Fantastic Fest: The Awards
We were recording the latest Slackerwood podcast yesterday (which will be available soon) and I realized that Slackerwood hadn't yet published the list of Fantastic Fest 2009 award winners.
Some of our favorite films took home the prized beer steins this year: A Town Called Panic, which Jenn and I loved (check out my Cinematical review), won the Audience Award. Debbie was pleased that The Revenant took home an award for Best Horror Director, and interviewed Kerry Prior, the winning filmmaker. We're planning a special "extra" mini-podcast with that interview, which we'll publish in the next week.
The "Fantastic Feature" award for best film went to the Chilean thriller Mandrill, which sold out every screening very quickly so I couldn't see it myself. Producer/actor Marko Zaror was so pleased he did a flip onstage. Human Centipede, much discussed for its bizarrely graphic scenes in which the title creature is created, won Best Horror Film. The British dark comedy Down Terrace won top honors in the Next Wave competition.
I've reprinted the full list of award winners after the jump, plus a link to the video of Shakey Face competitors.
ANIMATED SHORTS:
Best Animated Short - I AM SO PROUD OF YOU (Don Hertzfeldt)
Special Mention - ALMA (Rodrigo Blaas)
FANTASTIC SHORTS:
Best Fantastic Short - TERMINUS (Trevor Cawood)
Special Jury Award - NEXT FLOOR (Denis Villeneuve)
HORROR SHORTS:
Best Horror Short - FULL EMPLOYMENT (Thomas Oberlies, Matthias Vogel)
Special Mention - EXCISION (Richard Bates, Jr.)
HORROR FEATURES:
Best Horror Feature - HUMAN CENTIPEDE (Tom Six)
Best Horror Director - Kerry Prior (THE REVENANT)
Best Best Horror Actor - Dieter Laser (HUMAN CENTIPEDE)
Best Horror Actress - Neve McIntosh (SALVAGE)
FANTASTIC FEATURES
Best Fantastic Feature - MANDRILL (Ernesto Diaz-Espinoza)
Best Fantastic Director - Kim Nguyen (TRUFFE)
Best Fantastic Screenplay - Tamio Hayashi adapted from Kotaro Isaka (FISH STORY)
Best Fantastic Actor - Marko Zaror (MANDRILL)
Best Fantastic Actress - Chiaki Kuriyama (KAMOGAWA HORUMO)
NEXT WAVE FEATURES
Best Feature - DOWN TERRACE (Ben Wheately)
Best Director - Yang Ik-Joon (BREATHLESS)
Best Screenplay - Robin Hill, Ben Wheatley (DOWN TERRACE)
Best Actor - Jeong-min Hwang (PRIVATE EYE)
Best Actress - Shera Bechard (SWEET KARMA)
AUDIENCE AWARD
Audience Award, Best Feature: A TOWN CALLED PANIC (Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar)
Audience Award, Honorable Mention:
FISH STORY
BREATHLESS
THE REVENANT
MERANTAU
Fantastic Fest Bumper Contest:
Team: FOGAR!
Film: DOGZILLA VS. CATHRA
Team Captain - Maurice Jacks
2009 Shakey Face Award Winners:
Christine Fisher
Troy Gonzales
Video of the Fantastic Fest Shakey Face competition
[Photo credit: "FF09 - Awards 1" by Rich Merritt. Found via Alamo Drafthouse Flickr account; used under blanket agreement with Alamo Drafthouse.]