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This year’s Fantasia International Film Festival has come to a close and we have a list of award winners, including Big Bad Wolves and Curse of Chucky:

Montreal – Thursday August 8th, 2013 - After Tuesday night’s sold-out screening of the Canadian premiere of The World’S End, presented by director Edgar Wright and actor Nick Frost, the Fantasia International Film Festival can confirm record attendance numbers this year, boasting more than 125,000 festival-goers for its 17th edition, surpassing last year’s record of 109,000 (a 15% increase). Over the course of its three-week film marathon, it presented over 131 features from 31 countries and more than 220 shorts from across the globe.

Fantasia’s 2013 edition opened with the North American Premiere of Takashi Miike’s Shield Of Straw and closed with the Canadian Premiere of Edgar Wright’s The World’S End. A lifetime achievement award was given to Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski. World...

The full Fantasia 2013 lineup has now been revealed, and we have here the third and final wave of titles to share. Prepare to drool!

From the Press Release:

The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the rest of our 120-feature lineup that comprises our 2013 event, along with a string of additional details that mark our 17th edition as a standout. Fantasia will engulf the city of Montreal from July 18-August 6, 2013. Be sure to visit the Fantasia Film Festival website for detailed essays on every title announced here, as well as all films previously disclosed over the last weeks.

Before we get started on titles... Meet Our 2013 Juries

Main Competition For The Cheval Noir Award For Best Film

Jury President: Laura Kern (Critic, Curator, managing editor, Film Comment)

Jean-Pierre Bergeron (Actor, Director, Screenwriter)

Samuel Jamier (Co-Director of the New York Asian Film Festival, Programmer at Japan Society)

Jarod Neece (Senior Programmer and Operations Manager,...

Montreal-based genre festival also announces final wave of programming, including world premieres of Curse of Chucky and Zombie Hunter, starring Danny Trejo [pictured].

With its 17th edition kicking off next week on July 18, Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival has unveiled this year’s juries and the final round of its 120-strong feature lineup.

Critic Laura Kern will preside over the Cheval Noir jury for best film, which also includes filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bergeron, co-director of the New York Asian Film Festival Samuel Jamier, SXSW’s Jarod Neece and Snowfort Pictures founder Travis Stevens.

The New Flesh award for best first film will be decided by jury president Charles de Lauzirika, composer Ramachandra Borcar, journalist Manon Dumais, filmmaker Jason Lapeyre and author Stéphane du Mesnildot.

Filmmakers Patrick Bouchard and Luc Chamberland will decide the Satoshi Kon award for achievement in animation along with Ottawa International Animation Festival programmer Keltie Duncan, while Black Nights programmer Sten-Kristian Saluveer, Bold Films’ [link...

V, a French Canadian TV network, will renew the half-hour dramatic comedy Prozac, La Maladie Du Bonheur for a second season.

The first season's finale left us at a moment when Philippe Racine (Patrice Robitaille), a fallen columnist of a prestigious newspaper, was making some progress in his therapy. After all, he wanted to commit a suicide after he knowingly plagiarized an article of a French newspaper.

Also returning for the second season will be François Létourneau, Isabelle Blais, Louis Morissette, Gilles Renaud, France Castel, Louise Portal, Jean-Pierre Bergeron, Martin Laroche, Sophie Cadieux and Sandrine Bisson.

For the moment, V hasn't announced any premiere date for Prozac, which was written by Sophia Borovchyk and Karina Goma. However, the show will probably return next fall.

One can tell that V, a French Canadian TV network, is dying for the premiere of its new original series Prozac. Besides, the network has also released online a video that brings us on the set of this show created by Sophia Borovchyk and Karina Goma. In this video, the writers and a few members of the cast talk about the show's story.

The show's story is centred on Philippe (Patrice Robitaille), a columnist in his thirties who have always had everything in life. However, because of a major failure in his professional life, Philippe gets fired and even contemplates committing a suicide. This is why his relatives and close friends urge him to seek help.

This is why Philippe joins a group therapy for depressed people. he group is made of Marie (Sandrine Bisson), a morally naughty woman, François (Jean-Pierre Bergeron), a depressed crooner, and Mireille (Louise Portal), a...

V, a French Canadian TV network, has revealed the details of the script of its new original series Prozac, which was created by Sophia Borovchyk and Karina Goma. The show is currently in production in Montreal and will premiere this September.

In Prozac, we follow Philippe (Patrice Robitaille), a columnist who's living large until the day he's got fired because of a faux pas. Besides, when his friends and relatives learn that Philippe contemplates suicide, they implore him to seek help.

While he's at the end of the road and approaching his fourties, Philippe decides to join a group therapy for depressed people. The group is made of Marie (Sandrine Bisson), a morally naughty woman, François (Jean-Pierre Bergeron), a depressed crooner, and Mireille (Louise Portal), a patient with a Mother Teresa syndrome (i.e. wanting to help people at all cost even when they don't need it). Mathieu (François Létourneau...

V, a French Canadian TV network, revealed the leading cast of its upcoming original series Prozac - La maladie du bonheur. The show, which was written by Sophia Borovchyk and Karina Goma, is slated for a premiere this fall.

More than a month ago, V promised that we'll see in Prozac a "prestigious cast that will know how to convey the audacity and originality of Sophia Borovchyk's and Karina Goma's texts". The leading actors of the series will be Patrice Robitaille, Isabelle Blais, François Létourneau and Louis Morissette.

The story will be centred on Philippe (Patrice Robitaille), a man in his thirties who have always had everything in life. However, because of a major failure in his professional life, Philippe is getting closer to the bottom of the barrel. Through Philippe's eyes, we get to see how his three close friends and him strive to find happiness at all cost.

More than one week ago, we saw the poster and the teaser of the upcoming film Filière 13. Now, full-length trailer is online.

The story, which was penned by Claude Lalonde and Pierre Lamothe, follows three cops. Thomas (Claude Legault) has a headache that stops him from getting the job done correctly. Besides, because he committed a serious blunder, his boss, Benoît (Paul Doucet), reassigns him to one simple job: keeping an eye on the mother of a notorious criminal who is at large. After all, the Montreal police expects that criminal to get back to his mother so that they can catch him. Obviously, Thomas will have a partner: Jean-François (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge), the police's PR who cracked on television while he was trying to explain Thomas's last blunder. Besides, Jean-François has difficulties to talk to anyone.The film also stars Jean-Pierre Bergeron, Elisabeth Locas, Marie Turgeon, Anik Jean, André Sauvé,...

Alliance Vivafilm, a Canadian film distributor, released on its Facebook page the poster of the second film directed by Patrick Huard, Filière 13. As indicated on the poster, the film will come out on August 6, 2010.

The story, which was penned by Claude Lalonde and Pierre Lamothe, follows three cops. Thomas (Claude Legault) has a headache that stops him from getting the job done correctly. Besides, because he committed a serious blunder, his boss, Benoît (Paul Doucet), reassigns him to one simple job: keeping an eye on the mother of a notorious criminal who is at large. After all, the Montreal police expects that criminal to get back to his mother so that they can catch him. Obviously, Thomas will have a partner: Jean-François (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge), the police's PR who cracked on television while he was trying to explain Thomas's last blunder. Besides, Jean-François has difficulties to talk to anyone.

The film also stars Jean-Pierre Bergeron,...