LITERARY SPACE EDGAR ALLAN FREAK

LITERARY SPACE EDGAR ALLAN FREAK
Wednesday, September 24 at 11:00
SALA APO’STROPHE.ARTE – PLAZA ELÍPTICA

Without forgetting that literature is one of the main sources of inspiration for audiovisual and cinematographic creation, in this new edition of the festival we once again bet on this space to weave synergies with authors and publishers of reference in the literary field.

Due to Edgar Allan Poe’s relevance in the fantastic and horror imaginary, we decided in the last edition to baptize this space as Edgar Allan Freak. It is a place for the dissemination and promotion of literature, comics and cinema, always within the genres that fascinate us: fantasy, science fiction and horror.

A meeting point for lovers of genre narratives, where the written word and image join hands.

In this edition, the literary space Edgar Allan Freak will feature the following presentations:

X-Picy 1 and X-Picy 2

About the magazine:

X-picy is an anthology magazine, composed of a compendium of captivating stories, inspired by the essence of old comic magazines combined with current expressions, and which seeks to show the great quantity and quality of art we have in the underground comic scene.

A publication where creative freedom within the frameworks of the proposal, variety of styles and transmitting a more collective vision of making comics becomes our identity seal. It is born from the need to express oneself without commercial filters and through the short story, which is much more accessible both at the production level and to know what might interest readers.

San Meteoro

Synopsis:

A mole. That was all he asked for. Not a scar, not a birthmark, not even freckles. He wasn’t that ambitious. A simple mole on the cheek, above the upper lip or on the tip of the nose. It didn’t matter. A distinctive sign that would free him from the mediocrity he had been installed in for exactly twenty years”.

On his twentieth birthday, remembered by no one, Pedro, who considers himself the most irrelevant person in the world, laments his insignificance while contemplating his reflection in the mirror. At nightfall, alone on the mountain, smoking marijuana and philosophizing about life at the foot of a chapel, Pedro observes the firmament, sees a shooting star pass by and makes the wish to become someone very relevant. But, what he thought was a star, falls from the sky near him in the form of an enigmatic meteorite that will forever change his life, that of the people around him and even that of the city where he lives.

As he already did with his novel Memorias dun exgalego, Josiño Araújo amazes us again, now with San Meteoro, an original story, with cinematic rhythm and full of humor. As is characteristic of the author, a satire of profound lightness with a thrilling ending.

Author’s bio:

Josiño Araújo Pérez (Vigo, 1986) studied Law at the University of Santiago de Compostela and at the University of Barcelona, and Audiovisual Production at the I.E.S. Audiovisual de Vigo.

Currently he practices his profession as a lawyer in Vigo, combining it with his activity as a film producer and distributor.

He was a collaborator in different digital and analog media (A Nova Peneira, Atlántico Diario, Europa FM and La Marea, under pseudonym), directed several short films and music videos, and was awarded for some of his stories.

San Meteoro is his second novel, after the acclaimed Memorias dun exgalego.

A journey through fantastic and horror cinema Vol. 2

Synopsis

In this second volume we will dive into American gothic and the slasher, the giallo and the last gasps of Italian supernatural horror. We will relive the profound changes that the fantastic, horror and science fiction suffered with the spectacular irruption of super hits like The Exorcist, Star Wars or Steven Spielberg’s cinema and his production company Amblin. We will remember the fantastic adventures of the eighties and the no less popular fantastic comedies of said decade. We will see how vampires, werewolves or Frankenstein’s creature fared in the new times. We will have time to take a picnic at Hanging Rock or accompany the road warrior Max through apocalyptic landscapes. Thinking oceans and rooms of desires; aliens and replicants; Terminator and RoboCop; Stephen King and Clive Barker; David Cronenberg and John Carpenter; sequels and remakes; masterpieces and direct to video…

A journey full of emotions and surprises that will start from a remote place in Texas and reach the strange worlds imagined by David Lynch. Do you dare to join us?

Bio of participating authors:

JAVIER TRIGALES

Javier Trigales is a film and TV screenwriter. He has worked for production companies Globomedia, La Dalia Films, Shine Iberia, Bambú Producciones or Eye Slice Pictures. He is screenwriter of Viejos, feature film selected in the official section of the Fantasia Festival in Montreal, the Fantastic Fest in Austin or the Sitges International Festival among many others. He was also script advisor for El futuro testamento, the next feature film by filmmaker Velasco Broca. He is also screenwriter of short films like Eco, El Semblante or Caraoscura, selected and awarded in national and international festivals. He also worked in TV on programs like Sé lo que hicisteis, Brigada policial or El intermedio.

He combines (when he can) his work as a screenwriter with cultural management, festival programming, film criticism and script teaching for film schools and universities. There are some moments when he doesn’t do anything. He is currently immersed in large-scale national and international projects of upcoming announcement.

DAVID SALGADO MARCOTE

Linked to the audiovisual sector for more than a decade in various facets (photography, script, direction and production), he signed five short films under his own label created in 2012, Dama Negra Films. He writes film reviews on his cinema blog, 24 shadows per second. He collaborated in the book by Editorial Berenice, M. Night Shyamalan: El cineasta de cristal, and with Applehead Team in the three volumes that will make up the series, A journey through fantastic and horror cinema. He is currently working on writing a book oriented to teaching about film scripts for the audiovisual school Treintaycinco mm.

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