Fantaspoa

{{Short description|Genre film festival in Brazil}}

{{Infobox film festival

| name = Fantaspoa

| location = Porto Alegre, Brazil

| founded = 2005

| language = Portuguese, International

| website = [https://www.fantaspoa.com/ fantaspoa.com]

|last=2024|date=Annually in April|image=File:Fantaspoa Logo.webp|caption=Festival logo}}

Fantaspoa is an international film festival for genre films held annually in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It premieres both feature and short films, and hosts celebrities, artists, filmmakers, industry reps and press from the fantastic, sci-fi and horror genres, with a strong focus on Portuguese and Spanish language films.

It is considered the most important genre festival in Latin America, being named one of MovieMaker Magazine's 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World in 2023, 50 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World in 2021, and one of their Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2024 and 2023, as well as one of Dread Central's Best Horror Festivals in the World in both 2022 and 2021.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-16 |title=50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry 50 in 2024 |url=https://www.moviemaker.com/50-film-festival-worth-entry-fee-2024/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=www.moviemaker.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2023-04-10 |title=50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, Presented by Film Freeway |url=https://www.moviemaker.com/50-film-festival-worth-entry-fee-2023/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=www.moviemaker.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2023-07-17 |title=The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2023 |url=https://www.moviemaker.com/coolest-film-festivals-2023/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=www.moviemaker.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Weinstein |first=Max |date=2022-03-23 |title=The Best Horror Festivals in the World 2022 |url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/424491/the-best-horror-festivals-in-the-world-2022/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Dread Central |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Weinstein |first=Max |date=2020-12-23 |title=The Best Horror Festivals in the World 2021 |url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/364442/the-best-horror-festivals-in-the-world-2021/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Dread Central |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2020-10-27 |title=World's 50 Best Genre Film Festivals 2021 — MovieMaker |url=https://www.moviemaker.com/best-genre-festivals-2021/2/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=www.moviemaker.com |language=en-US}}