DIRECTED BY PAUL HYETT STARRING ROSIE DAY (Ironclad 2) SEAN PERTWEE (Dog Soldiers, Wild Bill)  KEVIN HOWARTH (The Last Horror Movie, Gallowwalker), ANNA WALTON (Hellboy 2, Mutant Chronicles)

Revenge thriller THE SEASONING HOUSE is the highly anticipated directorial debut from British special effects maestro, PAUL HYETT (The Woman in Black, Eden Lake, The Descent).

Making its much awaited premiere at the opening of FRIGHTFEST 2012 to critical acclaim THE SEASONING HOUSE is a dark, gripping exploration of a young orphaned girl’s psychological terror.  Kidnapped and enslaved by soldiers, she plots her escape and plans to exact revenge on her viscous captors. Starring British newcomer ROSIE DAY (Ironclad 2) in the lead role of captive Angel, and with support from SEAN PERTWEE (Dog Soldiers, Wild Bill) KEVIN HOWARTH(The Last Horror Movie, Gallowwalker) and ANNA WALTON (Hellboy 2, Mutant Chronicles).

SYNOPSIS: Set in the war-torn Balkans, The Seasoning House is a grim and soulless place where young girls are bought and sold for men’s pleasure.  Here we meet Angel (ROSIE DAY), a young, mute, orphaned girl enslaved by Viktor (KEVIN HOWARTH).  Unbeknownst to her master, she moves between the walls and crawlspaces of the house – silently observing, learning and planning for her escape.  When her closest confident is savagely killed, Angel can no longer contain her rage and sets out through both ingenuity and brutality to seek justice.

The Weight Directed by Jeon Kyu-hwan
Produced by Kim Woo-taek & Choi Min-ae
 

Written by Jeon Kyu-hwan
Starring Jo Jae-hyun; Park Ji-a
Music by Ju Dae-gwan
Cinematography Kim Nam-gyun
Editing by Kim Mi-yeong Park Hae-o

Running time 108 mins.
Country South Korea
 

The Weight (Hangul: 무게; RR: Muge; MR: Muge) is a 2012 South Korean film about a hunchback mortician and his transgender stepbrother.

It made its world premiere in the Venice Days sidebar of the 69th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the 2012 Queer Lion, an award for the "best film with a homosexual and queer culture theme."[4] It is the first Korean film to have won the prize. Jeon Kyu-hwan was also awarded Best Director at the 16th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival  and the Silver Peacock award for best director at the International Film Festival of India.
 
Most of director Jeon Kyu-hwan's previous films, including Berlinale-featured Varanasi and Dance Town, have dealt with the underbelly of society. The Weight is his fifth feature-length film.

Jung is the mortician at the morgue who has to heavily rely on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleansing and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work to him. Jung is the last living person who silently takes care of the dead. So for him, his life at the morgue is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure.
 
Born with a hunchback and left at an orphanage, Jung was adopted by a woman who hid him away in the attic only to use him as a child slave for her dress shop. The woman's own son Dong-bae is younger than Jung; he has always wanted to become a woman, loathing his own male body. While Jung feels affection and sympathy for his younger stepbrother, he feels burdened by Dong-bae's struggles. Under the weight of life and death carried by the dead bodies that he faces each day coupled with his love-hate relationship with Dong-bae, Jung endures the pain and thirst that he feels like a camel crossing a desolate desert in silence. Then he quietly prepares his biggest, his last gift for his sibling.

Ali leads a solitary existence in a semi-basement apartment. His life is endlessly monotonous: he prepares his frugal meals, prays and then goes to sleep. His only diversion is the kick-boxing championship he’s training for. He makes a meager living by pilfering trash cans for scrap metal he hauls around town in a super-market cart. He’s plagued by memories of his home town, his family and his girlfriend. But worst of all, he’s haunted by the Ashura, which he always observes but never participates in. It’s a day of mourning for the majority of the Muslim people, commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, a leading figure in Islam.

The story is fictional, but it draws inspiration from hundreds of stories just like it, taking place in contemporary Athens.

