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Selections include Ryan Ward’s Canadian magic realism tale Pure Science Fiction, Maria Arida’s Brazilian psychological thriller The Eyes Of Another.

Screen can exclusively reveal the second wave of titles at the upcoming Frontieres genre international co-production market and forum scheduled for July in Montreal.

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Market selections include Ashlea Wessel’s horror Light Of The Void, Ryan Ward’s magic realism tale Pure Science Fiction, and James Watt’s horror Worm all from Canada, alongside Jan Verdijk’s Dutch psychological horror Alice, Peter Modestij’s Sweden-Denmark body horror drama Sub, and Maria Arida...

Event to take place July 26-29; Forum July 26-28.

The Frontieres genre international co-production market has launched new awards ahead of the July event in Montreal.

Canada’s Purple Dog Post Production is supporting the market with three non-cash awards: Cad $10,000 towards a project in official selection; Cad $5,000 for a project in the Forum; and Cad $5,000 for a project of the Genre Film Lab.

Montreal-based The Film Deck will award one project in the Shorts To Features section with a free professional pitch deck.

The Frontieres market will take place from July 26-29 with the Forum overlapping on July 26-...

As Summer approaches Anarchist's eyes turn to Montreal and the promise of another Frontieres Market. A chance to see what may come down the pipeline of genre film production Frontieres arleady boasts a history of successful projects. Films like Raw, Vivarium, The Long Walk and Hatching were all pitched at the market.    The first wave of titles for this year's market and forum were announced today. On the market side we will see new projects from Peter Hengl (Family DInner) and other filmmakers looking to make their feature film debut. A large majority of projects are from female directors (#FundFemaleFilmmakers) and two projects are from Quebecois filmmakers.    Audrey Ewell (Until The Light Takes Us), Jean Mach & Nicolas Alberny (8th Wonderland) and Nyla...

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Here's some very Not Safe For Work action to get your day off on the right track - the first trailer from Tokyo Grand Guignol, an anthology of four horror shorts by French directors, filmed on location in the Japanese capital.Completed with the support of Xavier Gens (Frontiere(s), Hitman, The ABCs Of Death), Jean Frederic Chaleyat and Frederic Grousset (Climax), who serve as Associate Producers, Tokyo Grand Guignol includes offerings from Nicolas Alberny, Francois Gaillard, Gilles Landucci and Yann Moreau and looks to be a ton of fun. Currently in post-production, one segment of the film is ready to be unleashed, and will get its debut this week at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, which kicks off today. The film promises blood, sado-masochism, werewolves, giallo, time...

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Third edition of the international co-production market focused specifically on genre film production to take place in Brussels in April.

Fantasia International Film Festival’s international co-production market Frontières has unveiled the lineup for its third edition.

Taking place at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifff) from April 10-12, the market will feature 12 Frontières projects and 11 Off-Frontières projects.

Frontières is the first and only co-production market to connect North America with Europe in an environment focused specifically on genre film production.

Among the 12 Frontières projects are new works from the likes of Martin Villeneuve (Aquarica), Borys Lankosz (The Chosen Child), Aj Annila (Don’t Come After Me) and Vincent Lannoo (Robin Hood Vs. Zombies).

Meanwhile, the 11 Off-Frontières projects include Beasts from Resolution directors Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead and Warg from Frostbite’s Anders Banke.

The full lineup is as follows:

FRONTIÈRESLES AFFAMÉS (Quebec) Dir. Robin Aubert / Prod. Stéphanie MorissetteAQUARICA (Quebec) Dir. Martin VilleneuveCHLOE...

Now here is a 2008 French science fiction satire that seems to have eluded the Twitch crowd, and outside of a fairly limited festival run outside of Europe (winning a number of prizes in the 2009 edition of Fantasia), remains surprisingly unseen. Heck, even inside Europe it has not penetrated too far, as it is just finding a Spanish premiere nearly two and a half years after the films Market debut at Cannes. It is ironic that a film about getting media traction fails to get any sort of traction with its own core audience. Do not let the long shelf life fool you though, this is savvy, dense filmmaking that should become a bit of a cult item when it is inevitably discovered years down the road. Any film that can coherently go from the kidnapping and hostage video footage of a turkey (the bird, not the country) to the acknowledgement...

The 2010 edition of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival has just announced their complete Noves Visions program. The program where the festival places the young, edgy material, this is the big discovery program of the festival. Here's the announcement!

Noves Visions, The Most Indie

And Daring Section At Sitges 2010

The 43rd Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, that will take place 7 to 17 October, presents its lineup for the Noves Visions section:

Noves Visions - FICCIÓ Section

Exploration of new territories in narration, placing emphasis on both thematic and formal aspects of films that are a vision of the present as well as a disturbing premonition of times to come.

