERNACIONAL DE LARGOMETRAJES

Best Feature Film: to Hue, by Michelle Garza Cervera (Mexico).

Best Feature Film Director: Matías Xavier Rispau, by You will find me deep in the abyss (Argentina).

Best Feature Film Actress: Natalia Solian, by to Hue (Mexico).

Best Feature Film Actor: Francesco Gheghi, by Rains (Italy – Belgium).

Best Feature Film Screenplay: Fabián Forte, by legions (Argentina).

Best Cinematography Feature Film: Mariano Suarez, by The last heretic (Argentina).

Best Special Effects Feature Film: Feed Me (UK).

SPECIAL MENTIONS

special mention to Satanic Hispanic, by Alejandro Brugués, Mike Mendez, Demián Rugna, Gigi Saul Guerrero, edward sanchez (U.S).

Special mention for the production values ​​and the image and sound design: Me you'll find in lo deep of the abyss (Argentina).

Special mention for its interpretive breadth: Victoria Almeida, by The last heretic (Argentina).

Fantlatam Award: grab the Pala, by Pablo Marini and Matias Lojo (Argentina).

Argentores Award for the best national script in both the international and Ibero-American competition: Nicanor Loreti and Camilo de Cabo, by A million of zombies (Argentina).

APIMA Award for the best national production: A million of zombies, Nicanor Loreti and Camilo de Cabo (Argentina).

RIDU Award for Best Sound Design: Me you'll find in lo deep of the abyss, by Matías Xavier Rispau (Argentina).

COMPETENCIA IBEROAMERICANA DE LARGOMETRAJES

Best Feature Film: Dead with Gloria, by Marcela Matta and Mauro Sarser (Uruguay).

Best Director: Homer Good, by The population (Mexico).

Best performance: Stephanie Tortorella, by Dead with Gloria (Uruguay).

special mention to: A million of zombies, Nicanor Loreti and Camilo de Cabo (Argentina).

Special mention to the creature for: jupy, by José Gómez de Vargas, Juliet Rodríguez (Dominican Republic).

Special mention to the creation of the universe of: The ojo Y the Wall, by Javier del Cid (Guatemala).

Best Editing Award (EDA): Mauro Sarser and Marcela Matta, for the assembly of Dead with gloria (Uruguay).

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION

Best International Short Film: The Wart, by Sarah Lasry (France).

Best Short Film Director: Chamil Chad (Argentina), by Facundo (Argentina).

Best National Short Film: Goodnight Mister Ted, by Nicolas Sole Allignani (Argentina).

Special mention: Phlegm (Phlegm), by JanDavid Bolt (Switzerland).

Special mention: Parque, by Iván Asnicar and Ailén Cafiso (Argentina).

Special mention: obfuscate, by Karina Guzman and Alejandro Rivera (Mexico).

Plug me the camera Award: Good night Mister Ted, by Nicolas Sole Allignani (Argentina).

Fxs Pyromania Award: Good night Mister Ted, by Nicolas Sole Allignani (Argentina).

CINE.AR Award: Good night Mister Ted, by Nicolas Sole Allignani (Argentina).

Gui.Ar Award for the best national short film script Ex Aequo: Night Breakers, by Gabriel Campoy Guillem Lafoz (Spain) and Route, by Tomas Roldan (Argentina).

Fantlatam Award: Parque, by Iván Asnicar and Ailén Cafiso (Argentina)

RAFMA Award – Edgardo “Pipo” Bechara El Khoury: Breaking down, by Gisela Figueroa, Mauricio Urra and Diego Cáceres (Argentina).

VOTO DEL PÚBLICO

Feature film: something happened on new year, by Jorge Pinarello (Argentina). Average 9,57.

Short film: Limbo, by Emiliano Cativa (Argentina). average of 9,21.

Respawn Competition Winner : The K.E.OP/S system, by Nicolás Goldbart (Argentina). Average 8,97.

Bizarre Competition Winner: Oregano. The family failed, by Ramses Tuzzio (Argentina). Average 9,23.

AUDIENCE AWARDS SHORT FILM SECTIONS

Block Spanish Shorts: the hell family, de Toni O. Prats, Callahan Ruiz (Spain). Average 8,75

Bizarre Block: all bad blood, de Natasha Álvarez Tancovich (Argentina). average of 8,19

Z Cinema Block: The murder, by Pedromunt Productions (Argentina). average of 7,23

Horror Stories Block 1: Garay, of Iñaki Oñate (Argentina). Average 8,29

Horror Stories Block 2: that you fulfill them, by Tomas Brancos (Argentina) 8,47

Bloody Files Block: Chronicle of a kidnapping, by Gonzalo Fernández Rossi (Argentina). Average 8.02

Latin American Block: tea time, de Javier Cabezudo y Rossana Bossio (Uruguay). average of 9,10

Fantastic Tales Block: Primerizos, de Isidro Escalante (Argentina). average of 7,82

Bloque Visiones de Ciencia Ficción: Los otros, de Juan Cruz Oruezabala (Argentina). average of 8,72

Bloque Cortos Animados: Karoshi, de Emiliano Cáceres Guido (Argentina). average of 8,02

Bloque Cortos Argentinos: Tres pequeños cartones…, de Geronimo Gutierrez (Argentina). average of 8,52

Bloque Historias de Vampiros: La última cita, de Pablo Ezequiel D’Amico (Argentina). average of 7,52

Bloque Acechando la oscuridad: Limbo, by Emiliano Cativa (Argentina). average of 9,21 (corto ganador)

Bloque Historias del fin del mundo: Stop Zombies, de Luis Gené (Argentina). average of 8,26

CONCURSO FIN DE SEMANA SANGRIENTO

1er Premio Mejor Cortometraje ($100.000): LOBO, del equipo Barderos.

2do Premio Mejor Cortometraje ($50.000): Eterno mal, from the Other Plan Films team.

3er Best Comprehensive Production Award: the suicides, of the team Group X

Best use of theme: According to, audiovisual intelligence Illusion team.

Best use of script: The remodeling, from the ROOM-66 team.

Special mention to gore: Cancel, from the BiciSecta productions team.

Special mention to photography: dead of love, from the QATSI team.

public vote: The chapel, Sinister Productions team.

AUDIENCE AWARDS BLOODY WEEKEND BLOCKS

Bloody Weekend Block 1: Cancel, from the Bicisecta productions team. Average: 7,35.

Bloody Weekend Block 2: Nocturne, from the Chernobyl team. Average 6,57.

Bloody Weekend Block 3: Of Jorror Casting Show, from team zombitch. Average 7,58

Bloody Weekend Block 4: Biofilia, Team Corpse. Average 7,34.

Bloody Weekend Block 5: The remodeling, Team Room-66. Average 8,14.

Bloody Weekend Block 6: The chapel, Sinister Productions team. Average 8.19.