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Director, screenwriter: Vassilis Mazomenos / Starring: Ali Haidari, Mahdi Gorbani, Hosin Ahmadi, Vassilis Koukalani, Ioli Demetriou, Dina Avagianou, Nikos Arvanitis, Demetris Panagiotou, Stratos Kritikos, Leonidas Douramanis / Producers: Takis Zervoulakos, Vassilis Mazomenos/ Executive Producer: Poly Tranidou/ Director of Photography: George Papandrikopoulos/ Chief Editor: Yiannis Kostavaras/ Origina Music: DNA

 


With general praise for the quality of the selection, the latest edition of Fantasporto, Portugal’s leading film festival, has just ended. So much said the members of the juries of the three competitive sections (Fantasy, Directors Week and Orient Express).
 
 
“MAMA” by Andrés Muschietti   in the Fantasy Competition and “PIETÀ” by Korean director Kim Ki Duk in the Directors Week, are the winners of the 33rd edition of Fantasporto.
 
“MAMA”  also won the Best Actress and Direction in Fantasy Competition category. Jessica Chastain, after being nominated to the Oscars for ”The Help” and “Zero Dark Thirty”, won the Best Actress award in Fantasporto.
Still in the Fantasy section, the Special Prize of the Jury went to the Galician production, “THE APOSTLE” with a score by composer Philip Glass.
European  Cinema has won, in fact, most of the awards in the Fantasy Competition.
 
In the Directors Week, awards were shared by two of the greatest authors in the world cinema, both launched in Europe by Fantasporto, Russian director Karen Shaknazarov with “WHITE TIGER” , receiving the Special Prize of the Jury and also Best Actor and Director. Korean director Kim Ki Duk, with “PIETÀ” was the other wining film, receiving kudos for the leading Actress and Best Film.
 
 
In the Orient Express Competiton, dedicated to Asian films, the winner was Korean “THE GRAND HEIST “ by  Kim Joo-Ho.
 
The Critics Award went to a story based in real events of the Bosnian War, “THE SEASONING HOUSE”, directed by Paul Hyett, with Kevin Howarth in the leading role, an actor also discovered in Fantasporto for his astonishing role in “The Last Horror Movie”.
 
Norwegian Cinema has been one of the best surprises in the last few years. “THALE” by Alekandre Nordaas  and based on a folk story, won the Audience Award.
 
One of the highlights of the festival was the 70th Anniversary of the opening of the Portuguese film “ANIKI BOBO” by the oldest director still active, Manoel de Oliveira, still a youthful man of 104. In a statement at the end of the screening, Oliveira said, “This evening was like a dream come true. Too bad it arrived a bit too late in my life “. With a 5 minute standing ovation at the Rivoli Theatre, the elderly director showed a clear mind and a fantastic sense of humour.
 
Nearly 45,000 spectators filled the 175 screenings at the Rivoli in Oporto, with almost 300 films from 37 countries. The general audience of nearly 70,000, a huge number for Portugal also participated in the Special Programme 2013 dedicated to Literature.
 
 
With over 300 guests, mostly from abroad, representing 80% of the films in competition, Oporto was again a meeting place for film professionals.
 
The festival closing party, the Vampires Ball brought, once again, many impersonators who danced to the sound of live music and DJ’s.
 
Fantasporto2014 will be held, as usual, in the last week of February till the beginning of Mars in the World Heritage City of Portwine. (24th February till 9th March)
 
Welcome to Fantasporto 2014!

 

Finnish director Timo Vuorensola at FantasPorto Film Festival 2013 talks about his film Iron Sky. Thanks to sponsor Super Bock - good beer! Iron Sky is a 2012 Finnish-German-Australian comic science fiction action film written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko. Nazi Germans being defeated in 1945, fled to the Moon where they built a space fleet to return in 2018 and conquer Earth.

Iron Sky comes from the makers of Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning and was produced by Tero Kaukomaa of Blind Spot Pictures and Energia Productions, co-produced by New Holland Pictures and 27 Films, and co-financed by numerous individual supporters; Samuli Torssonen was responsible for the computer generated effects. It was theatrically released throughout Europe in April 2012. Debuted in Berlinale 2012

Iron Sky (Australian - Finland - German production) by Timo Vuorensola stars Julia Dietze, Götz Otto, Christopher Kirby, Udo Kier, Peta Sergeant, Stephanie Paul...