A Horrible Way To Die (Adam Wingard, USA)

Chatroom (Hideo Nakata, UK)

Dispongo De Barcos (Juan Cavestany, Spain)

Earthling (Clay Liford, USA)

Everything Will Be Fine (Christoffer Boe, Denmark)

Finisterrae (Out of competition. Sergio Caballero, Spain)

Isolation (Stephen T. Kay,...

Year: 2008

Directors: Nicolas Alberny & Jean Mach

Writers: Nicolas Alberny & Jean Mach

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: Ben Austwick

Rating: 5 out of 10

A brave attempt to convey an internet-driven revolution filmed on a shoestring budget, 8th Wonderland is an ambitious film that looks at the effect of technological change on society through the use of some unusual techniques. Unfortunately it falls well short of what it wants to be, hampered by a small budget but also its mercurial subject matter.

8th Wonderland is an internet community that aims to become the first online country, asserting itself on the world stage by organising pranks such as putting condom machines in the Vatican, before moving on to organising demonstrations and strikes. As the media begins to take notice this budding internet state gets more aggressive, its members voting to commit acts of terrorist violence, and the responsibilities of power dawn on its idealistic members.

Yes we announced the partial lineup a ittle while back, and now we have the exclusive full lineup to share, and boy, is it a doozy. The festival runs April 28th to May 3rd so get your tickets now!

Opening night film: Splice by Vincenzo Natali.

Cosing night film: Cargo (which we loved, review)

TiMER (UK Premier)

Hunter Prey (International Premier) (teaser)

2033 (UK Premier) (Another film we loved, review)

1 The Stanislaw Lem adaptation (UK Premier) (Yes, we loved this too review)

Transmission (A Ballardian telecom malfunction, UK Premier) (review)

Drones

Eraser Children (International Premier, finally I get to see this tonight!) (trailer)

Radio Free Albemuth (Sneak Preview of this Philip K. Dick adaptation! We should have a trailer soon)

Earthling (International Premier) (review)

Depositarios (International Premier, more Mexican scifi) (teaser)

Plug & Pray (UK Premier, documentary)

8th Wonderland (UK Premier)

and much more! You can head over to the festival website for more details and tickets,...

We've been tracking new on Nicolas Alberny's upcoming movie 8th Wonderland for some time, and it good to see the film has finally been giving a release date. It’s quite hard to peg exactly what exactly 8th Wonderland is; Drama, futuristic thriller, science fiction or soon perhaps science fact? With recent events in the UK, where the online world has unexpectedly changed the course of almost certain events through popular action, it could make you wonder…..hmmm what if. 8th Wonderland opens in France April 7th 2010. Synopsis: Millions of people scattered throughout the world are disappointed with the way it evolves & decide to unite to improve things. Through the Internet they create the first virtual nation, 8th Wonderland, a starting point of their resistance. Their common goal: the desire to no longer suffer the television news without being able to react. Every individual has a chance to be heard.

The 2009 edition of Montreal’s Fantasia Festival has announced their complete list of Audience Awards winners, a list that includes a whole lot of Twitch faves and more than a few films that will soon be screening here in Toronto as part of Toronto After Dark. Here’s the complete list.

Best Asian Film

Gold: Love Exposure (Japan) – Sion Sono

Silver: IP Man (Hong Kong) – Wilson Yip

Bronze: Thirst (South Korea) – Park Chan-wook

Best International Film

Gold: 8th Wonderland (France) – Nicolas Alberny, Jean Mach

Silver: Ex-aequo

Embodiment Of Evil (Brazil) – Jose Mojica Marins

Must Love Death (Germany) – Andreas Schaap

Bronze: Black (France) – Pierre Laffargue

Best Quebec Film

Gold: Sans Dessein – Caroline Labrèche, Steeve Léonard

Silver: The Ante – Max Perrier

Bronze: Crawler – Sv Bell

Best Animated Film

Hells (Japan) – Yoshiki Yamakawa

Guru Prize for Most Energetic Film of the Festival

Gold: Yatterman (Japan) – Takashi Miike

Silver: IP Man (Hk) – Wilson Yip...

The 13th edition of Montreal’s Fantasia film festival wrapped up its frighteningly successful run this week, with movie highlights aplenty and 40 percent of the screenings selling out. Now the jury and the public have spoken on their favorites, and the fest has revealed their award winners in all categories. Check ’em out below!

Jury Prizes: Feature Films

Best Feature Film: Breathless (Yang Ik-june) Jury Special Prize: Love Exposure (Sion Sono) Best Male Performance: Yang Ik-Jun, Breathless Best Female Performance: Hikari Mitsushima, Love Exposure Best Director: David Russo, The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle Best Screenplay: Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach, 8th Wonderland Best Cinematography: Hideho Urata, The Clone Returns Home Technical Prize: IP Man Special Mention for Best Direction of Child Actors: Tom Shankland, The Children

Jury Prizes: First Features

Best First Feature: White Lightnin’ (Dominic Murphy) Special Mention: Debut performance of actress Eline Kuppins, Left Bank Jury Prizes:...

