Norwegian Zombie Comedy ‘Grandmonster’ Wins Big Laughs and Top Outpost Award at Fantasia’s Frontières Market
Norwegian director Vegard Dahle’s zombie comedy “Grandmonster” has won the top Outpost Award, and a prize of post-production services, at the Fantasia...
Key points
- Norwegian director Vegard Dahle’s zombie comedy “Grandmonster” has won the top Outpost Award, and a prize of post-production services, at the Fantasia Festival’s prestigious Frontières Co-Production Market, which handed out six awards at its closing cocktail, July 25.
- The project, one of the 20 titles in Frontières official selection, received a boisterous, laugh-inducing response from the packed Frontières audience of fellow pitchers and buyer and industry delegates.
- The PurpleDOG Award for an official selection project, which comes with a prize of post-production services, went to “Cher,” the first project out of Thailand participating in Frontières, a supernatural folk horror about a vengeance-seeking forest spirit who emerges near a remote mining camp that is trespassing on sacred forestland.
- The PurpleDOG Award for a project in the Gender Equity in Media Society (GEMS) section of the Genre Film Lab went to “Wifey,” Canadian director Cassidy Civiero’s horror thriller about an independent artist about to transition female-to-male who is is forced into a non-consensual marriage in which traditional gender norms are used as a violent weapon.
What happened
Norwegian director Vegard Dahle’s zombie comedy “Grandmonster” has won the top Outpost Award, and a prize of post-production services, at the Fantasia Festival’s prestigious Frontières Co-Production Market, which handed out six awards at its closing cocktail, July 25. The project, one of the 20 titles in Frontières official selection, received a boisterous, laugh-inducing response from the packed Frontières audience of fellow pitchers and buyer and industry delegates. The PurpleDOG Award for an official selection project, which comes with a prize of post-production services, went to “Cher,” the first project out of Thailand participating in Frontières, a supernatural folk horror about a vengeance-seeking forest spirit who emerges near a remote mining camp that is trespassing on sacred forestland. The PurpleDOG Award for a project in the Gender Equity in Media Society (GEMS) section of the Genre Film Lab went to “Wifey,” Canadian director Cassidy Civiero’s horror thriller about an independent artist about to transition female-to-male who is is forced into a non-consensual marriage in which traditional gender norms are used as a violent weapon. “The feedback we’ve received from...
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