Images and moments at the 2013 annual FantasPorto Film Festival captured in Porto Portugal. Cobbled stone paths to the Art Nouveau stylings of an era frozen in time, Delicious flavours come back to life and lips - food, coffee, Porto. Peacocks walking... Music by M-Pex - "iPhado" and Jorge Costa "Fadista Vadio" video by MV

Super Bock Beer major sponsor of the Fantasporto Film Festival...talking a bit about t-shirts...and beer of course! Images and moments at the 2013 annual Fantasporto Film Festival in Porto Portugal brought to you by www.filmfestivals.com Music by M-Pex - Babylonis.

Shot at the Foyer of  Rivoli, Festival Headquarters hosted a few animations like this one, including darts shooting...MUCH FUN

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7 MARCO | DAY 8

 

34th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | FANTASPORTO 2014 | PROGRAM

RIVOLI – MUNICIPAL THEATRE

 

Friday,  March 7th

 

Main Theatre

14.00 - Fantas Classics: Gone With The Wind de Victor Fleming (EUA) remastered- – 102 min - FC - VO leg. Port

In our tribute to Victor Fleming, this masterpiece couldn’t be out of our selection. “Gone With the Wind” was the film that won the highest number of Oscars 75 years ago. We can see on the big screen one of the main productions of all time, now in a digital remastered version. Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh go through a difficult relationship during the Civil War.

 

18.30 - La Casa del Fin de Los Tiempos de Alejandro Hidalgo (Venezuela) [ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL] – 100 min - CF – VO leg. ingl|port

World première of a film from Venezuela, a country that is new in Fantasporto. Housewife Dulce comes back to her old house where a 30 year old prophecy is about to unfold. The old lady tries to understand the mystery and the tragedies that tormented her life… Mysteries in a South American style with top production values, a box-office hit in its country.

Antecedido por... Lonely Bones de Rosto (França, Holanda) – 10 min - CF Curtas

Hail to all souls that are hidden on the floors. Little do they know if they would make it today. An allegory about life and death coming from Fantas well known and awarded director Rosto (“The Monster of Nix”).

 

21.15 - Violet & Daisy de Geoffrey  Fletcher (EUA) – 88 min - P&P – VO leg. port

Action/comedy-drama film is about two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan. The two young assassins face a series of opponents, including one unusually mysterious man named Michael (James Gandolfini), who is their next target. Things get complicated as this initially easy hit becomes a life-altering encounter. The leading actress is Saoirse Ronan , nominated for an Oscar for her role in “Atonement”.

 

23.15 - Eclipse em Portugal de Alexandre Cebrian Valente (Portugal) – 92 min - PCP [Fora de Competição] - VO port

The legend says that God only allows the Devil to come to earth as a goat.  Tó Quim has killed both his father and mother and is now in prison. Everything he did was for the love of Anita, a girl who lives under the law of Evil.

 

1.15 - Hansel & Gretel Get Baked de Duane Journey (EUA) – 86 min - P&P – VO leg. port

A brother and sister battle a witch who lures teenagers into her suburban home with her special blend of marijuana where she then proceeds to kill and eat them to maintain her youth and beauty. With actress Molly C.Quinn who plays Castle’s daughter in the TV Series with the same name.

 

Pequeno Auditório / Small Theatre

15.15 – Escolas - EPI/ETIC (Lisboa) - 62 min - PCP – VO port

Do Outro Lado de Artur Maurício – 12 min

Love in Film de José Maria Júdice – 15 min

Mind Map de Daniela Ascensão – 9 min

O Conflito de Diogo Pereira – 14 min

Segunda Porta à Direita de José Nogueira – 14 min

 

Escolas - Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha do Instituto

Politécnico de Leiria – 48 min - PCP – VO port

Plateia de Ricardo Neves – 7 min

Quadro de Óscar Faria – 5 min

Ermo de Rafael Calisto – 5 min

Cabra Cósmica de Bruno Martins – 15 min

Dentes e Garras de Francisco Lacerda – 14 min

 

17.15 –  PORTUGUESE CINEMA AWARD – BEST FILM – 108 min - PCP – VO port ANTESTREIAS MUNDIAIS

Blind Date de Claudia Clemente – 9 min

In the end of the 19th century, a woman receives an invitation to travel through time along the River Douro, to meet a man in the 21st century.

 Walking Dead Infrared de Luís Miranda – 3 min

O filme é um video-musical experimental, uma rendição desconstruidora do mito dos mortos-vivos. Não somos nós os mortos-vivos? Se sim, porque não podemos nós ser vistos a infravermelhos?

