Carlos Pina took his vampire movie Blood Rivals: Santos El Vampiro to the Honolulu Film Festival to go head-to-head against some heavy hitters with big budgets. That didn’t stop the plucky film from Haunted House Studios from bringing home the coveted Gold Kahuna Award.
Pina’s feelings on getting the award and then discovering the high-dollar talent he was up against: “It’s like winning a bar fight and then finding out you were fighting the Champ!”
Haunted House Studios is hard at working making a series of hour-long sequels to Blood Rivals and will be starting a new feature film called Cult of Nothing soon. The studio expects to have a screening in May to show the next three episodes of Blood Rivals.
Check out our interview with Pina for our Made in SA series so you can find out what this busy filmmaker is up to.
Congratulations from Missions Unknown to all involved with this project!










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