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The Paris International Fantastic Film Festival (PIFFF), was created in 2011 by the Paris Ciné Fantastique association as a venue for horror, thriller and science fiction films. It takes place in Paris every year in December, and has been recently presented by television station fr:Ciné+ and Mad Movies magazine.[1] PIFFF has prizes in both feature length and short films.[2][3] The most recent festival in December 2018 showed 26 films over 8 days and attracted over 10,000 attendees, making it one of the largest film festivals in the city of Paris.[4][5]
MovieMaker magazine called the festival an "international platform for promising new talent."[6] The festival is held at the historic Max Linder Panorama theater in Paris.[7] The 2018 festival was periodically interrupted by the Yellow Vest gilets jaunes riots that marched by while the festival was in progress.[8]
- ^ Recap of 2018 festival from French magazine 20 Minutes.
- ^ Article from Collider about 2014 festival.
- ^ Review from Collider of 2015 PIFFF festival
- ^ Article from Rolling Stone (in French) about the 2018 festival.
- ^ French language press release from PIFFF.
- ^ MovieMaker magazine article from 2016.
- ^ Article from ScreenAnarchy from 2017
- ^ Article in French-language Le Mag Du Cine.