NOTE: Higher res version can be downloaded/viewed here in Quicktime format
For fans of Martyrs and Pascal here is video I took of him winning the 2009 Melies d’Or for Best European Fantastic Film at 42 Sitges Film Festival. I’m glad to be able to post this online for the fans of his and the film that didn’t get to be there.
It came full circle for me at the 42 Sitges Film Festival in getting to see filmmaker Pascal Laugier win and accept the 2009 Melies d’Or for Best European Fantastic Film (www.melies.org) for Martyrs (previous CID movie wallpaper). The film bowed first at the legendary Midnight Madness screening in Toronto and then played as the closing night film at Fantastic Fest here in Austin in 2008. Getting the film in Austin was by no means an easy task and may people went to great lengths, Tim League especially, in getting it here. Seeing it on the big screen here in Austin was a brutal and great experience all wrapped up in one. To see the film we fought to get here come full circle and win the prestigious Melies award at the grand Sitges Film Festival was unbelievable. These awards seem to revolve at where they get announced at every year and just for me to be at the spot after all these years of missing them where they were and for it to be the year Martyrs won… just felt for circle for me. Not to mention a wild night of partying with him and the Melies crew into the wee hours of the morning and getting to chat about the Austin reaction to his film and its post-free screening! Pascal Laugier’s next film gets rolling into production next year with a probable earliest bow looking to be in Fall 2011 (this can of course change). His next film is a thriller.
Cinema is Dope Coverage of Sitges Film Festival 2009:
::: Martyrs Wins 2009 Melies d’Or for Best European Fantastic Film
::: Is Independent Cinema Dead? – Nicolas Winding Refn, Director of Bronson & Valhalla Rising
::: BRONSON Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn – Part 3
::: BRONSON Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn – Part 2
::: BRONSON Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn – Part 1
::: The Valhalla Rising Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn at 42 Sitges Film Festival
::: The SPLICE Interview with Vincenzo Natali at 42 Sitges Film Festival
::: Is Independent Cinema Dead? – Vincenzo Natali, Director of Splice
::: Viggo Mortensen @ 42 Sitges Film Festival
::: CLIVE BARKER: Exclusive Interview Part Two at 42 Sitges Film Festival
::: CLIVE BARKER: Exclusive Interview Part One at 42 Sitges Film Festival
::: ENTER THE VOID: Exclusive Interview with Gaspar Noe at 42 Sitges Film Festival
::: Orphan at 42 Sitges Film Festival: Isabelle Fuhrman & Jaume Collet-Serra
::: Previewing Sitges Film Festival 2009 – Part Six
::: Previewing Sitges Film Festival 2009 – Part Five
::: Previewing Sitges Film Festival 2009 – Official Fantastic In Competition Selection
::: Previewing Sitges Film Festival 2009 – Noves Visions Lineup
::: Previewing Sitges Film Festival 2009 – Part Four
::: Previewing Sitges Film Festival 2009 – Part Three
::: Previewing Sitges Film Festival 2009 – Part Two
::: Previewing Sitges Film Festival 2009 – Part One
Sitges Film Festival 2009:
::: Official Site
::: Sitges Official Facebook Fan Page
::: Variety on Sitges ‘09
::: ‘Visage’, by Tsai Ming-liang, opens the Noves Visions category
::: Malcolm McDowell to receive the Grand Honorary Award at the opening, which will moved up to October 1st
::: [REC]2 to open Sitges 09
::: Alien is the inspiration for Sitges 09
::: The latest and most eagerly awaited genre films at Official Fantàstic Section
::: Animation, international variants of horror and 3D film
::: Sitges 09 will be recalling certain flashes from the 80’s
