About this Event
Frenzy-Fest is a global competitive theatrical & cinema festival focusing on social and psychological vulnerabilities serving to increase awareness and empathy about the stigma of mental health. Frenzy Fest focuses on the human psyche as the totality of all elements forming the mind. In the mind’s complexity, almost all human beings may experience a temporary madness or a violent mental and emotional agitation, and may not be diagnosed as a psychotic person.
The central theme of all plays & short-films cover the human mind and frenzy episodes. (Frenzy-Episodes / a kind of mental agitation, violent excitement, emotional breakdown, delirium and/or rage). Each play and short-film may present social issues as: drug-additions, rape, domestic-violence, immigration-issues, LGBTT-relationship, catastrophic illness. suicide, anxiety, panic attacks, PTSD-disorder, bipolarity, and social problems such as poverty or war, that lead the human being to suffer these Frenzy-episodes, giving us a wide audience since all people, or directly or indirectly, haves had to face some of these situations. The genres it’s open (drama, comedy, mystery thriller etc.)
The plays and the short-films are in person and the short films are also online from August 10th to August 19th. (link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/680482219637)
Schedule, Plays & short films in person:
Thursday, August 10
7:00 P.M - 7:30 P.M. OPENING CEREMONY (Recognition Ceremony to Manolo Garcia Oliva) Free Entrance
8:00 P.M. - 8:40 P.M. Caravana - Written by Carlos Morton (San Diego, US) - Directed by Barbara Bosch - In English.Logline: A trio of Central American migrants dress up and become theater characters to cross the border into the USA.
Friday, August 11
7:00 - 7:40 Caravana - Written by Carlos Morton (San Diego, US) - Directed by Barbara Bosch - In English.Logline: A trio of Central American migrants dress up and become theater characters to cross the border into the USA.
8:10 - 8:50 Fragmentos de Silencio- Written - Directed by: Martín Chamorro (NY-Argentina) In Spanish.Logline: Una venganza que transforma y te lleva al límite de la cordura.
Saturday, August 12
7:00 - 7:40 Fragmentos de Silencio- Written - Directed by: Martín Chamorro (NY-Argentina) In Spanish.Tagline: Una venganza que transforma y te lleva al límite de la cordura.
8:10 - 8:50 Ventanas Cerrada – Written by Mariana Frias - Directed by Jose Bonilla (NY-Rep. Dominicana) In Spanish Logline: La soledad y los recuerdos que pueden terminar en una terrible desconección de la realidad, paranoia o alucinación.
Sunday, August 13
4:00 - 4:40 Ventanas Cerrada – Written by Mariana Frias - Directed by Jose Bonilla (NY-Rep. Dominicana) In Spanish - Longline: La soledad y los recuerdos que pueden terminar en una terrible desconección de la realidad, paranoia o alucinación.
5:10 - 5:50 Vino y Te - Written by Jeydermentt Deffitt - Directed by Raul Rivera (N.Y.- P.R.) In Spanish .Logline: Los delirios de un celópata explotan en un triángulo amoroso conformado por tres hombres.
6:30 – 7:30 - Short Films
Remember me in therapy - Jacob Mollot (NY) In EnglishTagline: Hallucinations inside a drunk tank with an intergalactic space therapist.... You’ll wish they were real?
Be like Jose - Leonardo Ortiz (Ecuador) In SpanishTagline: Capacidad total de productividad… o tu integridad?
Zoe in Review - Stacey Larkins (US) In EnglishTagline: An emotionally fractured woman examines her past in search of answers for her present entanglement.
The life behind the autism: Directed by Victor Ilyukhin, Olga Lvoff, Rick Guidotti
Friday, August 18
7:00 - 7:40 Vino y Te - Written by Jeydermentt Deffitt - Directed by Raul Rivera (N.Y.- P.R.) In Spanish .Tagline: Los delirios de un celópata explotan en un triángulo amoroso conformado por tres hombres.
8:10 - 8:50 Lo obscuro de tus ojos – Written and Directed by Julio Rueda - Produced by Yolanny Rodríguez Teatristas Dominicanos en el Exterior (In Spanish) Tagline: Los oscuros matices de la relación dominada por la violencia doméstica y el narcisismo.
Saturday, August 19
7:00 - 7:40 Lo obscuro de tus ojos – Written and Directed by Julio Rueda - Produced by Yolanny Rodríguez Teatristas Dominicanos en el Exterior (In Spanish) Tagline: Los oscuros matices de la relación dominada por la violencia doméstica y el narcisismo.
8:10 a 9:30 Short Films
Remember me in therapy - Jacob Mollot (NY) In EnglishTagline: Hallucinations inside a drunk tank with an intergalactic space therapist.... You’ll wish they were real?
Be like Jose - Leonardo Ortiz (Ecuador) In SpanishTagline: Capacidad total de productividad… o tu integridad?
Zoe in Review - Stacey Larkins (US) In EnglishTagline: An emotionally fractured woman examines her past in search of answers for her present entanglement.
The life behind the autism: Directed by Victor Ilyukhin, Olga Lvoff, Rick Guidotti
Sunday, August 20
4:00 - 5:15 Short Films
Remember me in therapy - Jacob Mollot (NY) In EnglishTagline: Hallucinations inside a drunk tank with an intergalactic space therapist.... You’ll wish they were real?
Be like Jose - Leonardo Ortiz (Ecuador) In SpanishTagline: Capacidad total de productividad… o tu integridad?
Zoe in Review - Stacey Larkins (US) In EnglishTagline: Domestic Violence…. An emotionally fractured woman examines her past in search of answers for her present entanglement.
The life behind the autism: Directed by Victor Ilyukhin, Olga Lvoff, Rick Guidotti
5:30 – 6:30 Award Ceremony (Free Entrance)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
El Barrio's Artspace PS109, 215 East 99th Street, New York, United States
USD 20.00 to USD 130.00