Friday, October 21, 2011

SITGES international Fantastic Film Festival 2011

 

The 44th edition of the oldest and one of most important fantastic genre film festivals SITGES took place in the Spanish Catalonia between the 6th and the 16th of October 2011.
Ryoo Seung-wan

 The traditional festival awarded this year as the Best Film "Red State" by Kevin Smith, awarding also the director Na Hong-jin for his film "The Yellow Sea" and the actors  Brit Marling for "Another Earth" and Michael Parks for "Red State".




Bryan Singer

The Special Jury Prize went to Joe Cornish for his "Attack the Block",
the Best Screenplay for Lucky Mckee and Jack Ketchum for "The Woman" and the Best Cinematography for Markus Förderer and Tim Fehlbaum for "Hell".

The Korean director Ryoo Seung-wan won the Casa Asia Award for his movie "The Unjust" and 
the Grang Honorary Prize of this traditional festival went to the American producer and director Bryan Singer. 

Actors Daniel Brúhl, Alberto Amman, Lluis Homar from " Eva" 
The "Máquina del Temps" Prizes (Time Machine) went to Jaume Balagueró, Michael Biehn, Ching Siu-Tung and Michael Ironside.

The María Honorary Prizes went to Bigas Luna,  Xavier Pérez, Mar Targarona, Caroline Williams, Gonzalo Suárez and Pedro Olea. The Nosferatu Prize was given to Luigi Cozzi.

The Spanish representation at this year's Sitges festival includes the opening movie "Eva" by Kike Maillo, a science fiction story starring Daniel Brühl.


American visitors at the Sitges Festival: the young actor Booboo Stewart and the screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg at the photocall.








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