What’s a film festival without awards? Fantastic fest has today announced the top honorees from the jury selections, and we’ve got the list of winners. The envelope, please!
“MAIN COMPETITION” FEATURES
Best Picture: Donnybrook directed by Tim Sutton (read our review here)
Best Director: Peter Strickland for In Fabric (read our review here)
“NEXT WAVE” FEATURES
Best Picture/Director: Holiday directed by Isabella Eklöf (read our review here)
Special Mention for Sébastien Marnier for Schools Out
HORROR FEATURES
Best Picture: Terrified directed by Demián Rugna
Best Director: Shinichiro Ueda for One Cut of the Dead
Special Mention to Luz directed by Tilman Singer
SHORTS WITH LEGS
Best Picture: “The Passage” directed by Kitao Sakurai
Special Mention to “Emotion 93” directed by Oz Davidson
SHORT FUSE Presented by Stage 13
Best Picture: “Acid (aka Acide)” directed by Just Philippot
FANTASTIC SHORTS
Best Picture: “Squirrel” by Alex Kavutskiy
FANTASTIC BUMPER COMPETITION
“Dark Biddings” directed by Jensen Yancey
Congratulations to all the winners.
Fantastic Fest runs Sept. 20-27. For more news, reviews, and interviews, as well as our daily show with the oneofus.net podcast network, visit austinchronicle.com/fantastic-fest.
This article appears in September 21 • 2018.
