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April 2nd, 2006
CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Fantastic Fest is currently accepting submissions for the 2006 Festival. Entry fee for Feature Length Films (50 min. or longer): $30.00; entry fee for Short Films (less than 30 min.): $20.00. All shorts and features must be postmarked by July 15, 2006. Generate tremendous exposure for your film and meet industry professionals from aquisition, production, distribution, exhibition, print, web, radio and TV media. Visiting filmmakers will also be treated to a number of day trips and evening VIP parties at Texas landmarks such as Smitty's BBQ, the Shiner brewery, Donn's Depot and the Broken Spoke.
>> Download the submission form pdf
April 2, 2006
2006 FANTASTIC FEST BADGES...
Fantastic Fest Film Passes and Badges go on sale Monday May 1 at noon.
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March 6th, 2006
MARCH 9-18, FF VIP PASS ONLY $99 !
Show your SXSW pass or badge at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown or South Lamar March 9th through the 18th or visit us online and reserve your Fantastic Fest 2006 VIP Pass for only $99! Only a limited number of discounted passes are available, so get 'em before they're gone.
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October 10th, 2005
2005 Fantastic Fest Winners Announced
JURY AWARDS
Best Film :: Dark Hours
Best Director :: John Gulager, Feast
Best Screenplay :: Eli Roth, Hostel
Best Actor :: John Jarratt, Wolf Creek
Best Actress :: Kate Greenhouse, Dark Hours
Best Supporting Actor :: Jack Taylor, The Birthday
Best Supporting Actress :: Opal, P
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Best film:
1) Hostel
2) Strings
3) Dark Hours
Best Director:
1) Eli Roth, Hostel
2) Anders R¬ønnow-Klarlund, Strings
3) Eugenio Mira, The Birthday
Best Screenplay
1) Dark Hours
2) Feast
3) Hostel
Best Actor
1) John Jarratt, Wolf Creek
2) Corey Feldman, The Birthday
3) Brad Dourif, The Wild Blue Yonder
Best Actress
1) Kate Greenhouse, Dark Hours
2) Holly Hunter, The Big White
3) Cassandra Magrath, Wolf Creek
Best Supporting Actor
1) Tim Blake Nelson, The Big White
2) Thomas Schmieder, Night of the Living Dorks
3) Derek Richardson, Hostel
Best Supporting Actress
1) Eileen Ryan, Feast
2) Alison Lohman, The Big White
3) Collien Fernandes, Night of the Living Dorks
September 29th, 2005
Buy a Fantastic Fest badge and come view the DOMINO sneak preview on Sunday October 2nd, 7pm.
DOMINO is a recounting of Domino Harvey's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.
After the film, join us at the afterparty at an Austin shotgun range, where we'll be training to be bounty hunters ourselves by shooting clay skeet!
RSVP to tim@originalalamo.com by Saturday at 10 AM.
September 19th, 2005
SIN CITY: RECUT & EXTENDED, FEAST, THE WILD BLUE YONDER
AND MORE ADDED TO FANTASTIC FEST LINE-UP
ZATHURA selected for Opening Night (October 6, 2005)
AUSTIN, TX, 9/19/05 The inaugural Fantastic Fest (Oct. 6-9, 2005) will present sneak previews of Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller¢s SIN CITY: RECUT & EXTENDED; John Gulager¢s Project Greenlight horror film FEAST as a work-in-progress; and Werner Herzog¢s science-fiction fantasy THE WILD BLUE YONDER (Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, 2005 Venice Film Festival).
SIN CITY: RECUT & EXTENDED expands the hit film into a trilogy of stand-alone stories, featuring new footage and extended scenes. (Fantastic Fest will be the first and perhaps only opportunity to see this new version on the big screen.) Meanwhile, the fest will offer audiences their first chance to see FEAST, the new horror film directed by John Gulager and executive produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Wes Craven as part of Bravo¢s Project Greenlight Season 3, presented as a work-in-progress. And science-fiction fans will be treated to THE WILD BLUE YONDER, legendary director Werner Herzog¢s haunting blend of fiction and docudrama chronicling a space shuttle mission that cannot return to Earth.
The Opening Night selection is ZATHURA, director Jon Favreau¢s adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg¢s best-selling sci-fi adventure. (Favreau, actor Dax Shepard and producer Peter Billingsley will attend the screening and after-party at the Austin Elks Lodge, which will feature live music by the Flametrick Subs and Satan's Cheerleaders. Beer will be provided by Independence Brewery, appetizers catered by the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar¢s executive chef John Bullington, and a Zathura-inspired room of vintage board games.)
