Mind Games Played For FanTasia Prize

FanTasia, a festival showcasing contemporary international genre cinema with an emphasis on unveiling films very rarely seen in North America, wrapped up on July 25, 2005, in Montreal, awarding Yuasa Masaakis MIND GAME the prize for best animated film. The film also took home the silver prize in the most groundbreaking film category as well.

For its ninth edition, FanTasia jury was of the following members:* Érik Canuel (creator of films LA LOI DU COCHON, LE DERNIER TUNNEL and LE SURVENANT)* Patrick Masbourian (actor, host and collaborator on many television shows)* Pierre Dalpé (creator of advertisements for Molson, Home Dépôt, Coca Cola, Labatt bleue dry, McDonald and Bell Express Vu)* Michèle Grondin (President and founder of Radar Films, producing music videos nationally, in collaboration with American and French companies)* Daniel Andréani (artistic director for the Montreal-based agency Diesel)* Nabi-Alexandre Chartier (VJ at Musique Plus and writer for Famous Québec)

FanTasia 2005 Public's Prizes

Best Asian FilmGolden Prize: Ex æquoSURVIVE STYLE 5 + (Gen Sekiguchi, Japan, 2004)THE TASTE OF TEA (Katsuhito Ishii, Japan, 2004)

Silver Prize:CRYING FIST (Ryoo Seung-wan, South-Korea, 2005)

Bronze Prize: Ex æquoARAHAN (Ryoo Seung-wan, South-Korea, 2004)GODZILLA FINAL WARS (Ryuhei Kitamura, Japan 2005)

Best European / North - South American FilmGolden Prize: Ex aequoEL LOBO (Miguel Courtois, Spain, 2005)TROUBLE (Harry Cleven, Belgium/France, 2004)

Silver Prize:THE DEVILS REJECTS (Rob Zombie, USA, 2005)

Bronze Prize:NIGHT OF THE LIVING DORKS (Matthias Dinter, Germany, 2004)

Best Animated FilmGolden Prize:MIND GAME (Yuasa Masaaki, Japan, 2004)

Silver Prize:THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS (Makoto Shinkai, Japan, 2005)

Bronze Prize:LIVE FREAKY! DIE FREAKY! (John Roecker, USA, 2004)

Most Groundbreaking FilmGolden Prize:SURVIVE STYLE 5 + (Gen Sekiguchi, Japan, 2004)

Silver Prize:MIND GAME (Yuasa Masaaki, Japan, 2004)