Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival 2006 Winners
(click here for the 2007 Winners!)
BEST FEATURE:
Short Order / Ireland / UK / Germany / 2005 / Feature - 100 minutes / Canadian Premiere
Fifi has an uncontrollable talent for culinary seduction. Over one busy night in the culinary underbelly, boredom will become fantasy as a little bit of love and wisdom come together where life is a buffet and everything is Short Order.
Fantasy / Magical Realism
Director: Anthony Byrne
Starring: Emma de Caunes, Michel Gondry, Christophe Honore, Allain Chabat
BEST FAMILY FILM:
The Tillamook Treasure / USA / 2006 / Feature - 110 minutes
14 year-old Julie moves to Oregon with her family, and there discovers a local treasure legend. Helped by an Elk and the spirit of a long-dead slave, she searches for the buried gold.
Fantasy / Family / Mythology / Legend & Archetype
Director: Jane Beaumont Hall
Starring: Suzanne Marie Doyon, Brian McNamara, Brian Thompson, Julia Campbell, Floyd ‘Red Crow’ Westerman, Max Gail
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Gathering – Return of the Whale Dreamers / Australia / 2006 / Documentary - 94 minutes / Canadian Premiere
The wisdom of Indigenous Elders from around the world permeates this film (ten years in the making), offering up the all too familiar warnings of where humanity seems to be going… but it also reflects back to us that we collectively can also come back from the edge of extinction… it is not too late. People around the world are waking up. For the first time on film, Aboriginal Whale Calling ceremonies are shared. The Gathering is an invitation for us all to come back to the Fire... the Dreaming... and the Natural World.
Feature Documentary / Legend & Archetype
Director: Kim Kindersley
Producers: Julian Lennon, Kim Kindersley
Guest Appearances: Jack Thompson, John Hurt, Julian Lennon, Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush
BEST SHORT FILM
Rose / USA / 2006 / Short - 33 minutes / Canadian Premiere
Little Travis lives for one day a year, the day he goes into the woods to meet his best friend Rose... Rose, however, doesn't even know his name. The ghost of a murdered runaway teenage girl, Rose returns to the woods once a year to relive her final hours to the last detail. Each year Travis joins her: loving and losing a girl who can't even remember him takes its toll on Travis. Now a young man, he realizes he not only has the power to intervene but that he should, even if he risks losing Rose forever.
Science Fiction / Ghost Story / Rural Fairytale
Director: Hoku Uchiyama
Starring: Kathryn Robinson, Phillip Rogers, Blaine Miller, Adam Vanderwielen, Tim Cowgill, Patt Grasso
BEST ANIMATION
Delivery / Germany / 2005 / Animation - 9 minutes / Canadian Premiere
A surreal story about the changing of a corrupt world. An old man lives in the dark shadows of industrial smog. One day he receives a package which gives him the ability to change his environment.
Fantasy / Magical Realism
Director: Till Nowak
Producer: Till Nowak
SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR A CANADIAN FILMMAKER
Sidekick / Canada / 2005 / Feature - 87 minutes
Norman, a comic book obsessed computer geek, discovers that his cocky friend, Victor, has telekinetic abilities. He endeavors him to turn into a superhero with hopes of one day becoming his trusty sidekick, but soon learns that not all people with extraordinary abilities are meant to be superheroes.
Fantasy / Superhero
Director: Blake Van De Graaf
Starring: Perry Mucci, David Ingram, Mackenzie Lush, Daniel Baldwin
