Oculto Film Festival

The Oculto Film Fest was created by filmmakers from El Paso and Ciudad Juárez to promote horror and fantasy cinema and the Borderland.

The festival, which returns October 4-6, 2024 to the Philanthropy Theatre, offers a complete experience to its audiences and provides connection and visibility opportunities for participating filmmakers.

The first four Oculto Horror Film Fests, as they were then known, were held in Juárez and included feature-length and short films, workshops, interviews with filmmakers, and more.

The Oculto Film Fest, as it is now called, expanded into El Paso for its fifth edition in 2023, making it a truly international event.

The 2024 edition of the Oculto Film Fest will feature special guest Tuesday Knight, who will appear with A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, a Q&A, a reception, and more.

A donation to the Oculto Film Fest, an affiliate of the El Paso Community Foundation, will help support the annual event as it expands its international audience.


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