Fantasia Awards 2011

The Fantasia International Film Festival finished up it's 15th festival this weekend in Montreal. Every year I hear amazing stories about the films and the festival experience, and looking at the film list blows my mind. The festival features fantasy, horror and extreme titles from around the world as well as premieres for upcoming big titles on many a genre fans must-see list. Yep, it sounds like an awesome. I also am always astounded and impressed by the endurance of the festival and the people who run it and attend, given it's mega-length of 3 weeks long. That easily makes Fantasia one of the festivals I most want to go to and grants it a spot on my Mega-List. How can you not love a festival that has an audience awarded prize for Guru Prize for the Most Energetic Feature? I mean, seriously. That's amazing.



Let's look at all of the festival awards, as I'm sure many will be added to my own must-see list. I've been lucky enough to see some of the winners already from other festivals like Superheroes at Hot Docs and Legend of Beaver Dam at the Worldwide Short Film Festival but at first glance I know I'll be hoping to see at the very least Milocrorze: A Love Story, Vampire, Monster Brawl and of course Bangkok Knockout sometimes soon.



2011 Fantasia International Film Festival Winners:



Feature Film Awards

Juried by: Alexandre Franchi (President), with Gilles Esposito, Lee Joon-ik, George Mihalka, Steven Schneider and Tom Vick



Cheval Noir Award for Best Film: Clown by Mikkel Nørgaard

Best Director: Yoshimasa Ishibashi for Milocrorze: A Love Story

Best Screenplay: Park Hoon-jung for The Unjust

Best Actors: Hwang Jeong-min and Ryoo Seung-beom for The Unjust

Best Actress: Norie Yasui for Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano

Special Mention to Vampire

Special Mention to the short film I LOVE YOU in THE THEATRE BIZARRE



First Feature Awards

Juried by: Jason Eisener (President), with Jephté Bastien, Alexandre Fontaine-Rousseau and Greg Newman



New Flesh Award for Best First Feature: Bullhead by Michaël R. Roskam

Special Mention to Love



Animation Awards

Juried by: Marcel Jean (President), with Jean-François Lévesque and Heidi Taillefer



Best Animated Feature Film: Surviving Life

Best Animated Short Film: Bobby Yeah

Special Mention to Crépuscule



International Animated Short Film Awards

Juried by: Buddy Giovinazzo (President), with John Fallon, Sylvain Houde and Charlotte Selb



Best International Short: The Suicide Tapes

Special Mention to The Unliving



Quebecois Short Film Awards

Juried by: Catherine Beauchamp, Dino Tavarone, Caroline Morin



Best Director: Alexandre Richard for Bonne Journée

Best Film: Carolyne Rhéaume for La Barricade

Best Actress: Charlotte Laurier for Coup Sauvage

Best Actor: Mathieu Dufresne for Bonne Journée

Best Screenplay: Caroline Renaud for Maternal

Jury’s Choice: Kim St-Pierre for Vodka Canneberge

Best Photo: Eric Morin for Opasatika



Quebecois DIY Short Film Awards

Juried by: Julie Brisson, Karl Filion, Géraldine Charbonneau



Best Film: Fuck That, Lawrence Côté-Collins

Best Screenplay: Corte, Radnath Gagnon

Best Director: Emanuel St-Pierre Beaulieu for Un film avec Brigitte Bardot

Best Actor (Male & Female): Maxime Desjardins for Gueule de Bois

Jury’s Choice: Vivre a 35 Milles a l'heure, Jean Marc E. Roy, Philippe David Gagné, Dominic Leclerc



AQCC Prize – International Section Awards

Martin Gignac, Claudia Hébert, Nicolas Krief



AQCC Prize: (TIE) Super and Superheroes



Séquences Prize – Asian Section Awards

Pascal Grenier (President), with Pierre-Alexandre Fradet and Christina Stojanova



Séquences Prize: Heaven's Story



L’Écran Fantastique Prize

Yves Rivard



L’Écran Fantastique Prize: Detention



Audience Awards



Best Asian Feature:

GOLD (TIE): 13 Assassins and Cold Fish

SILVER: Milocrorze: A Love Story

BRONZE: Don't Go Breaking My Heart



Best European or American Feature:

GOLD: Attack the Block

SILVER: (TIE) Burke and Hare and Bellflower

BRONZE: Innkeepers



Best Canadian or Quebecois Feature:

GOLD: The Corridor

SILVER: Vampire

BRONZE: (TIE) Monster Brawl and The Divide



Best Animation Feature:

GOLD: Redline

SILVER: Legend of the Millenium Dragon

BRONZE: El SOl



Best Documentary:

GOLD: Art/Crime

SILVER: Superheroes

BRONZE: Last Days Here



Most Innovative Feature:

GOLD: Milocrorze: A Love Story

SILVER: The Woman

BRONZE: Love



Guru Prize for the Most Energetic Feature:

GOLD: Bangkok Knockout

SILVER (TIE): Milocrorze: A Love Story and Detention

BRONZE: The FP



Best Short Film:

GOLD: Legend of Beaver Dam

SILVER: Night Fishing

BRONZE: Bobby Yeah



The Fantasia International Film Festival ran from July 14 - Aug 7, 2011 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.