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Illustrating the festival’s move toward a more PG-rated focus, its 2023 theme was “Uniforms and Unicorns … 200 Years of Sailing into Fantasy,” in salute to the Florida Keys’ bicentennial ...
Key West’s Fantasy Fest began Friday, launching a 10-day schedule of masquerades, elaborate parties and costume competitions. The masking and costuming festival is themed “Uniforms & Unicorns ...
Key West’s 10-day Fantasy Fest masking and costuming festival gets underway Friday, Oct. 21, with a full slate of events, the first full festival since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.
Fantasy Fest was initiated in 1979 by Bill Conkle, Tony Falcone, Joe Liszka and Frank Romano to attract tourists during the slow season. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1995 over 60,000 people attended and there were 70 floats, bands, costumed groups and "imprecision drill teams" in the parade. [ 3 ]
The Wachowskis, Fantastic Fest 2012. The festival focuses on genre films such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, Asian, and cult.The festival takes place in September at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, filling eight screens for eight days and hosting many writers, directors, and actors, either well-established or unknown.
It was also picked up for screenings at the Fantastic Fest and the 56th Sitges Film Festival. [9] It made it to the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival slate for its Canadian premiere. [10] It was released theatrically in Spain on 15 December 2023. [11] [12] Film Movement acquired North-American distribution rights to the film. [13]
The annual event brings in an estimated $30 million to the Florida Keys economy, according to tourism officials.
The Ponderosa Sun Club is a family naturist resort and most of its members did not attend the festival. The members agreed to the club hosting Nudes-A-Poppin' because it subsidized their membership fees. [13]