An experimental music video. Are we walking dead?  If so, why can’t we be seen in infrared?

Salomé de Sofia Beirão – 16 min

This is the story of a girl who has lost her best friend and only a year later accepts the fact. In love with people, she insists in remembering those who were important to her.

O que Eu Entendo por Amor de Ricardo Martins – 14 min

Julieta acorda na cama com o Marido morto na cama. Idosa e gravemente debilitada, Julieta recorda uma vida de desamor. A casa, o casamento, foram prisões.

Julieta wakes up to find her husband dead in bed.  An elderly woman and already debilitated, Julieta recalls a life of abuse. Her home and marriage were her own prison.

Lado Nenhum de Rui António – 12 min

A mother and his son wander the city. They have no longer a home or anything to eat. But that is unimportant. What matters is to keep up appearances.

Esquizophonia de André Miranda e Diogo Leitão – 13 min

In the middle of a concert, a composer is hit by a strange disease – sound frequencies mingle and all notes produce an unbearable cacophony of noises. It is during this that he hears in his head the sound of his “perfect simphony “, a music piece that he can no longer reproduce.

Navegar de Carlos Silva e Pedro Carvalho de Almeida – 5 min

A set of drawings sketched by the hand of the very author and performer, Helena Caspurro, when she was 5 years old, reveals us, to the sound of a love song, that the reason for existence is a perpetual and translucent movement in the cycle of life.

José, Combustão dos Porcos de José Magro – 18 min

Once everything was possible in remote hamlets in the interior of Portugal.  People talked about humans born out of animals. Nostalgic times in which there were no objective certainties.

Project Gideon de Fabricio de Carvalho – 2 min

The film is a sci-fi trailer of what happens in 2055 Portugal, in a reconstructed Lisbon after the earthquake in 2013, now under attack from aliens.

Joaquim, o Abóbora de José Pando Lucas – 10 min

A psychiatrist is trying to find the cure for a longterm patient of his, Joaquim, whose strange but healthy obsession is to wear a pumpkin in his head.

 

 21.00 – Cerromaior de Luís Filipe Rocha (Portugal) – 90 min – RETROSPECTIVA HENRIQUE ESPÍRITO SANTO– VO port

 “Cerromaior” is the name of the first novel by Manuel da Fonseca, published in 1943. Cerromaior is the name of a small town and Although it is an imaginary place, there are a lot of similarities with the hometown of the writer, Santiago de Cacém.  It is a city surrounded by fields and the reality of Alentejo in the 30’s and 40’s. As a film, this is one of the first films after the revolution on the 25th Abril 1974, to have a social subject expressed in total freedom of speech.

 

23.00 - Industry Screenings – Cinemavault – Roadie de Michael Cuesta (EUA) – 95 min - VO ingl

 

 

34th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | FANTASPORTO 2014 PROGRAM

RIVOLI – MUNICIPAL THEATRE Saturday March 8th

Main Theatre

13.30 - The Fake de Sang–Ho Yeon (Corea do Sul) – 110 min - CF/OE – VO leg. ingl|port

The sophomore feature from South Korean animator Sang-ho Yeon (The King of Pigs) is a blistering critique of organized religion, set in a rural village where a manipulative church minister schemes to defraud his flock.

15.30 - Johnny Christ de Mark Maggiori (EUA) - 99 min - P&P – VO leg. port

Chloride, Arizona, Larry Dagger, forty years old, is an unemployed, ex demolition derby pilot, trying to support his wife and two children. Driving home one night, he saves a man, Johnny, who is Christlike in appearance and that he finds lying naked and wounded in the road. Vera, Larry's wife, stitches, cleans his wounds. This stranger's arrival in the Daggers home will change their lives forever.

17.15 – Savaged de Michael S. Ojeda (EUA) – 95 min - CF – VO leg. port

A deaf girl is brutalized by a murderous gang who are then hunted by her when the bloodthirsty spirit of an Apache warrior inhabits her lifeless body…A story of vengeance and redemption.

