MOTELX partnered once again with Utopia - UK Portuguese Film Festival, in an exclusively online edition, to present the past winners of the MOTELX Award - Best Portuguese Horror Short Film / Méliès d'argent.

MOTELX - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival’s image and video promo, developed by the production company Playground, won 8 awards in various categories, awarded by the jury members of the XXII Festival Clube Criativos Portugal 2020, which took place yesterday evening and broadcasted on live stream. The night culminated with the recognition of MOTELX as the Best Advertiser of the Year in the CRAFT category.

The winners of the Méliès d’or 2020 are the feature film “Pelican Blood” by Katrin Gebbe and the short film “Best Friend” by David Feliu, Juliana de Lucca, Nicholas Olivieri, Varun Nair and Yi Shen. The Career Méliès of this year goes to Spanish director Paco Plaza. The awards are presented by the Méliès International Festivals Federation network, to the best European fantastic feature and short films.

The winners of Lisbon’s International Horror Film Festival have been announced. In an atypical and challenging year, the public returned in force to MOTELX, which took place with enhanced health and safety measures. The 14 th edition of Portugal’s leading genre Festival surpassed expectations, hosting over 20 sold out screenings.

Takashi Miike joined us last night on live streaming for a talk with the MOTELX audience.