Encouraging higher goals, Fantasporto, an event that launches Porto and Portugal into the world, also receives praise from abroad.  The renowned and respected North American magazine MovieMaker considered it one of the 25 "coolest" festivals in the world and the world's leading fantasy website, also North American, Dread Central, refers to the festival as one of the "20 most outstanding festivals in the horror field", including it in this list after a study carried out by experts in the field. Is interesting those. From the States Fantasporto received also the visit of Frank Marshall, the Spielberg main producer. It was during Summer 2022 and he was very interested in doing promotion of his Indiana Jones 5, that will open that summer b ut he was interested in discover some locations in Porto. We try to help…From Asia, we received in Fantasporto Office for an important meeting for both parts a delegation of the China Film Corp lead by one of the biggest and most important producers in the World, Mr. La Peikang, also partner and producer of Paramount. Meanwhile, also in the Asian media, whether Japanese, Korean, Chinese or Filipino, have been lavish in their praise, referring to Fantasporto as one of the three most important fantastic film festivals in the world, alongside Sitges and Brussels. 

But there are more signs of prestige.

We were invited to join the World Film Festivals (CINETOUR) group based in Turkey, a network that currently involves more than 80 festivals from around 50 countries (https://www.cinetour.org), as well as the new Alliance of Sci-Fi Festivals, which will be based in Chengdu, China, a city of 13 million inhabitants, where the first Worldcon will be held.

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where the documentary that was made about the history of the 40th Fantasporto, by Isabel Pina, a Pizzi co-production with Cinema Novo, will also be screened, and a conference will be held on the Fantasporto "phenomenon". All the national and international information about the Festival can be found on the festival's Facebook page and on another page called Fantasporto Recortes Press.