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Stars: Magui Bravi, Luz Champané, Amparo Espinola, Clara Kovacic, Agustin Olcese, Amy Smart, James Wright | Written by Mauro Croche, Guillermo Lockhart | Directed by Victor Catala, Brian Deane, Oliver Lee Garland, Guillermo Lockhart, Tony Morales, Nicolás Onetti, Nicholas Peterson, Daniel Rübesam, Christopher West

[Note: With the film out next week in the UK, here’s a reposting of our review of The 100 Candles Game (aka 100 Candles) from its US release earlier this year]

Where to start with The 100 Candles Game? How about the fact this is actually yet another one of those direct to DVD anthologies made up of numerous unconnected shorts which are contained within a wraparound story filmed specifically for this release – think Zombieworld, Galaxy of Horrors, Battle in Space or A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio. And its the latter anthology that is most connected to 100 Candles, as both films come from producer Nicolás Onetti; with A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio‘s writer Guillermo Lockhart also directing here – namely the wraparound segment of the film.

Stars: Magui Bravi, Luz Champané, Amparo Espinola, Clara Kovacic, Agustin Olcese, Amy Smart, James Wright | Written by Mauro Croche, Guillermo Lockhart | Directed by Victor Catala, Brian Deane, Oliver Lee Garland, Guillermo Lockhart, Tony Morales, Nicolás Onetti, Nicholas Peterson, Daniel Rübesam, Christopher West

Where to start with 100 Candles? How about the fact this is actually yet another one of those direct to DVD anthologies made up of numerous unconnected shorts which are contained within a wraparound story filmed specifically for this release – think Zombieworld, Galaxy of Horrors, Battle in Space or A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio. And its the latter anthology that is most connected to 100 Candles, as both films come from producer Nicolás Onetti; with A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio‘s writer Guillermo Lockhart also directing here – namely the wraparound segment of the film.

100 Candles is made up of a number of shorts of varying quality and length: from the short,...

Seven of eight selections come from Europe with one from Israel.

The second year of the European Genre Forum has announced its eight projects for the 2018 training cycle, which starts on April 16, 2018.

The selected projects are sourced from across Europe with one from Israel, and will have the chance to attend three talent labs across the year.

The Director’s Lab runs during Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam from 16 to 20 April; the Producer’s Lab is during Fantastic Zagreb from 4 to 8 July, while the Packaging Lab is in Tallinn as part of Black Nights Film Festival in the final week of November.

The aim is to both boost the chosen projects, and give useful insights and networks to participants. Those involved can discuss their project with script consultants, and learn about co-production, sales and packaging from industry professionals.

Selected projects Birds of a Feather - Dir. Hanna Bergholm (Finland) Fingernail...

German filmmaker Daniel Rübesam is one to keep an eye on. Those who have a finger on the pulse of the international genre film festival circuit may know him as the writer-director of When Demons Die, a graduation film that ended up playing Sitges, L.A. Shorts and the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, to name but a few. His latest short, Pandora, was commissioned by Traumatica, a horror event in Germany, and is made within certain mainstream-oriented constraints. Geared towards online event promotion, Rübesam makes the best of a post-apocalyptic setup that is mostly nondescript: In a world where things have very much gone to pot for mankind, survivors have banded together in a resistance that attempts to fight off their oppressors. A military outfit...

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