19.00 – Scintilla de Billy O’Brien (GB) [ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL] – 95 min - CF – VO leg. Port

Mixing the moods of the action thriller, “Scintilla” also belongs to science fiction and war films.  With a World première in Fantasporto, it was directed by Billi O’Brien, who had previously  presented  in competiton in the festival the Bafta  awarded  short “The Tale of the Mouse That Wrote”. Freed from an infernal African jail set up by a mysterious corporation, Powell has a new job: to set up a team of fighters to infiltrate an old subterranean military base in a former Soviet republic, kidnap a scientist (Dr. Irvine), steal his investigation and get up back to the surface in six hours…

21.00 – The Railway Man de Jonathan Teplitzky (EUA) – 116 min - P&P – VO leg. port

Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences left him traumatized and shut off from the world. Years later, he met Patti, a beautiful woman, on a train and fell in love. Patti was determined to rid Eric of his demons. Discovering that the young Japanese officer who haunted her husband was still alive, she faced a terrible decision. Should Eric be given a chance to confront his tormentor? Oscar- winners Nicole Kidman (“The Hours”) and Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”) in magnificent performances.

00.15 – Filme premiado / Awarded film. VO ou leg. Ingl|leg port

Small Theatre

15.15 – Black&White Festival 2013 - 79 min - FS – VO leg. Ingl

Uma das mais importantes escolas de cinema de animação e um dos aliados mais antigos do Fantasporto.

This partnership gives the Fantasporto audience a glimpse of the winners of this Oporto film festival dedicated to films in black and white.

Hermeneuticus de Alexei Dmitriev (Rússia) – 3 min

Warmth de Viktor Asiluk (Rússia) – 20 min

Andersartig de Dennis Stein-Schomburg (Alemanha) – 4 min

1949 de Paul Florian Muller (Alemanha) – 17 min

Fontelonga de Luís Costa (Portugal) – 14 min

The Final Bell de Lionel Michaud (França) – 19 min

17.15 – Cinanima 2013 - 86 min - FS – VO leg. Ingl

The Espinho Animation Film Festival has been around for 40 years as the top Animation Film Festival in Portugal and one of the best in the world. The partnership with Fantasporto symbolizes the unity of two top national and international quality festivals.

Brincar do Colectivo de crianças e Jovens de Guimarães (Portugal) – 8 min

Três Semanas em Dezembro de Laura Gonçalves (Portugal) – 6 min

Ana- Um Palíndrome de Joana Toste (Portugal) – 5 min

Boles de Spela Cadez (Eslovénia) – 12 min

Gernika de Angel Sandinas (Espanha)  - 13 min

My Mum is an Airplane de Yulia Aronova (Rússia) – 6 min

Hearth de Bálint (Hungria) - 6 min

Baths de Tomek Ducki (Polónia) – 4 min

Ziegenort de Tomasz Popakul (Polónia) – 19 min

Plug & Play de Michael Frei (Suiça) – 6 min

21.00 - The Human Race de Paul Hough (EUA) – 90 min - CF -  VO ingl

Veronica suddenly finds herself in an undisclosed location together with a group of 80 people, all of them ripped out of their daily lives. They are in a surreal and horrifying marathon race. The rules are simple. If you are lapped, you die. If you step off the path, you die. Many will start but only one may cross the finish line alive. A very unusual story of science fiction  with episodes of our humanity. Winner at the Long Island Film festival.

23.00 – Kung Fu Divas de Onat Diaz (Filipinas) – 115 min - CF/OE - VO leg. ingl

 “Kung Fu Divas” is an action comedy film centered in Charlotte, a girl from a family of beauty queens, who has yet to win a title of her own. Her final chance is the Dalampasigan Pageant, and her mother has taken steps to make sure that she wins. But the mysterious Samantha suddenly joins the contest. The two become bitter enemies, but they are soon forced by destiny to team up. It turns out the two have a hidden connection to a mystical past, and must work together to discover the truth about their heritage.

FANTASPORTO´2014 34th edition of the OPORTO INTERNATINAL FILM FESTIVAL

34th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | FANTASPORTO 2014  PROGRAM RIVOLI – MUNICIPAL THEATRE March 9th

14.15  – Audience Award, Best Special Effects

Witching and Bitching  (Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi) – Alex de la Iglesia-104’ - 2013 -Esp/Fra-  

16.30 – PRÉMIO  MELHOR FILME ORIENT EXPRESS

Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Jigoku de nazu warui)–Shion Sono- 126’ - Jap

18.30 –PRÉMIO MELHOR REALIZAÇÃO CINEMA FANTÁSTICO, PRÉMIO MELHOR ACTOR

Big Bad Wolves- Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado- 110’- Israel

Antecedido por ...

