Fantasia Film Festival Awards: ‘Red Rooms’ Takes Best Feature & Two Others; ‘Femme’ A Double Winner – Full List
31.07.2023 - 00:39
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Red Rooms won a leading three awards including Best Feature at the 27th annual Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, with the thriller Femme taking Best Director for Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping and Outstanding Performance for Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. See the full list of winners below.
“The ultimate effect a film can achieve is to implant a significant and lasting emotional memory,” the genre fest’s jury said in a statement. “The jury was unanimously convinced that [Red Rooms] masterfully accomplished that goal.”
In writer-director Pascal Plante’s thriller from Nemesis Films, the case of a serial killer who streamed his murders in the “red rooms” of the Dark Web goes to trial, and Kelly-Anne (Laurie Babin) is obsessed. She goes down a dark path to obtain the final piece of the case’s puzzle.
In Femme, after drag artist Jules (Stewart-Jarrett) sees his closeted assailant (George Mackay) at a gay sauna, he begins dating him, hatching a plan for revenge.
Here is the full list of winners at the 27th Fantasia Film Festival:
Best FeatureRED ROOMS (Québec, d. Pascal Plante)
Best DirectorSam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping (FEMME, United Kingdom)
Best ScreenplayPascal Plante (RED ROOMS, Québec, d. Pascal Plante)
Best Score (The Sandro Forte Award)Dominique Plante (RED ROOMS, Québec, d. Pascal Plante)
Best CinematographyZelda Adams & John Adams (WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS, United States, d. Zelda Adams, John Adams and Toby Poser)
Outstanding Performance AwardNathan Stewart-Jarrett (FEMME, United Kingdom, d. Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping)Juliette Gariépy (RED ROOMS, Québec, d. Pascal Plante)
Special MentionVincent Doit Mourir (France, d. Stéphan Castang)
Best First FeatureSTAY ONLINE (Ukraine, d. Yeva Strelnikova)
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