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Fantasia is proud to host the world-premiere launch of the new book from Spectacular Optical, “Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin,” edited by Samm Deighan and penned by all women critics, scholars and film historians. This collection of essays covers the wide range of Rollin’s career, from 1968’s LE VIOL DU VAMPIRE through his 2010 swansong, LE MASQUE DE LA MÉDUSE, touching upon his horror, fantasy, crime and sex films – inclu...
CHEVAL NOIR JURY
Jury President
Richard Stanley
Richard Stanley is a filmmaker, trained anthropologist, ordained priest and lifelong student of the dark arts. As a writer and freelance journalist he has documented conflicts in South Africa, Rwanda, Haiti and Afghanistan, where in the late ’80s he saw action as a mujahedeen, fighting a partisan action against the Russian army. As a film director, his work includes the cyberpunk cult classic HARDWARE (1990), D...
The world premiere of DEALER will take place on Tuesday, July 29th at 9:40pm at the DB Clarke Theater, with Jean Luc Herbulot and Dan Bronchinson (also the lead actor) attending and introducing the film. Fantasia described the film as "a sturdy thriller that drags its audience full-steam ahead through a Parisian underbelly filled with hoods and thugs, marking the powerful arrival of one of the most promising new voices in French genre cinema. A feature-film baptism filled with noise and fur...
The 3rd edition of the
FANTASIA INDUSTRY RENDEZ-VOUS
July 24-27
CONCORDIA
EV BUILDING 7TH FLOOR
Admission to the market area is restricted to the industry and press badgeholders.
THE CONFERENCES
PRESENTATION: SHOOTING IN QUEBEC Film students are welcome to attend the conference for free, conditional on available space once badge holders have been seated.
Thursday, July 24, 16:00–17:00, J.A. De Sève Theatre ...
This year Fantasia continues its tradition of inviting the best and brightest genre filmmakers from around the world to the city of Montreal. The festival is proud to host more than 76 directors, producers and actors coming to Fantasia to premiere their films at the festival’s 18th edition. Fantasia will welcome filmmakers from all over the globe, from countries ranging from Brunei, Japan, and South Korea, to France and the Netherlands.
With this year marking the 3r...
Project submissions are now closed for 2014 Frontières @ Fantasia.
The Fantasia International Film Festival, in Montreal, was attracting an ever-increasing number of film professionals since its foundation in 1996. In 2011, for its 15th edition, the festival decided to devote a specific week-end to welcome members of the industry, making it the first unofficial edition of the Fantasia Industry Rendez-Vous, which resulted in a great increase in attendance. In 2012, the...
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About Fantasia Film Festival
 Since its inception in 1996, Fantasia has been a showcase for the most exciting, innovative and individualistic examples of contemporary international genre cinema. It has become a hugely popular Montreal summer tradition for over 79 000 festival-goers.
Coverage by Laurie Gordon - Musivision Films
"THE MOST IMPORTANT AND PRESTIGIOUS GENRE FILM FESTIVAL ON THIS CONTINENT."
— Quentin Tarantino
"ONE OF THE BEST GENRE FILM FESTIVALS IN THE WORLD."
— Ain’t It Cool News
"ONE OF CANADA'S HOTTEST FILM EVENTS"
— Variety
"ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING GENRE FILM FESTIVALS IN THE WORLD."
— Premiere
"THIS IS WHAT I LOOK FORWARD TO IN THE SUMMER. FANTASIA IS IT FOR ME. IT'S THE ONLY FESTIVAL I EVER WENT TO AS A FAN."
— Jay Baruchel
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