People of all ages wearing zombies costumes went last Thrusday to the Cocheras del Puerto Theatre to watch “Juan fo the Dead” for free. The Huelva Iberoamerican Film Fest, which opened with the Spanish-Cuban film, organized the event which gathered fans Forthe “zombie walk” that started at 22:30 pm..

Following audience votes taken for every one of the Film Festival programme’s 150+ feature films, the 25th Leeds International Film Festival (UK) has announced its Audience Award winners. Among them, Juan of the Dead won the Fanomenon Audience Award. The 25th edition of the Film Festival, which took place from Nov 3 to 20, 2011 [...]

The film Juan of the Dead participated of the 26 Mar del Plata International Film Festival, which took place between November 5 and 13 in the Argentinean city. The film got a great reception by local public and media. Director Alejandro Brugués was present. The only “A” Latin American Film Festival, it was founded in [...]

“JUAN DE LOS MUERTOS”: PRESS CONFERENCE Josemi Beltrán, Andrea Duro & Jazz Vilá (actors) AND Gervasio Iglesias (producer) at the press conference for the film presented at the Closing Night. Photographer: Iñigo Royo Source: San Sebastian Film Fest Flickr Album

Photo by Jack Plunkett. juan of the Dead was a big success at Austin Fantastic Fest. Crowds of zombie fans cheered all the films gags and the films was saluted by the specialized media such as Twitch which said that it was the festival´s “biggest surprise”: I think I was expecting something a bit squeaky [...]

The US premiere is confirmed at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the US, specializing in horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world. In years past the event -to take place from September 22 to 29- has presented the world premieres of THERE WILL BE [...]

Juan of the Dead confirmed its Eurpean premiere at SITGES International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia – the number one fantasy film festival in the world. With a solid experience, the Sitges Festival is a stimulating universe of encounters, exhibitions, presentations and screenings of fantasy films from all over the world. Born in 1968 as [...]

Cuba’s first-ever zombie film is scheduled to premiere at the 36th edition of Toronto International Film Festival, to be held from Sep 8-18. Founded in 1976, the TIFF is now one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. In 1998, Variety magazine acknowledged that “the Festival is second only to Cannes in terms [...]

Cannes’ Marché du Film is the biggest event in the international film industry and a unique opportunity to further projects. This year it runs for nine days (from May 11 to 20, 2011) as part of the most important film festival in the world. Juan of the Dead, will land in Cannes next week where [...]

  Finally, after all the buzz created by the extensive coverage by all big global news outlets, Juan of the Dead, Cuba’s first feature-length horror film in half a century, is ready. CNN, Spain’s EL PAIS, The Guardian and even the Zombie Maximum P himself: Simon Pegg had something to say about this gore-filled black [...]