Fantastic Fest ’26: Director Nikias Chryssos Strings Together Horror in “Bloody Tennis”
During the screening of Bloody Tennis at the 2026 Fantastic Fest, director Nikias Chryssos sat down with Beyond the Cinerama Dome to talk about capturing the beauty of the sport, learning its brutal history, and the gnarly soundscape of the film.
Fantastic Fest: Director Juan Felipe Zuleta on Aliens and Hope
“If you can get that character who’s suffering from grief, from depression, from isolation, from all of these things,” he says, “and you can put him on a track where, in the process, they discover something about themselves. And they discover that self-acceptance, that self-love, that’s where the joy comes from.”
Fantastic Fest: Oscar Harding on the Magic of DIY Filmmaking
“It is an underdog story,” Harding says very simply about his film. A Life on the Farm is an ode to the creative spirit and content creation born out of the simple, intrinsically human desire to make art.