PRÉMIO MELHOR FILME PORTUGUÊS

21.15 – GRANDE PRÉMIO FANTASPORTO 2014 –MELHOR FILME /  PRÉMIO ESPECIAL JURI ORIENT EXPRESS

Miss Zombie- Hiroyuki Tanaka (Sabu)- 85’-2013- Jap

Antecedido por ...

PRÉMIO MELHOR CURTA METRAGEM CINEMA FANTÁSTICO

Rabbitland- Ana Nedeljkovic, Nichola Majdak, Jr – 8’- Sérvia- animação

PEQUENO AUDITÓRIO

Filmes exibidos em VO leg. ingl, OU  falados em ingl

15.00 –PRÉMIO DA CCRÍTICA / PRÉMIO ESPECIAL DO JURI DA SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES / PRÉMIO MELHOR ARGUMENTO

Love Me-  Maryna Gorbach, Mehmet Bahadir Er- 90’-Ucrânia/ Turquia

17.00 – PRÉMIO DE MELHOR ACTRIZ CINEMA FANTÁSTICO

Soulmate – Axelle Carolyn- 104´- GB

19.00 – PRÉMIO MELHOR ACTOR SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES

Houston- Bastien Günther- 107’- Alemanha

21.00 – PRÉMIO MELHOR FILME SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES/

Heavenly Shift- Márk Bodzsár- 110’- Hungria

WINNERS FANTASPORTO

1981

(Non-Competitive Festival)

1982

Grand Prix Fantasporto 82:  The Redemeer - Krsto Papic (Jugoslavia)

1983

Grand Prix Fantasporto 83: Scanners - David Cronenberg (Canada)

1984

Grand Prix Fantasporto 84: Le Dernier Combat - Luc Besson (France)

1985

Grand Prix Fantasporto 95: The Company of the Wolves - Neil Jordan (UK)

1986

Grand Prix Fantasporto 86: Fuego Eterno - José Angel Rebolledo (Spain)

1987

Grand Prix Fantasporto 87: Defense of the Realm - David Drury (UK)

1988

Grand Prix Fantasporto 88: A Chinese Ghost Story - Chin Siu Tung (Hong Kong)

1989

Grand Prix Fantasporto 89: Monkey Shines - George Romero (USA)

1990

Grand Prix Fantasporto 90: Black Rainbow - Mike Hodges (UK)

Career Award Fantasporto 90: Serguei Paradjanov

1991

Grand Prix Fantasporto 91: Henry, a Portrait of a Serial Killer - John McNaughton (USA)

Directors Week 91: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard (UK)

Career Award Fantasporto 91: Alain Jessua

1992

Grand Prix Fantasporto 92: Toto, L’ Héros - Jaco Van Dormael (Belgium)

Special Award of the Jury: Tetsuo 11- Shinya Tskamoto (Japan)

Directors Week 92: Três Dias - Sharunas Bartas (Lituania)

Career Award Fantasporto 92: Jean-Claude Carrière

1993

Grand Prix Fantasporto 93: Braindead - Peter Jackson (Nova Zeland)

Special Award of the Jury Fantasporto 93: Angel de Fuego - Dana Rotberg (Mexico)

Directors Week 93: Swoon - Tom Kalin (USA)

1994

Grand Prix Fantasporto 94: Cronos - Guillermo del Toro (Mexico)

Special Award of the Jury Fantasporto 94: The Forbidden Quest - Peter Delpeut (Holand)

Directors Week 94: Bodies, Rest & Motion - Michael Steinberg (USA)

1995

Grand Prix Fantasporto 95: Shallow Grave - Danny Boyle (UK)

Special Award of the Jury 95: Clean, Shaven - Lodge Kerrigan (USA)

Directors Week 95: Clean, Shaven - Lodge Kerrigan (USA)

Career Award Fantasporto 95: Ben Kingsley

1996

Grand Prix Fantasporto 96: Seven - David Fincher (USA)

Special Award of the Jury 96 (ex-aequo): Taxandria - Raoul Servais (Belgium) and Institute Benjamenta – Brothers  Quay (UK)