Montreal’s Fantasia Festival has come to an end and the jury prizes have been announced. And it is quite safe to say that Korean indie Breathless had a rather good day, winning both Best Feature and a Best Actor nod for writer-director-actor Yang Ik-June. Here’s the complete list of winners:

Jury Prizes – Feature Films

Best Feature Film: Breathless - Yang Ik-june

Jury Special Prize: Love Exposure - Sion Sono

Best Male Performance: Yang Ik-june (Breathless)

Best Female Performance: Hikari Mitsushima (Love Exposure)

Best Director: David Russo (The Immaculate Conception of Little

Dizzle)

Best Screenplay: Nicolas Alberny & Jean MacH (8th Wonderland)

Best Cinematography: Hideho Urata (The Clone Returns home)

Technical prize: IP Man

Special mention for best Direction of Child Actors: Tom Shankland (The

Children)

Jury Prizes – First features

Best First Feature: White Lightnin’ – Dominic Murphy

Special mention: Debut performance of actor Eline Kuppens (Left Bank)

Jury Prizes – International...

• Ioncinema.com's Remains of the Day (Monday to Friday) is a look at eight and 1/2 news items that we didn't have enough time to cover but are worth mentioning here. For July 30th we have Goats, Pumas and Foxes. 1. I'm F**king Jennifer Aniston The actress will topline CBS Films' romantic comedy Pumas (this is probably a Blacklist nom for 2009). Wayne McClammy - a hot director (who made the famed Jimmy Kimmel vids) is attached to a trio of projects. Forget Diablo, the female scribe to watch out for is named Melissa Stack. 2. Still Thinking Green Beloved Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Offside, The Circle and the seminal work Crimson Gold), his family and other filmmakers got arrested and released. Variety reports. 3. Goat Delivery Date The Men Who Stare at Goats gets released November 6th (Overture Films).4. In Need of a Boost Russell Crowe will topline Paul Haggis' remake of French film Pour Elle.

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Fantasia [1] is one of the largest (if not the largest) genre film festival in North America. It takes place every summer in Montreal, Canada, and features all kinds of horror, sci-fi, and action films from all over the world, often with an emphasis on Asian cinema. This year is no different, with two of the biggest films being Takashi Miikie's Yatterman and Chan-wook Park's Thirst. Other fairly high profile selections include Michael Dougherty's long-delayed Trick'r'Treat, Uwe Boll's Stoic and Jaume Collet-Serra's Orphan. This year's festival takes place between July 9th and 29th. The full program schedule will be available online by the end of the week. Check out an extensive list of titles playing after the jump. Yatterman (Dir. Takashi Miike) The Eclipse (Dir. David Morley) Possibility of An Island (Dir. Michel Houellebecq) Thirst (Dir. Chan-wook Park) Trick'r'Treat (Dir. Michael Dougherty) Neighbor (Dir. Robert Masciantonio) Cryptic (Dir.

Fantasia Festival is North America [1]'s premiere (and largest) genre [2] film [3] festival [4]. It is also my favorite film festival and so I could not wait to share the highlights of this years line up. Here is a sneak peek at what we will be reviewing in the upcoming week of our podcast. Crush And Blush - Canadian Premiere South Korea Dir: Lee Kyoung-mi For her first feature, director Lee Kyoung-mi had some high-calibre assistance. Park Chan-wook produced, co-wrote and appears briefly in the film, as does Bong Joon-ho, director of The Host. This vaudevillian comedy doused in dark humour follows an unpopular woman who deviously schemes to seduce a colleague and keep him away from his mistress. Hong Hyo-jin seems born to play the fascinating and hard-to-follow Me-sook, an unforgettable, engaging and well-developed character. Love Exposure - Canadian Premiere Japan Dir: Sion Sono Prepare to witness miracles because Sion Sono (Suicide Club,...

Ok, so I'm lazy.. I copy and pasted the press release, which is after the break, and we have reviews of quite a few of the films playing, including White Lightnin', Left Bank, Blood River, Cryptic, Deadgirl, The Horsemen, I Sell the Dead.. with Kaifeck Murder coming soon (once I can figure out what to write).

Movies I'm really interested in seeing: French Pa flick Mutants, Smash Cut, Possibility of an Island, Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, and Thirst.

But alas, I won't be there. Instead, a friend of ours will be providing some reviews for the week he is there, so everyone give a big thanks to DirtyRobot! Woop!

Check out the film greatness after the break! Oh, and there's more to come...

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