The 16th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival has drawn to a close and our team is delighted by the great success of this year’s edition. The juries have finished deliberating on this year’s competitions and are pleased to announce the following winners.

We are pleased to invite you to the exclusive World Premiere launch of a unique national art exposition, presented by Rue Morgue Magazine, the Fantasia International Film Festival and the Cinémathèque québecoise – with many of the participating visual artists and filmmakers in person!

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Montreal, Sunday, August 7, 2011 – The 15th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival has drawn to a close and our team is delighted by the great success of this year’s edition. As a stand-out event on the genre festival circuit since 1996, Fantasia is pleased to see its fan base continue to grow [...]

On the Mexican menu are zany situations, rock ’n’ roll comedies, horror flicks, slo-mo shoot-outs, masked wrestlers, a mountain of firearms, monsters both snappy and crappy and, of course, big moustaches galore. This program celebrates the best and the worst (and the best of the worst!) of Mexican film.

Co-presented with Terres en Vue / Land inSights and Blue Sunshine: Aboriginal Horror, Sci-Fi and Dark Fantasy from a singular young auteur!

From the humorous to the strange, the visionary to the whimsical, Lost Myths will rocket you straight out of this dimension on a journey into pure inspiration.

Fantasia 2011 – Cinepix from Fantasia Festival on Vimeo.