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Escandalos Films retrospective this Friday august 29 in part of The Macabro Film Festival at the prestigious Cineteca Nacional theather in México city. Official web site. Let's celebrate horror mexican style!

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Trailer for Aaron Soto new horror film "Mi Carne, Tu Carne" ("My Flesh, Your Flesh"), Watch it here!

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This week, the New Wave of horror visionary minds took Mexico by storm with the screening of Rodrigo Gudiño's terrific masterpieces "The Eyes Of Edward James" and ""The Demonology Of Desire"", that took the horror frenetic audience to the surreal and enchanted world of Rue Morgue Cinema, with a wildly introduction by Escandalos own Aaron Soto. The two days event became the most talked about

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Aarón Soto and Cathy Alberich will present live in person a special selection of horror shortfilms from around the world in " XV Jornada Académica de Comunicación: Arte y Comunicación de la Universidad de Occidente, Unidad Los Mochis" of the Comunication Major of the Sinaloa State, in the city of Los Mochis. Beside the screening of their own acclaimed work, the couple will introduce the amazing

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Trailers, teasers and complete films in Escandalos You Tube Channel. Updated weekly! Plus check the Aarón Soto filmography here.

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(from left) William Malone, Don Coscarelli, John Landis, Aarón Soto and Mick Garris, backstage at The Masters Of Horror production panel. Wheres is Dario?

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By Yoko, for the upcoming Aaron Soto project "Feroz", Copyright © Escandalos Productions 2007.

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"Really Cool Stuff, Soto films amazed me!" -Guillermo Del Toro After an amazing year of critically acclaimed films, Aaron Soto is looking forward to start pre-production on his secret project "Feroz", a survival horror film on south of the border. "I just wanna make the first hardcore horror film from the San Diego/Tijuana border, cross my fingers!"-Aaron Soto

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From North America to South of the Border, Escandalos films "Algesia" ,"Omega Shell" and "33 1/2" are playing next week on Hallow's Eve, so if your idea of a Halloween party is to dance with the ghouls of Mexico or Canada, this is your chance to watch Cathy Alberich's critically aclaimed "Algesia" and Aaron Soto's award winning films "Omega Shell" and "33 1/2" in the coolest night of the year!

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With an exiting audience and a packed theater the program 2 of The 5th Annual Morelia International Film Festival took Mexican audiences to the dark side, with Cathy Alberich's critically acclaimed short film Algesia, that has been praised by the Festival Newspaper as "a surreal intense film that keeps you at the edge of your seat". Alberich presented Algesia at two of the three screenings at

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ALGESIA International Morelia Film festival, Wednesday October 10, Casa Morelos, 5 pm COLOR DRIP Fase MOR TV show, Chanel 22 Mexico Tuesday October 9, 9 pm Thursday October 11, 11 pm Eastern time. OMEGA SHELL Danse Macabre International Film Festival October 31, 7pm & 1am @ Confederation Place Hotel Ballroom, Kingston Ontario Canada.

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The Morelia International Film Festival is being held this week and Algesia was featured in the first days of the event, gathering attention from the media and fans from all over the country. Aaron Soto and Cathy Alberich represented Independent filmmakers at a National Filmmaker's Panel held on Morelia's Cultural University Center, moderated by IMCINE director Marina Stavenhagen. Panel

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Besides the 3 day round of Cathy Alberich's Algesia screenings at the Morelia International Film Festival, Alberich and Escandalos Productions head honcho Aaron Soto will attend to a very special panel that focuses on the new voice of independent cinema, along with Shannon Kelley and Renew Media director Lucila Moctezuma. Panel will take place on: Saturday, October 6, at 5pm Teatro Joe Ruben

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(from left, Amenabar, Alberich, Soto) Cathy Alberich will discuss the the new wave of cinema at The Morelia International Film Festival, staring this weekend, along with a 3 days screening of her latest shortfilm "Algesia". "Algesia" tells the story of Alice, a strange and lonely woman who works by day and sleeps by night just like everybody else. This dark study of obsession and its violent

