Source: Fantastic Fest/Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Austin, TX – Thursday, October 1, 2015 – Fantastic Fest is pleased to announce this year’s Fantastic Fest Award winners. It has been an outstanding year for features and shorts, making the job of honoring a select crop all the more difficult, but our esteemed team of jurors have done the nearly impossible and chosen the best films of the festival.
The audience awards are presented by accounting firm Maxwell Locke & Ritter (http://www.mlrpc.com/) who provided the certified tabulation of ballots this year and are the exclusive accounting sponsor of Fantastic Fest. Dell Precision is the presenter of the prestigious “Next Wave” Award, which honors emerging filmmakers. The winners of the “Next Wave” feature awards are presented with a new Dell Precision mobile workstation.
AUDIENCE AWARD – Presented by Maxwell Locke & Ritter
1st Place: GREEN ROOM directed by Jeremy Saulnier
2nd Place: LIZA THE FOX FAIRY directed by Károly Ujj Mészáros
3rd Place: STAND BY FOR TAPE BACK-UP directed by Ross Sutherland
“NEXT WAVE” SPOTLIGHT COMPETITION – Presented By Dell Precision
Best Picture: DER BUNKER directed by Nikias Chryssos
Best Director: Can Evrenol for BASKIN
FANTASTIC FEATURES
Best Picture: THE CLUB
Best Director: Duke Johnson & Charlie Kaufman for ANOMALISA
HORROR FEATURES
Best Picture: DEMON
Best Director: Joe Begos for THE MIND’S EYE
COMEDY FEATURES
Best Picture: THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT
Best Director: Anders Thomas Jensen for MEN & CHICKEN
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
Best Picture: MAN VS SNAKE
Best Director: Heath Cozens for DOGLEGS
SHORT FUSE: HORROR SHORTS
Best Picture: SISTER HELL
Best Director: Ryan Spindell for THE BABYSITTER MURDERS
FANTASTIC SHORTS – Presented by Chiller
Best Picture: MOVIES IN SPACE
Best Director: Jeremy David White for ENHANCED
SHORTS WITH LEGS
Best Picture: TRIAL RUN
Best Director: Alice Waddington for DISCO INFERNO
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1st Place: THE DUMP by Fernando Montes de Oca and Xavier Sánchez Mercado
2nd Place: PARADISE HILLS by Alice Waddington
3rd Place: EL GIGANTE by Gigi Saul Guerrero
FANTASTIC ARCADE
Best in Show: SECRET LEGEND developed by Andrew Shouldice
Audience Award Winner: SUPER RUSSIAN ROULETTE developed by Andrew Reitano
KING OF SHAKEYFACE
Robert Ha
FANTASTIC BUMPER COMPETITION – Presented by SourceFedNERD
THE JURY directed by Joe Nicolosi
For more information on the films listed above, visit http://fantasticfest.com/films.
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