The 2011 edition of Montreal’s Fantasia festival has concluded, with huge crowds (over 100,000 audience members) attending along with 150 filmmakers and actors from around the world. This evening the winners of the event’s numerous awards were announced, as voted by both those audiences and assorted juries.

The victors are as follows:

Feature Film Jury

President: Alexandre Franchi, with Gilles Esposito, Lee Joon-ik, George Mihalka, Steven Schneider and Tom Vick

Cheval Noir Award for Best Film: Mikkel Nørgaard’s CLOWN: “This charmingly subversive take on fatherhood features excellent ensemble acting with deft and seamless direction. So wrong and shameless in so many ways that it was a real blast to watch.”

Best Director: Yoshimasa Ishibashi, MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY

Best Screenplay: Park Hoon-jung, THE UNJUST

Best Actors: Hwang Jeong-min and Ryoo Seung-beom, THE UNJUST

Best Actress: Norie Yasui, LOVE & LOATHING & LULU & AYANO

Special Mention to Shunji Iwai’s VAMPIRE, “for its original and contemplative take on suicide and our society’s fascination with the vampire myth.”

Special Mention to Buddy Giovinazzo’s I LOVE YOU segment (pictured) in THE THEATRE BIZARRE, “for crafting a realistic yet macabre drama with the density of a feature film.”

First Feature Jury

President: Jason Eisener, with Jephté Bastien, Alexandre Fontaine-Rousseau and Greg Newman

New Flesh Award for Best First Feature: Michaël R. Roskam’s BULLHEAD: “A compelling, dark story of personal tragedy with one of the best performances of the year by Matthias Schoenaerts. This is a film that has balls!”

Special Mention to William Eubank’s LOVE, “for the resourcefulness and unwavering determination by a director to realize his unique vision”.

Animation Jury

President: Marcel Jean, with Jean-François Lévesque and Heidi Taillefer

Best Animated Feature Film: Jan Svankmajer’s SURVIVING LIFE: “A singular piece of work, both funny and profound, that shows a great spirit of invention for a filmmaker with a 40-years career.”

Best Animated Short Film: Robert Morgan’s BOBBY YEAH: “For its dense and coherent universe, full of surprises, that confronts our fears in a captivating way, and for its exceptional technical command.”

Special Mention to Éric Falardeau’s CRÉPUSCULE, “for its bold address of sexuality in animation.”

International Short Film Jury

President: Buddy Giovinazzo, with John Fallon, Sylvain Houde and Charlotte Selb

Best International Short: Billy Senese’s THE SUICIDE TAPES: “A minimalistic, powerful, dread filled film with an unsettling performance by Jeremy Childs.”

Special Mention to Hugo Lilja’s THE UNLIVING, “A visually stunning and visceral film that was so well rounded that it should be a feature.”

Quebecois Short Film Jury

Catherine Beauchamp, Dino Tavarone, Caroline Morin

Best Film: Carolyne Rhéaume’s LA BARRICADE

Best Director: Alexandre Richard, BONNE JOURNÉE

Best Actress: Charlotte Laurier, COUP SAUVAGE

Best Actor: Mathieu Dufresne, BONNE JOURNÉE

Best Screenplay: Caroline Renaud, MATERNEL

Jury’s Choice: Kim St-Pierre, VODKA CANNEBERGE

Best Photo: Eric Morin, OPASATIKA

Quebecois DIY Short Film Jury

Julie Brisson, Karl Filion, Géraldine Charbonneau

Best Film: Lawrence Côté-Collins’ FUCK THAT

Best Screenplay: Radnath Gagnon, CORTE

Best Director: Emanuel St-Pierre Beaulieu, UN FILM AVEC BRIGITTE BARDOT

Best Actor (Male & Female): Maxime Desjardins, GUEULE DE BOIS

Jury’s Choice: Jean Marc E. Roy, Philippe David Gagné and Dominic Leclerc’s VIVRE A 35 MILLES A L’HEURE

AQCC Prize—International Section

Martin Gignac, Claudia Hébert, Nicolas Krief

AQCC Prize: (TIE) James Gunn’s SUPER and Michael Barnett’s SUPERHEROES: “For two films that perfectly capture the zeitgeist of our age and that present elaborate reflections on one of the biggest American trends, the AQCC Jury has awarded its best international film prize, in a tie, to the fiction film SUPER by James Gunn and to the documentary SUPERHEROES by Michael Burnett, two strong and complementary works.”

Séquences Prize—Asian Section

President: Pascal Grenier, with Pierre-Alexandre Fradet and Christina Stojanova

Séquences Prize: Takahisa Zeze’s HEAVEN’S STORY: “For the density of the universal themes it explores, for its singular approach to the motif of vengeance and for its structured mise-en-scène and its carefully captured images, the Séquence Prize for Best Asian Film goes to Takahisa Zeze’s flowing film, HEAVEN’S STORY.”

L’Écran Fantastique Prize

Yves Rivard

L’Écran Fantastique Prize: Joseph Kahn’s DETENTION: “For its contagious energy, its capacity to generate gags and comic situations based on concepts stemming from horror movies (slasher films) and science fiction.”

Audience Awards

Best Asian Feature

Gold: (TIE) Takashi Miike’s 13 ASSASSINS and Sion Sono’s COLD FISH

Silver: MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY

Bronze: Johnnie To’s DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART

Best European or American Feature

Gold: Joe Cornish’s ATTACK THE BLOCK 

Silver: (TIE) John Landis’ BURKE AND HARE and Evan Glodell’s BELLFLOWER 

Bronze: Ti West’s THE INNKEEPERS 

Best Canadian or Quebecois Feature

Gold: Evan Kelly’s THE CORRIDOR 

Silver: VAMPIRE

Bronze: (TIE) Jesse T. Cook’s MONSTER BRAWL and Xavier Gens’ THE DIVIDE

Best Animation Feature

Gold: Takeshi Koike’s REDLINE

Silver: Hirotsugu Kawasaki’s LEGEND OF THE MILLENIUM DRAGON

Bronze: Ayar Blasco’s EL SOL

Best Documentary

Gold: Frédérick Maheux’s ART/CRIME

Silver: SUPERHEROES

Bronze: Don Argott and Demian Fenton’s LAST DAYS HERE

Most Innovative Feature

Gold: MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY

Silver: Lucky McKee’s THE WOMAN

Bronze: LOVE

Guru Prize for the Most Energetic Feature

Gold: Panna Rittikrai’s BANGKOK KNOCKOUT

Silver: (TIE) MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY and DETENTION

Bronze: Brandon Trost and Jason Trost’s THE FP

Best Short Film

Gold: Jerome Sable’s THE LEGEND OF BEAVER DAM

Silver: Park Chan-wook and Park Chan-kyong’s NIGHT FISHING

Bronze: BOBBY YEAH

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