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A primarily non-competitive festival, it was led throughout its history by Pierre Juneau as president, [1] with Robert Daudelin as a manager and programmer. [2] At the fourth festival in 1963, the festival also introduced a competitive parallel Festival of Canadian Films, with a prize presented to the film judged as the best film in the program.
The public festival, which was founded in 1977 as a replacement for the defunct Montreal International Film Festival (1960–68), was held annually in late August. Unlike the Toronto International Film Festival, which has a greater focus on Canadian and other North American films, the Montreal World Film Festival had a larger diversity of films ...
A variety of genre-specific, regional and specialty film festivals take place throughout the year, with important festivals in this class including Toronto's Hot Docs and Vancouver's DOXA for documentary films, Toronto's Inside Out for LGBT-themed films, Montreal's Fantasia for horror, science fiction and thriller genre films, and the Ottawa International Animation Festival for animated films.
Fantasia International Film Festival (also known as Fantasia-fest, FanTasia, and Fant-Asia) is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. It focuses on niche, low budget movies in various genres, from horror to sci-fi. Regularly held in July/August, by 2016 its annual audience had already surpassed ...
Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival has unveiled its second wave of titles, which includes the world premiere of Ant Timpson’s “Bookworm” as the opening night film. This year ...
Animaze - Montreal International Animation Film Festival is an annual film festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada dedicated to the celebration of animation in all forms.Now going into its 8th edition, the next edition will take place August 2020 ANIMAZE presents animated film of all genres from around the world which may have limited theatrical releases.
An annual, community-based film festival featuring international filmmakers. Montreal International Documentary Festival: 1998: Montreal: Quebec: International: Montreal World Film Festival: 1977: Montreal: Quebec: International: Largest North American competitive festival. Held late August to Labor Day. Focuses on films from around the world.
Festival International de Films de Montréal ( FIFM ), also known in English as the New Montreal FilmFest [1] [2] [3] was a film festival held in Montreal in 2005 to focus on Francophone films. Originally intended as an annual event, the festival became mired in rivalry with two competing festivals—the Montreal World Film Festival and the ...