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Down in Mexico, there is a festival that really kicks ass, it has been known as Mexico's Sundance, The Morelia International Film Festival. It is been held this week with a packed of long awaited films, including Tod Haynes Dylan biopic "I'm Not There", Wes Anderson "The Darjeerling Limited", Cannes Critics Week Selection and more. Escandalos is Baja's first company to gather 4 consecutive

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Some of the highlights of The CCIIFF cross between strange sci-fi epics like "Automatons" a black and white cult hit in the being of Ed Wood and Tetsuo, the big budget (efx) extravaganza "Man vs. Woman", "Moebius Redux" a documentary (the winner of the Judges Choice Award) focus on legendary comic artist Moebius staring Alejandro Jodorowsky and Cathy Alberich's "Algesia" the minimalistic creepy

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"We're doing the festival circuit with Cathy's (Alberich) "Algesia", at the same time getting in to the audio mix of my short "Uptown" and some pre-production work for my feature "Feroz" -this film is a done deal by the way- and if we have enough time we might even do a vampire shortfilm before 2008, you know, the same old song" -Aaron Soto

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"Omega Shell is made by the incredibly talented and always inventive Tijuana filmmaker Aaron Soto. He made the film for a mere $200 and it looks stunning. Alberich’s Algesia just screened at Comic-Con where the audience applauded her darkly toned but vividly shot tale about the pain and danger of unrequited love. Both films reveal a bold sense of visual composition and exquisite use of sound.

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Built in 1946. Operated by Landmark since 1975. The Ken Cinema opened as the first theater to bring quality foreign films to San Diego, and in 1975 was the second theater to be acquired by Landmark Theaters. The Ken offers a wide variety of films, from independent fare to foreign language cinema to restored classics. Aaron Soto and Cathy Alberich are so proud to screen their films at this

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"Most film festivals are about the search for hits or masterpieces but there's another kind closer to a spirit of real discovery. In Mexico there's an elegant event designed to open minds to cinema's democratic potential." -Sight & Sound on The Morelia International Film Festival

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"I have showcased a number of films by these Alberich and Soto, and expect them to create some more remarkable films." - Beth Accomando Kpbs Go to Kpbs official web site to read more about Comic-Con saturday scrap book including Cathy's Alberich "Algesia" screening.

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Sat, July 28, 1:55-2:20 "Algesia"—Alice is a weird and lonely girl who works with strange little creatures by day and peeks on her neighbor at night, but she also lives with a bizarre secret that leads to a bloody climax. Participating panelists include Cathy Alberich, director; Aaron Soto, director, Omega Shell; Edgar Guerra, music and sound; and Ursula Velarde, lead actress. SAN DIEGO

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"for those who like their cinema MORE SPICED, there's the fantasy "Km 31" (Mexico), as well as the program of the mexican underground short films from Escandalos Productions..." -www.bangbangtemort.com Aaron Soto's "Escandalos Films" FanTasia retrospective was a success, with an amazing screening of Cathy Alberich's "Algesia", the hardly seen "Before The Cradle" the classic "Omega Shell", a

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The CCI:IFF celebrates independent film, with the accent on genre-related entries. Featured genres include action/adventure, animation, comics-oriented, documentary, horror/suspense, humor/parody, and science fiction/fantasy. Cathy Alberich and her fantasy shortfilm "Algesia" will screen on July 28 1:50 pm, Room 26AB, on the south side of the San Diego Convention Center, above Hall H. street

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"Escandalos Productions is a Tijuana-based underground film collective founded by Aaron Soto, Cathy Alberich and Edgar Guerra. Their provocative visions have won then notoriety and praise by such figures as Mark Romanek, Guillermo del Toro and Rodrigo Gudiño. In 2006, the Museum of Contemporary arts in conjunction with the Rockefeller Foundation selected Soto’s work to play across the USA,

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