The festival will also host a special behind-the-scenes presentation for A SCANNER DARKLY by producer Tommy Pallotta, who will offer a sneak peek at select completed footage from Richard Linklater¢s forthcoming adaptation of Philip K. Dick¢s novel, and conduct a Q&A.
Other newly announced programming includes:
ALL ABOUT MY DOG [Dir. Various; Japan 2005] An anthology of eight short films about dogs and their humans, produced by Taka Ichise (Juon: The Grudge, Ringu).
THE BIRTHDAY [Dir. Eugenio Mira; USA 2005] A real-time black comedy starring Corey Feldman, Jack Taylor and Erica Prior.
MALEFIQUE [Dir. Eric Valette; France 2002] Four prisoners find a mysterious book of black magic that offers them freedom. (Winner, Prix Vision 2003 Avignon Film Festival)
MAREBITO [Dir. Takashi Shimizu; Japan 2004] The director of The Grudge crafts a gripping horror mystery set beneath Tokyo. (Winner, Golden Raven Award 2005 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film)
P [Dir. Paul Spurrier; Thailand, 2005] A young orphan girl in Thailand is taught the ways of magic by her grandmother, but gradually loses control as something evil takes over, with horrific consequences.
PULSE [Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Japan, 2001] A group of teens investigate a series of suicides linked to a webcam that promises a chance to interact with the dead. (Critics Award Winner, 2001 Sitges Film Festival)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DORKS [Dir. Matthias Dinter; Germany 2005] Three terminally unpopular high school friends wake up in a morgue as the living dead, and find death has its advantages. (Audience Award Winner, 2005 Fantasia Film Festival)
STRINGS [Dir. Anders R¬ønnow Klarlund; Sweden 2004] A stunning, stirring and startling marionette fantasy of love, honor and vengeance. (Winner Best Directorial Revelation and Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film, 2004 Sitges Film Festival)
September 16th, 2005 5:00pm
FEST BADGES NOW ON SALE
Only 400 total badges will be sold for this year¢s Fantastic Fest, including a $125 full festival pass that's now on sale, and guarantees you a seat at all times during Fantastic Fest (just not necessarily your first choice film in your first choice time slot; most films screen more than once, so you should be able to see everything you want). This collectible badge also includes access to the Opening Night screening of Zathura and kick-off party with director John Favreau and Peter Billingsley. Get a Badge
September 9th, 2005 5:00pm
V.I.P. BADGES NOW ON SALE
Only 400 badges total will be sold for this year¢s Fantastic Fest, starting with a $180 V.I.P. package that is now on sale. It includes the Opening Night premiere (to be announced), kick-off party, a collectible full weekend badge, exclusive limited edition t-shirt, and poster. Please note that a badge guarantees you a seat at all times during Fantastic Fest, just not necessarily your first choice film in your first choice time slot. (Most films will be screened more than once, so you should be able to see everything you want.) Get a badge.
Any remaining weekend badges will be sold a la carte starting 5pm next Friday, September 16, for $125 each. Also, a very limited number of single tickets will be sold at the door for individual screenings, subject to seating availability.
ZATHURA
THE BIG WHITE
MOONGIRL
THE DARK HOURS
CREEP
WOLF CREEK
August 30th, 2005 2:34 pm
ZATHURA, THE BIG WHITE, MOONGIRL AND WOLF CREEK TO PREMIERE AT INAUGURAL FANTASTIC FEST, OCTOBER 6-9, 2005
AUSTIN, TX, 8/30/05 Director Jon Favreau¢s ZATHURA starring Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart and Tim Robbins will debut at the inaugural Fantastic Fest along with Mark Mylod¢s THE BIG WHITE starring Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Woody Harrelson, Giovanni Ribisi, Alison Lohman, Tim Blake Nelson, and James Woods. The fest will also unveil Henry Selick¢s new animated short MOONGIRL and host the U.S. premieres of Paul Fox¢s THE DARK HOURS and Christopher Smith¢s CREEP starring Franka Potente, as well as a regional premiere of the acclaimed Australian horror film WOLF CREEK by Greg McLean.
