American actor Sam J. Jones, who rose to fame with the 1980 classic 'Flash Gordon', inspired by the comic book character created by Alex Raymond, will visit the Festival de Cine Fantástico de Canarias Ciudad de La Laguna Isla Calavera next November to collect the Leyenda del Fantástico Award.
The legendary international star will participate in a meeting with her fans as part of a special event at Multicines Tenerife, which will screen the cult film in which she starred alongside Max von Sydow, Ornella Muti and Timothy Dalton. The ambitious Dino de Laurentiis production, directed by Mike Hodges, featured original music by Queen and was nominated for three BAFTA awards in the categories of soundtrack, art design and costume design.
Pre-festival event tribute to ALIEN, THE EIGHTH PASSENGER
This announcement took place within the framework of the first special event of the year, dedicated to 'Alien, the Eighth Passenger' (1979), with full capacity. The audience that filled the hall of Multicines Tenerife enjoyed the horror and science fiction classic and the cineforum led by journalist Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Villar with the participation of film critic and historian Jesús Palacios, fantasy literature writer Víctor Conde and Daniel Alonso, president of the Royal Canarian Academy of Sciences, collaborating entity of the cycle of the Film Classroom of the University of La Laguna dedicated in April to Artificial Intelligence and that had with this projection a golden brooch.
At the national and international level, the Isla Calavera Festival has become one of the events to be taken into account, thanks to the participation of such relevant figures as John Landis, Deborah Nadoolman, Sarah Douglas, Rick Baker, Caroline Munro, David Naughton, Enzo G. Castellari, Mick Garris, Neil Marshall, Charlotte Kirk, Nicholas Rowe, Colin Arthur and Jack Taylor. Other guests who have visited Tenerife as part of the Isla Calavera Festival and who have put the event on the map of film meetings are Belén Rueda, Álex de la Iglesia, Paco Plaza, Carolina Bang, Paco Cabezas, Víctor Matellano, Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Eugenio Mira and Lola Dueñas, among others.
