Nicky Murphy’s vampire comedy horror I Love Paris took the 30th Fantasia’s best international feature audience award at the weekend, in results announced on Tuesday.
Yusuke Iwasaki’s AnyMart took the Gold Audience Award for Best Asian Feature, and Masanao Kawajiri’s Cherry And Virgin received the Gold Audience Award for best animated feature.
Other top winners included Cho Chul-young, Kim Jong-woo, and Kim Shin-wan’s The Seoul Guardians for best documentary, Michael Gabriele’s Unholy Night for Best Canadian Feature, and Harrison Houde’s Tight Lettuce for Best Quebec Feature.
Festival brass also said that the 2027 edition will run in Montreal from July 15 through August 1.
As previously reported, Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn won the Cheval Noir for best film presented on July 25. This year’s 30th edition of Fantasia ran July 16-August 2.
The full list of Audience Award winners is below:
Best international feature
Gold: I Love Paris (Fr-Australia), dir. Nicky Murphy
Silver: No Rest For The Wicked (Den-Faroe Islands-Ice), dir. Kasper Kalle
Bronze: Bagworm (USA), dir. Oliver Bernsen
Best international short
Gold: Bruised Sky (UK), dir. Gary Kent
Silver: Reset (USA), dirs. Jerry Hsu, Celine Tien
Bronze: Pimple (Port), dir. Fernando Alle
Best Asian feature
Gold: Anymart (Japan), dir. Yusuke Iwasaki
Silver: The Specials (Japan), dir. Eiji Uchida
Bronze: TOKYO BURST: Crime City (Japan-S Kor), dir. Eiji Uchida
Best Asian short
Gold: The Last Jiangshi (dir. Yu Chih Chieh, China/Hong Kong/Taiwan)
Silver: Tongue (dir. Lim Da-seul, South Korea)
Bronze (tie): Chaar Diwaari (dir. Syed Shadan, India) and Wish You Were Dead (dir. Lee Min-hyuk, South Korea)
Best animated feature
Gold: Cherry And Virgin (Japan), dir. Masanao Kawajiri
Silver: Jim Queen (Fr), dirs. Nicolas Athane, Marco Nguyen
Bronze: Zsazsa Zaturnnah (Phil-Fr), dir. Avid Liongoren
Best animated short
Gold: The Lovers (USA), dirs. Alice Mao, Sophia Paez
Silver: Echo (Japan), dir. Asuka Dokai
Bronze: Trading Cards (Australia-UK), dir. Radheya Jang
Best Canadian feature
Gold: Unholy Night, dir. Michael Gabriele
Silver: Castration Movie Chapter III. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; A Fragmentary Passage, dir. Louise Weard
Bronze (tie): Insectasy, dir. Angus Silver; and A Safe Distance, dir. Gloria Mercer
Best Canadian short
Gold: Something Borrowed, dir. Findlay Ironside
Silver (tie): Bagman, dirs. Connor Gaston and Vaughn Gaston, and Man Eating Pussy, dir. Emily Lawson
Bronze: Sleep Through Summer, dir. Erin Mick
Best Quebec feature
Gold: Tight Lettuce, dir. Harrison Houde
Silver: Romin, dirs. Jassen Charron, Anthony Dionne
Bronze: Someone’s Daughter, dir. Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Best Quebec short
Gold: Neighbors, dir. Andre Bendahan
Silver: Serenity, dir. Frank Tremblay
Bronze: Sol Vivant, dir. Émile Lavoie
Best documentary
The Seoul Guardians (S Kor), dirs. Cho Chul-young, Kim Jong-woo, Kim Shin-wan
Écran Fantastique
Suzuki=Bakudan (Japan), dir. Akira Nagai.
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