Beloved cat fantasian5/2/2023 In the meantime, the festival is excited to reveal a selected Second Wave of titles and events.ĬANADIAN TRAILBLAZER AWARD: KIER-LA JANISSEįor her ground-breaking work as an author, filmmaker, historian and curator, Fantasia presents its 2022 Canadian Trailblazer Award to Kier-La Janisse, who has shifted the paradigm of genre film discourse and inspired a new generation of artists. The full lineup of over 100 feature films and 200+ shorts will be announced in late June. de Sève cinemas, with additional screens at the Cinémathèque Québécoise, Cinéma du Musée and the McCord Museum. Screenings, panels and special events will be taking place at the Concordia Hall and J.A. ![]() Thursday, J// Montreal, Quebec - The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 26th Anniversary in Montreal this summer, taking place from July 14 – August 3, with its Frontières International Co-Production Market being held July 21 – 24. Shinichiro Ueda’s POPRAN, Neil LaBute’s HOUSE OF DARKNESS, Patrice Leconte’s MAIGRET, Toshiro Saiga’s RED SHOES, Franklin Ritch’s THE ARTIFICE GIRL, Yoon Seo-jin’s CHOROKBAM, Eduardo Casanova’s LA PIETÀ and a Canadian trailblazer award for author/filmmaker/historian Kier-La Janisse, with book launch and screening series, are among the Second Wave announcements for the Montreal festival’s 26th edition. We're looking forward to all of it!įANTASIA’S 26th EDITION ANNOUNCES SECOND WAVE WITH OPENING FILM POLARIS, QUEER GENRE CINEMA SPOTLIGHT, SHINJI IGUCHI'S SHIN ULTRAMAN, AND CANADIAN TRAILBLAZER AWARD FOR KIER-LA JANISSE This is going to be an amazing event, so check out the rest of the line up below. She will also be hosting a series of screenings in support of the newly updated 10th anniversary edition of her groundbreaking book, House of Psychotic Women, which will include classics like In My Skin, Idenitikit, and Il Demonio. This award recognizes her for her manifold contributions to film culture through all of her incredible endeavors. Janisse is a reknowned author, programmer, editor, and the director of the multiple award winning (SXSW, Fangoria, etc.) documentary, Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror. KC Carthew's Polaris is set to open the fest on July 14th, this post-apocalyptic adventure is a graduate of the Frontieres film market back in 2019 and marks the director's second feature.Īlso included in this round of films is a queer genre focus with films like SXSW Alum, Hypochondriac, Carter Smith's Swallowed, queer wrestling doc, Out in the Ring, Eduardo Casanova's La Pieta, and more.įantasia also brings the North American premiere of the hotly anticipated Shin Ultraman film from director Shinji Iguchi, famous for his stellar FX work on the '90s Gamera films as well as co-directing Shin Godzilla.įilm scholar Kier-La Janisse is also set to be honored with the Canadian Trailerblazer Award. ![]() ![]() With a little more than a month to go until Fantasia returns in person in Montreal (July 14th - August 3rd), North America's biggest genre film festival has unveiled their second wave of titles and events and there are plenty of heavy hitters on deck.
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