Fantastic Fest is a new four-day international genre film festival devoted to sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and animation. It was conceived by co-chairs Paul Alvarado-Dykstra and Tim McCanlies (The Iron Giant, Secondhand Lions), and is presented by the Alamo Drafthouse South under the direction of Tim League (£#1 Theater Doing It Right§ - Entertainment Weekly). They comprise a programming team that also includes Harry Knowles (Ain¢t It Cool News), Matt Dentler (SXSW Film Festival) and Kier-La Janisse (Cinemuerte Film Festival). Fantastic Fest is sponsored by Milkshake Media, Ain¢t It Cool News and Jackson Walker. (Additional films t.b.a. soon.)
ZATHURA John Favreau (Elf, Swingers) and PeterBillingsly (Christmas Story) will be live in person! Zathura, from Columbia Pictures, is based on The Polar Express and Jumanji author Chris Van Allsburg¢s best-selling children¢s sci-fi adventure. Two squabbling brothers (Hutcherson, Bobo) are propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a mysterious game found in the basement of their old house. On their fantastic journey they are joined by a stranded astronaut (Shepard) and must survive meteor showers, hostile lizard-like aliens, a rocket-propelled robot run amok and an intergalactic spaceship battle as they race to reach the planet Zathura and finish the game or else be trapped in outer space forever.
THE BIG WHITE, from Ascendant Pictures, is about a destitute Alaskan travel agent (Williams) with a deranged wife (Hunter) who finds the answer to his financial problems in the form of a get-rich-quick scam involving a frozen body in the dumpster, which he tries to pass off as his long-lost brother for a life insurance claim. Just a few things stand in his way a determined insurance investigator, an irate sibling and two would be gangsters.
MOONGIRL, from Laika Entertainment, is a charming fable which re-imagines lunar mythology through the ingenious mind of stop-motion animation master Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach) who uses 3D computer animation for the first time in this spellbinding short.
Other short films include DAMOI THE VOYAGE HOME [U.S. Premiere], an evocative medieval ghost story from Finnish director Toni Pykalaniemi; and HERMAN, THE LEGAL LABRADOR [Regional Premiere], an Australian animated comedy from director David Blumenstein about a canine criminal defense attorney.
Other features include:
THE DARK HOURS [U.S. Premiere], from Calder Road Films/Capri Releasing, follows a young psychiatrist who simply wants to get away from it all, and heads to the country for a weekend with her husband and sister. Once there, she¢s confronted by a former patient (and brutal sex offender) who takes them hostage, forcing them to partake in a cruel and traumatic series of £games§ designed to punish and reveal.
CREEP [U.S. Premiere], from Lions Gate Films, stars Franka Potente as a London party girl who hears that George Clooney¢s in town, and decides to seek him out for some fun. Unfortunately, things don¢t turn out as planned (thanks in no small part to a tad too much alcohol), and after failing to find a cab she finds herself waiting for the last subway of the night¬
only to nod off. She wakes to find herself locked in a subway station that¢s home to a sadistic, demonic creature. And it¢s hungry.
WOLF CREEK [Regional Premiere], from Dimension Films, was a hit at this year¢s Sundance Film Festival, and follows three road-trippers deep into the Australian outback. After a long, eventful journey, they finally arrive at Wolf Creek National Park to camp for the night, but the next morning wake to find their watches have stopped and the car won¢t start. Meanwhile, they notice strange lights headed straight towards them.
Additional programming will be announced soon at fantasticfest.com for the four-day, multi-screen festival, which will comprise a highly select slate of approximately twenty features (plus many shorts).
Only 400 badges total will be sold for this year¢s Fantastic Fest, starting with a $180 V.I.P. package that goes on sale 5pm Friday, September 9, at fantasticfest.com and includes the Opening Night premiere (to be announced), party, full weekend pass and limited edition t-shirt and poster. Any remaining badges will be sold a la carte starting Friday, September 16 for $125, and a very limited number of single tickets will be sold at the door for individual screenings, subject to seating availability.
August 29th, 2005
FANTASTIC FEST BADGES GO ON SALE FRIDAY, 9/9
Only 400 badges total will be sold for this year¢s fest, starting with a $180 V.I.P. package that goes on sale Friday, September 9 and includes the Opening Night premiere (to be announced), party, full weekend pass and limited edition t-shirt and poster. Any remaining badges will be sold a la carte starting Friday, September 16 for $125, and a very limited number of single tickets will be sold at the door for individual screenings, subject to seating availability.
