European genre festival crowns 2017 winners.
Super Dark Times has been awarded the best feature film prize at the 17th Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival.
The film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January and marks the debut feature for director Kevin Philips.
It explores the lives of two teenage friends in the Us in the 1990s whose lives are altered by an unexpected act of violence.
This year’s other winners included Japanese director Takashi Miike. His new film JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable premiered at the Swiss festival, which is known for championing genre and Asian cinema.
The 2017 edition of the festival screened 151 films from 43 countries; 10 films had their world premieres while six had their international premieres.
A total fo 37,000 tickets were sold, according to the organisers.
Full List Of Winners
H.R. Giger “Narcisse” award for best feature
Super Dark Times
Directed by: Kevin Phillips
United States, 2017
Silver Méliès...
Super Dark Times has been awarded the best feature film prize at the 17th Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival.
The film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January and marks the debut feature for director Kevin Philips.
It explores the lives of two teenage friends in the Us in the 1990s whose lives are altered by an unexpected act of violence.
This year’s other winners included Japanese director Takashi Miike. His new film JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable premiered at the Swiss festival, which is known for championing genre and Asian cinema.
The 2017 edition of the festival screened 151 films from 43 countries; 10 films had their world premieres while six had their international premieres.
A total fo 37,000 tickets were sold, according to the organisers.
Full List Of Winners
H.R. Giger “Narcisse” award for best feature
Super Dark Times
Directed by: Kevin Phillips
United States, 2017
Silver Méliès...
- 7/10/2017
- ScreenDaily
After nearly two weeks of glorious sunshine and fantastic cinema in the beautiful Swiss town of Neuchatel, the heavens opened and the skies turned grey for their festival’s final day. The Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) ended with a presentation of its prestigious awards at a sold-out Closing Ceremony, before a screening of Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver. Winners included director Kevin Phillips who walked away with the night’s biggest prize for his stunning debut feature Super Dark Times. Back in Neuchatel for the third time in their careers, festival favorites Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead were present to receive the two awards they won in person. The directing partners took both the Nifff International Critics Award and the Imaging the Future Award (for Best...
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- 7/9/2017
- Screen Anarchy
What a surprising city Rotterdam is and the Festival and Cinemart are full of surprises too.
Being in The Netherlands is like a homecoming for me. My first major job in the film industry was with 20th Century Fox International and City Fox Films in Amsterdam in 1975 which is when I first attended the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, three years after its founding by Huub Bals. It was much smaller then. Iffr’s logo is a tiger, loosely based on the M.G.M. lion as an alternative. From the beginning, the festival has profiled itself as a promoter of alternative, innovative and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. It has become one of the most important events in the film world, an integral part of the winter circuit of Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festivals.
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Being in The Netherlands is like a homecoming for me. My first major job in the film industry was with 20th Century Fox International and City Fox Films in Amsterdam in 1975 which is when I first attended the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, three years after its founding by Huub Bals. It was much smaller then. Iffr’s logo is a tiger, loosely based on the M.G.M. lion as an alternative. From the beginning, the festival has profiled itself as a promoter of alternative, innovative and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. It has become one of the most important events in the film world, an integral part of the winter circuit of Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festivals.
“Fox and HIs Friends”
Except for my...
- 3/8/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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