She Who Must Burn, Turbo Kid win Fantasia prizes

Larry Kent's She Who Must Burn won best Canadian feature, while Turbo Kid won an audience choice award for best Canadian film.

Larry Kent’s She Who Must Burn and Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard and Yoann-Karl Whissel’s Turbo Kid were among the Canadian films that picked up prizes at the 19th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival, which wrapped up its three-week run on Wednesday.

She Who Must Burn won the Best Canadian Feature Film prize, while Turbo Kid won an audience choice award for Best Canadian Film. The short Goldfish, from director Michael Konyves. also won an audience choice award for Best Short Film. Ryan Wise’s I Am Thor, a USA/Canada/Finland/Sweden copro, also won an audience award for Best Documentary.

In other prize-giving, Sion Sono’s Tag (Japan) picked up the best film prize in the Cheval Noir section, while Malik Bader won the best director prize for Cash Only (USA/Albania). Tomoe Kannoe was awarded the best screenplay prize in the category for La La La at Rock Bottom (Japan), while Subaru Shibutani won the best actor award for La La La at Rock Bottom and Reina Triendl won best actress for her work in Tag.

The New Flesh Award for Best First Feature Film was picked up by Miguel Llanso for Crumbs, an Ethopia/Spain/Finland coproduction. The Best International Short Film award was claimed by François Jaros for Maurice.

In the Satoshi Kon Award for Excellence in Animation category, Miss Hokusai (Japan) by Keiichi Hara took home the prize for best animated feature. Missing One Player by Lei Lei (China) meanwhile won best animated short and Gabriel Osorio’s Une Histoire D’ours (Chile) won best family short film.

Other Audience awards were presented to Keiichi Hara’s Miss Hokusai (Japan) for Best Animation , Choi Ho’s Big Match (South Korea) for best action film, Marshland (Spain) by Alberto Rodriguez for best thriller film, Perry Blackshear’s They Look Like People (USA) for most innovative film, Sion Sono’s Love & Peace  for Best Asian Film and David Ruhm’s Therapy For A Vampire for Best European, North and South America Film.

The 2015 edition of the Fantasia festival ran from July 19 to Aug. 5 in Montreal.