Editor

27th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - FANTASPORTO 2007. (held in Oporto Portugalbetween the 19th February and the 4th March) is the occasion for a look back into the prestigious list of filmmakers discovered at Fantasporto in the genre that the festival specialized.


Fantasporto 81

David Cronenberg with "Shivers"

André Tarkovsky with "Solaris"

Brian de Palma with "Carrie"

John Carpenter with "Dark Star"

Alan Resnais with "Providence"

Fantasporto 82

Peter Fleishman with "O Mal de Hamburgo"

David Lynch with "Eraserhead"

Fantasporto 83

Andrzej Zulawski with "Possession"

Bigas Luna with "Caniche"

Ridley Scott with "Blade Runner"

Fantasporto 84

Luc Besson with "Le Dernier Withbat"

Peter Greenaway with "The Draughtsman´s Contract"

A série BZ de Charles Band

Fantasporto 85

Jean-Jacques Beinex with "La Lune dans le Caniveau"

Arnaud Selignac with "Dream One"

Neil Jordan with "The Withpany of Wolves"

Fantasporto 86

Joel e Ethan Cohen with "Blood Simple"

Lars von Trier with "The Element of the Crime"

Ken Mc Mullen with "Zina"

Fantasporto 87

Pedro Almodovar with "Matador"

Freddy Krugger with "Nightmare on Elm Street"

Sam Raimi with "Evil Dead"

Fantasporto 88

Pinhead de "Hellraiser"

"Chinese Ghost Story"

Leos Carax with "Mauvais Sang"

Stephen King with "Maximum Overdrive"

Fantasporto 89

Vincent Ward with "O Navegador"

Renny Harlin with "Nihgtmare on Elm Street 4"

Bernard Rose with "Paperhouse"

Fantasporto 90

Imanol Uribe with "La Luna Negra"

Peter Jackson with "Bad Taste"

Mary Lambert with "Pet Sematary"

Fantasporto 91

John McNaughton with "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer"

Troma

and Serguei Paradjanov

Fantasporto 92

Hal Hartley with "Trust"

Shinya Tsukamoto with "Tetsuo"

Jeunet e Caro with "Delicatessen"

Anthony Minghella with "Truly, Madly, Deeply"

Jaco Van Dormael with "Toto, l´heros"

Fantasporto 93

Quentin Tarantino with "Reservoir Dogs"

Tim Robbins with "Bob Roberts"

Fantasporto 94

Guillermo del Toro with "Cronos"

Jan Sverak with "The Elementary School"

Philip Haas with "The Music of Chance"

Robert Rodriguez with " El Mariachi"

Fantasporto 95

Danny Boyle with "Shallow Grave"

Paul Anderson with "Shopping"

Lodge Kerrigan with "Clean Shaven"

Juanma Bajo Ulloa with "La Madre Muerta"

Stephen Elliot with "Priscilla"

Roger Avary with "Killing Zoe"

Lee Tamahori with "Once Were Warriors"

Fantasporto 96

David Fincher with "Seven" e "Alien 3 "

Harold Solwen with "Denise Calls Up"

James Mangold with "Heavy"

Fantasporto 97

Larry &Andy Waschowski with "Bound"

NickCassavetes with "Unhook the Stars"

Scott Hicks with "Shine"

Greg Mottola with "The Daytrippers"

Alex de La Iglèsia with "El Dia de La Bestia"

and Japanese Animé

Fantasporto 98

Michael Haneke with "Funny Games"

Finn Taylor with "Dream With the Fishes"

Louis Morneau with "Retroactive"

Nick Willing with "Photographing Fairies"

Takashi Miike with "Fudoh - The New Generations"

Scott Reynolds with "The Ugly"

Victor Nunez with "Ulle´s Gold"

Mike van Diem with "Character"

Giuseppe Gaudino with "Giro di Luna Tra Terra e Mare"

Pal Stetaune with "Junk Mail"

Fantasporto 99

Vincenzo Natali with "Cube"

Suzanne Bier with "Credo"

Bill Plympton with "I Married a Strange Person"

Sabu with "Dangan Runner"

Hiroyuko Okiura with "Jin-Roh"

Lisa Cholodenko with "High Art"

Peter Mullan with "Orphans"

Don McKellar with "Last Night"

David Caffrey with "Divorcing Jack"

Gaspar Noé with "Seul Contre Tous "

Fantasporto 2000

John Polson with "Siam Sunset"

Veit Helmer with "Tuvalu"

Jaume Balagueró with "Los Sin Nombre"

Ben Hopkins with "The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz"

Fantasporto 2001

Alejandro. G. Iñaturri with "Amores Perros"

Kim Ki-Duk with "Seom-The Isle"

Elias Merhigue with "The Shadow of a Vampire"

Chuck Parello with "Ed Gein"

Julian Simpsin with "The Criminal"

and many others

Fantasporto 2002

Isidro Ortiz, Allex Ollé, Carlos Padrissa with "Fausto 5.0"

Pitof with "Vidocq "

Paul Greengrass with "Bloody Sunday"

Fabian Bielensky with "Nueve Reinas"

Fantasporto 2003

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo for "Intacto"

Michael Cuesta by "L.I.E."

Phil Hay by "Bug"

Robert Schwentke by "Tattoo"

Fantasporto 2004

Eli Roth by "Cabin Fever"

Laura Maña by "Killing Words"

Michael Polish by "Northfork"

Anders Thomas Jensen by "The Green Butchers"

Rob Zombie by "House of 1000 Corpses"

Fantasporto 2005

Alexander Payne by "Sideways"

Robin Campillo with "Les Revenants"

Chan Wook park with "Oldboy"

Ayassi with "Vinzent"

Fantasporto 2006

Roselyne Boschj with "Animal"

Kornél Mundruczó with "Pleasant Days" and "Johanna"

Anders Banke with "Frostbitten"

Robin Aubert with "Saints Martyrs des Damnés"

Eric Khoo with "Be With Me"