{"id":113020,"date":"2020-06-24T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=113020"},"modified":"2020-09-21T20:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T19:44:38","slug":"frightfest-goes-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/frightfest-goes-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"FrightFest goes digital!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news everyone! If you were &#8211; like us &#8211; lamenting on what to do with your bank holiday weekend now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/arrow-frightfest-horror-film-festival-on-hold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FrightFest has been put on hold<\/a>, fear not (or should that be fear lots?), as FrightFest will be holding a digital edition on those dates!<\/p>\n<p>Taking place on\u00a0Friday 28\u00a0August to Mon 31\u00a0August, Arrow Video FrightFest will be presenting 25\u00a0films, as well as additional online content including special guest intros, Q&amp;As, and a short film showcase. Plus, they have said there will be some free live events (which are at the planning stage).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlthough we can\u2019t recreate the special atmosphere of our public gatherings, we hope our online event will go some way to bringing the fans and filmmakers back together, not just to watch some great new films but also to carry on the community spirit that FrightFest is famous for,&#8221; said\u00a0Ian Rattray, FrightFest co-director. &#8220;And, of course, we welcome genre fans who have been unable to attend in person before and who will be joining us for the first time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Passes and individual tickets for FrightFest will be available and go on sale in early August. The line-up of films will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud to be acting as headline sponsor of the UK\u2019s premiere genre event, FrightFest, for a third year running,&#8221; added\u00a0Mike Hewitt, Head of Sales &amp; Marketing at Arrow Video. &#8220;In these changing and challenging times, we need to adapt to new ways, and although we are clearly sad that this year\u2019s August event will not be in a physical form, we are really pleased and excited that the team have decided to retain the summer genre festival spirit in a new online format.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hugely look forward to working with the team in making Arrow Video FrightFest Digital Edition a hugely engaging and successful experience this August Bank Holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Arrow Video FrightFest Digital Edition will take place on 28-31 August.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrow has announced it will present a digital edition of FrightFest in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":113021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[6954,3],"tags":[6841],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FrightFest-2020.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}