Directors Week 96 (ex-aequo): Two on a Couch - Amir Rezazadeh (Denemark) and Madagascar Skin - Chris Newby (UK)

Career Award:  André Delvaux

1997

Grand Prix Fantasporto 97: Bound  - Irmãos Waschowski (USA)

Special Award of the Jury 97 (ex-aequo): Sweet Angel Mine - Curtis Radclyffe (UK) and Darklands - Julian Richards (UK)

Directors Week 97: Unhook The Stars - Nick Cassavetes (USA)

1998

Grand Prix Fantasporto 98: Retroactive - Louis de Morneau (USA)

Special Award of the Jury 98 (ex-aequo): Funny Games - Michael Haneke (Austria) e Fudoh, the Next Generation de Takashi Miike (Japan)

Directors Week 98: Character- Mark Van Diem (Holand)

Career Awards: Jacinto Molina (Paul Nashy) and Ivan Cardoso

1999

Grand Prix Fantasporto 99: Cube - Vincenzo Natali (Canada)

Special Awarad of the Jury 99 (ex-aequo): Money, A Mythology of Darkness - Vassilis Mazomenos (Greece)  and Jin-Ro - Hiroyuki Okiura (Japan)

Directors Week 99: Happiness - Tod Solondz (USA)

Career Awards: Julio Bressane and Bill Plympton

2000

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2000:  Siam Sunset - John Polson (Australia)

Special Award of the Jury 2000: Tuvalu - Veit Helmer (Germany) 

Directors Week 2000: East is East - Damien O ‘Donnell (UK)

Career Awards: Mojica Marins e Danny Elfman

2001

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2001: Amores Perros - Alejandro Iñarruti (Mexico)

Special Award of the Jury 2001: The Isle - Kim Ki-Duk (South Korea)

Directors Week 2001: Purely Belter - Mark Herman (UK)

Career Awards: Vassilis Mazomenos e Julian Grant

2002

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2002: Fausto 5.0 - Isidro Ortiz (Spain) 

Special Award of the Jury 2002: Sorum - Yoon Jong-Chan (South Korea)

Directors Week 2002: Bloody Sunday - Paul Greengrass (UK)

Career Awards: Oswaldo Caldeira, Julien Temple, Alex Cox

2003

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2003: Intacto - Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Spain)

Special Award of the Jury 2003 (ex-aequo): Cypher - Vincenzo Natali (Canada) and A Snake of June - Shynia Tsukamoto (Japan)

Directors Week 2003: L.I.E. - Michael Cuesta (USA)

Career Awards 2003: Danny Boyle

2004

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2004: A Tale of Two Sisters - Kim Jee-Woon (South Korea)

Special Award of the Jury 2004: Killing Words - Laura Maña (Spain)

Directors Week 2004: The Green Butchers - Anders Thomas Jensen (Denemark)

Orient Express Award: Acacia - Park Ki-Hyeong (South Korea)

Career Award: Julio Fernandez, Josep Maria Contell

2005

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2005: Nothing - Vincenzo Natali (Canada)

Special award of the Jury 2005: Bubba Ho-Tep - Don Coscarelli (USA)

Directors Week: Old Boy - Chan Wook Park (South Korea)

Orient Express Award 2005: My Mother the Mermaid- Heung-shik Park (South Korea)

Career Awards:  John Hurt, Karen Black, Doug Bradley, Guillermo Del Toro, Tino Navarro

Doug Bradley, Claudio Simonetti, Vincenzo Natali, Dario Argento, Bryan Yuzna, GNR

2006

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2006: Frostbiten - Anders Banke (Sweden)

Special Award of the Jury: Johanna - Kornél Mundruczó (Hungary)

Directors Week 2006: Adam’s Apple - Anders Thomas Jensen (Denemark)

Orient Express Award 2006: Simpathy for Lady Vengeance - Chan Wook Park (South Korea)

Career Awards:  Manoel de Oliveira,  Christiane Torloni, Bill Plympton

2007

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2007: El Laberinto del Fauno- Guillermo del Toro (Mexico/Spain/USA)

Special award of the Jury: Historias del Desencanto - Alejandro Valle (Mexico)

Directors Week 2007: Un Franco, 14 Pesetas - Carlos Iglésias (Spain)

Orient Express Award 2007: Isabella - Ho Cheung Pang (HK – China)

