When Popcorn Frights had to postpone its summer horror-film festival due to the pandemic, the organizers were determined to find another way to bring movie magic to their community.
“This is something that we need right now for our souls,” says Igor Shteyrenberg, who cofounded the festival in 2015 with Marc Ferman. “Film fills an absence for us. It truly has the power to heal us and make us better and help us see things we wouldn’t see otherwise.”
Popcorn Frights, which has become the largest genre film festival in the southeastern U.S., is known for spotlighting the work of South Florida filmmakers and discovering new talent. It’s curated “by horror lovers for horror lovers,” Shteyrenberg says, and it’s a passion project for its team, which doesn’t make money from putting it on. With the main festival rescheduled for October, they decided to launch a drive-in movie theater, in partnership with Twilight Features and MASS District in Fort Lauderdale.
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