In 2016, MOTELX opened with "Don't Breathe" by M. Night Shyamalan, had Ruggero Deodato as its guest of honor and invited Mick Garris back for the 10th year anniversary, and challenged its audience once again to produce Micro SHORTS, short films filmed entirely with a mobile phone. "Post-Mortem", by Belmiro Ribeiro, won the MOTELX Award for Best Portuguese Horror Short, while "The Noonday Witch" by Jiri Sádek won Best European Feature Film. The movies of the Festival were screened in the following categories:
MOTELX Award - Best European Horror Feature Film / Méliès d'argent
Room Service
Doc Horror
Ruggero Deodato
Walerian Borowczyk - Make Me Scream Again
Special Screenings
Lost Room
MOTELX Award - Best Portuguese Horror Short Film/ Méliès d'argent
Everything from masterclasses and quizzes to open air screenings and workshops.
MOTELX - 10 Years of Horror
Book Presentation by João Antunes, MOTELX and guests
O Encoberto
Exhibition by Take It Easy Curator: Bruno Caetano
Party MOTELX 10 Years
DJ set by Fernando Ribeiro
MOTELquiz
Quiz night by Nuria Bernardo & Luís Henriques
VHS Nights: Nothing Underneath
Special Screening by André Nacho, André Pereira, Catarina Romão
The Art of Scaring Using Animation
Workshop Odd School
Short Talks With Shortcutz
And the directors of Portuguese shorts
Make Your Own Monster
Workshop Odd School
10 Years of MOTELX Promos
Masterclass by Take It Easy
One Man Band: Walerian Borowczyk
Masterclass by Daniel Bird
Spoiler Alert
A talk with Gonçalo Freitas, Miguel França, Paulo Prazeres & Tiago Castro
Immersive Horror in Portugal
Panel with Nuno Gervásio (Shortcutz Lisboa), Ricardo Rodrigues (Labirinto Lisboa), Michel Semião (A Casa Assombrada), Nuno Moreira (E Morreram Felizes Para Sempre), Leonel Alves (Casa do Medo e Zombie Experience)
The Spanish Fantastic: Contemporary Filmmaking in Horror, Fantasy and Sci-Fi
Masterclass by Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Sculpting and Character Development
Workshop Oldskull FX
The Haunted Mansion
Exhibition by Jorge Coelho Curator: Bruno Caetano
A Poster for Fear
Cinemateca Júnior Activity
Ultra Hyper Mega Scary Workshop
FANTASYCRAFT® Corrugated Cardboard Workshop by Torre de Jogos
My Hotel is Scarier than Yours
Pixalação Workshop by Rui Telmo Romão
Who wants to dream with the werewolf?
Clippings Animation Workshop by Ana Bossa & Paula Custódio
Guests
The directors Ruggero Deodate and Mick Garris were this year's guests of honor.
Ruggero Deodato
Director
Italy
Mick Garris
Director
United States
Photos 2016
Photos by Vanda Noronha.
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