FLICKERS’ VORTEX SCI-FI, FANTASY & HORROR FILM FESTIVAL

A phantasmagoric symphony of international films blasts its way across the big screen as the Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival launches its 20^th Annual Flickers’ Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Film Festival (VORTEX), October 19-27^th. In addition to its traditional spooky film fare, Vortex will showcase a wide-array of Sci-Fi and Fantasy cinema. This year\’s Festival includes a return of its popular H.P. Lovecraft Walking Tour over a three-day period presented in collaboration with the RI Historical Society and the Brown University Film Forum (BUFF), free in-school programs, an expanded Campus Connections program that brings free Festival programming to area Colleges and Universities, five free Forums that look behind-the-scenes at creating genre films in the Ocean State, special programming in the RI PBS series, “doubleFEATURE.”

The festival is taking place at multiple locations throughout the state, including Rhode Island Historical Society, Roger Williams University, Providence College, Brown University, Johnson and Wales University, the Museum of Work & Culture, Westerly High School, Beacon School, Warwick Public Library, the Tiverton Public Library and the JMW School for the Arts, Pawtucket