Career Awards: Rosanna Arquette, Henry Thomas, Ruy de Carvalho

2008

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2008: REC - Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza (Spain)

Special Award of the Jury:  How  to Get Rid of Others - Anders Ronnow Klarlund (Denemark)

Directors Week/ Manoel de Oliveira Award:  Opium, Diary of a Mad Woman - Janos Szasz (Hungary)

Orient Express Award 2008: Triangle - Ringo Lam, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark (Hong Kong)

Career Awards: Max von Sydow, Fernando Lopes

2009

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2009: Idiots and Angels - Bill Plympton (USA)

Special Award of the Jury: Hansel &Gretel - Phil Sung Yim (South Korea)

Directors Week/ Manoel de Oliveira Award:  Moscow, Belgium - Christophe Van Rompaey (Belgium)

Orient Express Award 2009: Hansel & Gretel - Phil Sung Yim (South Korea)

Career Awards: José Fonseca e Costa, Wim Wenders, Paul Schrader

2010

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2010: Heartless - Phillip Ridley (GB)

Special Award of the Jury: Deliver us from Evil- Ole Bornedal (Din/Sué/Noruega)

Directors Week/ Manoel de Oliveira Award: Fish Tank- Andrea Arnold (GB)

Orient Express Award: Thirst- Chan-wook Park (Coreia do Sul)

Career Awards: Samuel Hadida, Colin Arthur; Luís Galvão Teles

2011  

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2011: Two Staring Eyes de Elbert Van Strien (Holanda)

Special Award of the Jury: A Serbian Film - Srdjan Spasojevic (GB)

Directors Week/ Manoel de Oliveira Award: The Housemaid - Im Sang-Soo (Cor Sul)

Prémio Orient Express: I Saw The Devil - Kim Jee-Woon (Coreia do Sul)

Career Awards: Mick Garris, Maria de Medeiros, Paulo Trancoso

2012

Grand Prix Fantasporto 2012: Hell - Tim Fehlbaum (Germany)

Special Award of the Jury: Bellflower - Evan Glodell (USA)

Directors Week/ Manoel de Oliveira Award: Avé - Konstantin Bojinov (Bulgária)

Special Award of the Jury (Directors Week): A Moral Conjugal - Artur Serra Araújo (Portugal)

Career Awards: Mike Hodges, Karen Shakhanazarov, António-Pedro Vasconcelos

2013 

Best Film Fantasporto 2013: Mama - Andrés Muschietti (Esp/Can) 

Special Jury Award: O Apostolo - Fernando Cortizo (Esp)

23rd Direcors Week: Pietá - Kim Ki-duk (Cor Sul)

 Special Jury Award of Directors Week: White Tiger - Karen Shakhnazarov

 Career Awards: António de Macedo, Manoel de Oliveira

Antonia Gomes and Helena Leao were exhibited at Rivoli Theatre

Filmfestivals.com Bruno Chatelin enjoyed his jury duty at Fantasporto 2014.

Here is a fantastic story for you: walking along the streets of Porto, he found this local artist doing this Street Rap in honor of filmfestivals.com. Check the sound ! 

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Bill Plympton's animated feature Cheatin' is the result of Plympton's successful Kickstarter campaign initiated on the already legendary indie fundraising website. Plympton has exceeded his initial goal of $75,000.00 to a whoppings $100,916.00 and 1334 backers. Cheatin' screened at Fantasporto which has enjoyed a long running loving relationship with the animator for many years. Director of Fantasporto Mario Dorminsky recognizes Plympton's poetic approach to storytelling allowed via animation that is the fantastic part. Cheatin' is one of the very few animation to have screened at Fantasporto.

Bill says on his campaign site "I am an artist and take great pride in my status as an independent filmmaker. I don't work with big production houses and I draw every frame myself. Including my Producer and Art Director, my studio employs 10 artists who need to digitally clean, paint, and composite over 40,000 animation drawings. We have an editor, composer, and sound designer working out-of-house, making the total staff under 20 people – quite small compared to the thousands on staff at large animation studios such as Pixar or Disney. For these reasons, it's very difficult to raise funds for this project, and that's why we need your support!"

Mario Dorminsky through the looking glass...

In conversation with Bruno of  filmfestivals.com talks about the 34th edition of Fantasporto...the ins and outs the downs and ups..and a soccer game prediction?

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